The EPA heavily regulates any emissions defeat devices. The problem is they spend most of their time going after tuner shops where most cars run on ethanol rather than diesel shops who cater to brain-damaged customers who think rolling coal is "cool"

The worst part about fusions implementation is that you CANNOT edit the User Parameters while you are viewing the part easily. I like to edit the params and drag it around, but it SUCKS in fusion

sigh, PDF is anything but trivial sadly. It is a horrible creature from the bowels of hell. I do wish there was a web document standard that was printable and also editable without dropping a nuclear bomb

15 years is not some insane gap that you can't get around. The biggest issue is that the EGS is just an inferior experience compared to steam, that's simply it.

If Epic games really wanted to start eating away at steams market share, they would do one thing. Make EGS not shitty for the user

15 years is a humongous gap. Almost an entire generation. Do you expect to make a Facebook killer in 2022? A WOW killer in 2017? Make a DOTA killer right now?

There's so many people who aren't even your market, they are an "one game player". You can't target that realistically unless that one game shits the bed.

Tik Tok is arguably a Facebook killer.

Roblox is in some ways there, I think Epic thought fortnite could have competed. IMO they made a strategic mistake in shackling their game-as-a-platform to Fortnite. I thought the music fortnite thing looked interesting, but I have negative interest in installing Fortnite.

Call it something else and make it literally the first thing you see on epicgames.com, have it work on mobile, and maybe things would be different today.

(Aside: Roblox wins because I can go from typing in roblox.com into my browser and be playing a game with a friend in under 20s)

Instagram was a Facebook killer until Facebook bought it.

Snapchat was a Facebook killer until Facebook bought a VPN service and tracked every user without consent then stole half its features

I guess you could say LoL is a DOTA killer since its significantly more popular now, although some of that is likely to do with the Russian/Ukraine war

Giving actual compelling reasons to get users on your platform is the only way and the best way and that isn't really a function of time. TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble got eaten up by Discord and also most game forums

One of the biggest issues with all these stores that are other than steam is that they suck in terms of UI/UX and they are HUGE resource hogs, I am more inclined to kill off the epic games launcher from running in the background because it taking up gigabytes of my system memory and that annoys me

Steams's UI is also meh and is also a resource hog. There's a good reason I don't keep any launcher running at startup.

>Giving actual compelling reasons to get users on your platform is the only way

And sometimes there is no compelling reason. People may only want 1 or 2 things and they bias towards what they are familiar with.i suspect that's why Twitter is still technically a market leader (despite falling apart behind the scenes).

I also think it's really funny that talk about offering a good platform then mention an example where the market leader just gobbles them up.

This summarizes mostly how I feel about it. It's a tool like any other tool we have advanced since the beginning of human civilization

Machine tools replaced blacksmiths

CNC machines replaced manual machines.

Robots replaced CNC machine tenders

CAD replaced draftsman (and also pushed that job onto engineers (grr))

P&P robots replaced human production lines.

The steam train replaced the horse and cart

This is a tale as old as time itself

What do LLMs replace, pray tell? More like moving from a screwdriver to a drill, rather than replacing the carpenter all together.

Also note that there are inventions that may “replace” some part of a process, but actually induce a greater demand for labor in that process. Take the cotton gin, for example, which exploded the number of slaves required to pick cotton.

Those were deterministic rather than stochastic

Exactly. People love to compare LLMs to power tools for carpenters and smiths. But if my miter saw had a 20% chance to produce cuts at a 45 degree angle when I have it set for 90, I would throw it out so fast I would leave Looney Tunes style tracks. A tool which only sometimes does its job is worse than no tool at all.

To be rather pedantic your miter saw probably doesn't cut exactly 90 degrees. Especially if you reset it. LLMS are low accuracy for sure but so are humans. I am not saying AI is going to replace us all in a whole entirety my broader point is that these tools will be another tool that changes the market share of jobs.

The low accuracy of human guesstimation is why we use deterministic tools, not so-called tools that imitate our ability (or worse).

Tools are not replacements for people! Tools are enhancements.

AI is an attempt to replace people with something unhuman.

There really isn't anything special to using AI anyways it's not rocket science. Sometimes I will use AI to write me some tailwind tags, sometimes I will use AI to write me a static site for a custom report.

Most of my AI usage comes from doing things I don't enjoy doing like making a series of small tweaks to a function or block of code. Honestly, I just levelled the playing field with vim users and its nothing to write home about

> There really isn't anything special to using AI anyways it's not rocket science

Could have fooled me, the way some people manage to confuse themselves with it

You can beat the physics here though. There are several techniques in signal processing and beam forming that can be used to make insane high-speed transmissions, the days of geostationary broadcast for all radio traffic are over when it comes to advanced radio communication.

Radio technology is truly the closes thing to black magic. I wish there were more places to learn and read outside of an EE degree

For just ONE Starlink v3 it weighs around 2000kg and right now falcon heavy has an estimated cost per kg of $1,500 dollars so $3,000,000 per unit to orbit and let's say around $1,000,000 for the v3 itself. According to SpaceX each satellite can support 60 Tbsp downlink (I highly doubt this just purely based on the compute required) but assuming that is true that's 60,000 Gbps or 60,000 customers at 1 Gbps. The biggest issue here is that each satellite only lasts for approx. 7 years in LEO before its deorbited vs a fiber link last basically forever

Starlink V3 can pump out some seriously impressive speeds and handle thousands of clients. Starlink is both a great leap forward in rocketry and radio technology. I do still think funny how we are going back to the pre war technology tree for a re-visit

That's not even sufficient to handle the needs of a single large city. The limitation is that even with the much larger constellation they hope to deploy there won't be enough satellites visible at once from any given large metro area.

PCVR is awesome with Steam, even using meta headsets once it's all setup its very straightforward.

PCVR is great for flexibility and freedom, but it really sucks for convenience. There’s too much hassle and too much to turn on and setup even if you’re using Quest headset. I don’t think it will change until Valve Frame, but you can also argue that it’s not really PCVR