They went and built the torment nexus…

They can’t not use it!

That’s not how that works though…

Fuck the mods

First off, to be clear, I don’t agree with this statement, I think it’s the wrong stance.

But after that, I think this is a really an interesting point. [In general I understand a policy of not inciting violence] but if for instance, (purely hypothetically) the country were to fall into civil war (a crazy suggestion I know), wouldn’t this policy instantly seem inappropriate?

I mean, encouraging people to join the war effort would be a matter of course, to quash that sentiment and silence those voices seems unethical.

As we slip closer to that possible outcome, surely the time for seriously talking about violence would come before the first shot is fired, right? So where do you draw that line? At what point is a statement which incites violence “violating site rules” and at what point is it “legitimate discussion of impending hostilities”.

And I for one, am very interested in how mods feel about this question.

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They took the wrong one…

Exactly… For Halo 2 and TF2, even if this rig were running at 50% efficiency it could do 200 fps at max settings.

Oh I see. So you’re telling me a military bought overpriced hardware… We should alert the media.

Hey, I have no doubt that these are overpriced poorly cooled boxes, Alienware has always been more form than function. But on the other hand, it’s a single vendor and they can just send a machine back if it acts up. I’m betting they don’t want their IT people dumping time and effort into custom builds, so having a single vendor is likely the much preferred option.

And I wasn’t wrong before, the specs are fine, they’ll play basically anything. With suboptimal cooling the fans will be loud, but there’s a good chance that won’t even matter on an aircraft carrier.

oof, a gut punch if I’ve ever seen one

GTX 4080 and i7s, what can you still even run in that shit, right? Oh, they’re still top tier parts and will run anything you throw at them?

Yeah, real gut punch, they must be pissed.

I did say that, because this isn’t a pie chart situation, it’s a Venn diagram situation.

For instance, AI art is 99% theft and 60% garbage. It’s both because there’s overlap.

Stolen and bad aren’t opposites, why would this be a dichotomy?

Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band? There’s tons of shit out there!

Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.

And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).

All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).

AI artworks 1/3rd shite and 2/3rds theft.

To be fair, that could be said of most art.

Fair enough

So… Ted voted against his own bill?

Really you don’t want hackers using your random Internet appliance as a point of attack to access your whole network.

More IoT devices means a greater attack surface. And it’s an appliance you don’t actually want to spend time thinking about. You don’t want to waste time troubleshooting network issues with your dehumidifier… It just needs to work, or you use a different one.

Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who generally buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. ICE puts them in a really tough position.

That’s not him. Where’s the signature paunch?

There could be money involved…

I’m really happy to see a lot of the films on that list. I’m thrilled that Her and Adaptation made the cut. Eternal sunshine is in the top 10, right where it belongs. I’m pleasantly surprised that children of men made the cut, (I liked it a lot, but I didn’t think it was groundbreaking or anything). Also great to see the dark knight made the list, it’s easy to lump all superhero films together, but it really wasn’t just another superhero film.

I’m also not at all surprised to see There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the top ten. But I have to be honest, I know they’re critically acclaimed and much loved, but I just didn’t like either of them. They were both grim and gritty, and that’s part of the point I guess, but it made the films so unpleasant to watch. And with no country for old men, I truly never understood what the film was trying to say.

You can’t tweet without a computer. It may be a mobile one, but even that is a computer. This is a stupid claim which could only fool an idiot.

So depending on the judge, we’ll just see what happens…

What types of data does the US sell to advertisers?

Types you haven’t even thought of. Every type of data is sold, and then derivatives of data are sold. Directly collected data, inferred data, guesses, it’s all packaged up.

You seem really invested in making sure Teslas are off the road, but not at all interested in regulation that would keep all dangerous autonomous vehicles off the road. So… do you work for BMW, or Waymo?