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CGMs react slower and can be quite wrong compared to finger pricking.


Slower yes - there is typically a 15-20 min lag time - not two hours.


All other companies can breath now and start announcing the release dates for their games this year. No one wanted to compete with GTA6.


There is some speculation indicating the base version will cost >= 80$, this could give some room for other game studios to distance themselves in terms of price


I had a similar thought: glazing is the infinite scroll of AI.


Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613079


Not a baseball fan, but I’m curious if the MLB will go the F1 route (ie ban the “hack”) or embrace it as it will probably make for more entertaining games. Home runs are a good thing, right?


After my initial surprise that teams have their own bats (presumably they don't have their own balls, though?), F1 was the first thing that came to mind. I don't follow F1 closely but I understand there is a constant struggle between allowing constructors to innovate (and thus having the constructors' championship in addition to drivers') and keeping the sport both fun and safe.


Yep, definitely been noticing it, especially on Reddit. It almost always makes me navigate away from the post, unless the author mentions that they’re using AI.


That quote can be applied to so many areas in life.

Also, a Tomcat “driver?” Is that a thing?


>That quote can be applied to so many areas in life.

Couldn't agree more.

>Also, a Tomcat “driver?” Is that a thing?

Yup:

https://www.quora.com/I-am-told-that-an-F-15-pilot-was-calle...

To qualify, my usage of the term was intended with nothing but respect.

It also sounds cool as hell (IMHO), in similar vein to "gunslinger".


> Also, a Tomcat “driver?” Is that a thing?

Air Force nerd slang.

[edit] and I guess also naval aviator slang if they use it, too.


> Also, a Tomcat “driver?” Is that a thing?

yes. F-14s were 2-seater cockpits and there was a radar/weapons officer and a pilot.

one person drove the bus and the other honked the horn.


Oh, yeah .. humble brag from one side, dragging on show ponies from the other.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/p2joju/whats_the_...

There is no military position immune to dragging.


Yes


Hacking a hackathon itself, maybe.


But there is no irony, because it's two different meanings of the word "hacking": firstly "gaining unauthorized access", and secondly "focused programming".

I always hated that there is this second meaning. Especially since IMO it's being used to "steal" some of the glory associated with the original meaning.

When did this second meaning emerge anyway? Is this site here partially at fault?


They both stem from the more general meaning of hacking as looking for clever outside-the-box solutions to a problem, showing disregard to the intended/expected/typical way of going about that sort of thing. It apparently originated with this meaning in the late 50's at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club.


historically, "gaining unauthorized access" IS the second meaning.


Oh nice, I wasn't aware. I always associated hacking with "gaining unauthorized access" and googling for the first definition confirmed that I'm my eyes. Didn't know it was the other way around and the term is actually much older than I assumed.


Here's a pleasant article on the subject from Richard Stallman, the developer of GNU / Linux.

https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html


Both are derived uses, but breaking in seems slightly more distant than the more recent usage of hackathon.

"Hack job" predates computers. The oldest form known means "to cut irregularly or inexpertly", with industrial revolution era uses similar to to people saying "AI slop" in the last year or two: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/211750/where-did...

"The" jargon file says "[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]", while other sources claim it's the name of a tool that functions much like an axe or a mattock, or such an action as one might use the item for:

"""In fact, the OED also defines hack as a tool for breaking or chopping up, dating from before 1300:

He lened him þan a-pon his hak, Wit seth his sun þus-gat he spak. And hacker follows. From 1620:

One good hacker, being a lusty labourer, will at good ease hack or cut more than half an acre of ground in a day."""

- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70658/what-does-...


Hackning is what a competent black hat does while hacking. It is also what is done here. The double meaning is over 50 years old now.


Hackners?



Yikes! Good ol’ honeypot, works all the time.


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