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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
So is this "business" of yours creating "content" or shilling garbage then?
AIUI, most successful streamers' primary income is from sponsorships outside of Twitch (or any other platform), so if that stuff isn't allowed any more then they'll have to take a big pay cut by relying only on subscriptions and donations. Turns out playing video games isn't a lucrative career unless advertisers pay you to hock their shit
If what they describe as the changes were the actual changes, I think what they have is fair. I honestly don't know how people watch streams with all that ad shit on there.
Not only fair, I think it's that kind of change that is actually good for business, but at the same time nearly impossible to achieve by agreement. Because increasing the amount of advertising increases revenue, until that point where the viewers just leave the platform because it became unwatchable, at which point they'll not noticed someone has started producing videos with just tolerable amount of it again. Which is why the platform is trying to limit the amount of advertising to avoid that fate.
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@BernieTheBernie Thanks for the links. I think I got the gist of it.
I'm going to read about sorting networks now.
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That's a nice change. Normally the news is that I'm going to die soon and painfully.
*looks at other news*
Dammit, looks like I'm going to die soon and painfully, just not of old age.
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@cvi I’d rather die sooner than drink that piss.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
than drink that piss
Hey, no kink shaming. I'm a consenting adult so if I want to drink a Red Bull, I can drink a Red Bull. (I'll do it in the privacy of my own home, promise! Wouldn't want to be seen doing that in public. ).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
than drink that piss
Hey, no kink shaming. I'm a consenting adult so if I want to drink a Red Bull, I can drink a Red Bull. (I'll do it in the privacy of my own home, promise! Wouldn't want to be seen doing that in public. ).
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@Applied-Mediocrity What has happened to your beard?
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@BernieTheBernie had to eat it to stay alive.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie had to eat it to stay alive.
People who would sacrifice their beards for life deserve neither beards nor life.
ed: said by a beardless pick.
Shut up Ed
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One does not simply consume the face armour.
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@BernieTheBernie I think that's a picture of Bear Grylls, a 'survival expert' who is probably most famous for making survival shows that don't really have a survival aspect because someone has to feed and shelter the camera crew... but also because he has done segments on drinking piss to survive in the desert.
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GPU sag has been an issue for what, more than 10 goddamn years now? Ever since 2-slot cards were shat into existance. Eventually the piper had to be paid.
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@JBert Wouldn't that be a matter for the owner of the building? If he allows the vans to be parked there, then the neighbors' gripe is with him more than the owner of the vans. But he's not even mentioned in the article. Apparently, they went to the police and City Hall instead.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@JBert Wouldn't that be a matter for the owner of the building? If he allows the vans to be parked there, then the neighbors' gripe is with him more than the owner of the vans. But he's not even mentioned in the article. Apparently, they went to the police and City Hall instead.
The owner of the building may be the same person as the owner of the vehicles.
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@Carnage Could be, but it seems like that would be worth a mention in the article.
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Apple and Linux are looking better and better every day.
They have more money than God from office and windows. Why in fuck are they trying to alienate people by going the google route.
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@DogsB It will be Poor Clippy who has to view all those images, and then offer help... As if he did not get too much trauma from that special guy's laptop yet...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Apple and Linux are looking better and better every day.
They have more money than God from office and windows. Why in fuck are they trying to alienate people by going the google route.
Rape me harder, daddy.
No, seriously, when has mistreating customers ever affected anyone in this industry?
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Just read in an article in Nature about the use of Colorado river's waters:
The ‘lower basin’ states of California, Arizona and Nevada — the three that are farthest downstream as Colorado flows to the sea, with California the heaviest user of the river’s water — have agreed to conserve 3 million acre-feet (3.7 trillion litres) of water between now and 2026. That amount is enough to supply around 6 million households for a year.
3.7 (short) trillion litres makes some 3,700 million cubic meters. Means that a household uses some 600 cubic meters per year on avergae.
Is that much?
They are 'muricans after all.My yearly consumption is about 40 cubic meters per year. OK, I live alone, but do 'murican households typically have 15 people?
Or do they just change the water in their duck pond sized swimming pools daily?
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@BernieTheBernie Most of that goes to agriculture. Agriculture is by far the biggest water user in California (I'm not sure about the other states), and they're mostly politically untouchable, but household users get all the blame and conservation mandates.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Most of that goes to agriculture.
The article mentions that agriculture is the main user. But read the paragraph again: those 3 million acre feet are for 6 million households only.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
those 3 million acre feet are for 6 million households only.
No, it's an amount sufficient for 6 million households — or about 3 farms — but that doesn't necessarily mean it's being used by households.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
those 3 million acre feet are for 6 million households only.
No, it's an amount sufficient for 6 million households — or about 3 farms — but that doesn't necessarily mean it's being used by households.
We also would have accepted fire hydrant leakage for a year.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Just read in an article in Nature about the use of Colorado river's waters:
The ‘lower basin’ states of California, Arizona and Nevada — the three that are farthest downstream as Colorado flows to the sea, with California the heaviest user of the river’s water — have agreed to conserve 3 million acre-feet (3.7 trillion litres) of water between now and 2026. That amount is enough to supply around 6 million households for a year.
3.7 (short) trillion litres makes some 3,700 million cubic meters. Means that a household uses some 600 cubic meters per year on avergae.
Is that much?
They are 'muricans after all.My yearly consumption is about 40 cubic meters per year. OK, I live alone, but do 'murican households typically have 15 people?
Or do they just change the water in their duck pond sized swimming pools daily?
The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors.
Doing the math and using google to convert gallons to cubic meters, it comes out to a bit over 400 cubic meters per year.
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@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors.
Doing the math and using google to convert gallons to cubic meters, it comes out to a bit over 400 cubic meters per year.
Just looked at my last couple water bills - I'm averaging between 25 and 50 gal a day.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
Here they go again, the french giving the rest of us a bad reputation.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
90 minutes per day?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
I have a shower every 6 weeks (i.e. regularly!), even when I am not yet dirty!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Most of that goes to agriculture.
The article mentions that agriculture is the main user. But read the paragraph again: those 3 million acre feet are for 6 million households only.
Here in the desert, we were shown figures years ago that say the average is something like 125 gallons per household per day. Then someone noticed that "households" includes what they use to maintain golf courses. And that the golf courses can use groundwater, while actual households are presented with reclaimed wastewater.
So, blame Scotland?
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@boomzilla
I find it crazy that the per capita water usage in the southwest is 2-3x the Great Lakes region.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
I find it crazy that the per capita water usage in the southwest is 2-3x the Great Lakes region.Lawns need a lot of water. The Great Lakes region has a lot that comes from the skies. The southwest, not so much.
edit: Out of curiosity, I went back to find an old (2011) water bill (back when I had a lawn and not just dried out weeds). I was using about 450 gal/day then.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
I find it crazy that the per capita water usage in the southwest is 2-3x the Great Lakes region.It helps that water occasionally falls from the sky here. Sometimes it's pre-frozen for our convenience!
Edit: Ninjas again. I'll add that the ~3 months when the outside is frozen, the ~6 months when it's not warm enough to play in water, and the ~12 months where we have lakes and rivers just sitting around outside to enjoy all cut down on recreational usage.
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Article @DogsB linked in In other news today...:
One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.
Queue someone uploading terabytes of copyrighted static...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article @DogsB linked in In other news today...:
One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.
Queue someone uploading terabytes of copyrighted static...
Microsoft Edge has another AI-based feature called Video Super Resolution. It makes low-res videos sharper and less pixelated. However, it uses on-device processing powered by discrete graphics cards instead of sending the content to Microsoft.
So enhancing video can be done clientside, but images need to be sent to Somebody Else's Computer.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
90 minutes per day?
It's a very relaxing place.
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Today in reading the headlines:
'She would have died': Lost dog trapped in field for 36 hours saved by drone
The AI charm offensive has started.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
90 minutes per day?
It's a very relaxing place.
I do get most of my thinking done there.
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Oh great, I'm going to have Binary Suns stuck in my head for the next 5 minutes.
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From very expensive device with unclear purpose to less expensive (but still) device with unclear purpose:
256x256 per eye? Uh...
Full HD per eye kinda sucks even if you limit the FOV significantly. And they want to go down to 256^2. IIRC that's less than your average letter from the Discourse letter CDN...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Most of us shower regularly, unlike the stinky Europeans.
90 minutes per day?
It's a very relaxing place.
I do get most of my thinking done there.
This is very believable, and it explains much about your posting here.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
From very expensive device with unclear purpose to less expensive (but still) device with unclear purpose:
256x256 per eye? Uh...
Full HD per eye kinda sucks even if you limit the FOV significantly. And they want to go down to 256^2. IIRC that's less than your average letter from the Discourse letter CDN...
The glasses come with a remote (I wish my Kindle had a remote!) and a charger.
The author is a complete idiot. I have to move one finger approximately 0.5in to turn a page.
And the IoS thread is
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@dcon I didn't pay attention to the kindle comment. They wished for control via eye tracking. If you've ever tried using eye tracking to control anything, wishing for a remote for a kindle starts sounding like a reasonable idea.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
They wished for control via eye tracking. If you've ever tried using eye tracking to control anything
Further proof of my first statement.
(I haven't - but knowing how much I am constantly looking around/scanning, I can't imagine anything good coming from it. "War Games" comes to mind...)
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
90 minutes per day?
They've beel led to believe that water can make you shrink
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Lawns need a lot of water.
How else do you make hockey rings?