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It's a computer that runs Linux.


> It's a computer that runs Linux.

I'm fully aware of that. Imagine sideloading mobile applications on the steam machine. It's very hard to get a platform that reasonably respects your privacy. Smart TVs and boxes like Roku go out of their way to invade privacy. I'm not sure about Apple TV. It would be nice to be able to use the steam box as a replacement _officially_. I have no doubt there will be some sort of community effort.


The big one I noticed is 1984, which won't be out of copyright in the US for 20ish years.


We need to hook this up to a boss key stat


More like wife-key, judging by the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 from yesterday.


Took me an embarrassingly long time to understand what they meant by "Erasmus B Dragon".


that's the one I was trying to remember, it's my favorite


How do you know the information you're getting is factual?


I just use it to kick start my learning process. It's basically the quick summary of Topic. And I ask GPT to cite sources. Then you can jump into to more authoritative articles/etc. Can't trust it blindly.


This is the proper way to use ChatGPT. Relying on it as a source is a bad idea. However, it's handy for finding reliable sources to read further.


I will ask you the same question about the information which you read on the internet.

Whatever your answer is, apply that to ChatGPT. It is no different.


Yeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.


Please read my responses to your sibling commenters.


you read sources and original works, did you actually think this was a gotcha? you are depriving yourself of proper learning and knowledge lol


No, you're just making hasty judgements.

I read scientific papers, articles and references in one pane while keeping GPT open in another pane to help me make the most use out of the knowledge in the quickest timeframe. I frequently browse additional resources in order to corroborate information.

Please do not project onto me. Ask questions about my process before assuming I'm "depriving myself", which you are likely ironically doing yourself in light of your attitude towards GPT.


have you ever considered devoting your full attention to what you're reading? And that doing that enough will improve your scientific reading comprehension to the point you don't need to rely on chatgpt mangling the information into nonsense?


> have you ever considered devoting your full attention to what you're reading

have you ever considered being less assumptive and judgemental? you have absolutely no insight into my reading comprehension ability, and have no idea what my process is like.

> you don't need to rely on chatgpt mangling the information into nonsense

except that doesn't happen? It only strengthens my understanding by allowing me to ask questions?

you really need to look at how you're approaching this conversation and calibrate. instead of this mess of assumptions and loaded questions, ask a real, open-minded question such as "what does your workflow look like? what are the pros/cons of this approach?"

if my system works for me, I don't need to prove it to you, however you yourself are missing out on a new style of research which will become incredibly common.


The simple answer is don't rely on information you find on the internet, SEO killed that years ago. And chatgpt was trained on that awful mess. Go read an actual book


Stochastic parrots don't give you the original source. In fact they make up sources on the spot.

That is worse than a search engine.


You and your sibling commenters made a lot of assumptions about my workflow without asking the right questions, and by and large you are totally wrong about my approach.


For a lot of use-cases, it actually doesn't matter that much.


The company is supposed to negotiate with the union. That's the whole idea behind unions.


Companies don't have to negotiate, they can Hardball if they want


This is great. I very recently looked into getting the Sims 2 and found this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UT0HX3cO4xLft2KozGypU_N7...

Still working on getting it (or a similar release) working in a Wineskin for macOS. But it works great on Windows 10.


Thanks for the link!


My elementary school playground had several giant tires. Not sure what that was all about but we found ways to make them fun.


My school had a set of ~7 meters high monkey bars, it was so long kids had to slide down the vertical support posts, only a few were brave enough to climb on it and even fewer had the strength to reach the end. It was demolished in 00s.

The other crazy piece of equipment I never saw again were these swings. Unlike ordinary swings where you just sit and oscillate 120 degrees, with these, you had to hang from the hand holds, the rotation was not limited by the top bar and could rotate 360 degrees (some regular swings had that too, though). The swings were symmetrical and counterbalanced, so two people could swing at the same time on the opposite sides, the design encouraged rotation instead of swinging, lifting you about 3 meters high. My classmate broke both her arms on these, soon after the swings were removed.

I never played on either.


Mine too! They were set upright (like they are on a vehicle) and partly buried in the ground. Kids would crawl in them and just hang out in the cool shade inside. There were 3 tires, one was definitely "the best", and you had to be fast if you wanted to get any of them!


I remember that those big tires were 1) fun to climb on, and 2) an early and lasting lesson that things get really hot when sitting out in the sun, and that sometimes things feel cold before you realize they are burning the living fuck out of you.


Reminds me of the Pocketmod, which to my surprise is still around:

https://pocketmod.com/


Presumably no flash requirement like the old version, but now there's a login page before you can use it at all. I liked Pocketmods, but I shouldn't need to create an account to make them.


Pocketmods are common in the indie RPG scene: https://itch.io/search?q=pocketmod


Fury Road makes pretty extensive use of CGI and digital compositing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3tdMDRQBc

But it looks great so you don't really notice it.


Fury Road also makes extensive use of insane level practical stunts that other features would have gone 100% GGI. There's a difference in enhancing with CGI vs entirely in CGI. The stunt peeps on the motorcyles, the insane pendulum thingymabobbers, the cars themselves, etc are all real and very noticeably better looking than CGI


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