@Lensflare > 'I‘m worried that this will lead to more games looking exactly the same, which is bad.'.

...we're already there. Have you seen all those '$job Simulator $year' games? Fucking hell. A lot of that crap has been dumped onto the digital storefronts. ...one of the most egregious perpetrators: https://store.steampowered.com/publ... .

@afaIk Unappealing is a better word.

Hmm... That thing where people keep roasting e.g. the main character in 'Resident Evil Requiem' etc, where the character's face has extra pronounced lips, making them look like a 'supermodel' for the lack of better word... Yeah, seen it. !exactly a fan.

@jestdotty Well, that's true. I don't remember them ever asking me whether I want those antennas installed. They just did. I'm sure I have some in the area.

@jestdotty Never said I'm for the 5G. !using it, myself. Then again, I haven't researched the tech enough to know how potentially harmful it could be.

@jestdotty Oh, yeah. That heater where they proposed microwaving humans was such a good idea...

/s

Loved the scene.

&& you can me damn sure they're 'Making the world a better place.'. https://youtube.com/watch/... .

/jk

@whimsical Have you tried asking a math question?

https://youtube.com/watch/...

/jk

Feb 14 == Mar 08? Sounds like a female equivalent of a nerdy Oct 31 == Dec 25.

@whimsical Ah. Makes perfect sense.

@jestdotty Indeed, people used to care a bit more a few hardware generations ago. Still, as long as there are people like me caring about the users' experiences, we should be fine.

...we do need a sledgehammer every now && then to get our point across, though.

@jestdotty Well, no, while it is technically true the guy has some side-gig w/ selling controllers or something, I'm you know... 99.9% sure he isn't.

More importantly, though, even if unwritten, those are still the rules for platforms. /* At least some of them, anyway. */ so that you don't prematurely age the hardware.

Kind of like the thing about !prematurely aging storage space by excessively writing to it. That's quite important for any flash-based storage, like SSDs or SD Cards.

@jestdotty True. For all I know he's a shill for the controller companies.

...nah, most likely either just read what he wanted, or dove into the wrong code fragment.

@Lensflare > 'But people incapable of reading are everywhere'.

Very true.

@Lensflare Precisely... Either that or maybe Kame Sennin... perhaps he'll teach us how to perform the Kamehameha... or something.

/jk

So... what broke this time?

@whimsical > '(...) but then I saw it.. The pravda. The undeniable truth.'.

...that you've been talking to the tortoise all along?

/jk

@whimsical Or... they have problems reading simple instructions.

...or, be like @Ragnar. Go do great things, invade countries && whatnot. 'For Odin, for Valhalla, for Glory!!!!'.

/jk

@whimsical You want to be famous?

Maybe publish snek, make it a Teams-alternative, start selling subscriptions, go worldwide.

/jk

@jestdotty > 'slavs really like women's day for some reason'.

Something they instill in men from a young age. It's also a good way for us brutes to show 'the fairer sex' just how much we appreciate the women.

Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, && Ernst Chain are the inventors of the penicillin. /* Yes, looked them up on Wikipedia. */ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

...still, the invention is kind of more important than the name.

'(...) it can prompt itself and that allows recursion.'.

Hmm... could this be the reason why I'd been seeing 429s on snek very often yesterday, on Saturday?

@Lensflare > 'The answer from the teachers was: because we don’t always have a calculator with us.

That turned out to be false.

And that chatgpt argument sounds very similar.

Interesting times ahead. Scary, but interesting.'.

For the calculator, it is true, but the skill is useful, still.

For the ChatGPT it's a problem when people outsource their whole thinking process.

'Interesting times', indeed. Properly schooled children will understand. Probably the lazy ones will retain the 'why bother' mentality.

@Lensflare I've also watched those as a kid, initially. Later on, I got my hands on the whole series.

Damn it, wrong episode. It was the S03E05 - 'Stream Of Consciousness'. https://imdb.com/title/tt0667957/ .

> '(...) only do what's in the ticket description, the way it's detailed in the ticket description (...)'.

This sounds good solely on paper. In practice I see it failing more often than being right.

> 'IDK, it feels like the GPT is making people too optimistic, too lazy.'.

Lazy... definitely lazy, yes.

It was fairly predictable. Hell, I've recently seen those vids where the teachers are frustrated because children are questioning the usefulness of learning things like e.g. reading w/ reasoning like 'Why learn how to read, when I can just ask ChatGPT to read it to me?'.

...well, can't beat _that_ logic...

/s

I _am_ reminded of that one 'The Outer Limits' episode that was brushing on this concept. S02E02 - Resurrection, https://imdb.com/title/tt0667939/ in case someone is interested.

@Lensflare > 'AI, it really whips the LLama‘s ass!'.

/* Chuckles. */

Good one.

An interesting concept. I can see it going wonderfully or terribly, depending on the receiving party... I'd find it to be hilarious.