Right there with you. Not that great in my field. Got headhunted, 50% raise, company is only able to hire talented people (and they need them) by out-paying competitors. All contractors, vendors, partners are the same. We are definitely high-tech. Been hearing about this “recession” for nearly two years now. Just smells like media trying to create one.

NPR doesn’t produce inflammatory, biased news and clickbait headlines, so this is not surprising in the least.

Definitely. I have experimented with image generation on my own mid-range RX GPU and though it was slow, it worked. I have not tried the latest driver update that’s supposed to accelerate those tools dramatically, but local AI workstations with dedicated silicon are the future. CPU, GPU, AIPU?

The current breed of generative “AI” won’t ‘die out’. It’s here to stay. We are just in the early Wild-West days of it, where everyone’s rushing to grab a piece of the pie, but the shine is starting to wear off and the hype is juuuuust past its peak.

What you’ll see soon is the “enshittification” of services like ChatGPT as the financial reckoning comes, startup variants shut down by the truckload, and the big names put more and more features behind paywalls. We’ve gone past the “just make it work” phase, now we are moving into the “just make it sustainable/profitable” phase.

In a few generations of chips, the silicon will have made progress in catching up with the compute workload, and cost per task will drop. That’s the innovation to watch out for now, who will de-throne Nvidia and its H100?

I fail to see how someone can understand the aircraft parts industry enough to enter it and become a supplier, and at the same time believe you can get away with forging certifications.

I’ve been reading more books.

Welcome to modern “journalism”.

Making $600 million over the course of a decade.

u/poem_for_your_sprog?

Restricted to High Seas:

• Become Pirate Legend
• Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
• Hourglass Faction Battles
• Captain your Own Ship
• Sail as part of a Guild
• Sail as Trading Company Emissary
• Live Events

Safer Seas:

• Progress up to Level 40
• Gold and Rep at reduced rate
• Seasonal Renown at same rate
• All Tall Tales
• Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

Me too, 100%. I’m getting this now, and probably a second copy so I can sail with my kid too.

Still have mine in my drawer. Great watch, resisted getting another for years until wife got me a Samsung for my birthday. They have come a long way, but I still sometimes miss the Moto, wish batteries were replaceable.