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Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
  • Or you get even more nuanced and say unregulated free market is best only on the frontier of emerging new market sectors, and that areas we depend on should be heavily regulated, socialized, and run at cost for the public for free supported by tax dollars.

    Have different systems for different things depending on which works best for what.

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?
  • I just got a new phone, and the ai voice assistant is actually good. It's what people imagined it was going to be when they first came out. It doesn't have access yet to a lot of things, so it can't 'act' on things, but it actually gives consistently relevant info.

    One thing I've used it for recently is I was in a game and knew there was a secret chest and it could accurately tell me what to do to get it Way better than looking up a video.

  • AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
  • I have to do similar things when it comes to 'raytracing'. It meant one thing, and then a company comes along and calls something sorta similar the same thing, then everyone has these ideas of what it should be vs. what it actually is doing. Then later, a better version comes out that nearly matches the original term, but there's already a negative hype because it launched half baked and misnamed. Now they have to name the original thing something new new to market it because they destroyed the original name with a bad label and half baked product.

  • Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac
  • Even if it were thicker I'd still slap on a sacrificial glass screen protector atop it. I've dropped my phone only a handful of times, and so far have only ever broken the protector.

    Just slap a shield on it, there's your added thickness and better drop resistance all in one!

  • Nonfiction readers. Do you feel guilty reading fiction?
  • No. Absolutely not. Lots of future tech comes from sci Fi fiction, which sometimes becomes real. Fiction about 'what if' scenarios give insight into how things could happen given certain events taking place, helping decision making for present events. Relationship books? I mean, those can be great examples of how healthy or unhealthy relationships work, and can help one identify the status of their own relationships. Fantasy books and sometimes a combination of the above, and all useful.

    Nonfiction helps one understand what has happened. It gives context to the world we live in now, and what came before. Both are valuable, just in different ways. Reading anything helps your ability to empathize and think of alternative perspectives and is always useful.

  • Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills
  • Generally speaking, you learn more about how something works when the core functionality is exposed to the user, and just janky enough to require fiddling with it and fixing things.

    This is true of lots of things like cars, drones, 3D printers, and computers. If you get a really nice one, it just works and you don't have to figure anything out. A cheap one, or something you have to build yourself, makes you have to learn how it actually works to get it to run right.

    Now that things are so comodified and simplified, they just work and really discourage tinkering, so people learn less about core functionality and how things actually work. Not always true, but a trend I've experienced.

  • A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Amnesia is one of my all-time favorite games. F.E.A.R. should have been scary, but all the scary parts were completely non lethal, so I just laughed and ran through them. Layers of Fear was similar in that a lot of the time it was creepy, but not lethal. It's kinda like checking if friendly fire is on or if fire damages the player. You need to set expectations in games or play with the player's ideas of what is and is not safe.

  • A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Odd aside, it's my test in a horror game to see if I should actually take threats seriously. If you see something creepy- can it kill you? Some games it's just creepy stuff that can only scare you- but if it can't hurt you then no big deal and loses all risk and threat.

  • Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost
  • It's also funny because most of my heavy conservative coworkers all have beards, trucks, and country stuff because that's the image.

    Now that I think about it, quite a few are bald and shave their heads, sooo... Maybe that's an angle they could shoot for? Those could be some wild ads.