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Fuck this ICE mask bullshit

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You never get to court, that's the point the previous comment is making.

As an individual trying to stand up to them you're somewhere between being either completely ineffectual or making the situation worse. Having the law on your side doesn't matter because it's impossible for you to summon the enforcement of it fast enough to help you, assuming they even would.

A local community response that will mobilize and appear in your neighborhood in seconds is basically the only way to respond quickly with enough force for them to care about.

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chat is this true?

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Well, yes, very clearly it's a "man on screen said it" situation, but it's not like that's new.

People who repeated "ground control to {insert name}" to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn't believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It's an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.

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Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux

Windows on a handheld is just bad. It's that simple. A Steam Deck competitor needs a handheld friendly controller focused interface that is at least as good as Valve's. Our just straight up ship with Steam OS and use Valve's.

SteamOS still has many instances of awkward UX and some frankly broken behavior, especially while trying to use community features, it's just that every other offering has been worse.

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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

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Have done this several times for content on Disney+. I have an ultrawide, HDR1000 display. The movie I'm trying to watch is in 21:9 and available in HDR. Why in God's name are you delivering it in SDR and in a letterboxed 16:9 which is in turn pillarboxed on my display?!

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They don't even understand their job

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The company I work for paid for Claude and has made it mandatory that we use it. It's actually insane.

We also have "Code Rabbit" leaving LLM reviews on our PRs. It's hilarious how often it completely misses the actual change and just waxes eloquent on the formatting changes that our linter enforces when we commit a change to a file that hasn't been touched since prior to our current linter rules.

Even crazier, I've had a VP complain to me directly how much he hates reading LLM generated text that someone just spat out at him.

Yet here we are, still required to use it.

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France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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I read through it for the details.

It was net negative, requiring 2MW of power to maintain hydrogen plasma in a state analogous to fusion. The major achievement of this particular experiment was doing so without energies equivalent to a fusion reaction damaging the containing assembly.

It was purely a test/demonstration of the containment of fusion-like conditions.

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Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?

I don't know what it's using specifically under the hood, but in Street Fighter 6 Capcom recently added a new AI opponent you can fight that they say is trained on actual player ranked matches and fights more like a human opponent. You can even have it try to mimic your own playstyle if you've played enough.

It can do some odd things and its mimicry isn't perfect. But it definitely doesn't feel like the typical high difficulty CPU opponent which uses things like input reading to react faster than a real player ever could.

...it also has been seen teabagging.