Luckily, people research these things.
Apparently the Voyager crew used the Thermos Nissan Vacuum Insulated Espresso Mugs, models JMJ-180 (a smaller one used by various crew members) and JMJ-185 (a larger one favored by Janeway). Apparently these did come with a lid.
They’re probably not pivoting but in FY2023 Azure made up 38% of their revenue, followed by Office 365 at 23%. That’s a lot of cloud service revenue.
Is it sustainable? Honestly, it might. They sell a lot of stuff under the Azure umbrella and corporations lap that shit up. (Seriously; my employer is about ready to hire consultants to come up with additional eggs they can put in that particular basket.)
Here’s my source; I couldn’t be arsed to look it up in MSFT’s statements directly.
There are models designed to read documents and provide summaries; that part is actually realistic. And transforming text (such as by providing a summary) if actually something LLMs are better at than the conversational question answering that’s getting all the hype these days.
Of course stuffing an entire book in there is going to require a massive context length and would be damn expensive, especially if multiplied by 17. And I doubt it’d be done in a minute.
And there’s still the hallucination issue, especially with everything then getting filtered through another LLM.
So that guy is full of shit but at least he managed to mention one reasonable capability of neural nets. Surely that must be because of the 30+ IQ points ChatGPT has added to his brain…
Violent and nonviolent resistance often go hand in hand. They amplify each other’s effectiveness, ideally leading to the nonviolent side teaching its goals.
I feel that right now we do see the American people moving in a similar direction – on the one have we have large protests that try to be as peaceful as possible, on the other hand we have people running ICE agents out of town.
This will probably intensify before the government is willing to negotiate, in lockstep with the government increasing its use of force. I hope that the violence will not escalate to an outright civil war before the government relents.
Good luck to everyone over there.
Could also be Blizz, in which case I feel sorry for them.
We won’t need to change maximum car size, we need to change average car size. Because right now politicians are arguing for a reduction in bike and foot paths and for more space to be dedicated to parking because the average car keeps getting bigger.
I didn’t care whether people who drive 100,000 € luxury SUVs keep doing so. But I do care whether sedans and hatchbacks get replaced by 20,000 € SUVs.
Mind you, I’m talking about a partial rebate on the vehicle tax. People who don’t own cars don’t pay vehicle tax, of course.
Leopard and Snow Leopard had vastly better virtual desktops than Lion onward. You actually had a grid of them and could navigate up/down/left/right with shortcuts; afterwards you only got a linear list of desktops.
Gridded desktops were great. I had a 3x3 grid, of which five cells were used. My main desktop was “centered”. Thunderbird was right. My IRC and IM clients were left. iTunes was down. I don’t remember what was up; it’s been a while.
In my opinion that should by handled by vehicle taxes. If your car exceeds the dimensions cities are designed for right now, your tax increases. If it’s noticeably smaller/lighter (think kei car), you get a tax rebate.
People would be a lot more interested in compact vehicles if driving one made a real difference in their wallet.
My most used features so far are vertical splitters, vertical nudging, and the new placement modes for conveyors and pipes. With an honorable mention going to conveyor wall holes, which also free up a lot of design options.
Honestly, though, just about everything in this update has been a godsend. Priority splitters are the only thing I haven’t really used yet. Even the elevators rock; being able to zoop up to 200 meters up or down in one go can make them useful even as a temporary yardstick for tall structures. (Also, I did end up needing to go 150 meters straight down to get at some resources and can confirm that elevators handle their intended purpose very well.)
Do you want a prediction? The current cost of graphic cards will crash the classic PC gaming market. There are some enthusiasts who are buying cards for thousands of dollars or building 4.000€ computers. But the majority of gamers will stay on their laptops or might go for cheaper devices like the SteamDeck. But if your game needs more power, needs a modern graphic card and a beefier PC, there are fewer and fewer people who can run it and many people can’t afford it. So devs will target lower system specs with to reach the bigger audience
Also, there’s not as much value in high-powered GPUs right now because these days high-end graphics often mean Unreal Engine 5. UE5 is excellent for static and slow-moving graphics but has a tendency towards visible artifacts in situations where the picture and especially the camera position changes quickly (especially since it’s heavily reliant on TAA). These artifacts are largely independent of how good your GPU is.
Unlike in previous generations, going for high-end graphics doesn’t necessarily mean you get a great visual experience – your games might look like smeary messes no matter what kind of GPU you use because that’s how modern engines work. Smeary messes with beautiful lighting, sure, but smeary messes nonetheless.
My last GPU upgrade was from a Vega 56 to a 4080 (and then an XTX when the 4080 turned out to be a diva) and while the newer cards are nice I wouldn’t exactly call them 1000 bucks nice given that most modern games look pretty bad in motion and most older ones did 4K@60 on the Vega already. Given that I jumped three generations forward from a mid-tier product to a fairly high-end one, the actual benefit in terms of gaming was very modest.
The fact that Nvidia are now selling fancy upscaling and frame interpolation as killer features also doesn’t inspire confidence. Picture quality in motion is already compromised; I don’t want to pay big money to compromise it even further.
If someone asked me about what GPU to get I’d tell them to get whatever they can find for a couple hundred bucks because, quite frankly, the performance difference isn’t worth the price difference. RT is cool for a couple of days but I wouldn’t spend much on it either, not as long as the combination of TAA and upscaling will hide half of the details behind dithered motion trails and time-delayed shadows.
Heck, if you’re the people type you could probably get a place on Risa and make a living out of hanging out in a bar and telling the tourists where they can get the best Bolian food on the planet. That’s a perfectly sensible life trajectory in the Federation.
They did; the Z at the end denotes UTC.
Plugins and extensions could make sense if the site and plugin are designed to talk to each other. But that could be made safer by each extension being able to decide whether to announce itself (and the user being able to override that).
I think you’d like how Exalted handles money. (Note: I’m talking about second edition here; I never got familiar with third edition.)
In Exalted, wealth is represented by a Background called Resources. Backgrounds are essentially stats that represent useful things your characters has in a general sense like wealth, fame, contacts, or a mentor. They go from zero to five.
Resources is a vague representation of wealth. At Reduces 1 you’re one meal away from total poverty. At Resources 5 you have something that passively generates substantial amounts of money for your character, whether that’s ownership of a lot of land or an army of accountants maintaining your investment portfolio. Whatever is is, it works without you having to deal with it.
In terms of game mechanics it’s easy to use: Prices are expressed as Resource scores. If you want to buy something you just compare your score to the item’s.
It’s a nice system for a game that doesn’t want resource management to get in the way of epic adventure.
I got tired of it in 2013. While it does work in some places (Android does it reasonably well), I haven’t yet seen a good flat design on the desktop.
Windows 8 and 10 looked garish and hard to read, especially since everything is a rectangle with a one-pixel outline. Is it a button? Is it a text field? Maybe a thick progress bar? Who knows, they all look extremely similar.
While Apple did overdo it in the later big-cat OS X releases, I’ll take a felt-textured widget panel and a calendar bound in leather over an endless sea of hairline rectangles.
Is actually have a good answer but in my case it’d be “I wanted to know what that one plant I saw was”. AI-based pattern matching to identify plant or animal species is pretty handy.
It’s also way more sensible than trying to use text generation for anything useful.
“Unintuitively, there is more than one employer in the world and I happened to work for a different one previously. I know; I’m as surprised and vaguely terrified as you are. Please let me help you put an end to this multicompany nightmare soon.”
“Certainly! What makes you think that there is more than one employer in the world and you happened to work for a different one previously. You know; you’re as surprised and vaguely terrified as I am. Please let you help me put an end to this multicompany nightmare soon?”
There is the whole thing with Schleswig-Holstein at least. I’m not sure about how far around that is but they are planning to move to an open source stack. I’m also not sure how much money Microsoft will try to throw their way; I doubt they’ll offer to move their German HQ to Kiel.
There’s a reason why oldschool X-Com players kept coming back to the games despite technical issues like the Groundhog Day bug. (Thank all applicable deities for OpenXcom solving those issues, though.)