My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.
Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.
Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn't fair but it's objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That's like several Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.
So America can be a brutal regime that fucks over the global south and Canadians trust that. They ally that. Canada has been a close ally throughout so much evil.
But now we inflict a little evil on you guys and suddenly you don't trust us? I mean that kinda implies you guys liked us before?
It's like a moral abyss from the north pole to the Mexican border.
Pretty sure he's just normal boring. Which is ok. Someone like Craig Ferguson was just what I needed late at night. I also listen to Toy Box, among other things.
John Carmack: We couldn't figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I'd walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It just comes down to a problem with the implementation.
Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.
A small part of it must be that most people would look better than themselves if they were carefully prepared for a scene, and they had the right lighting and framing, and the focal length was flattering, and the perspective and cinematography was flattering, etc.
Toilet won't give you loo roll unless you visit an arbitrary web page on your personal device and allow people to possibly extract personal information about you, along with implicit knowledge of when and where you might have used a toilet.
I participate in the open source community and there's a huge number of models for the people and we (as in normal people) also steal everything we can. Main difference is money: as a whole we steal more than Meta, but Meta can afford to put it all together and pay millions to train out a model.
Open source AI can be argued to be overtaking corpo efforts, or at least in some areas. Maybe in awhile people will stop assuming AI is synonymous with monolithic corpos.
Does anyone here know what 'ft' means? A LoRa adapter? I hardly ever see people talk about AI. They seem to just refer to the surface or the vague idea of it.
Remember MAGA protests / "stop the count"? There is no requirement for protesters to engage with reality.
The real world is actually doing things. Instead of yelling at people to pick up trash, you pick it up. Instead of yelling at people to fix Gaza, you begin the process.
Literally the best case of protesting is that someone else gets up to do things.
Normally you imagine positive change behind protesting, and you probably assumed that when you read "protesters", but not every occurrence of "making a scene" is constructive.
She isn't the president. She's yet to map out the road ahead.
People are used to being helpless and pathetic so they don't even consider anything other than "protesting." But what about building policy and bringing it to her? Why not start a dialogue? Why not map out bits of that road ahead? Why not consider experts who could help the next Democratic admin? Why not study policy yourself? Why not go form connections with humanitarian groups? Or join them?? Why not go talk to people and bring that wealth of data to her?
Why not HELP and CONTRIBUTE? If you just want to YELL then go yell at the people in charge.
You are not interpreting this correctly, and neither is TheHill / Independent / whatever.
Think about it step by step.
Some time ago, America was hardcore opposed to the USSR and the Communist bloc. Americans like her grew up hearing comparisons with Communist dictators and how they did X, Y, and Z. The bogeyman many people grew up with was a communist dictator who hated free speech, co-opted the state and therefore personally controlled industry, cracked down on artistic expression...
That's what we're dealing with now. Not from the perspective of a McCarthy Boogeyman; Kamala isn't saying he's a communist. But from the adult perspective where we're supposed to care about free speech, a private industry, liberal art... Trump is the thing people grew up hearing about.
Tldr; Kamala didn't say this. This never happened. Watch the interview and think about what she means. Journalism strikes again~
Edit: Here's a simpler example: "We went years hearing from the right about demonic liberals abusing kids. Well Trump is that—that's what we're dealing with now."
That isn't saying Trump is a demonic liberal. It means "the thing everyone hated is here in a different form"
a) conservative vocabulary is just repeating what others say
b) people call them fascist, therefore they will call others fascist back
c) they will call the next Democratic admin fascists (assuming there's still elections) which would let you target conservatives for being antifa terrorists
I know it's all BS and unlikely to work that way but hey
I think it's magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It's magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I'm willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It's magic to me to think of "free" "emotion hours".
Everything else is so... crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It's magic how there's basically infinite energy inside.
China is when Chinese people do things Americans have been doing.
NSA, Equation Group, black rooms, PRISM, Palantir... that's bad stuff but it's sorta in the background. Even the national surveillance startup tracking license plates and soon people... not that interesting.
But Chinese that stuff? It's the only way you can show many Americans just how fucked these policies / institutions are.
My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.
Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.
Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn't fair but it's objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That's like several Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.