The new o1-preview model gave me much better and more precise answers than the 4o model.

I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to publish his articles to for-profit publishers, who are basically the mafia gatekeepers, who profit from information that should be open to everyone. And the university profits from this lucrative business.

This Youtube video will open your eyes to this business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

Yup, and now it will bite him in the ass. Imagine if we had coalition governments in Canada that actually represented the Canadian voice. The parties will have to make concessions and actually talk to each other like in a marriage.

Not a good comparison. With Steam, you download the games to your computer. If Valve ever went out of business, they could unDRM the games, or you could crack them.

Either way, you download the games onto your computer. That’s not the case with Funimation.

Buying a digital copy of something you cannot download is an oxymoron. It only makes sense if you subscribe to a service.

Unfortunately, unlike Australia, Canada is not an Island. The USA influences us easily.

Run them in Bottle, then disable internet access for the games.

Well, because the liberals didn’t reform elections as they promised, we can’t do that.

Exactly. We have to remember the old saying of Hippocrates: prevention is better than cure. Preventing a disease will save the system an enormous amount of money because it will reduce the number of hospital admissions. Hospital admissions are the most expensive costs.

Same here. Everytime I go to Montréal, I’m amazed by their transit.

I avoid them like the plague. My last flight with them was from Toronto to Dubai. Absolutely horrible service. They ran out of chicken and only had a vegetarian dish and only served us one meal, which is ridiculous for a 14 hour flight. And the customer service is awful.

I am now trying to find alternatives, even if they are a bit more expensive.

It was more about the Quebec independence referendum. Before that, Montreal was the economic capital of Canada.

You make a good point. With immigration, Canada’s population will grow. Toronto cannot be the only city to which people move to.

Article without paywall: http://archive.today/mdUQf

Lemmy instances are run by VOLUNTEERS! Lemmy.world is not a COMPANY. A company can have an army of lawyers. An instance run by VOLUNTEERS cannot.

This is embarrassing. Russia is already taking advantage of it.

Russia blasts Canada over ‘outrageous’ reception in Parliament for Ukrainian who served in Nazi unit

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6977248

I don’t think so. The elections are in two years and the Liberals are losing in the polls. I think they want a win to reverse the trend.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Americanisation of our society, where people know more about the Constitution of the United States than they do about the Canadian Constitution.

The whole thing seems rushed because the CEO of Unity, John Riccitiello, was the leading advocate of microtransactions when he was at EA, and now he is instilling the same culture at Unity.

How will they differentiate between pirated copies and legitimate copies? How will they distinguish first-time installs from repeat installs? Can we trust their algorithm? It just doesn’t seem possible.

I hope that since Bathesda is now a Microsoft studio, Microsoft is going to be persistent with bug fixes. But maybe it’s a tall order.

Being a patient gamer is best. We need to give it at least 6 months for Bathesda to optimize the game and fix the major bugs.

Interesting. I might try that

I also enjoyed Andromeda but I just can’t get myself to replay it. I replayed the Trilogy multiple times but I just couldn’t replay Andromeda, it felt like a chore.

I think the lifting of the immigration quota needed to be handled better. All three governments needed to work together to have a concerted housing plan to accommodate immigrants.

While cameras generated a mechanical reproduction of a scene, she explained that they do so only after a human develops a “mental conception” of the photo, which is a product of decisions like where the subject stands, arrangements and lighting, among other choices.

I agree. The types of AIs that we have today are nothing more than mixers of various mental conceptions to create something new. These mental conceptions comes with life experience and is influenced by a person’s world view.

Once you remove this mental conception, will the AIs that we currently have today be able to thrive on their own? The answer is no.

Agreed. They should leave legacy fail proof technology in place.

Like this “review”:

I’m in my late 30s and I remember when Blizzard was highly respected in the industry. sigh, how the mighty have fallen.

They released it on Steam on August 10th because player engagement was on the decline: https://gamerant.com/overwatch-2-player-count-down/

The game is currently being review bombed. Valve will soon do a big cleaning: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-to-remove-off-topic-review-bombs-from-steam-user-scores

Has The Onion crossed over into real life?

https://lemmy.world/post/2843318

Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.

We can only hope. In my opinion, Montréal is the most European like big city in North America. And Quebec’s unique culture isolates it from the rest of anglo-saxon North America.

But shareholders need to eat! The pushers need to get you addicted to make money!

The title is somewhat misleading:

For now, Mlilo and Dlodlo, are consulting with a slew of workers’ unions as they explore unionization.

This is a stupid move. It’s like Google changing its name to something else. Now everyone says “you need to Google this” instead of “you need to search this on the internet”. Twitter has become a recognised brand and tweeting has become a verb in the dictionary. He’s destroying years of work. At this point, we can safely say that his behaviour is not rational.

I believe you made a mistake. This does not belong in Technology.

And this is why I no longer play mobile games. Too much BS. My phone’s battery life is thanking me.

I have to say, it’s also a subculture of it. When I used to participate in r/patientgamers, a lot of people (myself included) realised that we didn’t care about the latest releases because of our responsibilities (and maturity), and many of us preferred short to long.

But it’s not homogeneous.