I bet it’s for their bank. At least in Europe, many banks charge for your account if your income is below a threshold. My partner can’t work full time so I send them like 50€ per month so that they don’t have to pay bank fees. Which is ridiculous, as we have our 3 accounts all at the same bank.

At least in Germany, there is no winter time. There is normal time (Normalzeit) and summer time (Sommerzeit).

You really sound like one of these boomers that don’t like their families.

They still scam artists and support war drone manufacturers.

Nothing is produced in 8K either.

As more countries within the EU shift to right wing governments, the EU as a political body itself will also shift more to the right.

I think this is a case, where there’s an engine that was developed for graphics cards, that epic thought were common when they created UE5. They expected that RT performance would not only increase in the highest pricing tier, but also in mid-range (as in $500 pricing range) to a degree, where all the lumen stuff would be trivial. But steam survey reveals that most people use X060, X050 and then some X070 class cards, where RT performance isn’t that great. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

So IMO there are several issues:

• There are obviously optimization issues with UE5, I’m not going to claim otherwise.
• Nvidia catering to the AI crowd, which is obviously more lucrative for them that improving RT performance for mid- and low-range cards.
• Epic being bad at forecasting the future state of graphics performance.
• Epic trying to offload workload from development to the end user (e.g. shifting from pre-baked lighting to realtime lighting).

The end result stays the same, we now play games that run so bad on current hardware, that everything now needs to be AI-upscaled with framegen and has this weird soft look that will look super dated at some point because RT isn’t there yet.

The religion of technology was something that I especially enjoyed in the books. There were many highlights that Goyer chose to ignore.

Oh, Bundespräsident*in. Sorry, brainfart.

Man, I thought we reached bottom with Olaf Scholz, now Merz and 2027 von der Leyen? Can we please get at least some semblance of progressive left politics back?

EU: How often do I have to teach you, old man?

The core concept of the books was, that Hari could predict the future of societies in really broad strokes. Essentially how masses behave in certain situations. In order to actually make the gamble, he forced a situation where he put a group of people that could only behave in a certain way because they were lacking resources.

But, in all of the books it’s quite clear that Hari couldn’t make predictions for single people within a group, because there’re too many variables (Asimov even created an example where Hari deliberately predicted the choices of a single person that exists in the present, and why that doesn’t work for other purposes).

In the books, Hari cannot make any decisions for other people, because the solution can only come from those people (though because he setup the foundation colony like he did, the outcome was always predestined).

In the show, they don’t care about the core concept. In the first season they show how psycho history is supposed to work, and partially adhere to it, but soon ignore all the limitations that it should have. It’s like Hari plays those 1000 years on a musical instrument, manipulating people and situations. He tell’s people the solution to the problem. He (because he’s an AI) constantly interferes. That’s not the idea of the core story.

Imagine it like this, in the books, a “creator” setup the world in a way where people can still make individual decisions, but only in a way that leads to a predestined outcome. Personal choices may lead to a different way to the outcome (see the mule), but in the end, it’ll always come to the intended solution.

The show just has an omnipotent god that is reborn and moves people like chess pieces, constantly adapting to changing situations.

LLMs aren’t sorting algorithms, they’re fancy keyboard predictions.

Masculinity, so fragile…

I guess only in a country that is so far leaning on the right thinks that liberals are “on the left”.

I’m trying to focus on European offerings. Bandcamp is based in California, I think. Recent months have shown that US companies cannot be relied on.

Please just tell me that Qobuz is fine. My last straw before going back to piracy.

And Nazis still get free public promotion via ARD Sommertalk 😔

Besides the shift to mercury mining others have already listed, you really think that this process is cheaper than mining gold and also cleaner and safer at the same time?

It’s easy to say that Valve should make a stand, but wouldn’t be able to sell games anymore.