Sometimes they do, but they usually have a golden parachute that makes it still a win for them.

Does he actually like that crap? I thought it was a show because he thought his base would eat up him liking that crap as well as making the elites who are used to 5 star chefs eat that cheap shit at white house events.

Unless this is also part of that act and they'll make a show of ordering and sending some intern to pick it up and verbally abuse the workers, and then maybe make the interns eat it while he actually eats good food.

You can have missing objects with real ray tracing. Like the player object itself generally doesn't need to be rendered so it might not even be added to the scene. Unless the player is looking down. If their arms are holding a gun or reloading, it might just be disembodied arms if you could move the camera to see it from another angle.

Or, different game, but in GT7, the ray tracing doesn't include vehicles' self reflections. Which is probably an optimization because every reflection ray trivially intersects with the object it is reflecting from, so it makes sense to skip the reflecting object, but then you miss cases where it should be reflecting another part of itself.

What specifically about this post triggered your hatred?

However, since you have effectively ultimate power in that system, you're able to wish for survival and even prevention of the complete collapse of your suddenly confined world. You have fun playing god for a while, maybe even a few centuries, but eventually it gets boring. You're probing at the limits of your genie-entity's power one year when it tells you that while it does not have the power to let you out of this little pocket universe, it is able to communicate with an entity that does have the power, but it comes with conditions.

You tell him to fuck off when you find the conditions are that you can only exit when someone rubs a vessel that contains a portal, that you must exit when they do so, and that you are obligated to fulfill 3 (and only 3, even if they request more) requests they make, though you are free to be creative in how you interpret those requests.

Of course, you end up accepting the deal before you later come to be at peace with just existing quietly, at which point being pulled out of your peaceful contemplative existence to serve some selfish twat annoys you as much as anything can annoy a transcendent being, which honestly isn't that much but is enough that you bring maximum "I'm just going to fuck with you" energy, though you do have a strange appreciation for those who can specify a request sufficiently to limit opportunities to fuck with them.

Microsoft is looking for it and it wouldn't surprise me if they are paying a decent penny for it to try to stop the Linux gaming momentum the deck is driving.

It's entirely irrelevant to me. I don't care what the specs are if it's just running Windows.

On the other hand, I saw it on gamepass when looking for interesting looking games to try this weekend and passed it over. So even though I didn't have to pay anything to try it, I didn't. Maybe that's a trend they are seeing on that platform, that interest is low even though it's free access. Though it's also competing with starfield and lies of P on there.

Too bad his only other passengers weren't that lawyer and head engineer.

Tbh that safety guy that got fired and sued pisses me off, too. His legal fees were being covered but he still settled out of court and allowed the problem to disappear for them.

Though the real villain is the legal system that allows a lawsuit about a safety director disagreeing that something was safe to proceed or one involving the wife who wasn't otherwise involved. Which is also why I wish the lawyer, that said "ok" when the piece of shit asked him to file that lawsuit, was on the sub when it imploded.

I just hit the little up arrow. It was pretty easy, actually.

I wonder what mundane items from today will be found far in the future and speculated about what they could be for. And if our plastic world will leave more or fewer of these artifacts.

Now I'm curious what would actually happen if a planet's species dedicated themselves to making it happen, build a pyramid up to a geosynchronous orbit so you could theoretically throw something (or jump) and it'll end up in a higher orbit.

The physics wouldn't work, of course, but I'm curious exactly how things would go wrong and if there were engineering solutions available to get to the next big thing.

Like one thing is how tall can you get before the base encircles the planet (where trying to add more layers just makes the planet bigger and requires bringing in outside material, which means your geosync orbit gets farther).

Though as you add layers, the surface area increases, so your "pyramid" is actually getting wider as it gets taller, at least at the base.

Or if you can get really high without encircling the planet, how high can you go before affecting the centre of gravity? Could a large enough pyramid give the planet a wobble? Cause flooding on the near side and sea level drops on the far side? How high can you build a solid pyramid before the pressure of it all makes the lowest bricks get melty? Would it even matter or does the rest of the weight just hold it all in place? Or would a sufficiently large pyramid just explode because the sides would give out?

Assuming you had a perfectly strong material that could handle it, is it possible to build a tower to a geosynchronous orbit or will it keep moving away as you add mass to the tower? Would such a tower float in place if you kept building it out past that point and then detached it from the ground?

Why is this being looked at from the angle of "law enforcement shouldn't be buying this information" instead of "companies shouldn't be selling this information"?

It's all data, whether that data is text, an image, audio, or a binary containing computer code.

Raw audio data is just a series of amplitudes. It has a bit depth (which says how many bits are in each amplitude sample) and a frequency (what is the change in time going from one amplitude to the next). Using those, you can convert it to an analog signal that can be played on a speaker. And if you use the same values to convert that signal back to digital, you end up with the same input signal (though with some random noise added and if you get unlucky and your sample phase lines up with the player's transition phase, you won't be able to extract the original signal, though it might sound similar). The multiple recordings help mitigate these issues.

Given that data format, any arbitrary file can be treated as raw sound that can be transmitted as analog audio.

The only real difference between this and other transfer methods we use to transfer files is that this involves a less reliable conversion from digital to analog back to digital because it wasn't designed to do that like USB, COM, wifi, etc connections are.

I was part of an ISP that was a customer coop. I bought a share when I signed up and then sold it when I moved away.

Another way it could be done is via dilution. Like every so often, new shares are issued to current employees based on whatever criteria they use to determine division of ownership. Existing shares remain outstanding so former employees still get dividends and voting rights, but the guy that worked there for 3 months 8 years ago isn't an equal owner to someone who joined 3 years ago and hasn't left. Though there's then the question of can people sell their shares to someone else, potentially leaving the door open for a hostile takeover when a large enough group of former employees want to cash out? If they can't sell them, what happens to the shares when an owner dies?

The first one is cleaner. Personally, I'd go with the first option but have an exception for people retiring so their shares can act as a non-transferable pension but then the shares cease to exist once they die (or exist for a limited amount of time after death for their next of kin).

Luckily each unit has a number that indicates the floor and each floor probably has a floormap near the elevator, so you won't have to go knocking on random doors until you find the person.

Same thing for making deliveries in cities of several million. If there's an effective addressing system, it's usually trivial to find the destination, or at least to get very close to it and switch to "ok wtf is going on here with the last bit of this address?" mode.

I usually read it as R2D2 at first.

His kid is doing really well, too! He's in high school now, his English isn't that great but he's very assertive and confident. Harambe is raising him well. Even that brutal murder of the zoo employee didn't cause so much trauma that Harambe couldn't counsel him through it. They never did catch the killer...

Yeah, it feels kinda like OP is really wondering if what's there now is just as good as what used to be there because it might still be labeled "art". Not all art is equal, and I'd much rather have nice looking art than art that says "this used to look nice but now it's just dicks". But, given that some asshole decided to just paint over it with monocolour, I'd rather have that "fuck you" than to see it left blank.

I hope the 2nd artist has the determination to put it back if the owners try to get rid of it again, but the patience to wait until they stop watching it so they don't get caught. Or make them spend money on a surveillance system and someone to monitor it but still put it back one or two lines at a time. Until the owners have an aneurysm and it eventually ends up in the hands of someone more chill.

I suspect that's a body kit and not a real Lambo. It just doesn't look right.

And after looking at some pictures of the real thing, that's definitely not a Lambo, or even that good of a Lambo body kit.

I believe PlayStations tend to become profitable a few years into the cycle.