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- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 days ago:
If you plan to return
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. But the biggest employers are national if not international. They’re gonna withhold federal tax.
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 2 weeks ago:
No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it’s impossible to opt out if you’re employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 3 weeks ago:
In this case, it is. The Republican candidate actually won the overall popular vote. Was this because of voter apathy? Probably. But we’re talking about “what the people who cared enough to vote” wanted.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 3 weeks ago:
Technically speaking, you’re looking at what most voters thought they wanted. Seems like the people with the most means and influence are in favor of what’s happening too.
Are most voters easily conned? Sure. The NSDAP won its early seats freely until the other parties were outlawed.
You can at least take solace in that with the deconstruction of federal institutions, your state government and state institutions wield comparatively more power. Don’t live in a poor and/or conservative state I guess?
- Comment on How can Doge access critical government infrastructure and fire people if it isn't even a real department? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah anything involving human behavior is ultimately…just based on how people feel and act. There’s (currently) no Robocop programmed to enforce laws to the letter.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not so hard to understand. Let’s try.
ISIS wants your stuff. But, your government stops them from taking your stuff. Uh oh, the government is gone. Now ISIS shows up, and they take your stuff.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 weeks ago:
How did gangs take control of Haiti? How did warlords take control of Somalia? I guess those governments just decided to dissolve and hand over their monopolies on violence to other groups.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s a reason anarchists aren’t migrating in droves to anarchies like Haiti or Somalia.
- Comment on How alarmed should I be to see stool in my blood? 5 weeks ago:
OP is full of shit
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 2 months ago:
When I went team red for the first time earlier this year, I really scrutinized zoomed in screenshots to compare the upscaling for FSR and DLSS. With FSR 3, I couldn’t see any difference compared to DLSS. Older FSR versions yeah, but at least for me not a problem any more.
- Comment on Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed 2 months ago:
I think the size may have more to do with the team not splitting up the Unreal build paks. Haven’t checked how well it’s actually split up, but I can say that changing even one small thing could result in a giant update if that build has like one pak file with all the things in it. There are ways to configure it in the build but it’s not a magic toggle either. Worked with a studio handing off UE builds before that didn’t build the game in a split friendly way and it made every upload to S3 take forever cause there were only like two really giant paks.
Also makes me wonder, does Steam not do diff patch style updates for changes within individual files? If not, that could save a ton of bandwidth.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 3 months ago:
Yeah but what if both parents have the same last name? 🪕
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
Had em in a poverty state 29 years ago 🤷
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
750 a year? Wtf is this retard smoking. Cost for land, hay storage, water, vet, and farrier. Human time cost to feed them twice a day, get rid of or spread the shit. Blanket, saddle, bridle. You’re looking at a few thousand a year minus the time sink.
- Comment on How come Food Network doesn't show the labels of what they are using? Wouldn't be great advertising for corps who would probably pay food network to advertise on show? 3 months ago:
Food Network sales execs looking at this Image
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, I read about that! Not really ML, but pretty much what I’d like more games to have.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 4 months ago:
Oh that’s really interesting; I hadn’t considered racing games as a genre to benefit from this type of machine learning. I guess I figured there’s not so much to AI there that it’s necessary, at least when we already know the “ideal lap line” for cars to follow, but yeah it gets a lot harder when considering other drivers on the track and a huge array of unique car models with their own handling and performance characteristics.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 4 months ago:
I wouldnt mind an AI using unorthodox strategies, but yeah that’s a good point thst fine tuning it ti be fun is a big challenge. Speaking if “non-player-like behavior”, I wonder if AI could be used to find multiplayer exploits sooner, though the problem there is you don’t really have much training data besides QA and playtesters before a full release.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 4 months ago:
I’m not into fighting games, but that’s pretty neat! I hope the industry follows suit if people like how it works in Street Fighter 6.
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- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 months ago:
I don’t think the new strategy of injecting ads directly into the video stream can be defeated in realtime though. It’s like how you cannot defeat tv ads…you can blank the screen, or record and restitch without the ads, but the content itself has the ad. YouTube is a bit different where you can theoretically skip ahead, but your device has to tell Youtube that it wants to skip ahead in order to actually even get the video content, and youtube can look at request timestamps to know you didn’t see the whole injected ad and just re-inject it in the video stream.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 months ago:
Takin up the one stall to pee when there are three urinals open and I gotta blast
- Comment on James Cameron, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Joins Stability AI Board of Directors — Stability AI 5 months ago:
James Cameron knows all too well both the artistic input required for perfection in CGI heavy filmmaking as well as the tedium and cost involved with parts of that process. I consider him joining to be better than other folks; probably will help to focus on artist tooling rather than reolacing the artisrty entirely.
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 5 months ago:
Yep typical ratings are oriented relative to the “average” consumer. But no person is actually THE average.
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 5 months ago:
It’s a useful place to find out if something totally sucks though. That’s how I use it. 60+? Probably good, at least for some audiences. Less than that? Only if you’re already hyped or a fan of whatever thing it’s related to.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Slappers only, no oddjob
- Comment on Anon defends Michael Jackson 6 months ago:
Joe Jackson fucked up all his kids, but he really tried hardest on Michael
- Comment on Anon gets banned from Walmart 6 months ago:
She was upset he didn’t offer to suck the toes too
