Wait, what? Liberals are the capitalists now?

Now and since around the 18th Century. Private ownership of property and market economies are key liberal tenets.

Disrespectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut the fuck up

Yeah the article mentioned icebreakers too but I was specifically referring to merchant cargo ships

If you take every Tesla ever sold, production costs included, does it even get to that much?

Perhaps less useful now, but it never sat right with me that Namco has a patent for minigames during loading screens.

Huh, I had never considered civilian nuclear powered cargo ships. Wikipedia says only 4 were ever built and only 1 remains nuclear-powered (the Russian Sevmorput, built in 1988.) I suppose thorium molten salt reactors, being potentially smaller and lower cost, can make for easier adoption

Now if it never pops at least it’s funny that he lost a bunch of money

3 and 4 were made with the limitations of PS4/XBOne’s CPUs that weren’t good even by 2013 laptop standards. A new game made with the right people could be something new and cool, but how the realities of AAA game development don’t help.

1. Software Lumen is raytracing.

2. Hardware RT did not have nearly that much of an impact when DF tested it, nor does it usually have such an impact compared to regular Lumen in other games. They even recommended setting it to on in the future if the shadows are fixed. So it’s very likely a bug he, and possibly others, experienced being reported as intended behavior.

Did the editor not watch the video the entire article is based on? It does >70 in at 4k with DLSS Quality (so 1800p native).

Not to say the game doesn’t have bad issues. Hardware RT is broken (that’s what prompted the performance drop on Daniel Owen’s video. Digital Foundry measured only a 6% drop with it on when not CPU limited, but the RT Shadows are shimmery af and makes it actually look worse than regular Lumen) there’s the usual shader compilation woes and a lot of the higher settings have a lot of cost for very little gain; but the article is clickbait bullshit.

Wanting a LLM do not hallucinate is like wanting a heater to not generate heat.

Thank you (and Cowbee). I’ll give the books a listen 🫡

Idea I just had: Wholesome old school family sitcom like The Brady Bunch, but its set in a The Dispossessed-style society where parents hold no authority. Kids run wild, hijinks ensue, family learns valuable lessons every episode. Somehow everyone still hates Jan.

Edit: I might have re-invented Captain Fantastic

When you ask a marxism question and the answer is material conditions

I got a question, theory understander: In a post-state, post-collectivization society, what stops class structures and petty states from forming again, even if at small scale at first? I know this sounds a little close to the but human nature argument, but humor me. Is it that it lacks the conditions, like scarcity, for them to happen at all, or is the gist that it might as well happen, but it’s them against literally everyone?

They shouldn’t use numbers at all tbh. QQVGA, QVGA, VGA, q(uarter)HD, HD, Full HD, QHD, UHD and so on works for all aspect ratios, and you can even specify by adding prefixes like FW (full wide) VGA would be 480p at 16:9. It gets a little confusing cause sometimes the acronyms are inconsistent (and PAL throws a wrench on everything), but the system works.

PS: I also don’t like that 540p is called qHD cause it’s a quarter of Full HD.

Liberals now

If 4k is 4k because the horizontal resolution is around 4000, so you’d think 1080p, with its 1920p-long lines would be 2k. It’s fucked that it isn’t.

Here’s the gut-punch for the typical living room, however. If you’re sitting the average 2.5 meters away from a 44-inch set, a simple Quad HD (QHD) display already packs more detail than your eye can possibly distinguish.

That seems in line with common knowledge? Say you want to keep your viewing angle at ~40º for a home cinema, at 2.5m of distance, that means your TV needs to have an horizontal length of ~180cm, which corresponds to ~75" diagonal, give or take a few inches depending on the aspect ratio.

For a more conservative 30° viewing angle, at the same distance, you’d need a 55" TV. So, 4K is perceivable at that distance regardless, and 8K is a waste of everyone’s time and money.

Yeah we should ask Costa Rica, Korea, China, Burma/Myanmar, Guatemala (not a communist, but wanted land reforms), Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq again: The Empire Strikes (with) Ba’ath, Brazil (not even a communist again, just wanted trade with China and land reforms) Cambodia again. Bolivia, Chile, Angola, Poland (don’t forget), Nicaragua, Grenada, Iraq again: A New Gulf, Haiti (not even a communist again), Iraq again, Haiti again to undo the last one, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Iraq again (Mission Accomplished), Haiti again to undo the undoing, Honduras (kinda? only person on the planet to become more leftist after being elected), Bolivia, Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela.

I think that’s most of the most overt ones. Not even counting the ones in the Middle East other than Iraq cause it started by being scared of communists and cause it’s funny. Also not counting soft power things and things like, say, US intelligence having ties to the judge that sentenced Lula, making him unable to compete in the 2018 elections and giving the world Bolsonaro