There seems to be a lot of “break the law, pay a fine, keep the profits” but maybe that’s just what it feels like

One of the problems is some poor people (eg: many whites) would rather die than other poor people (eg: black folks) get anything at all.

may genuinely be unskilled when it comes to computers in general.

I do not accept this idea that people are so unskilled at computers they can’t install Linux, and are so immutably so they can’t get better.

Like yeah sometimes you have to ask for help or watch a YouTube video. That shit’s free and right there.

All the trumpers would have risen up to do violence, but fuck it: execute them, too.

Early voting is open in NYC. Voting isn’t the only thing you should do, but it’s fast and easy. No line at my polling place down the street.

I classify this under “HR energy”. There’s a sickly uncanny valley of human behavior I see in HR people sometimes.

Like once there was a “hack” day at work and the hr lady was like “I say hack, you say day! Hack!”. Somehow most of the crowd played along.

Setting up a windows VM at my old job took like a few minutes, but I already had virtual box (I think that’s what I used)

And I needed to see some software running in a Windows box while editing the code that talked to it.

Yes, you can fucking do “stand on the table and make a speech” work. You know how? By breaking it up into detailed steps (pun intended), something that LLMs are awesome at!

My intended point was the LLM at run time taking user input wouldn’t be able to do “make a speech” if the game engine doesn’t have that concept already encoded. And if the game is presented as “take user input and respond believably” then users are going to ask for stuff the engine can’t do. Maybe there’s no animations for climbing. Maybe they did some shortcuts and the graphics look bizarre when stuff is elevated.

I wasn’t talking about Skyrim specifically.

But also you’re being unpleasant in this exchange, so you can win.

lol if you had read the rest of my post you would have seen I admitted you might be right. But go off, I guess.

Depends on what you need to do. You could mount a folder to get files in or out, for some cases.

Have you used virtual machines before? Done software development?

You think making a VM takes two weeks? I’m pretty sure Microsoft provides images you can just pop into virtualbox, but it’s been a while since I used VMs.

Also if you need to use the windows software alongside your regular workflow (eg: reading info out of the windows software with your eyes and then typing into your IDE or terminal), rebooting the whole thing is going to suck.

LLM generated code is notoriously bad. Like, “call this function that doesn’t exist” is common. Maybe a more specialized model would do better, but I don’t think it would ever be completely reliable.

But even aside from that, it’s not going to be able to map the free form user input to behavior that isn’t already defined. If there’s nothing written to handle “stand on the table and make a speech”, or “climb over that wall” it’s not going to be able to make the NPC do that even if the player is telling them too.

But maybe you’re more right than I am. I don’t know. I don’t do game development. I find it hard to imagine it won’t frequently run into situations where natural language input demands stuff the engine doesn’t know how to do.

Honestly I wouldn’t miss the little plastic garbage that ends up polluting the environment

Yes but if you dual boot there’s no VM needed LOL

You want to reboot the entire system when you need to use a Windows only application? Instead of just opening up a VM?

…what? How are you going to do any modern day work on the host machine with no Internet access? Are you going to air gap your windows machine?

I don’t think it would be easy to map free form text to game behavior. Not just like “make the NPC smile” but complex behavior like “this NPC will now go to this location and take this action”. That seems like it would be very error prone at best.

It would be interesting if NPCs could react believably to free form input from the player, but that seems unlikely to be reliable. I’m not sure how you’d map the text to in game actions.

Like, you could have the LLM respond with “ok I’ll let you have my horse if you leave in the morning, and solve the zombie problem” but it’s not trivial to make the game world respond to that. Not even counting it breaking out into “sorry as an LLM I can’t …”

Still happy I switched to Linux. Been playing divinity original sin 2 without any problems. (It’s one of those games I’ve started a hundred times but only finished once.)

You can restrict network access to the VM and still do normal network stuff on the host machine, for one thing.

You could prove bacon causes people to immediately shit out their organs and die, and people would still want it. Humans are emotional creatures and many are bizarrely emotionally invested in meat.