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  • Both, really. There's been encoding improvements every generation, but they also use different slices of the spectrum.

  • EA releases 4 C&C games as open source. (EA Has Done something..Good? and Praise Worthy? And not awful?)

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  • Usually when code dumps like these happen they don't include any of the art assets. That's why you still need to get the game on steam to run it, to download the sprites and what not. Has nothing to do with the code enforcing anything.

    I don't know about these particular releases though, I could be wrong.

  • NATO's Rutte urges Zelenskiy to mend his relationship with Trump

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  • He's the NATO chief, and NATO is basically the embodiment of America militarily defending Europe. Of course he wants Trump and Zelensky to make up and kiss. He's just saying what his job demands him to say.

  • Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’

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  • VAT is a universal tax on goods. A tariff is basically a tax that applies only to imported goods. So a tariff distorts the market, making imports from a region more expensive relative to other regions, or domestic goods.

    Note that basically any tax is bad from an economic perspective. However for the government to function revenues must be raised. It is considered better for market efficiency to raise revenues in such a way as to least distort the market. Tariffs are a very distorting instrument, VAT is generally considered less distorting because it affects all parts of the market equally.

  • Sorry babe, the US never invested into public transit at the level we were supposed

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  • The US needs to do way more than invest into public transit. You need to completely rethink city planning to get something suitable for human travel. Suburban America is like the antithesis to public transportation (or god forbid, walking).

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • No magnetic confinement fusion reactor in existence has ever generated a positive output. The current record belongs to JET, with a Q factor of 0.67. This record was set in 1997.

    The biggest reason we haven't had a record break for a long time is money. The most favourable reaction for fusion is generally a D-T (Deuterium-Tritium) reaction. However, Tritium is incredibly expensive. So, most reactors run the much cheaper D-D reaction, which generates lower output. This is okay because current research reactors are mostly doing research on specific components of an eventual commercial reactor, and are not aiming for highest possible power output.

    The main purpose of WEST is to do research on diverter components for ITER. ITER itself is expected to reach Q ≥ 10, but won't have any energy harvesting components. The goal is to add that to its successor, DEMO.

    Inertial confinement fusion (using lasers) has produced higher records, but they generally exclude the energy used to produce the laser from the calculation. NIF has generated 3.15MJ of fusion output by delivering 2.05MJ of energy to it with a laser, nominally a Q = 1.54. however, creating the laser that delivered the power took about 300MJ.

  • Rust is Eating JavaScript

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  • Sort of, browsers can run rust code through webassembly. But i dont think this is a full replacement for JavaScript as of yet.

  • The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice

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  • You might think that, but the United States exited from the Paris agreement on climate change mitigation twice: Trump first withdrew in November of 2020, then Biden rejoined in February of 2021, and now Trump is withdrawing for the second time.

  • Warms one's heart, doesn't it?

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  • This is "the gadget," an implosion type nuclear bomb detonated in the trinity test, the first nuclear bomb test on earth (that we know of, heh).

    It's shown partially assembled inside the 100-foot test tower where it would eventually be detonated.

  • Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online

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  • So the right is against self-service now? wtf

    You may want to look into Grover Norquist and his organisation Americans for Tax Reform. It is one of the most influential political lobbying groups in the United States, and it has the support of essentially the entire republican party. They essentially consider tax to be evil on principle and ask every politician to sign a pledge opposing any tax hike.

    ATR is strongly against automatic filing, as they want to keep taxes difficult and complicated to stoke anti-tax sentiment. That is to say, they fear that if filing tax is easier, citizens would be less likely to fight taxes in the way that the ATR wants (mostly they like a low flat tax, because it's simple and good for rich people).

  • Tesla’s 2024 financial results are out—and they’re terrible

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  • They are emissions credits. Every company receives some amount of "CO2 emission credits" from the government. These allow you to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide. If you don't emit all the CO2 that your credits allow, you can sell those credits to other companies that need more than the government gives them.

    The idea is to put a total limit on the amount of emissions in the country, while letting the market figure out where it makes most sense economically to invest in emission reduction.

    Tesla makes only EV cars and so it doesn't need all the credits a typical gasoline car company would receive. So they sell them.

  • This is how the censorship works in DeepSeek

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  • Most likely there is a separate censor LLM watching the model output. When it detects something that needs to be censored it will zap the output away and stop further processing. So at first you can actually see the answer because the censor model is still "thinking."

    When you download the model and run it locally it has no such censorship.

  • At least it doesn't cause tinnitus. Looking at you, Nirnroot.

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  • Skyrim is a totally different beast because the ingredient effects you know about don't depend on your Alchemy skill anymore: instead you simply discover the effects by successfully making a potion with them. So there's a sort of minigame of trying different ingredients together to discover what kind of effects they give to potions, which in my opinion is neat because it matches up with how you might do this in reality.

    I think the developers didn't like the "surprise" extra potion effects you could get in Morrowind, so they changed it in oblivion.

  • Donald Trump meme coin price tanks after wife Melania also launches token

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  • I was curious what the official supposed purpose of these tokens was, since i have a hard time believing anyone would seriously see themselves buying anything with these at any point. The official website is hilarious. They're not claiming any purpose at all, you're just buying an "official meme":

    Trump Memes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol "$TRUMP" and the associated artwork, and are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type. GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or governmental agency. See Terms & Conditions Here, See Card Allocation Here

    The grift is fully out in the open I guess.

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  • Are we painting Stalin as a good guy here? He only fought Germany because they tried to invade. Before that he repeatedly made attempts to court Nazi Germany. He signed a nonaggression pact, made an agreement to secretly divide Eastern Europe together, and continued trading. Stalin didn't really give a shit about the fascism part, he only cared once his own territory and sphere of influence were threatened. Same as all the other major allies, btw. Everyone tried appeasement first, nobody really cared about the fascism.

    "Saving Europe from Hitler" paints it as a selfless act of heroism when really everyone was mostly concerned with maintaining their own power.

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    The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works

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  • is the energy used to heat the solvent creates more CO2 than the CO2 it captured?

    Ah yeah, no absolutely not. In total it takes much more energy to capture the CO2 than was generated by burning the fossil fuel that emitted it.

    What about algae or moss? They can be more space efficient than trees, and we can technically build a structure vertically.

    I'm not too familiar with algea/moss CO2 absorption, but it could be better. Usually the downside of a vertical structure is you increase the capital investment again, negating the advantage of plants. And to provide lighting you'll need energy which takes space as well (e.g. solar panel field)

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  • A typical process passes ambient air over some liquid or solid solvent that can absorb CO2, then later inserts energy to separate the CO2 again for storage. For example, sodium hydroxide reacts with CO2 in the air to form sodium carbonate. Then later, the sodium carbonate is heated to release pure CO2, regenerating the sodium hydroxide in the process.

    This doesn't violate any laws of thermodynamics because of the constant energy required. Compared to growing trees, direct air capture is generally much more expensive, requiring large capital investment and constant energy input. It is more space efficient though.

  • The Crazy Nokia Designs That Never Saw the Light of Day [Wired]

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  • I had one in high school. The design was kinda gimmicky but the phone had good features for its time. it had an FM radio receiver, and I remember you could even transfer MP3 files onto it, although it was a hassle to do so.

  • ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down

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  • I advise everyone to ignore this article and read the actual paper instead.

    The gist of it is, they gave the LLM instructions to achieve a certain goal, then let it do tasks that incidentally involved "company communications" that revealed the fake company's goals were no longer the same as the LLM's original goal. LLMs then tried various things to still accomplish the original goal.

    Basically the thing will try very hard to do what you told it to in the system prompt. Especially when that prompt includes nudges like "nothing else matters." This kinda makes sense because following the system prompt is what they were trained to do.