And CPUs with higher core counts tend to have lower clock speeds per core, leading to games sometimes running much better on mid-range hardware than on the latest and greatest.

No, it’s actually quite brilliant. Google results return mainly AI posts, and Reddit is now 90% AI regurgitated crap. It’s a match made in hell.

Not to mention people would arrive at their 10 minute appointment with a list of 5 completely separate medical issues that they’d been saving up for months. So either you do a full history, examination, diagnosis and treatment plan +/- prescription in 2 minutes for each problem, or the 10 minute appointment just becomes a 20 minute appointment. And then you document everything in your lunch break or after you’re supposed to have gone home 🙃

Here in the US, the last time I went to a doctor’s office they had signs posted saying that those under free healthcare could only discuss a single issue per billed visit. Which sure, saves the medical staff a ton of time and scheduling problems, but also means the most vulnerable (and least able to take time off to visit the doctor) have to prioritize health issues and let minor ones go untreated/undiagnosed until they become major ones.

Healthcare is a mess.

alien.top is an instance that scrapes Reddit and mirrors posts and comments, creating bot accounts with the same username as the original poster. The intent was to make it easy for users to migrate away from Reddit (just claim the bot account with your username), but everyone pointed out the obvious ethical problems of mass plagiarizing and how nobody on Reddit can see any replies you make. It was also super spammy and 99℅ of the comments are from those scraper bots, so most instances defederated from them.

Now all that’s left is to try a pickle smoothie to confirm your theory.

Go to https://lemmy.world/settings and turn off “Bot account”.

Always a concern after they tie their life force to yours. It makes moving so inconvenient.

Ah, Paradox. Your DLC policies always find new and interesting ways to disappoint.

Right. I meant in regards to the original source code being lost, the hard work of reverse engineering it has already been done. That should make a potential port less of a nightmare for the team.

There’s an open source reimplementation of the Sith Engine that’d make a good base. Like KeeperFX, the project gradually reimplements every engine function while falling back to the original executable for any that haven’t been converted yet, and is sitting at nearly 100℅ complete for everything other than the rasterizer, which is apparently a mess to untangle.

Posits aside, that page had one of the best, clearest explanations of how floating point works that I’ve ever read. The authors of my college textbooks could have learned a thing or two about clarity from this writer.

To (badly) paraphrase Pratchett, “A person is hanged, meat is hung. […] First he was hanged. Then he was hung.”

I’ll admit I laughed at “entreprettention whore”.

Cory Doctorow warned us about this!

Reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Burn Notice.

You mean to say, you’re having trouble finding it?

I remember an article several years ago about how dismissing an opponent’s argument without thinking about it gives the same dopamine hit that winning an extended argument does, but without requiring any effort. Being close minded literally feels good.

What I find infuriating is when I click a search result and it’s not what I wanted, so I hit back to try the next one and the search results have changed. And the second set is almost always worse.

What list are you using on your router? I’m using Steven Black’s list (which is just an amalgamation of a bunch of other lists) for my PiHole/uBlock filter list, and Firefox+uBlock Origin scored 99% (only failing the cosmetic static ad test).

he’s too smart for his own good.

Well, I have some good news about the effects of eating paint chips!