Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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NEVER live in one of these holy shit... There's a damn good reason wooden skyscrapers aren't a thing: FIRE.

They say in the article that this "mass timber" is considered "good enough" but personally I would not want to trust my life to that.

We really should split up some states... I'd also be in favor of making major metropolitan areas their own city-state within the federal government.

The government was set up for smaller states... These giant states really just break too much.

God I hope so

I just read opinion articles (for those that don't know, opinion articles are intended to bridge the gap; they're articles papers publish to share angles the editors disagree with). The problem is honest conservative media is basically gone. The sides have diverged to little more than fact vs fiction. Even the opinion articles can get totally ridiculous at times.

There's also the "other" factor. "Our county", "our state" etc surely does it right but what about the other counties and states?

The fear of the other is one of the worst impulses humans have

But what does having the cursor at the right do for you?

Like, are you just manually adding URL parameters all the time?

So, I don't know... But I'm also curious as to why/what you're trying to achieve and whether you've considered any alternative solutions?

Which is insane since they insist on a economic system from 200 years ago.

I think it's just that your argument against communism seemed to be based on its age, i.e. it "being old and out dated."

(Agree communism is not great FWIW)

I would be so upset if Hunt Showdown did this.

Hell, I'm mad Apex Legends did it and I have very little time invested in that game.

I really wish game developers would stop with this kernel level anticheat nonsense that doesn't even work. Everyone in every gaming community just points the finger, people that play games using Easy Anticheat say Battleye sucks and vice versa.

If kernel level anticheat actually worked, there would be a definitive answer to which games have good anticheat.

Yes

No they really haven't. They've given no numbers to quantify the problem.

This reads like "we don't know if they are cheating, it's hard to tell, and it's getting harder to tell, so we're just done."

This reeks of a decision based on a feeling about the direction of cheating vs a significant move to reduce cheating.

People typically aren't stuck on minimum wage because the powers that be won't let them have a decent wage. Most adults are not on minimum wage ( in the US, less than 2% as of 2022; in the UK, low pay accounts for less than 4% as of 2024 ).

There's something to be said for the rich taking advantage of folks, but ... bothering worrying about abstract rich guy metrics like making the GDP go up is not going to help anyone get out of their situation.

Sure, focus on other aspects of politics like making education affordable, strengthening unions, etc things that will help you achieve your goals or help you once you've achieved your goals. However, there's a lot one can directly do to address their situation that's a lot less abstract than "vote for a representative, to write a bill, to potentially help you, to possibly get passed by your legislature, and possibly get passed by your executive branch (or your equivalent process)."

... and even then that latter concept has little to do with "why someone on minimum wage should pay attention to the GDP."

So... Regardless of county, I would say minimum wage workers should not worry about the economy. Instead put that energy into finding a career path of some sort.

That's not me bashing minimum wage workers, it's just ... the best thing a minimum wage worker can do to improve their circumstance.

Worrying about the GDP or stocks or anything else isn't particularly helpful, especially if you're living paycheck to paycheck (which at least in the US where I live, most minimum wage workers are).

Even for middle and upper middle class, worrying about GDP growth and how the stock market is doing day to day (unless you're on the verge of retirement and trying to time cashing out stocks) is not a particularly helpful exercise.

Maybe it has some abstract effect on what social services you get or whether your employer survives another year... but you can probably find better indicators of that (e.g. in the days where computers were reducing paper usage, it should've been increasingly obvious that working at the paper mill probably wasn't going to be a great long term plan).

I'm sure they'll be back at the high end eventually...

Plus even if they aren't year over year improvements will eventually result in them having a card that's much better than what you have now. The ultra low end blows the mid 2000s GPUs out of the water.

Well then you're probably the perfect customer for these 🙂

Staunch Obama and Biden supporter here ... I've read Obama and Kamala's most recent books...

You do not need to be a Trumpie to get annoyed with the "everything is emshittified", "fuck capitalism", etc posts and comments.

To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that's what's happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).

AMD has already confirmed that it has abandoned competing for the highest end of the graphics card market, so we’re not expecting it to unveil a product to compete with the likes of the Nvidia RTX 5090. Instead, it’s expected that a Radeon RX 8700 XT, Radeon RX 8800 XT, or Radeon RX 8900 XT will instead compete with a possible Nvidia RTX 5070 for overall performance. AMD is expected to offer significantly improved ray tracing performance with these new GPUs, though, potentially making them far more competitive overall.

From the article, but mostly already known...

I just upgraded to a 7900 XTX because for me, I don't expect RTX to be a big deal anytime soon and it sounds like they're just trying to make 7900 XTX performance cards with better ray tracing at a cheaper price point (which if it boosts their market share that would be amazing).

Which is totally great, but I'm not particularly hyped about the 8000 series for me personally.

The one thing I will say is this isn't a human... Deer probably aren't in their training data at near the rates humans are.

It's definitely still concerning, but also still maybe more trustworthy than some human drivers. We seriously give licenses to too many people. Within the last week I've seen a guy that went into the other lane by like 4' multiple times and I also saw a lady who blocked 2 lanes of traffic so she could make an illegal U turn on a 4 lane city street (rather than you know turning off on a side street/one of many nearby parking lots and turning around).