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    Wow, you are one of the last people I would suspect of truly supporting cloud gaming. I guess with sky-high hardware costs just paying per use becomes more appealing, especially for more occasional gaming. That said, I imagine they found it hard to compete with the consoles.
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    Some day, but for now the mighty Google killed Stadia off.
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    Thanks to the Twitter Debacle, I discovered Mastodon. The foundational principles look cool, however, accessing the actual content doesn't seem as straightforward as one could imagine it should be?
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    I thought they show has been fine, mostly thanks to core characters being cast and acted well enough, although I also don't understand why they didn't just follow the source material verbatim instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. They are not far off, but things seem a bit out of order. No way someone not familiar with the source material would be able to completely follow the story as it was intended (although to be fair the timeline is already a bit convoluted in the books, perhaps the writers got confused lol). Some aspects of the Witcher character seem to be completely missing AFAIR. He is basically an outcast, a dying breed, and tends to be mocked/insulted or deeply feared whenever he shows up among the male general public, whereas with Cavill in the role they made him more of an generally adored stud... I am worried Liam Hemsworth will struggle to introduce that extra depth to the character, fingers crossed though.
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    I suspect the SA gang have made quite a bit of money off the various tweets (perhaps one of the underlying motivations behind the pursuit of the ownership of the platform?), as a general rule it would probably be safe to assume the opposite to what the official messages claim is taking or will take place.
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    The HWBOT drama aside, a nice feature of the Nvidia ECC implementation is that it shows if any errors were detected and corrected. Surely useful for the purpose of super-stable RAM OC, where errors are not always straightforward to directly observe, and thus their occurrence might not be immediately obvious. Very nice of Nvidia to include this option in their high-end consumer offerings, but on the general pricing/availability front the Linus Principle is alive and well: (Sorry I thought the slo-mo variant is kind of cool lol)
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    Amiga OS

    Etern4l replied to Eban's topic in General Discussion

    Sorry for necroing, couldn't help but add .02.
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    A good listen, thanks. "Nothing against Quickbooks, a very nice tool, but not for a multi-billion dollar company" Wow once again. I didn't realize his parents are actually legal scholars... I mean given how close they have been to the whole thing, they are basically complicit. Apparently they were in the court during the initial extradition/bail hearing making scenes such as lauging out loud. Very nice, super-scholarly behaviour.
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    Interestingly, Texas is large enough to have subclimates. I was in the DFW area, and generally cold winter spells (and hail) are more common in the northern part of the state. But, yeah, with hail in Houston we would definitely have a problem :)
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    Free speech when it suits, and treats people like dirt apparently. Well, unfortunately for Chief Twit, lawyers are just waiting for these kind of opportunities:
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    The CFTC claims that Bankman-Fried, his parents, and his employees at FTX and Alameda used customers' funds for personal benefit: luxury real estate, private jets, personal loans, and political donations. The customer funds were also used for a Super Bowl commercial starring Larry David and the sponsorship of FTX Arena in Miami. These advertisements, which the CFTC says were paid for by customers’ funds, said that FTX was “the safest and easiest way to buy and sell crypto.” Wow. Perhaps the idea here was to lay some groundwork for a plausible insanity defence should things unravel down the line? Nah, he just went all in as countless failed gamblers before him who lost everything by doubling down to chase the losses.
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    CFTC joined the party. CFTC Sues Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda for Law Violations "At Bankman-Fried's direction, FTX executives created features in the underlying code for FTX that allowed Alameda to maintain an essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX," Meanwhile the contagion seems to be spreading as Binance is seeing major outflows after temporarily pausing USDC redemptions... Oh dear.
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    TBH the fact that they hired him kind of reflects poorly on AMD. What has he achieved in those 3 years? Guess may have helped get more AMD-powered laptops to the market? Best case scenario probably.
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    Well, not necessarily cheaper, but at least safer than drag racing ;)
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    Looks safe! The cars I observed struggling were all moms in sedans. I thought ADA Lovelace is also very efficient? Seems that Frank is grasping at staws while winging it as usual.
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    OK, at least the pretence of the notion of "safety" on Twitter has been abandoned. Restricting access to prevent minors from exposure to the hardcore content would be a logical next step.
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    Popped in for me as well, might have been a timezone thing.
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    SEC has been at war with crypto so it's no surprise they pounced. Interesting to see some p..ans acting "surprised". Hope the strategy of defending the indefensible works out for them. Ignorantia juris non excusat. On the other hand, while it's good to see some enforcement action on this, I believe not a single person was convicted in the aftermath the 2008 Gigacrisis, not even Dick Fuld.
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    Yes, the British media has a penchant for coming up with colourful names for weather conditions that slightly deviate from the expected mild state. Last winter (or two ago) it was "The Beast From The East"! -5C and a couple of inches of snow lol As I recall, it's even funnier in Texas. - 1C and a bit of ice on the roads and everything grinds to a halt. I literally saw cars spinning around on crossroads - nobody uses winter tyres.
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    A serious operation.
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    Well, we could of course blame the various industries for not adapting to the situation, for example, by using fewer chips - although in my mind it would make only a bit more sense than blaming the gamers for their excessive FPS expectations. The fact remains that semiconductor prices are still elevated, there are supply shortages etc. and all of this continues to hit end users from various angles, unfortunately. The long-term solution is to build more semiconductor plants, as per the recent effort in Arizona, but in the short term we just have to bear the pain.
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    To clarify, the platforms' pursuit of revenue at all costs results in them providing the super-wealthy advertisers with ultimate weapons of mass mind control. Worth reposting I guess, as the man behind the successful Ob., and later Tr. campaigns provides a reasonable overview of the basic principles behind the techniques: The above content is 6 years old, we can rest completely assured that the techniques are far more sophisticated now. It's also worth noting that there are no specific checks on or legal framework around the platforms themselves potentially deploying these tools for their own goals that go beyond simple revenue-seeking. Personal data protection laws in the US are lax. There is another video where he takes questions from the audience. Someone asked how they acquire the data, and the answer was "in the US it's not a problem, just a question of cost - more tricky in other jurisdictions". Lastly, if I may suggest, it would be extremely naive to believe that Musk, a man who says one thing ("Oh dear, AI will wipe us all out"), and pursues a direction contrary to the warning: invests heavily in AI, will make Twitter any more benign a platform.
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    Don't forget the effects of strong demand from the Data Centres, as well as the overall ongoing semiconductor shortage situation. https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/latest-numbers-automotive-microchip-shortage-75
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    Not sure, what you mean - qualitatively, the statements are often not far off the pre-WWII propaganda. Of course, limited physical violence is involved, but that was largely the case in the 1920s as well. Ye's latest outburst would be one example, and even Musk fixed that.
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