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Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 01:09:45 PM

Fukuyama came out with this. Interesting he correctly predicted the Kharg Island attack a day before it occured.

#2

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 12:23:24 PM

Enjoying playing  'Egypt - Old Kingdom' - nice with interesting mechanics and lots of historical flavour.

Sounds familiar

#3

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:23:15 PM

My takeaway so far is that it's good I never married, because I can't become a doomed widower.

My uncle lost his wife and he had been doing great and he is in his 80s. So it is not a death sentence.

#4

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:21:01 PM

It is hard for me to vocalize how crushingly depressing this war is.

#5

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:51:12 AM

I feel like I've been the only one going in the opposite direction with AI.  In my old company we had ChatGPT Enterprise with access to pretty strong models.  In my new job we have Copilot.    Microsoft's ability to create fucking useless products is unmatched.  I'm actually doing more by hands now than I did a year ago.

This is exactly the problem, people find a use case for a particular niche function, and the folks who don't know better say, see I told you so, all AI is useful.  By the way, another lawyer is heading to being disbarred in Ontario for using generative AI. This time the lawyer checked to make sure the case names were real, but the quotes from the cases he included in his brief were entirely fabricated. 

#6

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:48:18 AM

Solasta II is now available in early access

#7

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by HisMajestyBOB - Today at 11:41:00 AM

I feel like I've been the only one going in the opposite direction with AI.  In my old company we had ChatGPT Enterprise with access to pretty strong models.  In my new job we have Copilot.    Microsoft's ability to create fucking useless products is unmatched.  I'm actually doing more by hands now than I did a year ago.

That matches my experience with Copilot enterprise. It's useful as an enhanced search engine to point me in the right direction, but it won't give me anything useful directly.

#8

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by HVC - Today at 11:26:36 AM

Wonder what they'll resort to if there's no foliage to defoliate?

#9

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 11:19:32 AM

With the advent of WFH, I find myself alone in my house. It is still weird to me.

#10

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Syt - Today at 11:15:45 AM

We ran a test last week. Someone asked if there's an easy way to create a seating chart for 400 people on tables of 10 if you want to keep teams together as much as possible. I suggested putting the task into ChatGPT 5.4 pro with max thinking (I've been using it for my project work with decent success). After an hour it was still crunching the problem.

The "fast" option had a solution in under one minute that was deemed "excellent" by our colleague.