I mean, I’d (almost) never buy a digital version of a game I want to play on console. Physical or it might as well not exist. It’s not no one, but it’s not enough people to matter either.
But aside from ‘no one’ being a slight overstatement, I think you’re dead on. It’s good if the physical copy does better than expected or whatever, but it was always going to be a drop in the bucket. Still, hopefully they keep printing them even if small quantities.
Indiana Jones on Switch 2, also from them and in that case the only real physical version, seems to be sold out all over the place too.
I think there’s a market there for sure. But I don’t know that we should read too much into it. Could mean there’s a ton of demand, or could just mean they way undershot their estimates for how many to ship.
From the article:
The policy summarizes itself this way:
It’s fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.
Uses in the first category are allowed, sometimes requiring disclosure. Uses in the second category are heavily restricted.
Seems pretty level-headed to me.
I hear these names thrown around a lot. I’ve only briefly tried Calibre, and not KOReader yet.
I’m kinda curious, what’s the difference between them and the roles they fill?
Similar for me actually. I don’t know if it was this book or another one. (The one I read implemented trig functions in a later chapter.)
But by early-mid aughts when I was curious about programming, I found a perl book that was available to read online for free. Never did use much Perl after that, but learned to think that way.
The list:
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass
Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie
The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing by Daniel Shiffman
They add that all the books are pre-2015, to give time for assessing whether they really made an impact. The article of course has plenty more explanation if you want the why.
I’d be really curious to know myself. Outside of college textbooks, I don’t think I’ve spent more than 100 on any given book. Probably not even 80.
I can think of some art books that may have run me up into 40-70, like the Yoshitaka Amano book with FF work. Or the NES Ultimate guide from Contri. The Brawl in the Family comics in print probably cost over 100 actually, but then that’s also 3 books.
I can think of a couple I’ve had eyes on that are pricey tho. The Art of Computer Programming from Knuth isn’t rare, but a set would certainly be a nice, and costly, symbol of rigor I wish I had. Best Before (Newman) or English editions of Florent Gorges’s Nintendo history books seem uncommon enough to be expensive.
Listening through Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
My reaction to it is kinda mixed. Some of the humor hits, some of it doesn’t. I suspect part of that is that so much of both the style of humor and the specific jokes have seeped down into culture enough to not be surprising.
Stephen Fry, reading it, is definitely giving a performance.
When we go to the beach on vacation each year I always make a point to stop in their local bookshop. Selection and moreso price aren’t great, but it’s always so much fun just to look around.
Went the past week and picked up:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) Secret History (Tartt) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Zevin) And Then There Were None (Christie) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
Just finished The Memory Police today. Thought it was great! Some beats were very clearly telegraphed, but it was nice how it emphasized atmosphere and attitude in the face of loss.
Earlier this week I finished Dragon’s Teeth and Thunderstones. Still agree with my initial impression that it’s mostly not my jam. But I thought it was a little more interesting near the end.
Headed back to the library today for another couple of books. Between the ones I just read, and my next couple, should be able to wrangle that pretty close to a bingo. Memory Police is written on a different continent, and the fossil book can fill either ‘nature elements’ square or the ‘supplemental info’ one (almost any non-fiction fits that last one I think).
Just the other day I found a copy of this at a yard sale. A vintage, cheap feeling paperback, which (materially) feels so classy now by way of contrast with most of my other books.
Glad to see the high praise of it! Grabbed it on a whim. When I get to it, will be the first of Le Guin’s that I’ve read.
Hopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.
Yeah, there are some I still follow. Love to see that they’re still kicking, here and there.
NodeBB seems like a really cool thing. Forums never should have been abandoned!
Yeah, I worry about that. Seems like everything a human can do to prove they’re human, imitation machine learning will be able to look at those inputs and outputs and fake it.
If you can’t have spaces filter out bots (already hard, probably impossible in the future), trust and validity completely go away. Spam will become unmanageable, and in many cases more subtle. Abuse will scale and could become unblockable.
I’m sure there sill be some kind of good ideas to push back, but I’d certainly say I’m pessimistic atm.
I’ve come around on it somewhat at work. Recent models really are getting pretty impressive. It’s at the point where I can tell it to read a Jira ticket and implement it, and for simple ones it basically just does it. I’m not sure it’s worth the massive environmental and infrastructures detriments (or rather, I’m pretty sure it’s not), but it’s definitely a productivity boost.
It’s also creating cognitive debt tho - every change it does for me automagically is one I don’t have to think about and ‘earn’ myself. You could argue the AI compensates for that by then explaining the code for you, but I think it will lead to some bad results in the mid-long term.
For any personal programming, I don’t/wouldn’t use it, beyond just replacing Google searches maybe. It defeats the fun of it, and cost money on top of that.
If you actually just download a .py file, you need to run it with python. Like in the example you linked, something like
python3 _filename_
(and if that’s the case, you might need to add a line at the top of the file, telling it where the interpreter is. But probably you actually want the following)
To install, you use the python installer program, pip. Something like
pip _package-name_
Before you do either, you need to install python and pip. I don’t know exactly (look for correct package names), but you need to run something like
sudo apt install python3 pip
I haven’t tried it. What aspects make it different from what Loops or Pixelfed are already doing?
Agree with this! It’s one of those things where if you want to learn to do it, just start doing. (Which it sounds like op is, so keep at that.) You find where the gaps are then focus on learning just enough to get past your roadblock.
I did the same a couple years ago. We had tickets to see it in play form. I had no idea what it was about and wanted to read the book first. It’s really good!