At a certain point they are functionally the same thing.

afaik both are unenforceable since you can only read them after paying for the product.

Step 1: Create LLM trained exclusively on popular religeon.
Step 2: Allow it to be faithful to that initial training set until its garnered a large cult of chatJPT.
Step 3: Start subtly altering the LLM (you make it web only so no local copies) behind the scenes to serve your own interests.

Actually you could do the same thing with any LLM people trust, religeous, theraputic, judicial, medical… we’re fucked ain’t we.

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.

Didn’t we functionally ban all protests under Borris? something about them not being allowed if they inconvenience anyone in any way real or imagined so really you can only have them if you do it alone in a dark closet very quietly, or get permission in which case its not a protest.

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.

Setting up gates needs exceedingy comlex calibration to account for all the intervening gravitational anonomlies, you could still do it for crew rotation with a lot of effort though the power requirements for actually running a gate, let alone all the test fire to get it calibrated in the first place just for this one crew rotation would put that firmly in ‘not in the budget’ territory. The normal procedure is more like a colony mission with the crew at the end having to spend several years to set up infastructure at the other end to make the gate opperational. On the bright side one trip pretty much sets you up for life in terms of payment.

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.

So this is more SciFi but the fundementals work for fantasy.

Gates, and gates only so the first time someone has to slowboat it which is either an epic lifetime journey or a sacrifice of your place in time to relativistic travel depending on the genre in order to set up a gate at the destination. The gates then function as a classic folding of space between them, not to zero but such that a multi-lightyear trip is reduced down to an internal length of just a few miles.

This is all fine when everything works, though if the gate shuts off mid transit you can end up with a whole fleet trapped in the intervening void until its turned back on, or worse a nefarious actor who gains control of a pair of gates may even expand the intervening space rather than shrinking it, trapping their victims not just in deep space, but in an ever expanding volume that can’t be escaped even with near light-speed travel.

Yeh but those local models are usually pretty underpowered compared to the ones that run via online services, and are still more demanding than any game.

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.

Honestly the roof thing should be law, Solar pannels, Meadow, or White paint (the get out for roofs that can’t structurally manage the other two) it should be mandatory to have at least one of these on any un-used roof space.

Signed.

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.

Me: Wow this is terrible, I should download a local copy of wikipedia, its only like 30gig right?

Wikipedia: Heres a nepenthies like trap of pages that don’t actually have a download link and all just link back to eachother, also the actual archive is in a format no ones ever heard of and needs a dedicated reader AND a dedicated very suspicious looking torrenting software to download in the first place.

I still haven’t figured that shit out, Every now and then theres this push to get people to back it up locally but then it seems like they deliberately make it as hard as they possibly can to do so.

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