If that’s what happened, they should release the body cam footage… Oh wait.

Post-mortem determination of guilt.

You were shot therefore you must have been a bad person deserving of being shot.

This is toxic thinking at it’s finest.

I understand your reasoning, but please God no.

Why all the construction? Is he building 11 ballrooms?

I don’t hate all the new shows. They have merit, but they basically cheated. They can omit, change, discard, ignore, or otherwise leave out any and all lore because of the universe reset that happened with the new trek. It gave them a clean slate so that they would have the creative freedom to do whatever they wanted.

Weighing it against other sci-fi shows in a similar vein, the new series of shows/movies holds up for the most part, against Star wars, and shows like the Orville. But as star trek, I think they did a disservice to the fans by rebooting it in the way that they did. All the existing universe and lore built by TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and all the movies up to that point, is all basically voided. Where you would know that, if they introduce worf, for example, even as a young warrior, you would know what he will become if the canon wasn’t voided. Now? They can use the characters and come up with any reason for them to make a different choice, dramatically changing the outcomes.

But, if you judge it as a separate thing, loosely based on trek, it’s not bad.

I’ve never seen something useful come out of an LLM when it comes to tech support.

Early TNG was a bit rough. They had the right people, but some of the plot lines were strange an in some cases quite prejudiced.

Around season 3 they got their stride going.

Not every episode of season 1 is good. They were trying stuff and seeing what resonated with a new generation of trek fans.

I’m not saying anyone should skip it, but there are episodes that make me question why they even thought it was a good idea to do that.

Machine learning for OCR makes a ton of sense. Human writing is highly dynamic, especially handwriting. It makes sense that OCR would benefit from a trained model for recognising words.

As someone who works in a knowledge industry, anyone relying on AI for their workload will end up with more errors than solutions. IT requires a high degree of accuracy in the information you handle that gets you to a solution. Out of everything you can say about AI, you can’t say that it’s highly accurate.

Any time I’ve given a technical question to copilot or chat GPT, I usually get nonsense back. It will not help me solve any of the issues I need to solve as a part of my job.

I understand how the current version of “AI” works, and from that knowledge, I know that for any meaningful task I face with even a small amount of complexity, these so-called “AI” bots can’t possibly have any relevant answers. Most of the time I can’t find relevant answers on the Internet by trying. Sometimes I only get adjacent information that helps lead me to the unique solution I need to implement.

“AI” in IT support actually makes things go slower and cause more issues and frustration than actual tangible help with anything that needs to be done. You end up going down rabbit holes of misinformation, wasting hours of time trying to make an ineffective “solution” work, just because some “AI” chatbot sent you on a wild goose chase.

Uhh. Just chiming in here as someone that does business to business IT support… Most of the NPC office workers are almost demanding access to “AI” stuff.

I’m not saying this will turn out well, in fact, I think it will probably end poorly, but I’m not on charge around here. There’s a nontrivial outcry for “AI” tools in business.

There’s profit happening with it right now. Maybe not enough to offset costs yet, but there’s a market for these things in the mindless office drone space.

To be absolutely clear, I think it’s an idiotic thing to have/use, especially for any work in IT, but here we are. I have middle managers quoting chat GPT as if it’s proof that what they want, can be done. I’ve been forwarded complete instructions to use fictional control panels and fictional controls to do a thing, when it’s not possible for that thing to be done.

“AI” is a corporate yes-man in the worst ways possible. Not only are they agreeing that something can be done, even if it’s not possible, but it’s providing real enough looking directions that it seems like what it’s proposing can be done, is actually possible and reasonable. I once asked copilot how to drive to the moon and it told me I’d run out of gas. While I would definitely run out of gas trying to get to the moon by car, when I’m done trying and I’ve run out of gas, I wouldn’t be any closer to the moon than I usually am.

The thing is an idiot on wheels at the best of times, and a blatant liar the rest of the time. I don’t know how people can justify using it in business when a mistake can lead to legal action, and possibly a very large settlement. It’s short sighted and it’s not worth the time nor effort involved in the whole endeavor.

If I recall correctly, it was sons of anarchy?

It’s been a while. Many years.

I actually had someone tell me to watch a show, saying that you “just” need to get through the first 3 or 4 seasons of the show, then it will get good.

I still haven’t watched it.

It’s not everything, but it’s at least something.

Hopefully buddy is doing well, whatever his name is, and wherever he is now.

I live in Canada and we have some of the same stuff included in our taxes.

Our whole system is pretty fucked up when it comes to taxes, but it is what it is. At least we have things in place.

Sure, I’m “paying” for other people to get healthcare, or to get social assistance, police protection, help from fire departments, ambulances… Good banks and even welfare…

I couldn’t possibly give less of a shit.

I like knowing that, when it’s my turn to rely on my fellow countrymen for support, I will get it. If I’m sick and unable to work, I can get financial support, and go see a doctor without having to take out a loan or anything.

Social services are good. I’m not going to get denied coverage for a medically necessary procedure. It gets booked and performed.

And I know that Canada’s systems are way less comprehensive than most European countries. We have a lot to do before we can get to where we should be. But we’re still better off than our southern neighbors.

You monster.

See, that’s what I was thinking. I’ll have to do more research, but I would think all the overhead from Windows being Windows, would kind of diminish the gap between running it natively on Windows, and using proton or something so you can run it on Linux.

The overhead on both should be fairly similar, though with how Windows is, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was slower.

Okay, real talk.

I know there’s probably 100 videos on this, but I don’t have time to watch any of them right now…

How much performance is lost/gained from using Linux to play games via proton?

I’m certain any game with a native Linux version will work great, I’m mostly concerned with the ones that need some kind of emulation layer.