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  • Not at all. The only similarity is that LLMs work with text, and the document formats can also represent text.

    Each format (E.g pdf, json, excel) has a defined standard, so all you have to do to change between each other is to map one format’s fields to the others. You don’t need (and won’t get good results) from having an LLM produce the new format from scratch.

    What he’s asking is the equivalent of asking if there’s an LLM made specifically for solving arithmetic problems. Why would you try to solve addition using an LLM?



  • Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin broke the Non-Intervention Agreement and League of Nations embargo by providing material assistance to the Republican forces, becoming their only source of major weapons.

    From August 1936 onward, over one ship per day arrived at Spain’s Mediterranean ports with Russian aid: munitions, rifles, machine guns, hand grenades, artillery, trucks, Soviet agents, technicians, instructors, and propagandists.









  • There really isn’t a complicated discussion to be had unless you needlessly complicate things. There’s a big difference between having, say, better monitor or headphones in terms of resolution or sound quality vs having a monitor or headphones that add extra features.

    It’s like saying that AR glasses that visualize a ball’s trajectory should be allowed in tennis or football because players can already invest in better rackets or shoes.

    The detection problem is not unsolvable. First, you can forbid people that are using that monitor from matchmaking. You can find your monitor’s model number using software so that would be trivial. For a more nuanced approach, you can examine players’ reaction times and ban people that got too good too fast.



  • Not the downvoter but SBMM is a necessary evil if you have a matchmaking system instead of purely community servers.

    In community servers, there’s an equal emphasis in the community as well as the gameplay, so you don’t mind getting dunked on as long as you have some fun with your teammates and dick around in chat.

    When there’s matchmaking, however, everyone aims to win the match and move on. If you don’t have some type of SBMM, the new guys just get dunked on over and over with little chance to learn.

    The example I have for this is TF2. In Valve servers the players with thousands of hours completely dominate everyone else, and without a sense of community this got tiring for me pretty fast, even on TF2 where there are some impromptu fun moments (conga chains etc). I tried to play circa 2015, I think they added some sort of sbmm afterwards with the competitive updtae.

    Note that I say this as an argument in favor of community servers, not in favor of SBMMs, but as long as corpos make the games that’s not gonna happen sadly.






  • I wouldn’t say you’re functionally limited, unless you want to make a min-max build of sorts.

    I’ve only played DS3, but I assume the following is the case for the other games too. The stat patterns are what you expect from a game with RPG characteristics. Choose attack speed or attack damage and lightweight armor with little protection or sturdy but heavy armor.

    You only become slow if you maximize your equipment load. If you keep it under 66% (iirc) then your roll is the standard one and has i-frames. This means that you can become tankier if you choose a light weapon, like an one-handed sword or a dagger.


  • I’ve played FNV multiple times, on two desktops and a laptop without experiencing crashes and without using NVAC or the 4GB patcher. I can’t help but wonder if the myriad of “stabilizing” mods end up making the game more unstable in the long run. This is anecdotal, of course, but I’d recommend that you play the vanilla game first then apply bugfix/anti-crash mod as (and if) needed.

    With that in mind, for QoL mods I recommend the mod that adds fast-travel points in different shops around Freeside, because you have to get past loading screens to go from one area of Freeside to the other, and that’s annoying. When you reach Freeside, do a couple of missions in there and you’ll understand what I’m saying – after that, search and download that mod.

    I also recommend the mod that adds borderlands-style damage indicators because it helps me know exactly how much damage I’m dealing.