I guess even they can’t run Crysis on full.

It insists upon itself?

(I haven’t seen it)

Where do I put in my request for that bluesky money I’m owed, then?

AP also showed some states red or blue with no vote tallies. Notably, at 11pm EST, California turned solid blue immediately on the AP map, surprising no one.

The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”

Threshold is an attempt at remaking The Fly (mostly the Cronenberg version.) Even though it’s a valiant attempt at body horror, the limitations of network TV really prevent it from reaching its full potential. From the same era, I’d say The X-files did that sort of thing better.

And in fact, the reset button ending is what completely neuters Threshold. The ending to Cronenberg’s The Fly is really powerful because of the final pathos and irreversibility. Instead of leaning on this, Threshold just goes incomprehensibly weird.

I think Star Trek’s most successful body horror episode is probably TNG’s Genesis (though I think Enterprise might have had a couple valiant attempts I should try to remember.). Genesis also suffers a little from its reset button, but since it doesn’t lean on pathos like Threshold and The Fly, the reset isn’t as annoying.

But in general I really feel like Star Trek should now be able to do good episodic TV which still shows real character progression and avoids total reset buttons. Some recent series leaned too far into serialization, but I’m hoping SNW strikes a good balance.

The last two Dell laptops my work provided me with have little sliders that physically cover the camera. I use them all the time while working from home.

I don’t like the idea of restricting the model’s corpus further. Rather, I think it would be good if it used a bigger corpus, but added the date of origin for each element as further context.

Separately, I think it could be good to train another LLM to recognize biases in various content, and then use that to add further context for the main LLM when it ingests that content. I’m not sure how to avoid bias in that second LLM, though. Maybe complete lack of bias is an unattainable ideal that you can only approach without ever reaching it.

She’s worth .5 of the original price. At most.

Wouldn’t want people to start calling her a maverick. That doesn’t usually go well for candidates.

My headcannon for this is that spaceships in that universe are to those people what cars are to us. If you know the basics of driving a car, you can drive most cars, though the bigger ships might get more complicated (I’ve never seen one of our heroes try to back up a star destroyer into a starbase to help with their buddy’s move.)

Yeah, but no one can escape the gravitational field of your mom.

(Sorry, couldn’t resist, as I half expected your comment to end with a “your mom” joke)

https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=0bTNdugjosLnu9-r

Cuts like a knife, don’t it?

It’s not density, it’s mass. A mass of 1kg compressed to the density of the Sun’s core would pull the Earth with just as much force as a 1kg ball of styrofoam.

You can do that today. Just ask Chat-GPT to write you a bash script for something non-obvious, and then debug what it gives you.

People complain about the total cost too get everything in The Sims, but I don’t remember anyone complaining about the total cost of every song in Rock Band.

Someone would just release a mod that replaces the ads with Monty Python sketches.

Doing more with less until we can do everything with nothing!