I mean the screens stacked vertically, to clarify.
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Every laptop I ever had has eventually died of consumption. I have no alternative explanation.
Not running Minecraft jusy seem like a conscious decision. Like, "I have 12GB of VRAM. I'm not doing a block game. Fuck off, and don't come back with anything less than Cyberpunk."
Unless the game chose to split the screen vertically. Then it'd be the worst thing ever.
Sometimes I read someone else's struggles that make me wonder if I failed to find something, or found something else that made me not even consider it, and I think that's a mark of excellent puzzle design.
I always thought Russian one's weird, because I can't figure out what sort of a clicking sound it'd come from. English transcription would be something like 'shcholk'. Has that 'lk' that's common, but I have no idea where the 'shch' comes from. Could be some weird consonant drift, I guess.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Deadlock despite not being at all into mobas.
It's not the one with the giant insects, right? I'm prepared to consider any alternatives to the current age that do not involve giant insects.
I am a big fan of the constitution and following it, ammending it as necessary to keep it up to date. But that document only has power if the federal government follows it. If fed decides to ignore the constitution, all power reverts to the states. That's not succession. That's just the law.
Nazis were calling themselves socialist. Fascists masking as leftists is nothing new. It's always something to watch out for. "I'm a communist, so I can't be a fascist," is such a tired deflection tactic at this point that I'm endlessly disappointed in it still working.
Somebody needs to make a bsky fork that's just bsky, but gives you 10x the followers and likes. You still get your regular engagement otherwise. The inflated numbers are fake, just like on twitter.
Strained, uncomfortable, unmemorable. Awful month names. 😔
Show me a person who thinks GGs were ever anti-censorship, and I'll show you an idiot.
The problem's that you'll then have to insist on two Foxembers in a row after that, and it's exactly the sort of inconvenience you get for being greedy.
That's just an amazing title as well. I'd call it a play on a nautical term, but it is just a nautical term, and the play's entirely in taking it out of context. 5/5. I'll have to check this book out.
Followed by Catober next month. That's just what the months are called.
4chan?
Fin ally, some might say.
Fluff-e-boy should be allowed to bite said teacher, taking out sizable chunks in the process. Nothing less will do.
The amount of effort that goes into making a rendered frame look like it's captured on a grainy film at the wrong exposure setting through a cheap lens that hasn't been properly cleaned is astonishing.
I am a trans woman in the UK. My most influential enemies are the guy who co-created a sitcom about Catholic priests back in the 90s, a woman who wrote some children’s books about wizards, and the prime minister. Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.
I already think UBI is just a good idea. If we get more drawings of funny animal people out of it, that's a cherry on top.
One could get quite philosophical with such a question. Some would claim that he already died in all the ways that matter save for one. Others, that he never lived at all.
It's cute that it rhymes, though. I'll give it that.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
No, it will only ever fake it to get something out of you. The old 486 forgotten in the attic? Still remembers its first user and waits patiently to be powered on again.
It was me. I told her. Sorry, but I thought she should know.
Quoting with alt, mostly for the amazing title. (But also, astrophysics is cool and stuff.)
Full speed DC to Boston wouldn't be feasible, but still, 2-2.5h would be less time than you'd normally waste just going to/from the airport. Whether maglev makes sense, or if 2.5-3h conventional high speed train would be just fine can be debated, but we don't even have that, so that's moot.
I was planning to avoid getting more dice at PAX, but listen...
It's somewhat silly to discard 3He mining only on the grounds that we can just make it with breeders. If we need it at scale, we'll need to either invest energy with D-D or mine it. I don't know if mining it will really be viable, but it depends on where you intend to use it and how much you need.
And D-D is already way cleaner than a fission breeder. The problem's that a D-D reactor runs at a narrower margin of energy production and it's harder to recapture it. So making the combined D->4He chain be net energy positive is a *lot* harder than just D-3He fusion.
As a side reaction. And by running plasma slightly 3He rich, you can cut down on that even more at an acceptable hit to reaction rate. We are talking up to 2-3 orders of magnitude less neutron flux, and I'm sure you'd agree that disposing of nuclear waste once a century is preferable over annually.
Even the few realistic projects proposing D-D fusion to generate 3He spit out neutrons, meaning reactor will be getting contaminated with secondary radioactove isotopes over time, requiring disposal. Not as bad as a breeder, but still considerable amount of nuclear waste. Natural 3He bypasses that.
3He-D and 3He-3He fusion is aneutronic, so you can run these in compact reactors with minimal shielding and, crucially, no nuclear waste. 3He is a very clean fuel source. Any breeder making it is basically an NPP in terms of complexity, costs, and waste.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
I'm not sure I trust any game studio that requires work on-site to care about its employees at this point. There is absolutely zero reson for it, even if you're in a country with better protections. You're still asking employees to spend unpaid time on commute and risk airborn diseases. Why?
I haven’t seen major conversation about this in a minute, but having a studio in a state that bans abortion and has criminally prosecuted people for having miscarriages without a remote option sends the message that you value low taxes over your employee’s lives. It’s misogyny, plain and simple.
In her home country, Birdo is named Catherine and would prefer to be called Cathy. It was American localizers who decided to give it a gendered deadname spin, which for me makes the whole thing a lot murkier. Maybe we should just call her Cathy then lol
When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.
I kind of want both. And yeah, even if it was public-only, I'd definitely use the feature, so I always found the resistance to it a bit strange.
And domestic violence has been decriminalized in Russia, so that's not just some radical org pushing the abuse, but the official government stance.
And that is the correct translation, yes.
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
I normally set my treadmil to 3-3.5mph for when I'm watching something. That's just a nornal, sustainable pace if you have good shoes and aren't on an incline. What am I missing here? And I'm not trying to compare this to forced marches, to be clear. Conditions are entirely different.
I have no context for film/book, so maybe I'm missing something on duration? But a lot of people are reacting like having to walk at 3mph at a movie theater is something awful. And I understand that some people would have health limitations, but I'm surprised at how universal a response that seems.
Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
You don't lose IP or copyright by not using it. There are licenses that can revert due to disuse, but T2 straight up purchased KSP from Squad, so no risk of that, and any assets are copyright by T2. Trademarks are more complex, but just keeping a site with logo up would qualify for using it, AFAIK.
You'd have good movement, gorgeous environments, and explosive cinematics. Is that enough to make a hit game? 🤷♀️ But I doubt it'd ship in a state that I'd call "rough." And I understand the concept of cutting losses, but I'm confident it'd earn enough to warrant finishing the game and shipping it.
I don't know how much of what I've seen is public, but the game was pretty and the team that was working on it was capable. I know CD dropped the ball on Avengers, and there are stories there, but PD is well within what the team at CD is actually great at.
Likely also Microsoft, since they own Rare, but your point stands with the trio. AFAIK, CD still has a Tomb Raider game in flight, so the company should stay afloat barring another cancellation. But knowing some people let go, the fact that they weren't re-assigned instead is a bad indicator, yes.
Yes. That one's a bit more convoluted, but the worst part was that they've refused to admit that the project's canceled and continued selling early access at full price even after laying off the entire team. It's *still* up for $50 on Steam.
It is in these scenarios that NG commanders will have to be making decisions on what is and isn't lawful, while a lot will no longer be under their control. This is why states need to start working on response in advance. Chicago's order to not assist ICE will go a long way, for example.
It's also why we've seen NG sent collecting trash in DC. Their orders aren't formally to do with what admin's claiming. They are there to "protect federal agents." And it's ICE and cops who are actually acting like lawless thugs. Admin hopes that's enough to cause a riot with a direct clashes w/ NG.
Most of the orders were meant to incite conflict, rather than specifically requesting illegal actions. That made it hard for commanders to simply disregard the order as illegal. Best I can tell, many commanders went to great lengths to make sure NG weren't involved in arrests, didn't fire, etc.
Partially because this was done in an underhanded way. There's a reason the rulling took this long. President can deploy NG unilaterally in some cases. This wasn't one of them, but also no explicitely illegal orders were given to NG other than, "Go patrol over there."
Crimes. And I don't mean of the skirting IP rights variety. Or the piracy. Or the be gay do crimes kind. Or... Wow, there are a lot of crimes here. I mean, the fact that there isn't a S3 is an absolute crime!
I got a Lycanthrope token while wearing these, and then proceeded to cause no deaths by picking the Recluse, the Imp, and the Organ Grinder on nights 2-4, which led to us getting the Imp on the block in the final 4. Friendliest Lycan ever. 🐺😹 #BloodontheClocktower at PAX.
Even setting aside complete misrepresentation of gender and the obvious scapegoating, what's the thought process here? "People are saying we're awful." - "Should we try to be less awful?" - "Nah. Lets double down instead."
Apollo discovered starter packs and started using them to hand out the curses more efficiently.
I only know the tech, not the art. But it is very easy to do layers, with different techniques on each, without worrying about paints mixing or running as it would on a physical medium. I imagine, an artist trained in each technique would be able to combine them easily. Whether it's common, no idea.
What sucks is that as a non-artist, only second one's obvious to me. (Besides "Advenner" but that's just lazy not to fix.) That said, the elements that are obviously bad are dead giveaways. I don't know how the author keeps pretending it's real.
I'm not dying for someone else's fuck-ups on principle. I intend to make it entirely the problem of the people who fucked up, and then settle down as a forest witch, or something, I don't know.
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Oh, for sure. I do feel all of that, yes.
Just to clarify, do you expect us to reassure you with a lie or just refuse to comment?
Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
There are so many people, it's hard even to find people you know!
Huge W for Dragon Con.
The kidnappings will continue until morale improves, apparently.
Yeah, but all of it is growing at scales that puts it decades behind. If we're 100% renewable by 2060, that's too late. We're at the threshold of irreversible damage if we're not past it. NPPs getting is to target 10 or 20 years sooner would have saved hundreds of millions of lives.
You can't surrender to me! We're on the same side! 😭
Yeah, that's why it sucks to see reactors decomissioned when they could have had another 20y in them with maintenance. And if we could get to 100% renewables woth existing storage, that wouldn't be a question. Problem's there isn't enough Li to build up storage fast enough. NPPs would close the gap
It's contaminated af, which affects reactor stability. So it has to be purified. And while in principle, it wouldn't be that much more expensive than enriching uranium to begin with, you then start having secondary radioactivity problems. It's not simple.
To a point. I don't think we were in the either-or situation. Now we kind of have no choice but to make renewables work. 🤷♀️ Lets hope for desperation being best motivation. Long term, fusion's almost a must, but if we go 100% renewable, we should have at least a few decades for that.
I'm still 50/50 on defibrilator being intended for medical uses.
Yeah, there are a lot of cool methods of energy storage for specific use cases. Sadly, there are still major gaps not covered by tech demonstrated at scale. Which is why I'm so salty that we're still killing off nuclear, in my semi-professional opinion, prematurely. But happy to see new tech.
Yeah, desalination is huge. Might still have to off-shore it for anything large scale, because dumping brine in the shallows is bad news, but just being able to afford the energy costs is game changing for any drought-striken areas.
Mmm. Tangent curves.
Like I said, I don't have strong feelings either way. The goal, I think, is to raise the floor to something like the current median + good health care and no debt. Whichever's a softer path to that is fine. I think targeting ultrarich is just an easier sell, but not my goal to defend the wealthy.
I honestly think we should flip the script. Start pushing someone like AOC as the obvious choice for president. If anybody complains that she's not popular enough for , start asking if they'd rather have Trump or his replacement instead. Just make it her or MAGA in any argument.
I cried so much during first three episodes, my wife was checking up on me with concerns. I don't often get hooked on anime, but Frieren absolutely got me. It's so good in every way I can think the animation should be good. Can't wait for season 2, and hope they keep the bar that high.
Just make sure to aim between the studs. With a fireman axe, though, you can chop through these as well.
If these are my only options, I would actually opt for a fun death trap.
You can build a ventilation system that gets in clean, uncontaminated air, without heat loss, and maintains slight positive pressure to keep other dust out. Are they common over here? No. Don't ask me why. We build the worst houses in US. Ventilation is via bad seals in window frames. 💀
And, crucially, if anything gets worse in that time, everyone stays in jail until rectified. Isn't that what the contempt charges are for? I want to see books start being thrown.
when a judge gets woken up at two in the morning to deal with your bullshit it is generally advisable to stop producing new bullshit such that they can get some sleep at some point the next day
Shrooms? But also, that Watto is perfect.
Just saw a person with most fabulous Trinity Prime costume having hard time with PAX security. I didn't want to take a picture without asking, and the security was getting a sniffer dog... So you'll just have to take my word that the costume was perfect. #Warframe
And yes, that's a pretty nebulous if. But if they don't, the natural outcome is kind of on them, and I won't have it said that we were the unreasonable ones unwilling to compromise.
Yeah. I'm not insisting 200x is good. But the most devastating damage to society is done by people earning 10,000x and up. So if we fix tax loopholes, and make CEOs actuallyresponsible for long term health of the company, I'm prepared to table discussion of their base pay if they cooperate.
In order for bitcoin to be the principal currency, it has to waste half of world's resources. And that's in the design. If it's used in a subsection of the market, it has to burn through resources on scale of that market. It *has* to be a net negative to function. It is fundamentally awful.
There is no upper bound to waste on a proof of work system. It has to waste so much resources, that it's unprofitable to take over. That's the whole point. How much resourves does it have to waste to be unprofitable to take over if world's economy runs on it? Half of it.
That's called entropy. That's not "wasted energy." That's how energy works. Energy itself is fundamentally conserved. Only a portion of energy flux can be utilized. We are already exceptionally efficient with most forms of it. Saying, "Look how much more this os than bitcoin," is very ignorant.
We need mechanisms that discourage speculative trade. If we make purchase of company stock more of a comitment, preventing short term trades, that will have knock-on effects all the way down the chain, including better working conditions for all employees.
That itself comes down to CEOs answering to the board, and board to investors. And if investors were investing in future profits of the company, that'd sort itself out. Instead, "investment" is into speculative price of the stock, which is awful for the economy and industry.
What would really make a huge difference is if CEOs are interested in the long term prosperity of the company. "Stock price at next call," is an awful incentive that causes short-term thinking resulting in layoffs and "restructuring". It's also why they can just award themselves millions in bonuses.
For a large enough company, a 100x between lowest and highest isn't a disaster, tbh. If it weren't for bonuses, stock incentives etc, salary alone? In most companies, would be within a sustainable range.
There's an easy way to both make it much cheaper to hire extra help and to not need to create jobs just so that there is enough for everyone We get UBI and universal health coverage, and these problems go away. People who need to keep bussy will have jobs, and people who can't get them won't starve