Why is it difficult to get it? It’s inconvenient for them. Do you think people need to consult everyone else in the world and make sure that their own personal problem is the worst ever experienced by any human, before being allowed to feel uncomfortable?

That’s a false dichotomy, but if I have to pick one, you are crazy.

Why, how much did you lose with it? How did you do it?

The article specifically restricts the definition to non avian dinosaurs. Although, I am not sure if this is a trustworthy source, because it says obviously nonsense things like:

The idea of having sex with [a dinosaur] is outside the realms of possibility.

It sounds like it was a vote in anger from government disinvestment in rural areas.

Not what the article said.

I’m the same way. I have a PC but I don’t want to game at the desk anymore, and I have a deck but not everything feels right on the small screen. I was going to get the steam machine, but the price came in higher than expected, and I would also need to get a controller… I will wait and see how the release goes. But there’s some fomo, because the deck has been out of stock for a while (I couldn’t upgrade to oled)

Unrelated to the topic of the article, looking at the graph made me realize that GPUs didn’t use to be so expensive, and the change is not so recent.
I have been gaming on PCs since I was a kid, first on a 286 in DOS. I don’t remember what were the first games, but I think it was ASCII graphics. Sprites were of course even better.

https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/2255336-prehistorik-dos-level-1-begins.png

I have been building my own computers for decades. I never wanted to spend more than necessary, so I only updated things every now and then, and I always picked a good value GPU from the budget to mid tier. I always understood that PC gaming has a niche where people build monster configurations with powerful GPUs to run games at max settings with unnecessary high resolution and frame rates. It makes sense for a hobby, it’s cool. But you don’t actually need that much power to enjoy games, right?

What I just realized is that the slice of people who look for high performance GPUs for games is likely much bigger than I thought. At some point the industry made consumers believe that you need 4k and 120 fps (or maybe more). That the point of PC gaming is to beat the specs of consoles. But that’s so not true. A PC is great because it’s a general purpose open platform to run whatever software you want. If a game is not fun at mid setting full HD 30 fps, it’s not fun. How many of the people dishing out north of $300 on a GPU are competitive e sports players or popular streamers? Probably most of them are not. 90% of the progress in GPU hardware is likely spent on generating frames that are not perceived at resolutions that are not seen.

I liked the phrasing of other headlines that reported this as “commercialization” being correlated with harms (because “legalization” doesn’t mean that to most people who read this).

Roon on the server and ARC on the phone

Asking my life partner how their day was is not small talk. Asking the same question from the cashier at the grocery checkout is small talk.

As someone fluent in Alien, I can confirm she sounded like gibberish, but the accent was on spot.

The dialogues were also special: characters were mostly talking about mundane subjects but in a unique and very entertaining way. Who else can make a Hollywood movie scene with John Travolta telling that the most interesting thing about a foreign country where they speak a foreign language is that they use different words for fast food menu items. It was unexpected and hilarious at the time.

Thanks for the fun fact, it totally makes sense, I never thought about that!

Oops, I read the headline like the neanderthals are building their own github and got really curious!

By “lost”, we mean they paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to the businesses of friends and family, from the billions of dollars of corruption money that was funneled into the company as crypto “investments” from foreign criminals? Sure. Let’s keep going with the “ha-ha, Trump is such a loser, and he will die next week” narrative as he is strengthening his authoritarian grip on political power and his gross enrichment from the most blatant forms of corruption the developed world has seen.

Or, cognitive impairment from lead poisoning leads to unsafe gun storage.

It’s not like a user asked vanilla ChatGPT random questions and took the responses for medical advice. This is a service openAI marketed specifically for medical use. If we want to keep up the pretense that consumer protection laws and regulations exist and matter, this is a big deal, and the blame is on the vendor, not on the user.

I don’t understand your point. The interviewer asks that question to understand why does the candidate think the position is a good fit for them. If you don’t think that it is a particularly good fit for you, you just need a job, that is information for the interviewer. They receive a hundred applications and have to pick a good one. Can you imagine that there are other candidates who actually have a really good reason why they applied for this particular position?

I don’t think OP knows what literally means. The wsj did not ask the question in the title. It asked a different question.

If you get all the achievements for completing the game, what are achievements actually for? They are there to create fun or not so fun challenges above just completing the game. It’s not like someone will punish you if you leave some achievements incomplete. On the other hand, completing a tough one can feel like - an achievement!