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WARDOGS now confirmed with official Proton support (via Discord)
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Obligatory "wine is not an emulator". So...
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WARDOGS now confirmed with official Proton support (via Discord)
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Obligatory "wine is not an emulator". So...
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What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
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Have you tried freezing it?
Refrigerating baked goods accelerates staleness, but most baked goods freeze well.
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Is it ethical to buy Subnautica 2, now that it is released in early access?
A lawsuit forced krafton to rehire the fired devs, and extended the the payout period based on sales.
So ironically, for maximum hurt for krafton, you should buy the game to force a larger payout.
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California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park
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If 50 people sign a petition, you don't need to do a study. Just put in the fucking stop sign.
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Steam Machine
This thing has pretty interesting hardware:
The chip almost looks like a cut down AMD Ryzen AI Max 385, but with fewer CPU cores and GPU CUs, but the GPU gets its own dedicated VRAM, rather than sharing it, like it does in something like a Framework Desktop.
It also seems like it gets a decent amount of power, so likely at higher clock speeds, performance should be pretty good for not that much money. If this is supposed to be a console then it can't be much more than a PS5 at $550 or PS5 Pro at $750.
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Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%
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Closest in the united States is a chevy bolt, but that's still pretty far.
I'd love a fairly dumb ev. Give me just enough computer for battery/charging management and let me do the rest.
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After years of being told I was part Cherokee, someone was mad that I wasn't.
I have documented ancestry of Choctaw, card and everything, but my genetic test show 0%. The blood amount is quite low at 1/128
This could be because of the way genes work, roll the dice enough time and there are no genes left. On the other hand many Native Americans are not keen on giving away genetic data after their history with the US.
I'm not saying you are or aren't part native American, but genetic tests are limited.
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Is Dune part 2 worth watching?
I'm a bit surprised at a lot of the criticisms for the movies here, and I say this as a huge fan of the Dune novels too.
Villeneuve has a particular film style like blade runner 2049, and Arrival.
If you don't like his style you won't like the 2nd movie.
But on the other hand part 1 sets the stage for everything that happens in part 2, and overall I think it is an excellent adaption. Dune is not an easy book to adapt to film, and some changes had to be made, but they're aren't any glaring changes that make me go "why the hell did you change it that way?"
It's extremely faithful to the book, and in cases where it's not, I can see the reasoning for the change.
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In 2022, this is what the United States spent on trains and cars
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Ironically the reason we can't keep up with car infrastructure is because there's too much of it.
It much more costly to maintain, especially when scaling to more lanes.
Reducing space given to cars and giving more to bikes/buses/trains would make it easier to upkeep our current roads.
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Feminists are not the one aggressively turning men into this. It's toxic masculinity types like Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, and Joe Rogan.
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Starfield has "something big going on behind the scenes"
I just want to know when it's going start being fun.
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Dating has gotten so expensive that nearly half of U.S. singles say it’s no longer worth it, as the average night out approaches $200
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Where are they gonna go? We destroyed most of our third places, or made them so expensive to extract maximum profits.
Dinner is expensive, movies are expensive, small friendly local shops have been disappearing in favor of sterile corporate ones.
For a lot of people the only option would then be a home, which doesn't work great for a lot of reasons.
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The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron
For those who might rather read
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
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How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
These people got caught because someone found their car and thus license plate.
Another had left a fingerprinted bottle that went missing when watching surveillance footage.
And then were able to confirm after finding the same outfit from the surveillance footage.
The lessons to be learned are to not use cars anywhere near the scene, leave no trace, fingerprints or digital evidence, including a phone, and make sure any recognizable clothing is well hidden, or even better thoroughly destroyed.
Oh and don't post anything on social media.
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Damnit people
My eyes hurt, and I had eclipse glasses, and a solar filter on my telescope. Lots of these are probably just eyestrain.
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Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social
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Every user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows: `(upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes)`. If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.
This pains me because it is functionally equivalent to
If downvotes cast < upvotes cast
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AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
I love this bit especially
Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. "That kills the whole system," Deeks said. Smiley added: "The question here is if it's all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They're generally pretty good at risk profiling."
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Damn
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Newton's laws, including gravity and motion, can be expressed in terms of differential equations.
Differential equations pretty much requires calculus, which just hadn't been formalized yet.
Newton's laws also provide convincing reasons for the necessity and legitimacy of calculus, by being able to derive orbits from his simple laws.
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Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes
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I think at that point I'd mail a certified letter and cancel whatever card it's on.
That probably wouldn't work but one can dream.
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Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress
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I mean you do have a messaging problem. Your leadership has received bad messaging about what "AI" can do!