Got my 9070XT at retail (well retail + VAT but thats retail for my country) and my entire PC costs less than a 5090.

I think DLSS (and FSR and so on) are great value propositions but they become a problem when developers use them as a crutch. At the very least your game should not need them at all to run on high end hardware on max settings. With them then being options for people on lower end hardware to either lower settings or combine higher settings with upscaling. When they become mandatory they stop being a value proposition since the benefit stops being a benefit and starts just being neccesary for baseline performance.

It always amazes me how radical leftism keeps moving further right. Once upon a time radical leftism meant UBI and immediate radical action on climat change. Now ‘radicall’ leftism is anything left of squads of armed men kidnapping people off the street.

He’s gonna die, calling it now he’s gonna have a tragic accident or sudden ‘suicide’.

A bunch of religous people who were welcomed into multiple countries but then got mad that everyone around them didn’t belive in their exact same religon they did so they found a new place and committed some genocide before building up a mythology about how they had to do it in order to flee religious persecution?

I think people would find new ways to struggle that they actually enjoy and would likely end up contributing. Imagine a couple of thousand people with their new modest but stress free budgets decide to join a yearly potato cannon contest, Sure its not going to invent anything new directly but you now have a bunch of people learning about ballistics and stoichiometry and high pressure engineering all egging eachother on to shoot that potato further. The competition gets more and more fierce and with the much lower stakes people start trying some more out there ideas, before you know it you have a modest but highly effective solution to reliably obtaining the correct gas mixture for something like a combined light gas gun.

And that’s a deliberately silly example, you’d get a ton more art, people deciding to be athletes, coders, all sorts of hobies that can encourage healthy competition and often benefit society in surprising ways.

So is there a way to fill my social media with endless markov chains without:

• Spamming other users.
• Just sticking them all in some dedicated channel that would allow them to be easily filtered out.

AI might be overkill? I recall back in the day people working out which images where manipulated by the way the underlying flow of colour and pixel layout didn’t line up, each image ends up with a kind of grain of different size and direction. You could spot ads by detecting which image data doesn’t line up with the majority and cutting it out that way.

I’ve been wondering about that, also perhaps a browser where your mouse position has seperate client and software side states? I know a lot of data can be gleaned from mouse movements so if the browser only updated its internal cursor position when you actually clicked that would potentially cut out that source of information?

Iirc Scotland has the blessing of most of the EU to get a fast tracked but with some countries like Spain having the condition that this is only on a legal exit supported by the UK. Indyref itself isn’t even anti-UK so much it is not being tied to an increasingly corrupt and self sabotaging government in westminster, if the UK stopped relentlessly shooting itself in the foot the movement would likely lose most of its support.

Isn’t the point of this post that soon the state isn’t going to be paying anyway?

Is it though? Its always far easier to be loud and obnoxious than do something constructive, even with the internet and LLMs, in fact those things are amplifiers which if anything make the attention imbalance even more drastic and unrepresentative of actual human behaviour. In the time it takes me to write this comment some troll can write a dozen hateful ones, or a bot can write a thousand. Doesn’t mean humans are shitty in a 1000/1 ratio, just means shitty people can now be a thousand times louder.

No ADHD (That I know of) but sometimes coming up with a way to automate a task is actually fun so even if it takes longer than just doing the task its worth it to have to do less of that task in the future.

No need to bother, reddit is already full of entire threads of GPT posts, the megacorps are killing their own product for us.

Plus government computers are always old as shit so Linux should install nice and easy, give em mint for that windows like UI.

iirc the issue with Hydrogen is that it has very high energy/mass but incredibly low density to the point that the fuel tank to contain a reasonable amount of hydrogen (say comparable to hydrocarbons) is even more prohibitive than battery weight.

Nothing material on earth you can’t find everywhere else, the only things we have that aren’t incredibly plentiful elsewhere are earths unique biology and human culture. Both of which can also be obtained without us ever knowing about it. The only logical reason to invade is ideological so if we ever meet hostile aliens they’re either genocidal zealots or a bunch of sadists.

Except you don’t need personal information, look at supermarket data, even when ‘anonymized’ it can predict pregnancy and even a rough geographic location based on what items are available at various locations/times as well as corelating your purchases with the weather.

But we’ve had 2D printers for longer? That would imply that its a simpler task, not having to deal with temperature and layer adhesion and all.

Its crazy how we now have 3D printers that consistently work every time with very little fuss but 2D printers are somehow still shit.