[-] eRac 9 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta love the McD hate in this case.

The problem item is onions from a major processor. Burger King had a SKU recalled too, along with most of the processed onions from both Sysco and US Foods, which supply most restaurants. It goes way beyond McD.

[-] eRac 9 points 3 months ago

No comment on the spray bottle phone case?

[-] eRac 8 points 3 months ago

NMS and Starbound struggle from the same issues. Infinite tiered worlds end up feeling the same, but also remove all meaning from the exploration. In Minecraft or Terraria you aren't going to be flying to a totally new place in five minutes, so you want to get to know your surroundings and put down some roots.

Travel time and not having tiered world progression makes the player care about where they are at instead of seeing it as a stepping stone.

[-] eRac 10 points 4 months ago

Generative AI doesn't get any training in use. The explosion in public AI offerings falls into three categories:

  1. Saves the company labor by replacing support staff
  2. Used to entice users by offering features competitors lack (or as catch-up after competitors have added it for this reason)
  3. Because AI is the current hot thing that gets investors excited

To make a good model you need two things:

  1. Clean data that is tagged in a way that allows you to grade model performance
  2. Lots of it

User data might meet need 2, but it fails at need 1. Running random data through neural networks to make it more exploitable (more accurate interest extraction, etc) makes sense, but training on that data doesn't.

This is clearly demonstrated by Google's search AI, which learned lots of useful info from Reddit but also learned absurd lies with the same weight. Not just overtuned-for-confidence lies, straight up glue-the-cheese-on lies.

[-] eRac 7 points 5 months ago

Check out the demo if you have a chance. The game is a lot of fun and it has some pretty funny demo-exclusive writing.

[-] eRac 8 points 6 months ago

A single registry edit to a key that doesn't exist because they wanted to obscure that it was possible.

[-] eRac 9 points 8 months ago

There are a couple of decent reasons. One is that your servers may be a network of services that can't operate independently. Another is that they may rely on things you don't have a license to distribute.

[-] eRac 8 points 8 months ago

If the items are standardized, all you need in the inventory is an item ID of some sort and a count. You then have an item DB that has name, icon, weight, etc for each item.

If you have random items, you need to store more properties, but you should keep the inventory structure as slim as you can.

[-] eRac 7 points 8 months ago

Why would someone feel the need to leak classified info on the Warframe forums? It's far-future scifi.

I think you are confusing it with War Thunder.

[-] eRac 7 points 9 months ago

It gets thrown around a lot as a buzzword, but it really just means "intended to get post-release updates that go beyond bug fixes." Nearly every game released these days, good or not, classifies as GaaS. It's functionally meaningless.

[-] eRac 9 points 10 months ago

Not sure about VBA, but Excel formulas are actually saved in English and translated on file load. It doesn't translate strings though, so EVALUATE only works for users with the same language as the author.

[-] eRac 8 points 11 months ago

Lingo. It tickles my brain in wonderful ways. I'm currently working through the custom level Liduongo, sequel to an earlier map named Duolingo, and I continue to be surprised, delighted, and utterly perplexed.

It's a rules-based puzzler that doesn't tell you the rules buried in a confusing labyrinth. The only downside is that it requires a strong grasp of English, limiting its audience.

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