There are a wide range of computer skills. Being able to interact with a word processor extremely efficiently is a highly valuable tech skill. Someone who knows about processor architecture but can’t touch type is arguably more tech-savvy but also less useful in most office jobs. So I’d say that the secretaries were indeed tech-savvy in a way that was useful for their positions.
That’s the sad truth of it. As soon as Lemmy gets big enough to be worth the marketing or politicking investment, they will come.
I probably can’t afford that car, but I definitely can’t afford that blender.
“Let’s all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee.”
–Yahtzee Croshaw
Apparently, it’s a contributing factor, yes. NIH says that a review of over a hundred studies found links between PFAS exposure and liver damage, including steatosis.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-links-synthetic-chemicals-liver-damage
In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.
It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn’t pay off.
Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.
And a separate dome for the kids!
I’m primarily a Civ 5 player and my issue is not with quick movement or quick combat (both on, of course) but the actual time to process enemy turns. It’s a 14 year old game running on my absolute monster of a gaming PC, but it’s still sluggish, especially with larger maps with more opponents. I can’t imagine the Civ AI is that computationally intensive so I’ve never understood why it takes so long. I’d also like more customization options in cities so they auto-govern better in the late game, which is also a huge time suck especially when going dom.
They probably shouldn’t worry so much. Way more people have died in Boeing airplanes than in Boeing spaceships.
Interested to see how they implement this. I’ve always thought that the first 150 turns of Civ are a ton of fun, but eventually it turns into a slog. I’ve always wished there were more automation options in the late game, and faster processing of enemy turns.
Oh yeah. Any time Netanyahu needs weapons, the talks are proceeding in good faith. Then once he gets the next shipment, they’re on the verge of collapse. Rinse and repeat.
So if I posted a review saying that Black Myth: Wukong is as badass as when Rosie the Riveter invented COVID in a Chinese lab, would they be upset?
Alien Resurrection on PSX was the first game to use the dual-stick control scheme. Halo came out more than a year later.
Funnily, it was reviewed poorly at the time:
Getting JK Rowling to shut up is arguably a more impressive accomplishment than winning Olympic gold
There are a series of quants available at much smaller sizes such that you don’t need the full size model. The full fp16 model is 23 GB but the fp8 quant is half that, and there are GGUF quants down to 6.8 GB.
Oobabooga is a pretty beginner-friendly solution for running LLMs locally. Models are freely available on Huggingface, but look for GGUF quantizations that will fit in your VRAM. The good thing about GGUFs is that they’re typically offered in a wide range of sizes so you can pick one that will fit on your GPU. If you use all your VRAM and start offloading to system memory then the generation will be far slower.
I’ve had the best results with Noromaid20B and Rose20B quants running on a 16GB 4080. Don’t expect it to be as smart as GPT 4.0, but those models do a pretty good job of following instruction and writing decent prose.
Once you mess around with Oobabooga a bit, I’d highly recommend picking up the SillyTavern front-end. Oobabooga runs the actual model while SillyTavern manages characters, world lore, and offers a wide range of other features including a “visual novel” mode where you can set up character sprites that emote based on the content of the messages. It takes a while to get the hang of but it’s pretty cool.
Okay, science guy, but can I use it to replace human workers? I don’t really get all this computer stuff, but I need something to tell the shareholders.
Probably depends on the store. The one near me scans them some days but not others. I’ve never understood what the policy is.
I’d be faster without autocorrect than with. I feel like it chooses the wrong word more often than not.
Honestly, I miss the real keyboard from my 2009 Blackberry. No substitute for haptic feedback.