FermiEstimate

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[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

All I really know is shoot bug and if you aren’t getting friendly fired to hell and back you’re playing wrong

You've pretty much got it down, though you also shoot terminators.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 months ago

OpenAI: "Our AI is so powerful it's an existential threat to humanity if we don't solve the alignment issue!"

Also OpenAI: "We can devote maybe 20% of our resources to solving this, tops. We need the rest for parlor tricks and cluttering search results."

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 5 months ago

Charles Stross' Laundry series is basically this concept set in the present day: magic is a branch of mathematics, which means it can be computed and programmed.

It is perhaps worth noting at this point the series genre is cosmic horror.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

FWIW, the shield backpack and either AMR or Quasar/EAT have served me well against bots, but I typically run light armor. I bring the grenade pistol to handle factories.

If you aren't already using it, there's never been a better time to get into the AMR now that they buffed the damage and finally zeroed in the scope.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Orbital stratagem timings make no sense, and are strictly a gameplay balance issue that *cannot* be realistic: the loading screen shows the first helldiver drops well outside the atmosphere and take several minutes to reach the ground, but turrets take 3 seconds to deploy?

I assumed this was because equipment can endure acceleration that would make a person pass out, or at least be combat-ineffective on landing. A trip from the Karman line to the ground in a few seconds would involve some deeply unpleasant G-forces...in opposite directions, back-to-back.

Come to think of it, this might explain why different gear has different call down times, as more fragile stuff might require a slower and (relatively) gentler drop.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

It's safe to say it's better, though I couldn't tell you if it's actually fun yet. For one thing, they've moved away from some of the wackiest design decisions, like the lack of NPCs.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

B.S., a former partner at Andreesen-Horowitz

Lmao, of course.

and former chief technology officer of Coinbase

I.e., the company that survived by shedding a ton of employees, like 40% of headcount or something. I do not see this tactic working well when they're trying to win friends and influence cops by hiring their failsons into sinecure positions.

What makes all this funnier is that it's trying to thread the needle of embracing fascism while simultaneously seething with contempt for 99.999% of the people in the movement.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"If you think about the major journeys within a restaurant that can be AI-powered, we believe it’s endless."

My dude, you work for Yum Brands, not Starfleet Command. Nobody taking a "major journey" inside a Pizza Hut needed AI help to get there. (Though they could probably use a cup of water, and maybe an Uber home.)

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago

Nice, I wonder if this thing can help fill out my restaurant/tissue bank paperwork now.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Spotlights on photographers or projects would be really cool, though I know they're a lot more work. It's really interesting seeing how someone works and how they came to see a particular photo where someone else wouldn't have.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

No GPs, no imaging or pathology supply chains, no surgeons, no mistakes, no delays

Now I'm imagining this guy trying to plug an ethernet cable into an MRI's helium line.

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