Wouldn't that requirement completely kill any chance of a L5 system being profitable? If company X is making tons of self-driving cars, and now has to pay insurance for every single one, that's a mountain of cash. They'd go broke immediately.

I realize it would suck to be blamed for something the car did when you weren't driving it, but I'm not sure how else it could be financially feasible.

No? Insurance costs would be passed through to consumers in the form of up-front purchase price. And probably the cost to insure L5 systems for liability will be very low. If it isn't low, the autonomous system isn't very safe.

The way it works in states like California currently is that the permit holder has to post an insurance bond that accidents and judgements are taken out against. It's a fixed overhead.

What you're talking about can't be accomplished with LLMs, it's fundamentally not how they operate. We'd need an entirely new class of ML built from the ground up for this purpose.

EDIT: Yes, someone can run a script every X minutes to prompt and LLM - that doesn't actually give it any real agency.

Galaxy is purely convenience. If you want to see all your games from all storefronts (Epic, Steam, GOG, etc) in one place, Galaxy lets you do that. (Along with the social stuff)

You can still play GOG games without any launcher, which is how it's intended to work.

Some people really like having a launcher to keep track of everything, so this isn't a nothing burger. It's one more convenience to help convince people to move over.

Ah, thank you very much!

EDIT: I'm wrong

Wensleydale is a place in Yorkshire, and a style of cheese, not specific to any one brand, so you could.

I'm not sure it's a brand name so much as a type of cheese.

"It's cheese, Gromit!"

The fact that precompiled headers are nearly as good for a much smaller investment tells you most of what you need to know, imo.

Go-to? I've never seen a project use it, I've only ever seen examples online.

It's still been the standard since c++11 and I've been using it every since in all teams I've worked in.

Same here

I've always felt the idea was interesting, but the execution was silly. There are real, systematic problems - both specific to major countries and those that are common to nearly all.

But while they are very concerning, none of them I would say are an immediate, existential threat. Nuclear threat during the cold war was very real. International tensions were high and one mistake could have meant the death of countless millions.

What we see today is nothing like that. Is there vast inequality? Yes. Are there systems with terrible rewards? Corruption? Environmental concerns? Yes, yes, yes.

But none of those are apocalyptic in the way that I feel the Doomsday clock is meant to represent.

IMO they've used it so often for the wrong thing, that now it's watered down to the point of being meaningless.

I agree the whole thing is kind of silly, but "immediate" is relative - if viewing all of human history, environmental destruction in this century (say next 80 years), that would probably be the last few seconds of human life.

Also, as long as the world has 10k+ nuclear warheads are ready to be launched at the push of a few buttons, it wouldn't take much (accidents or quick escalations) to get to destruction.

The number of such warheads has been gradually, steadily declining for a long time - if anything, that suggests the clock should be moving backwards.

Those conditions lead to conflict which lead to nuclear war.

I’m convinced it will happen in my lifetime and nothing in the last 5 years has made me feel like we’re moving in the direction of peace and international collaboration

People have been saying that longer than you have been alive.

hence why the clock’s stayed pretty close to midnight

The environmental concern might lead to massive migrations hinder and diseases.

It's still not quite there yet, for me. A lot of older games (which I'm a big fan of) won't run well or at all - and support for Nvidia is still not great.

If I could get within even 10% of the performance I get on Windows, and know I could safely choose to play some old 2000's game or something that just released just fine, I really wouldn't mind. But it feels like a roulette wheel and some important game I wanted to play just may not work, or may run terribly.

Which games?

For older games: MechWarrior 3 and 4 (plus expansions). Thief 1+2. Freespace 2. Gothic 1+2. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

But in general, I play a lot of weirder, niche games that just don't get a lot of traction for community fixes and so on.

The device? Absolutely. Cable service? Absolutely not.

The device is fantastic. Games, movies, shows, etc. There's a lot of utility in having a big, high-resolution screen as compared to a computer screen or, worse, a tiny phone screen. I love getting to relax on a couch and watch a favorite movie.

Cable and streaming are crap. Every year the prices go up, the content gets more fractured, the experience and service get worse, and it's just a bad time. I'm sick of promising new shows getting cancelled after 2 seasons. I'm sick of ENDLESS budget being spent on the most absurd CGI and effects instead of making something simpler and focused more on the story.

EMAS is going to save a LOT of lives in the long run. It's consistently effective at its job. I'm very excited to see it more widespread.