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In case it’s not just a joke, basically if you press the entire pedal, that’s rudder, and if you push with your toes and “rotate” the pedal forwards, that’s the wheel brake. If you apply the wheel brake, your ankle stays in the same spot, but your foot tilts forward.

At least that’s how it is in most planes, I’ve never flown a 737, only small ones and an A321 simulator.

(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”

Doesn’t the 737 have toe brakes?

Classic case of “history is written by the victors”. You only call it antimatter because it lost, if it won, you’d call it matter.

If you look at what AI does, however, it’s mostly classification.

Not necessarily, a huge use case is regulation and control in the engineering, not the political sense. Like driverless cars, independently flying drones and such. And yeah, they need classification subsystems under the hood to work, but their ultimate outputs are complex control signals, not simple classes.

And don’t get me wrong, I also like ML and AI as a field, I just don’t like how OpenAI fucked the field with text generators that they got Silicon Valley to worship like gods. I even like LLMs, just not the grotesquely outsized cult around them.

AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information).

Sentiment analysis machines and such have been around before LLMs and eat much less electricity.

LLMs taken over the “AI” label so much that any success from a machine learning context is attributed to it, while it actually defunds and kills research out of ML all into LLMs.

Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

That’s the case with a lot of collectibles. LEGO is a great investment but you have to keep it somewhere

Apple does the exact same thing

With a JS-based query language, yeah

I’ve a slight manageable case of ADHD and I tend to obsessively hyperfocus on tasks. It’s a good relationship because I get a lot of shit done well, and enjoy my work.

If you start forcing me to plan out my day every day, down to 15 minute increments, my productivity drops by around 60%, because I stop concentrating on getting shit done, and start working to rule. Not because I’m vindictive, but because that’s what you asked me to do.

So they got their feelings satisfied with only a major annoyance to everyone and about a month of work wasted among everyone.

Definitely, and I’m saying that while my jobs were mostly on NoSQL and I love doing it.

My point is more that 90% of use cases don’t need that, and for those that do, you can’t just slap eg. Cassandra at it and pretend it’s a relational database.

You can absolutely make unit and even integration tests in games, but I agree that I don’t think it’s really done because of the domain. Things are more caught in QA or more like Early Access these days.

MongoDB is huge though for all the wrong reasons, businesses think that just because it’s JS, they can just have frontend devs - sorry, they are “fullstack” now - doing DBA work.

I worked as one of two NoSQL DBAs for a Fortune 50 finance company, and there is a ton of CV-driven development going on giving NoSQL a bad name. Most use cases don’t need NoSQL. And for those which do, NoSQL is almost always harder to implement than simple SQL based RDBMSs.

I stand corrected. Thanks.

NoSQL has always been a niche use case thing.

For some stuff, no ACID is no problem. They have their place. What I’m more suspicious of is things like Google offering distributed databases that they pretend as if they could break the CAP theorem.

Okay, I work as a programmer, and there is a reason projects work the opposite way. You first have to have a working product that comes back as good from whatever QA you have, then you optimise and build on it. If you have to optimise on day 1, nothing will ever get done. I should know, that’s why I have a ton of personal projects in development hell.

Why would games be different?

MS hasn’t released an Office version outside 365 for 8 years.

365 is Office for them.

Yeah, but there’s the catch, they would have to compete on equal footing with indies then. Money is their only advantage.