superxpro12

UT instagib for me

Any time a strongman chooses some inherent immutable characteristic to justify their superiority, its usually because they are inherently inferior in almost every other way including politically and morally.

They have no other way to justify their power, so they pick something that is an inherent body characteristic instead. It's literally no different than saying "well i have a bigger dick than you, so shut up". It's the same.... f'ing... thing...

And the net result of all of this will be a weaker nation that descends into fascism and oligarchy.

Yeah DUH. its a trojan horse to eliminate any privacy in the populace, except for the government and elites, of course. They get privacy. You dont. How else are they going to maintain control over the populace?

It's more like watching two nations develop nuclear weapons while you're sitting in the testing area :\

"neither party is willing to stop it"??? Oh please eff all the way off with this "both sides" crap.... one party is POWERLESS to stop it, the party in power is willingly complicit in the shift towards fascism. There's a MASSIVE difference. Implying the Democrats are somehow willingly allowing this is almost propagandist.

I thought arduino was on everyone's shit lists for trying to go closed source? Did that change?

I really have a hard time accepting software patents. Like amazon patenting the one click to buy shopping cart for example. Crazy Taxi patented a directional arrow... The infamous "nemesis" patent for shadow of mordor.

IDK.... its all bits and bytes. This seems to stifle innovation more than anything imo.

This kind of leaves out the biggest question imo which is that of quality.

Usually, dupe's sacrifice quality for price. The fact that a market exists for this at all indicates a strong consumer acceptance of lower quality items.

I do wonder, if the "premium" option were to never exist, would these "dupes" even exist in the first place as they seem to enjoy an "implied" quality that the premium option pays for, whilst cannibalizing sales.

That seems less an indictment of economies of scale, and more an indictment of british colonialism

That sounds more like a local airport kinda thing. I'm sure any kind of bush airport this is no problem. But not one of the busiest federal airports... thats just an entirely different scenario.

The infamous "it fell in-between the seat and the console" problem.

These happen constantly. It's always important to close the loop on these and make sure someone is assigned to it directly, not left to indirectly assume.

I feel like we're all forgetting the most obvious root cause... "aliens"

Because when i have to build the 12th throwaway gui for some thing at work... i just want to get past it and onto the fun stuff.

when pixels matter....

i was getting kind of annoyed by all the gender-ism in the first 30 pages... only naked women... this re-balances the equation and i am disarming myself of my pitchfork.

It's because they try to market the power density claims. So they're smaller, which compromises the cooling, which makes them run hotter.

Micro usb was by far the worst cable I've ever had to use. USB-C reliability seems to be improved on top of that, despite having.... 15 more pins?

on 0401 5k resistor is fractions of a penny. its just silly at this point. My belief is that they all used some crappy reference schematic which omitted it once upon a time, and that's proliferated amongst all the cheapo designs.

Im curious how they got the digital version of Jaws to play on a computer in... 1992?

Do you want privacy, or do you want back doors into everything?

Usually, the backdoor on apply to "regular" citizens, while the governments and military get exemptions from it.

If the balance of power wasnt so asymmetrical I would be inclined to emphasize with the position that E2EE is a bit of an over-correction. We would be remiss to ignore the practical concerns about nefarious actors using it to organize.

HOWEVER, we would ALSO be remiss to ignore the imbalance of power it would cause if ONLY the governments are privy to secrecy...

For the last 20 or so years now, Patriotism has been hijacked to mean: "beneficial to an oligarch".

It's been a long time since patriotism didnt mean either racist conservative, or capitalist bully.

Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did.

It's no surprise that conservative billionaires went on a massive left-leaning media buying spree... Washington Post, Twitter, CNN, etc etc etc.

This is atomfall, is it not?

Classic whataboutism and both sides are the same in a single sentence? wow thats a new record!

Trump's pardons far exceed what Biden did in terms of scope and corruption. Trump's literally collecting bribes for pardons. There has been multiple confirmed, documented cases of someone donating to his reelection fund or buying trump coins, and then receiving a pardon in short order.

This is blatant misrepresentation to try and justify the unprecedented corruption by the current administration. He will be documented as the most corrupt president ever, even surpassing U.S.Grant for the title.

The automated programming fixture/conversion was pretty sweet, im not gonna lie about that.

One does wonder how many bots were involved in the flaming

The recent Hell Let Loose: Vietnam beta was a disaster. Particularly the networking. In a game that prioritizes long range engagements due to its mil-sim like gameplay, they somehow left enabled a feature that de-prioritized tick updates for elements beyond 100m. The overall effect was that, for all enemies further than 100m, their tick rate dropped to 1 update /s. It was laughable.

But for what its worth, the graphics were nice. This however, was on a 4090.

I can pick out a creation engine game from a mile away. Engine "Grain" is a real phenomenon. Same for UE5. There's just something about the lighting and the FPS 'feel' that is a dead giveaway.

End of a software juggernaut. ID Software engines were always top class.

I often wonder in times like this if John Carmack and Co. feel any guilt or remorse for selling to Zenimax (Who then sold to MS)?

By all accounts they had a self-sustaining business. And now it's gone by corporate decree.

Regulations... in THIS economy and administration????