I’m surprised they’ve gotten away with shipping preloaded SD cards for so long. That was a risk waiting to blow up in someone’s face, though it obviously isn’t fair to be going after some guy rather than the distributors.

Somehow I don’t think he’ll be the make-or-break that determines whether the files get released.

For all practical purposes, PRNGs are uncertain. True quantum randomness really only matters for cryptographic security, it’s not important here.

From a theoretical perspective, it is entirely possible for code to simulate the activity of a human brain by simulating every neuron. And there would be deep philosophical questions to ask about the nature of thought and consciousness, is an electronic brain truly any different from a flesh one?

From a practical perspective, current technology simply isn’t there yet. But it’s hard to even describe the gap between how a LLM operates and how we operate, because our understandings of both LLMs and ourselves are honestly both very poor. Hard to say more than just… no, they’re not alike. At least not yet.

True randomness can be done via specialized hardware. But I don’t think that’s a meaningful criteria to evaluate LLMs by in the first place here.

But you can just do that in software already.

I love my Pro 2, best pad I’ve ever had, but I love it enough that I have no real need to spend $70 on an upgrade. This sounds excellent for anyone who doesn’t already have one though.

Not sure I get the point of removing the face buttons though. You shouldn’t need to physically rearrange them in order to remap them. I just use the Pro 2’s profile switcher button to swap layouts, and I see that button is still present, so I don’t see why I would want to do it the hard way.

What are these sprites? Looks like someone tried to redraw SMB1 from memory with the wrong tile dimensions. And why are there random bricks in the middle?

Cost/gb doesn’t matter if you’re not using the excess space, so that’s not really the right way to look at it. Suppose a 64gb cart costs $5, 32gb costs $4, and 16gb costs $3. If a game only needs 16gb, they’d save $2, regardless of the /gb.

And of course, Switch 1 carts are still being manufactured in those sizes. Not like they’re halting all production of S1 titles overnight.

These things do take time, but not an entire decade. A decade ago, Marvel was still in bed with Capcom, and ArcSys was not yet enough of a household name to be able to negotiate something like this.

So the story is that this is because they can’t manufacture carts smaller than 64GB, but why is that? Can’t they use whatever they’ve been using for Switch 1 carts? The dual-mode Switch 2 Edition carts are cross-compatible with Switch 1, so we know it’s definitely possible to use those carts.

She’s a backend developer

Caruso was impressed by Gemini’s ability to recognize its limitations.

But it didn’t recognize those limitations on its own, it boasted about being on par with modern chess engines. It only did a 180 after Caruso warned it, which is just the LLM agreeing with whatever the human says.

Freeciv is not free-to-play, it’s Free Software.

When I was in high school, I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese classes on the weekend because the sequel to my favorite game didn’t get translated. Didn’t end up getting all that far in it, my ADHD/autistic ass had a hard time paying attention in class and I had too much actual schoolwork to keep up with so I kinda just didn’t do the homework.

But last year I started getting back into it just for fun, and I am having a lot of fun learning. Helps that I can go at my own pace without any pressure from being in school anymore. Still a long way from 日本語上手, but I passed a N4 mock exam and I just ordered a shipment of books and manga to try and see how far I can get. Saving up to travel in a few years too.

Honestly that’s a good enough idea that I don’t think it even needs to be a conspiracy, they could openly advertise it.

To be fair, Kirby Air Ride is finally getting a sequel, and that may as well be the only racing game we’ll ever need ever again.

Everyone assumes the Switch 2 joysticks are going to have the problem because they look almost exactly the same as the Switch 1 joysticks.

I suspect that the reason Switch 1 JoyCons were so brittle had to do with the flap that dust could get under. That was changed for the Switch 2, so I think people are just way too quick to assume they’re one and the same.

Release the original theatrical cuts.

Propaganda is powerful. You convince your followers that some classes of people don’t deserve kindness, you convince them that everything out of Hollywood is part of a leftist agenda, and once they believe both of those statements it’s very easy to spin this as further proof of the narrative they’ve already bought into.