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Raytracing and path tracing can look pretty nice and raytracing especially is worth turning on when it’s a game where it’s properly optimized. Unfortunately in many games, it really isn’t, which means the performance impact is too large compared to the visual benefits. So in many games, I don’t turn it on as I prefer the much higher framerate.

Upscaling technologies are pretty great. Especially in their current iterations, the image quality they can achieve from low resolutions is impressive. That said, they should be used as a way to get graphically advanced games working on low to mid-spec GPUs. Using them as a crutch to get unoptimized games working on high-end cards is not acceptable. Neither is pretending that upscaled and frame-generated performance is directly equivalent to native-res performance (looking at you, nVidia).

Some time around 2001 or so. Frequented various Pokemon fansites and also had some kind of “100 coolest websites for kids” book.

Every country has their own brand and degree of nationalism. For example, in Europe, you won’t commonly see the national flag displayed in a private context in countries like France or Germany, but it’s very common as a decoration in Switzerland and Denmark. Doesn’t mean I’d really compare the Danes or Swiss to American nationalists though. I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter. No Swiss nationalist would think that their country could thrive without at least some degree of cooperation with other countries.

Maybe other large-population countries like China and India might be more similar. When I went to high school in China as an exchange student, they had a flag-raising ceremony once a week where the national anthem was played. But I guess that’s still tame compared to having the pledge of allegiance every day.

Right but reddit created the karma system and allows mods to set karma limits. Why did they allow this ?

Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to manage the subreddits. Antagonizing them by taking away their options for moderation is not a great idea for Reddit (as the API changes have shown).

Does it though ? Because a bot can post more and by virtue of being a bot has nowhere to be and nothing to do. Let’s say it takes 1 hour to get 10 karma. A human with school and or work can only to deal with might only have like 2 hours to post a bot can post 24/7 365.

Bots have ways to get around karma limits, for example by just reposting some popular memes for a few days after account creation and only starting to post spam a few weeks later. But that still means there’s an additional difficulty to posting spam and that there’s time for automated systems to possibly kick in before the bot gets the chance to post spam.

If that is really the issue then why not just have a captcha on post ? I know bots are better at dealing with captchas but those are still expensive.

That sounds like a nightmare TBH, I’d take a Karma limit any day over having to do a captcha every time to post.

I’m also curious, which subs did you want to post in where Karma limits are so high you couldn’t reach them? I’ve never seen them be much of a hurdle. You can easily get 1k karma on a single comment just by echoing a popular sentiment or making a mediocre joke.

That’s not a reddit rule, but a rule that subreddit moderators introduce to lessen their workload. Requiring a minimum karma means less spambots and trolls to deal with.

Are you referring mainly to fast food places or is it like that even at regular restaurants where you live? If I go to my local pizzeria or really any restaurant that isn’t a fast food chain, there won’t be any wrappers, single use cups or anything like that. Food will be served on plates with metal cutlery, drinks in drinking glasses etc. About the only single-use thing would be napkins I guess.

I’ve never experienced real poverty. Poorest I’ve been was the first month working at my first job. I had spent most of my money moving there and I think I had about 200€ on my bank account at the beginning of the month. Had to be frugal for a while but it was manageable.

I live right next to the black forest, so I’m privileged to have a lot of nice natural areas nearby. One of my favorite places is a secluded forest hut, which I can reach in about 45 minutes with my MTB. It has a nice view over the surrounding mountains with no other buildings or roads in sight. Once spent a few hours there waiting for thunderstorms to pass, which was a strangely calming experience.

My thoughts are that they should wear whatever the fuck they want to the beach.

By spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines.

The charismatic guy at the top may always get all the credit, but hundreds of other people played a role in Tesla’s success. He wasn’t even a founder of the company. All we can really say is that he bought in at the right time, but we don’t know how much of Tesla’s success was down to his personal decisions. If anything, it seems like Tesla’s decline really started when Musk started using the company more and more for his personal pet projects (Cybertruck, Teslabots etc) rather than the cars that people actually want.

it took Tesla to make China move.

Maybe so, but I’m not sure whether Tesla really needed Elon Musk.

My phone/Android is supposed to have theft protection, meaning it will lock itself if it detects a fast movement like it being snatched out of my hand. If that doesn’t work, I’d have to get home to lock it I guess.

Given that Germany is divided, it’s probably just 30+ year old data.

• Desktop PC
• Valve Index VR headset
• Company Laptop (Razer, yes seriously)
• Company Macbook Air (just for iOS Builds)
• Phone (Galaxy Flip 4)
• eBook Reader (jailbroken Kindle Oasis)
• Smart/Fitnesswatch (Garmin Instinct 2)
• Steam Deck OLED
• iPad Air G5 (with pencil, mainly for drawing)

Also a ton of older and/or rarely used devices

No big deal to me, just pointing it out.

I wrote them and my AI formaliser helped me to be more passionate

Yeah, don’t do that. Your post reads very strange and artificial. A machine can’t deliver compassion.

theoldnet.com has some of that and also works on really old systems and browsers.

Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.

From my European perspective:

• Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
• The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
• Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
• Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe