YMMV but out of the people I know, the lefties are less likely to be hardcore pro-gun-control than the people who lean center-liberal, and this has been true for a long time. John Brown Gun Club, etc.
An appliance repair company I used exactly once maybe 5 or 6 years ago recently started spamming me with texts and emails trying to get me to refer friends to use them or use them again. Never hit the "report spam" button faster.
I'd kinda understand it if they had sent me a polite text or email shortly after our initial engagement saying "hey, if you had a good experience please review us/recommend us" but coming in literal years late with a blast of multiple messages screams "we hired some sort of marketing firm and fed them our customer database".
Somehow I never knew that you can have multiple push URLs for a single remote. Thank you for sharing this, I've been manually pushing to two remotes with a script for years!
Think about the scenarios where people are viewing slideshows. If you're on a mobile device, that 150ms spent decoding each image is time where the CPU and/or GPU of the mobile device are running at full tilt, draining the battery. Suddenly applications that would normally be fast and efficient like a photo gallery app become laggy and drain your battery. Not great.
If DLSS 5 becomes the norm it's possible that just makes things worse. The DLSS 5 demos required an entire separate card to run the model, though IIRC NVIDIA did claim it would eventually work on a single card. Given what the model is doing (yassifying the whole scene instead of just upscaling/reconstructing) it makes sense to me that it would increase compute demand instead of reduce it like previous versions of DLSS.
The demos did, but look how far we have come in just two years? Running local LLMs, running local diffusion models, running local world models (albeit, barely a scene at this point). I do believe that in 10 years time, game will be producing latents and not events they way they do now. I also hope this means that VR can finally get the fidelity it needs to really take off.
In practice I've had system file checks find and repair errors on multiple different machines. These setups aren't using ECC RAM or RAIDed storage, though.
I wonder how much of it comes down to inconvenience. I've been bringing my own thermos for a year or so now and it took me some time to get used to the ritual of scrubbing it with soap and a bottle brush after use every day - at first I found it inconvenient enough that it made me want to just get paper cups.
Now it's a nice little ritual and I am used to the advantages of bringing my own insulated container with a lid - I can carry it back with groceries or do other errands without worrying about my drink spilling or getting cold.
FWIW I do occasionally see other people at my local coffee shop show up with their own mugs, but I agree that it's quite rare.
I remember early during the Wasm design process we were openly speculating whether people would eventually figure out how to do stuff like Rowhammer from raw Javascript. My bet was on Yes, but I don't remember if any of my teammates said No. I think we all knew the writing was on the wall by then.
Doesn't crowd sourcing and upvotes and revenue for high ranking just mean people will generate what's popular to get paid for it? Will there be money for unpopular truths somehow?
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