https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/single-player-offline-option/9797

offline solo is only for consoles.

https://expertbeacon.com/can-you-play-diablo-3-in-offline-mode/

https://kotaku.com/in-the-end-diablo-iii-just-shouldnt-have-been-always-1624648696

https://expertbeacon.com/is-diablo-3-still-online-only/

https://cyberpost.co/is-diablo-3-still-always-online/

https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-3-always-online-requirement-critical-to-d3s-long-term-integrity-says-blizzard-boss/

Turns out the game is always-online

Just like the game before it. Which also had tacky micro-transactions.

I’ll let you guess what Diablo 5 will be like.

Why does the graph go anti-clockwise?

Fuck Nestle, Kit Kats are made by Nestle.

Captured, then released. From the article:

Otherwise, she seemed to be in good condition and, as I released her, she sauntered away into the darkness, seemingly unfazed by her close encounter with me.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/UBI:EPA?window=5Y

You’re right, they aren’t doing so well looking at this 5 year window.

The vast majority of coding isn’t making something new, it’s using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.

I would argue that arranging something to fit a specific use case is making something new.

Ask any designer how difficult it is to get a spec sheet from a client and meet their expectations. We’re expecting LLMs to suddenly solve this problem.

Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern

Until they can do this, there is little threat to designers. There will be less grunt work, of course.

The sad reality is that code is just a form of language, and LLMs are good at learning languages.

This is debatable. LLMs are prediction machines.

What use is prediction when you are trying to code something new?

Quantum Scientists: Hey, man, you just don’t get it.

Hipster Artists: Hey, man, you just don’t get it.

I wanted to give people a chance at remembering the reference before seeing the answer. The URL gives the answer.

I was confused for a moment.

Here is the news article: https://www.sciencealert.com/vinegar-has-a-surprising-effect-on-depression-study-finds

More importantly, here is the research article: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/14/2305

Wait, is it the boat that ignores the spherical attribute or the entity that commands the boat?

Can an elf sail to the undying lands commanding a human built vessel?

It’s not that it was a satisfying theory, it’s that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/

The Israeli military used AI from Microsoft to carry out warfare.

The Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft and OpenAI artificial intelligence spiked last March [2024] to nearly 200 times higher than before the week leading up to the Oct. 7 attack, the AP found in reviewing internal company information. The amount of data it stored on Microsoft servers doubled between that time and July 2024 to more than 13.6 petabytes — roughly 350 times the digital memory needed to store every book in the Library of Congress. Usage of Microsoft’s huge banks of computer servers by the military also rose by almost two-thirds in the first two months of the war alone.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-technology-737bc17af7b03e98c29cec4e15d0f108

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc

What’s in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.

We have conceal and carry laws for this exact reason. /jk

Just gang rape in general, but or no but.

The people are all that stands …

No matter who you are, or where you are from, we can work together against the powers that be. Even small nudges from each person collect to a large force.