realitista

realitista OP , 3 days ago

Both

realitista OP , 12 days ago

realitista OP , 12 days ago

" I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form."

realitista , 2 months ago

That's because the USA subsidizes bigger trucks as "work vehicles". This practice needs to stop and they need to be taxed more than smaller vehicles.

realitista , 2 months ago

This article summarizes the subsidies I'm talking about. Here's an excerpt:

For now, the important point is that trucks generally are more profitable than cars thanks to two big government incentives, both of them historical footnotes.

The first is the so-called chicken tax, a 25 percent tariff imposed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 on foreign-built work vehicles as part of a chicken-related trade war with Europe. If you’re making a pickup or cargo van in the United States, profits should be higher, because foreign factories can’t come close to undercutting you on price.

The second incentive lies in the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.

realitista , 2 months ago

See my post above with citation.

realitista , 2 months ago

See my post above in the thread where I show the laws I am talking about and cite source.

realitista , 2 months ago

Until his profile gets high enough that they find some permit he doesn't have and he gets shut down.

realitista , 2 months ago

This would really be the ultimate fuck you to everyone if they did this. I sort of wish they would so we'd all stop giving them all our personal data.

realitista , 2 months ago

It will be really interesting to see how long it actually takes before this can be done accurately enough to execute a directors vision and high quality enough to actually make a film from. It could be anything from a few months to decades, it's so hard to know how much we are actually able to control these models to get them to do what we really want accurately enough.

realitista , 2 months ago

Probably you are right, but so far no one has demonstrated any LLM that can be controlled within these tight types of adjustments and it feels like it might be something that the technology just never is able to do. We might have to wait for a whole new generation of technology for this.

realitista , 2 months ago

I was working tech in the Bay Area in the '90s, I remember it well.

realitista , 2 months ago

Yes, however recruiters see someone like this and see a great opportunity to fill their quota, so it all balances out.

realitista , 2 months ago

Not clear from this what the difference is between a TPU and an LPU.

realitista , 3 months ago

Install this. You will thank me later.

realitista , 3 months ago

There are free OS alternatives out there (which I suspect you already use but just want to poop on other's parade).

I assume that if someone's already using Windows, a paid OS, they are willing to pay $2 to make it usable.

realitista , 3 months ago

I've used them all (probably 20+ different OS' in my lifetime), and they all have a place. I use Windows, MacOS, and Linux daily, each for what they are good at. Maybe people should use what works best for them?

realitista , 3 months ago

It has had such a massive positive effect on my life relative to the price.

realitista , 3 months ago

I prefer it too, but if something works well and saves me time and effort for $2, I don't make a big deal out of it. I also need to accomplish things other than monkeying around with my computer.

realitista , 2 months ago

Goody for you

realitista , 3 months ago

No, it's a euphemism for "screw the people who are left, we need a quick reduction in our cost structure so that we can take bigger bonuses"

realitista , 3 months ago

There are amazing VR games like HL:Alex and Resident Evil. Not as many as we'd all like but then are out there, and I do believe as porting becomes easier, we will see more AAA titles like this. And honestly playing these games in VR puts their flatscreen versions to shame, so I do think this will become more popular going forward.

For AR we are just at the beginning. I think AVP has proved the concept that you could use such a device for productivity, but I think mass adoption will take many more iterations. But I am sure that bothe AR and VR have long futures ahead of them.

realitista , 3 months ago

Yes. If "Sadly It's Bradley"'s YouTube channel is anything to go by, furries (and maybe enterprises) will be the primary purchasers of the AVP. He's absolutely over the moon about it.

realitista , 3 months ago

I have only owned an oculus quest, and a PlayStation vr2, So I have never had this issue before

realitista , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I can't imagine there's any reason they couldn't make an opaque version of the same. Would probably look pretty cool in black. Or better yet, make them electrochromic so you can have more light in the winter and less in the summer.

realitista , 3 months ago

Yeah but then I'd have to stop throwing stones, and that's one of my favorite pastimes.

realitista , 3 months ago

Uncovering these rings, publicizing them, and shutting them down needs to be a top priority. I think a lot, if not most, of the bad decisions made by voters stem from these kind of bad actors. We've let it go on for long enough.

realitista , 3 months ago

Yes this should have been done better. I remember when they did the same thing in the USA they at least listed all of them so you could to see what they were up to.

realitista , 3 months ago

Until governments get serious about trust busting, it will keep happening. Companies that don't have to compete enshittify.

realitista , 3 months ago

If the market was competitive, people would just choose another product or service that didn't use such practices as you can clearly be profitable without doing this.