I mean, it’s the first prototype iteration of it, I’m sure there’ll be aesthetic improvements. Not to mention, this might be something some people would only use for specific situations where faster, more natural feeling conversation could be beneficial (e.g. meetings, presentations, meet and greets, etc) versus all day everyday. Lastly, even if used all day, every day, if you’re turned off from someone with a disability because they use a device like this, then honestly it’s helping that person avoid assholes.

Edit: I’m apparently wrong, this is the 2nd iteration. But the first iteration was even bulkier and more obvious, so it doesn’t really contradict my first point.

Lessons learned, next time they need to stockpile more food. Like what if they had years worth of food haha, police stationed outside just waiting for the day the bunker opens up like some old prophetic myth

You’d be surprised. There’s definitely a ton of interest from consumers. Anecdotally, my wife used it to create a few quick logo ideas for her private practice (she hired a real artist for the final one), my coworkers and I use it for quick boilerplate script template creation, my immediate and extended family have all used it to modify/clean up family pictures, friends have used it in group chats for all sorts of things, etc etc. There’s a reason that it’s being implemented everywhere, and it’s not simply because there’s no consumer interest and it’s all corporate hype buzz. Just because you specifically aren’t interested doesn’t nullify the tens of millions of people using the various flavors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and/or whatever the hell Amazon’s is every day.

But yes, it is not real intelligence. I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone who truly believes it is. It’s just a new, highly versatile tool. Hell, I just saw a video of some jackass on YouTube programming a robotic arm to be controlled by ChatGPT and it had a rifle mounted to the arm. Using voice commands, ChatGPT was able to aim and shoot the rifle with crazy precision and speed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/popAFs2kmY

Is HC just a unisex/family bathroom or something? Those are somewhat common here in the US, but not common enough to be reliably present at commercial facilities. They’re mostly common in publicly funded buildings and/or kid oriented businesses.

It depends where you live. But it does majorly suck when you end up needing to change your kid in a place that doesn’t have it in the men’s bathroom (I’m a dude). Hell, it happened to me over the holidays when I went out with extended family that was visiting to a nice restaurant. I was changing my daughter’s dirty diaper on the stupid little countertop area in the bathroom that had all the concierge type amenities. I just pushed all that crap into the corner to make room and one of the staff came in and gave me a look and I just commented they should install a proper changing station in the men’s bathroom in the future.

I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).

Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.

If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.

It feels like I’ve noticed more and more wrapping paper brands doing this over the last few years and it really is super helpful.

I truly wish sheet makers would just mark the long and/or short sides. It can’t be difficult to incorporate and it’d be an awesome QOL feature. I’d buy a brand that did that.

Edit: apparently many brands do do this and I’m not observant. Thanks for the tips everyone!

I mean their job is cybersecurity. Warning people that their OS is about to no longer receive security updates from the vendor seems pretty reasonable. They have no control over Microsoft’s business decisions. The fact ESET even points out that people could move to Linux and get out of the Microsoft ecosystem is at least something.

Also, obligatory, “Fuck Microsoft.”

To be fair, he’s commanding a ton of influence among policy makers, so it’s pretty critical to not completely ignore the bullshit he’s up to.

That’s literally what AAA means…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)

And to think Larian is some small company is also silly. It has over 400 employees and 7 offices. It’s privately owned, yes, but it hasn’t been an AA studio since the success of Divinity Original Sin 2 and most definitely not since the massive success of BG3.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larian_Studios

Meanwhile, he also held degenerate parties at the WH (actually pretty cool) and committed horrible wholesale atrocities against native Americans (very not cool).

Agreed for the most part, but that’s not really the gaming industry’s fault. I will say environmental graphics (e.g. ambient details, texture depth, lighting, amount of miscellaneous background and ground clutter density) have gotten much better. If you play The original W3 (before the official “remake” and/or mods), it definitely looks very aged versus something like Black Myth Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077. Bloodborne even more so (although, I’d argue that game’s graphics were never its strong point to begin with, but it did have excellent art direction, as From’s games always tend to have).

That being said, they all have aged pretty well for the most part. And the difference between a game made in 2000 vs 2010 is definitely a way bigger difference than something made in 2010 vs 2020.

BG3 is not an AA game, lol. The A’s simply mean budget, and BG3 had a budget of over $100 million.

I think it’s more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.

I should be glad to inform that labor exploitation has been going on since long before 1984 and/or Cyberpunk dystopia fiction?

Hate to break it to you, but gross labor exploitation has been going on a long, long time.

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