I’m excited for this. I just got my wife a Deck used to play Escape Simulator together, but this will make it a lot easier for her to play most of my other games, now, too.
Sadly Dragon Age 3 can’t be shared, which I should have added to her account, not mine… But we only had 1 Deck at the time! (On the other hand, I’ll be able to play most of my library on her device while she’s playing, so not a big deal!)
I think you can Steam Remote Play Together with non-Steam games, but that’s the only way to “share” them that I know of.
You can get a cheap mp3 player for literally $5. Digital textbooks can be viewed just fine on a laptop, and schools have hundreds of those.
Smart phones are addiction machines. I’m very glad to see schools banning them. Hopefully, parents take note and realize how harmful they are for child development and start buying them dumb phones instead until they’re older (16+).
Just FYI, I’m pretty sure you’re confusing “AI” and “AGI”.
Even enemy behavior is videogames is “AI”, but obviously is not “General Intelligence”.
I think the problem is Hollywood confusing the two terms, so people think AI = Skynet, but that’s not the technical definition in Computer Science.
I’m getting tonnes of them. They always say they’re from Rogers, for me. They’ve called about 20 times.
I’m hoping they call sometime when I’m otherwise free so I can waste as much of their time as possible. It’s fun to bait them, and it saves them from potentially scanning someone else in that time.
Err… That’s definitively AI.
AI is just any computer algorithm that does a task that would be aimed to require human intelligence.
Identifying text in an image is a non-trivial task, so OCR is a type of AI algorithm.
That said, I assume “AI phones” are probably not using the term AI in the general sense; presumably they just mean that it uses MM-LLMs somehow.
Exactly my thought on reading the article.
In the US, even regulatory capture follows partisan divisions… Insanity.
The cynic in me is wondering if this is just Google trying to get around the movement to stop children from being given addiction machines* before they’re ready for them. (*Smart phones with infinite-content-stream “social-media” apps)
There’s a push to ban smart phones for students below age 16 at schools (and educating parents to try to get them to just give their children dumb phones until age 16 outside of school hours, too.)
But maybe that’s just me being cynical. This movement only started gaining steam after The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was published earlier this year, afaik, and Google is hardly an agile company anymore…
That’s ridiculous. The net property value lost from losing close access to the beach is worth way more than the money the city got, on the margin, from the sale. It doesn’t even make economic sense, let alone the equity issues.
What a joke.
If you look at the actual seat-by-seat projections, current polls give a near mathematical certainty of a CCP majority.
Trudeau needs to take a page from Biden’s book and step down in time for there to be a leadership race. I don’t think it’s fair (he’s done fine as Prime Minister, imho) but he’s unelectable. A PP-led majority government could do a lot of damage.
They aren’t suggesting dropping the “British”, rather they are asking about changing the name to something more representative of the Indigenous Peoples of BC who have been keepers of the land since time immemorial.
Not sure how that would work, though, as there are so many Nations and languages in the province.
Like, “Powell River School District” is now “qathet School District”. They didn’t just drop “Powell” to call it “River”, lol.
The Efficiency of the Market will reduce costs, as evidenced by (checks notes) the US spending more per capita on healthcare than any other country on Earth with lower access to healthcare than many developed nations.
The Free Market is clearly the best answer.
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Everyone is tired of COVID.
Trudeau has been blamed by both the left and the right for everything that hasn’t gone well in Canada in the last decade. Here’s a quote from our version of The Onion that’s satire but also almost entirely how it’s been expressed:
“While I don’t want to point fingers during this ongoing tragedy, this is all very likely Trudeau’s fault,” Smith continued. “Not because of his own support of the oil industry and its wonderful pipeline,” Smith hastily added, “but for not taking better care of Jasper National Park, a federal responsibility.”
“The UCP has spent most of the last five years cutting Alberta’s wildfire preparedness budget, and Trudeau’s government should’ve known that this kind of fire was going to grow out of control in this province because of our cuts and should’ve been better prepared for it.”
Trudeau has been able to do a lot but it’s not progressive enough for the left, and the right isn’t even trying to debate actual policy decisions. If Trudeau is the leader in the next federal election, then a QAnon-talking-point anti-trans bigot Conservative will win a majority government and implement a lot of Trump-lite policies in Canada.
My only criticism of what you said is that we can’t be complacent. Progressive folks everywhere need to show up at the polls.
As a Canadian watching the US election cycle play out, I’m hoping Trudeau is taking notes. Trudeau is unelectable (for different reasons than Biden) so our mini-Trump (Pierre Poiliviere) is likely to win in the fall of 2025. I hope Trudeau steps down so anyone else can have a chance, even though I think Trudeau has been good for Canada (in particular with how carefully he threaded the needle with standing up to Trump during his presidency without antagonizing him.)
lol, of course the NIMBYs in West Vancouver are the only municipality to outright reject it. What a joke.
So glad to see this coming; we need to fill the missing middle in housing.
That said, I am worried about infrastructure keeping up with rising population. Swimming lessons fill up within minutes of it opening, schools are at capacity, there are no doctors for most, hospital wait times are increasingly becoming a problem, etc.
We need more investment in everything, not just housing!
The most interesting insight from this article, imho, is that abortion rights in Florida are on the ballot in 2024, abortion rights have passed in every referendum on the topic since the recent Supreme Court fuckery, and that women coming to the polls to vote for their reproductive rights might skew the numbers more in favour of Democrats, independent of polling.
So Democrat victories in Florida (including a senator seat) are looking like a real possibility.
I agree, except that the law, as written, is stupid.
Charging for outbound links and for sharing the robots.txt summary provided by the news outlets themselves for use is ridiculous.
Instead, they should have implemented a digital advertising tax. 20% of gross sales, maybe? Make exemptions for small groups (first $1M in #ad dashes is untaxed?) (Numbers to be determined by an actual trained economist and policy expert, not me.)
That would hurt them directly on the revenue side where they make most of their income, and make local print/TV advertising more cost-effective (helping local media companies).
And then use 100% of the tax to support journalist salaries as a tax rebate through the CRA, like CCB or the carbon rebate.
What am I missing? This seems so obvious to me idk why this wasn’t the original plan.
I don’t think they have many employees in customer support; I think they outsource almost all of that work.
It’s funny you say that. I’m actively working to add intro sentences to more of my emails to add “fluff”. Asking how their weekend was, commenting about the weather, sharing a one-sentence story about an experience I’ve had, etc.
I’m trying to build connection with people and not come off as terse/abrupt. My wife calls me out for it all the time.