Obviously there have been major improvements over the past 80 years, but that’s still considered the first neural network. The need for multi-layer neural networks was recognized by 1969, but the knowledge of how to do that took awhile to be worked out.

Fun fact, the Perceptron is basically the first machine learning AI, and it was invented in 1943. It took a long time and many advancements in hardware before it became recognizable as the AI of today, but it’s hardly a new idea.

Truly the end of an era

Clearly this shows that North Korea is the peak example of a successful society, and that the rest of the world should aspire to mimic them in all their wise practices.

WB doubled down, after Suicide Squad failed horribly and Hogwarts Legacy sold fantastically they decided they needed to stop making games like Hogwarts to focus on more live service games.

Mining resources gives you XP, and lets you buy upgrades between missions. I just run around ignoring bugs and mine all the resources, throwing upgrades into sludge pump and other weapons that will kill stuff following me.

In-between stages I’m usually able to buy 4-6 upgrades, and by the end I’m dealing way more damage than I can as any other classes. Only downside is that I often end stages early by accident because I can trigger the elite pretty fast, and he dies from trying to follow me through my sludge.

Been really enjoying it so far.

My early game experience is that driller is both the strongest class, and the most efficient at farming resources for permanent upgrades.

I tried Manjaro for awhile and had some major system breaks. Manjaro is/was often pitched as newbie-friendly arch, so having it break made me think arch was going to be even worse.

Been running endeavour for a few years now though, and haven’t had any real issues. Much smoother than my Manjaro experience.

It’s pretty wild to me that the Playdate has been as successful as it has been. I feel like I’m closer to the target audience than just about anyone I know, and yet I can’t justify the price when I already have a Steam Deck that exceeds all my “games on the go” needs.

Even if I never get one, I’m glad to see it doing as well as it is.

UE5 was a big part honestly, pretty much lost all interest in getting the game this year when I learned how bad the performance was on PC.

I don’t know enough about it to say that UE5 guarantees bad performance, but it seems like every UE5 release this past year runs terribly.

https://youtu.be/cYxIe7T8ZKA?si=AsFcLs6FVvd9BUg7

Dramatic reading.

I haven’t played CS2, but the game isn’t in early access or anything. It was sold as a full price, finished product. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to be unhappy that the finished product they bought was actually unfinished, and then be frustrated with how long it’s taking for the fixes to arrive.

Sure the game might be fixed later, but that doesn’t change the fact that people feel like they got something less than they were promised.

I use Gnome as my main DE, so I use the Pop shell for automatic window tiling. It’s not being actively maintained anymore while Pop works on their new DE, but it still works pretty great. I have my eye on Veshell which is an upcoming DE from the guy who made the Material Shell overhaul for Gnome. It’s a significant change to the UX compared to any other DEs I’ve tried.

My main productivity work is making vector files for a laser cutter, so I use a combination of Inkscape and Lightburn (not FOSS) for that. I also use Openscad and Prusa Slicer for making various repair parts, but that’s not usually paying work.

On the terminal side I prefer fish and kakoune. Kakoune’s changes to the vim/neovim keybinds are a lot more intuitive and easier to learn imo, but come with the obvious downside of learning something less universally useful than the vim keybinds.

I thought this was a pretty good write up, and made some good points. For anyone wanting a short version, the most important part to me was this:

There’s absolutely a future where these silly-looking headsets could replace a laptop or a tablet for some people, while giving you more screen space than either of those devices.

There’s one big problem, though: the Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest headsets are incredibly locked down. They are more restrictive in the software they can run and less interoperable with other hardware than almost any other modern productivity device. I understand we’re still in the early days for these devices—the first Quest headset was released in 2019 and the Vision Pro is brand new—but Meta and Apple have been historically reluctant to open up their other platforms.

Meta’s Quest headsets are more like video game consoles than productivity tools, which makes some sense when gaming is the primary use case and work is an afterthought. The Vision Pro is a more general-purpose device, with much better apps and productivity features than the Quest, but it’s even more locked down. I can’t really use my iPad for work without serious compromises, and the $3,500 Vision Pro is somehow even further away from that.

He was also the CEO behind the Wii, DS, and 3DS. So plenty of success besides the Wii U.

It wasn’t this year, but I remember when Satoru Iwata and a bunch of other Nintendo executives took pay cuts when the Wii U was underperforming rather than laying off workers.

So it does happen, just not very often with most companies.

Another good starting point is the Judgement games. They’re completely separate from the rest of the games story wise, so they’re a nice place to start if you want to try modern entries in the series without getting involved in a long running storyline.

The only other consideration is if you prefer turn based combat or brawler combat. Judgement/Yakuza are brawlers, while the main Like a Dragon switches to turn based combat instead.

Amazon has an audiobook monopoly and takes 87% cut of audible sales unless the author agrees to exclusively sell through audible. If you agree to exclusively sell through audible, Amazon only takes 79% cut of the sale. Officially they claim to take 75% and 60% cuts (for non-exclusive and exclusive), but they actually pay out considerably less than they promise.

That’s what a monopoly abusing it’s power to steal from creators looks like. Valve’s 30% is literally market standard, and is so much lower than they could get away with.

Sources on how much audible takes per sale: My source, Original source

Yeah, the escapist had made quite a few good programs and I’m glad to see some of my favorites move over.

I miss 3 minute review though.

Judging from these comments, I’m the only one who actually likes it. I find it easier to control music playback/etc while using maps and driving.