Sure, but how does it work?

And also without Erica. The real question is, who is she? Where is she? These are the answers we should all be demanding.

Burnout Paradise had a really awesome soundtrack, too. Driving games always pay for the bangers, and it must be a lot of fun to write fake news and whatnot for interstitials.

Guarantee you that if this ends up becoming a widespread thing, insurance companies will lobby hard to be the ones to help “calibrate” the AI.

Could make a fun little game out of showing someone’s posting data (e.g. number of posts per community, number of comments per day, etc.) but without the username, and let us try to guess who it is.

The problem isn’t content, it’s engagement on the content. Folks complain that niche communities have no engagement, just a bunch of posts by a single person… but it feels like 95% of the time, if I comment on those posts, there’s no reply, not even from the OP, and that discourages further posting.

If you’re willing to engage on everything you post, I don’t see the harm in it, but at that point, why even use a bot? Why not just find content you like (or have the bot notify you of content), then post it yourself as an actual human?

Can’t tell if you’re trolling or if you need your sarcasm detector calibrated.

Purchasing the license unlocks features such as an even more Windows-inspired desktop and control panel, an integrated Android subsystem with graphics acceleration, a graphical OneDrive client inside the file manager, Copilot and ChatGPT integration, advanced system configuration tools, improved security for web browsing, and exclusive desktop enhancements that are not available in the free base Winux install.

I’m surprised they didn’t include these things by default and remove them when you buy a license; that sounds like a straight downgrade. Aren’t these things some of the main reasons people stop using Windows?

Correlation does not equal causation.

I had a horrible Amazon experience 3 or 4 years ago and haven’t shopped there since, so I’m probably remembering the time when it did work.

They’ve been doing it for a while. They’re all low-budget, made-for-TV movies that follow some pretty predictable formulas and appeal to a very specific type of person - usually the lonely, single type.

She was a successful businesswoman with a promising career. He was a small-town nobody. Can he win her over before she returns to the big city?

Love the idea in concept. One major issue is the shipping. A major benefit of Amazon is just being able to add 20 things to your cart and get them all in like 1-2 boxes. In this hypothetical scenario, you’d presumably still have to handle checkout through each individual store, and if you ordered 20 things, you’d be placing up to 20 individual orders, each with their own shipping costs.

This becomes more problematic when maybe multiple stores you’re buying from sell multiple things on your list… ideal case would be to buy as many things from one store as possible, to consolidate shipping, but what if their prices for the individual items vary? Now you’ve got to search each individual storefront for each item and calculate the difference in cost. (This store sells item A for $2 cheaper but shipping is $3.50, is there another item I can add in to save shipping? They sell item B for $0.50 more, but I might save on shipping costs…)

Technically this is no worse than it is now if you’re shopping from a variety of stores rather than one megastore, but it would be a large barrier to adoption if you’re trying to capture some of the “fed up with Amazon but still like the convenience” crowd.

I think Minesweeper is a great tutorial game. It forces you to learn different variable types, data structures, loops and user input at a minimum, and it’s really easy to expand on to make it more complex without requiring unique or difficult logic. Turning it into Battleship is a fun progression - I hadn’t considered that, but I like it!

(On the back of the note) “because the system that incentivizes causing harm to people is broken, and I want to use the position of power in the company to promote better practices that benefit subscribers and work to reform the system from within.”

Santa: “Uh, oops.”

A fun way to do this (IMO) is to pick some really simple classic game, and remake it. Something like Minesweeper, but pick something that’s at least sort of related to the concepts you want to learn.

He’s even doing everything he can to actively kill clean energy initiatives to increase the dependence on it. He seriously cannot die soon enough.

Honestly can’t tell if many of the comments here are serious or satire, and that bothers me a little bit.

And yeah, you could build your own cheaper.

Notably, though, this is the case with any pre-built PC; the Steam Box isn’t an exception. We don’t know the final price or specs yet but presumably it’s no worse value than buying something from e.g. Dell. Probably better value purely based on it coming with Linux and without the bloatware.

In an unfortunate coincidence, the tables were sorted by the children’s parents’ annual income, so it was the poor kids whose data was lost. That’s why rich kids get more presents.