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Pizza Hut in the UK has all you can eat. That’s the only place I’ve ever seen it done though, unless you count free drink refills at IKEA.

It’s amazing how many businesses are operated like that. There was an old school arcade near me and it closed down a few years ago because it wasn’t making money, but that was largely their fault, it didn’t advertise itself properly, didn’t sell food or drinks (apparently to protect the machines, which I get, but also at the same time it’s also incredibly dumb) and was only open normal business hours rather than after schools and on weekends.

It got to the point where I was starting to look at taking out a loan from the banks so I could buy the idiot out, because the basic idea was actually great. Then covid happened and that was the end of that.

It actually sounds to me like they didn’t learn anything

Citation needed for both of those claim’s

That’s possibly the only entertainment product with him in it that I would be prepared to watch.

Presumably they know enough about the topic to be able to tell when you’re talking BS and then they’ll realize you’re not a useful information source, and leave.

This must be quite a more tolerant region of friends because the the 2 French people I know would have immediately resorted to violence. Totally valid as well.

India used to be a long thin Island and then it smashed into the rest of the continent to the North and sort of smushed out on the northern’s edge. Eventually it will be completely flattened against the uppercontinent.

They don’t want Trump to see how small Greenland actually is. I think he reckons it’s about half the size of the United States because he’s an idiot. Not that this map projection is at all new, or has been a secret or anything, but trump isn’t exactly the investigating type and so he probably hasn’t seen it before, but if the information is shoved in his face he might become upset.

What AI?

There is literally a dev log.

Just put a load of air conditioners outside.

Yeah but there’s a difference between not knowing exactly how a car works and thinking that the exhaust is thrust. You can work that out by just observing a car, clearly they do not have enough exhaust velocity for it to achieve thrust, that should be inherently obvious.

Thinking the exhaust is what makes the car go is like thinking that the actors live inside your television. Is the thought of an eight-year-old.

How’s it my job to fix the aviation industry?

Do you remember when every 5 minutes it was a new super advanced battery technology that was going to be able to hold a hundred thousand gigawatts of power and was capable of fully recharging in two minutes. And it was still on lithium ion 20 years later.

The point is there’s zero error checking.

Again it’s semantics, but the computer is not making the decision, it’s calculating the decision. The detention is whether it’s deterministic

I don’t know about that the entirety of European airspace was closed early in the year because of a pilot inputed some malformed data and it crashed both the primary and backup system. The backup system just fed the primary systems inputs into it, so that was inevitable.

That would also mean that a lot of “AI” in games wouldn’t actually be worthy of the name. Which actually I agree with.

Politics, same as we do now, everyone complained about politics.