Also has to do with most of their competitors trying to come in immediately with anti-consumer practices or being a company already known for them.

Like as soon as I saw epic was paying game companies for exclusive access, I decided to skip whatever games actually went for it.

I don’t trust a publically traded company to not enshitify by focusing on “more money” rather than setting up a sustainable business.

That’s why I don’t have issues with valve, even if their 30% cut is a bit high. Steam has been dominating its market for like 20 years now and the worst they’ve done that I know of is display some ads for games when you start up. But even that IMO could be used as an example of how to do ads right because a) they are relevant to the thing you’re doing, b) don’t rely on sharing of data between steam and who knows who else (not that I have any certainty there isn’t any data sharing going on), c) the window can just be closed and doesn’t try to fight for your attention. And I can’t even recall seeing it much recently.

Plus I’d say that they provide value by dominating that space and being the standard that any new players need to compete with.

And even if the question isn’t being asked in good faith, just dismissing it might feel like you’re showing them up, but someone who would be convinced by the bad faith question isn’t going to change their mind when they see a “just Google it, it’s so simple”.

And even for those that do search it, who knows what sources they end up looking at. “Oh, 9/10 oil execs say it’s actually ok while the 1/10 remaining just laugh when asked, so it must be ok! Oh and Fox News confirms it!” Buys another unnecessarily large truck.

Oh is that why some trees hurt so much?

Or just another reason why a tree might hurt so much?

Are they even trees or just more spiders?

How is it different other than going into a temporary container before going into the cup?

It’s all gravity in the end. Or probably middle but I don’t know why gravity, so that’s as far as I can reduce it.

Everything we see around us is just hydrogen trying to get closer to the middle of the biggest hydrogen party it can find in the general vicinity. And we were all once part of at least one massive party that eventually got a bit out of hand when we all tried to get so close together we bounced off of a neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.

Hydro?

Texas, More Texas, Still Texas, Great Texas, Greater Texas, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Texas

You need to explain that, though they are generally rich, it’s not unusual for unheard of princes to occasionally fall on hard times and have their fortunes compensated until they are able to pay a ransom to get a corrupt bank or government to release their vast wealth back to them AND that they are almost always grateful to anyone who assists them in paying that ransom.

Oh wait, sorry, wrong scam.

Wouldn’t you find it useful to be able to prove that you paid for something? When you buy an NFT, you’re buying just that: the ability to prove that you bought it. And sometimes it even comes with a copy of an image or a spaceship you might just be able to use in a video game or just hold on to until we develop the technology to live in video game spaceships and you sell it for massive profits!

Reporting it makes sense. Investigating if the threat was credible makes sense. If it is credible, a felony then makes sense. But if it isn’t, a fine or misdemeanor is enough. Because I do agree that there should be some consequences to discourage how casually death threats and the like are thrown out these days.

But the idea that no tolerance rules that turn kids having outbursts (disability or not) into felons makes anyone safer is laughable. Making troubled kids unnecessarily lives harder is more likely to create more danger than prevent it.

Or marked as duplicate and closed but when you click the duplicate it’s a different issue.

Marketers using all of their skills to try to sell the idea that they’re a good guy doing something people (who aren’t ad buyers) want.

Sad part is they are probably able to fool some people.

LET GO OF MY PURSE!

My cousin had one a few years back and said it was very painful. He didn’t end up needing more than one shot because the bat that got him tested negative, so I’m not sure how many doses it was in total.

Don’t they usually just administer the rabies vaccine anyways just in case? As I understand it, even with the testing they’ll give the first dose because there can be bad effects if they wait for the test results before then.

I wanted to learn more and found this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/damon-baehrel-the-most-exclusive-restaurant-in-america

Sounds like the ten year wait list might be made up and who knows where he gets his meats, but the whole thing just sounds fascinating. From his website, the current price is $550 USD a head, though it’s subject to change several times per week.

He sounds like one of those guys that has a whole bunch of little projects going on at any time and over the years accumulated enough results from those to host some volume of dinner parties. And possibly exaggerates or lies about some of them (though hard to say if he treats his cooking similarly to how he treats his legend/myth).

Not sure if serious but that is not how cloud gaming works. Cloud gaming offloads running the entire game to another machine, so CPU, RAM, GPU, storage, and network stuff. Then it just sends a stream with the video output and audio to your device while your device streams your input back to the remote machine.

Sorry if it was meant as a joke, but hard to tell because what you’re saying is technically possible, though it would be beyond slow. Hopefully, even if it was a joke, the technical details are as interesting to others as they were to me when I wondered what it would look like if your RAM was stored on another PC on the internet.

CPU to RAM latency is generally around 0.05 - 0.1 us while network latency is likely going to be around 10,000 - 50,000 us, assuming it’s not far geographically with good network conditions, maybe going as low as 5000 - 10,000 us (5 - 10 ms). And it doesn’t just need to do that once per frame, but millions to billions of times per frame.

Cloud gaming can achieve whatever framerate your bandwidth can handle at the resolution and compression used (and I’m guessing generally isn’t bandwidth limited if your connection can handle Netflix at decent quality). There’s input latency because it takes 5 - 50ms for any inputs to get to the machine, but everything is computed locally.

Remote memory would generate frames so slowly that it would make more sense to measure them in seconds per frame than frames per second. And those seconds per frame might be better expressed in minutes or hours.

It might function ok for a page file. It would be on the order of HDD performance, though. Anyone who played games back in the day probably remembers how long it would take to alt tab or close a game before you could use the rest of your computer because the OS had to page most of other programs’ memory back into RAM from disk.

Though I wouldn’t suggest bringing up open source software around him. Unless it’s to bitch about people doing things for free when you want to charge lots of money for it.

Yeah, but how was that food?

I just tried a fine dining restaurant for the first time this past weekend.

I was just curious after watching a bunch of cooking competitions on Netflix about how good that kind of food could be so decided to find a Michelin star restaurant and give it a try.

While the portions were small, the food was on another level. Even the “worst” of it was only that because it wasn’t amazing, but still really good.

The food was so good that when I got home and snacked that night, it was hard to enjoy any of my usual favorite snacks because it all felt so basic after that.

It was fancy in other regards, too. Like when my buddy went to the bathroom, someone came over and folded his cloth napkin rather than leave it bunched up on the table.

Plus, even though the portions were tiny and we joked about whether we’d need to stop for fast-food afterwards, by the end of the 9 or so courses, I felt completely satisfied. Even the snacking I mentioned was more due to the munchies than actual hunger.

It was expensive though. Two taster menu plus two drinks each came to about 500 CAD plus tip. And it was one of the cheaper options. There was a two Michelin star sushi place that advertised seats starting at 800 and I’m not even sure that includes any food, though I think it gets the “chef cooks what he wants” menu, which tbf would probably be way better than what I’d want anyways.

This place only needed to be booked like a month in advance, so the place you’re talking about sounds like it’s on another level itself. Though I’m curious how much that other level translates to better food.

More like Losedows

This is apparently from an ad-supported tier being trialled in EU and not them sneaking ads into an ad free tier. Read comments below for more context.

This thread was reported for being misleading but I’m going to leave it up for the context.