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  • I mean I’m not a fan of Ai but that kinda makes sense to prevent expensive loops. An example being I know Google gemini has(and has had for several versions) a bug where it can get stuck repeatedly reading a file. I saw a video from a YouTuber which got stuck in this loop, it cost him 183 dollars in 40 minutes. What if he started it and then went home on a Friday evening? I just did a quick calculation based on it running 5pm Friday till 9am Monday and it would cost $17, 568 setting a limit to prevent this type of issue makes sense. Fun fact, by random chance there’s exactly 96 intervals of 40 minutes over that time frame.






  • vrek@programming.devtomemes@lemmy.world•Once in a lifetime they said…
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    29 days ago

    Bigger question…why would anyone care? Atleast Monica was an adult, yeah you could probably make a case for work place harassment but that’s about it.

    And before anyone says he was impeached for it, no. He was asked by congress if he had sexual relations with Monica. He said no. Evidence was revealed he had atleast a blow job, based on the stain on her blue dress. He was impeached for lying to congress and won basically by claiming a blow job wasn’t “sexual relations”.







  • To give you a slight idea of what you’re getting into the “Ai agents” are always “alive”, when not controlling a character in game they are stuck in a pool with the other unused Ai agents, when they are in use they must act within how the character they are controlling would act. If they are an early enemy they must make mistakes and will likely “die”. That’s the point of early bosses, give the player a sense of power but if the Ai is conscience and sentient is it morally acceptable to kill them repeatedly? The player may grind an area repeatedly for either experience or specific loot. If the loot has a 2% drop rate, is it morally right to repeatedly run that dungeon for days/weeks killing that Ai over and over looking for that drop? What about the other Ais watching you repeatedly kill their friend? They have thoughts and feelings but their only future is to repeatedly be shoved into the embodiment of some character and likely suffer from injuries and likely death only to be returned to their pool to observe their friends suffering the same way untill they are forced to repeat the experience.


  • For example let’s take highways in Texas. In many cases you have 3 sets which all go to the same place and typically you can see the other ones. The first is the free but you have stop lights at intersections, more traffic, lower speed limits(30-45mph). Next up is the toll way, small fee, no stops(on/off ramps for the first road for intersections), higher speed limit (typically 60 mph). Finally there’s express roads, high fees, less traffic and higher speeds(70 mph typically). The second and third set have fees based on total traffic, oh this will save you 20 minutes the price is 15 dollars now. It’s kinda a rip off because if you’re not careful it can be very expensive, but it could also be nice if you got stuck at work but really need to get home for your anniversary dinner… 20 dollars is worth not being late.



  • I like “life at reset” series. Basically guy is playing mmo and on top of leader boards. He gets betrayed by his “friend” ends up as a goblin and can’t log out. Through the books explores concepts like rights of a true Ai, dealing with emotions of betrayal, advancements in technology, sacrifice for family, purpose of your life and more. It’s 6 books so not a quick read but interesting and thought provoking.


  • What I always found funny is the drug trade. No, not medicine I mean the illegal drugs. They typically start at grams(metric) go up to ounces (imperial) then pounds(imperial) then back to kilograms(metric).

    I don’t care which we use(I prefer metric but won’t die on that hill) but wish we would all just agree on one. Like hex keys, you need 2 sets one metric one imperial, same with socket sets. Or go to a machinist and ask them to “take a mil off” of some part, do you mean millimeter or millionth of an inch? Same thing with measurement gear, do you measure pressure in bar, psi, inHg, torr and for more fun are you measuring them positively or negatively… Yes that’s a thing. I had a sensor to measure humidity, the output was in ppm(parts per million) but the calibration was done in degrees Celsius dew point but our specificion was in ppm. Those measurements are not linearly related. So let’s say the sensor came back out of calibration as arrived(typically it would be adjusted and sent back to us within calibration). Now we had to find the closest measurement we had to the limit in ppm, convert that to degrees Celsius dew point, add in the percentage of reading outside of calibration, add in a extra safety factor, convert that back to ppm, compare to specified limit, determine if any product was made outside specifications and then write a report about if it actually mattered…