That's exactly what we ended up doing. Every story has now become one Fibonacci step higher than it would have been before.

Management where I work finally unbent and admitted that story points were time.

...but also want to continue raising velocity in each sprint.

Exactly this. I had a character go to a brothel in a campaign I ran. I just said okay, you go to the brothel and have whatever you consider a good time. No further detail or RP was requested or required.

They have a vested interest in their borrowers not dying. This manifests as not lending to people at increased risk rather than any kind of protective or preventive action.

C# .NET using reflection, integer underflow, and a touch of LINQ. Should work for all integer types. (edit: also works with char values)

// this increments i
private static T Increment<T>(T i)
{
    var valType = typeof(T);
    var maxField = valType.GetField("MaxValue");
    var minField = valType.GetField("MinValue");
    if (maxField != null)
    {
        T maxValue = (T)maxField.GetValue(i);
        T minValue = (T)minField.GetValue(i);

        var methods = valType.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredMethods;
        var subMethod = methods.Where(m => m.Name.EndsWith("op_Subtraction")).First();
               
        T interim = (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null,
            [i, maxValue]);

        return (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null, 
            [interim, minValue]);
    }
    throw new ArgumentException("Not incrementable.");
}

Not even that. LLMs have no concept of meaning or understanding. What they do in essence is space filling based on previously trained patterns.

Like showing a bunch of shapes to someone, then drawing a few lines and asking them to complete the shape. And all the shapes are lamp posts but you haven't told them that and they have no idea what a lamp post is. They will just produce results like the shapes you've shown them, which generally end up looking like lamp posts.

Except the "shape" in this case is a sentence or poem or self insert erotic fan fiction, none of which an LLM "understands", it just matches the shape of what's been written so far with previous patterns and extrapolates.

Louise Belcher and Boo Boo.

"AI" isn't ready for any type of general consumer market and that's painfully obvious to anyone even remotely aware of how it's developing, including investors.

...but the cost benefit analysis on being first-to-market with anything even remotely close to the universal applicability of AI is so absolutely insanely on the "benefit" side that it's essentially worth any conceivable risk, because the benefit if you get it right is essentially infinite.

It won't ever stop

I'm the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory...

Or I could play some Elite...

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

Mouse, keyboard, monitor, another phone, storage, headphones, a car.

I also blocked Drag. Not because I have any problems with using whatever pronouns a person wants, but because I found Drag insufferable.

Half Life Alyx, Lone Echo, and Asgard's Wrath are all incredible experiences that actually feel like "real games" that made meaningful and justifiable use of VR.

Beat Saber and Robo Recall get honorable mentions from me as well because while neither is groundbreaking, both execute their particular niche more or less perfectly.

Browsing various VR software storefronts now you find basically nothing like any of the above. Everything seems to be trying to mimic the mobile game "quick distraction" approach and shovel out as much garbage as possible rather than creating anything engaging. For anyone who believes that VR has genuine potential for exciting new experiences, as I do, it's incredibly disheartening.

I'm looking at the one for my OLED deck right now and it's labelled as 45W (20V 2.25A).

Definitely did not expect Konsi doing a Street Fighter 6 Cammy cosplay.

Hence the thicker gauge wire.

The Steam Deck charger is 45W.

"Dumb" power cords have thicker gauge wire than USB-C cables and much larger contacts.

In Force of Nature (S07E09) they discover that high speed warp travel can damage the fabric of space and a speed limit of warp 5 is set by the Federation for non-emergency travel. It gets referenced a couple of times in the final season of TNG but doesn't come up much after.

Though arguably Voyager's situation and the Dominion War could both be reasonably considered "emergencies". It's also been suggested that the Federation was very quick to develop warp drives that didn't cause this damage (this is one official but never-published explanation given for the Intrepid Class variable geometry warp nacelles).

Warp 8 was the most common warp factor used for general travel on TNG. Warp 9.2 was actually the maximum sustainable cruising speed of a Galaxy class ship. This was played for a laugh in Menage a Troi when Picard called for Warp 9 when returning Lwaxana to Betazed at the end of the episode.

When I initially set up my media server I went with Jellyfin over Plex mostly because the idea of having to create an account on an external service to use software I was hosting myself rubbed me the wrong way. Since then the more learn about Plex the more baffled I am that anyone chooses to use it at all.