At a certain point they are functionally the same thing.

But by replacing the water part of the milk with milk you’ve replaced some of that water with water which isn’t replacing it with milk, and if you keep going you’ve replaced all water with butter which is not milk.

Got my 9070XT at retail (well retail + VAT but thats retail for my country) and my entire PC costs less than a 5090.

I think DLSS (and FSR and so on) are great value propositions but they become a problem when developers use them as a crutch. At the very least your game should not need them at all to run on high end hardware on max settings. With them then being options for people on lower end hardware to either lower settings or combine higher settings with upscaling. When they become mandatory they stop being a value proposition since the benefit stops being a benefit and starts just being neccesary for baseline performance.

iirc Europe was already the majority supplier of arms at this point but the US is/was vital in a few key areas where Europe just doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity yet (They’re working on it but it takes time to build a whole new MIC)

Visual proofs can be deceptive, e.g. the infinite chocolate bar.

He’s gonna die, calling it now he’s gonna have a tragic accident or sudden ‘suicide’.

A bunch of religous people who were welcomed into multiple countries but then got mad that everyone around them didn’t belive in their exact same religon they did so they found a new place and committed some genocide before building up a mythology about how they had to do it in order to flee religious persecution?

Our PMs have been US lapdogs for longer than I’ve been alive; with a similar both sides issue where all the cunts come from the exact same private schools and social circles.

Except here in the UK where everything is old and the only option is to spend more money than the entire EU continent wide rail linkup project (Twice over I think now?) on 30 miles of track.

You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.

I think people would find new ways to struggle that they actually enjoy and would likely end up contributing. Imagine a couple of thousand people with their new modest but stress free budgets decide to join a yearly potato cannon contest, Sure its not going to invent anything new directly but you now have a bunch of people learning about ballistics and stoichiometry and high pressure engineering all egging eachother on to shoot that potato further. The competition gets more and more fierce and with the much lower stakes people start trying some more out there ideas, before you know it you have a modest but highly effective solution to reliably obtaining the correct gas mixture for something like a combined light gas gun.

And that’s a deliberately silly example, you’d get a ton more art, people deciding to be athletes, coders, all sorts of hobies that can encourage healthy competition and often benefit society in surprising ways.

So is there a way to fill my social media with endless markov chains without:

• Spamming other users.
• Just sticking them all in some dedicated channel that would allow them to be easily filtered out.

To be fair thats what happens when essays have minnimum word counts, long essays that are long because they don’t know the topic well and long essays that are passionate and succinct and then padded out to meet the length requirement.

AI might be overkill? I recall back in the day people working out which images where manipulated by the way the underlying flow of colour and pixel layout didn’t line up, each image ends up with a kind of grain of different size and direction. You could spot ads by detecting which image data doesn’t line up with the majority and cutting it out that way.

I’ve been wondering about that, also perhaps a browser where your mouse position has seperate client and software side states? I know a lot of data can be gleaned from mouse movements so if the browser only updated its internal cursor position when you actually clicked that would potentially cut out that source of information?

Doesn’t Iran have the regime the US (actually it might be the UK this time?) forced upon it?

Here in the UK its been pretty one sided talking about how Israel has a right to defend itself mostly talking around the fact that Israel shot first.

Honestly no but if I lived in a country or bloc without nukes myself I’d want my government to get them because its the only way to not get randomly regime changed whenever the US, UK or Russia feels like it. Totally understandable why they would want them.

The Iranian regime is fucking awful, the Israeli one is just even more awful such that Iran still seem like the good guys in comparison. Its like two assholes fighting, they’re both assholes but one clearly started it.