I remember playing this in the early 90s from a shareware cd, but even then I didn’t really think much of it. Compared to platformers on consoles, even older ones from the NES, it just seemed like it wasn’t on the same level somehow. A lot of that might have to do with the horrible experience of trying to play it on a keyboard, though.

Cast iron pans are fucking heavy. As soon as I tried picking one up, I knew I don’t want to cook with that on a regular basis.

I have gone through several non stick pans and they all suck because they will wear out relatively quickly. Eventually things will start to stick, and then you are in trouble because you have to treat them gently to avoid scraping off the nonstick coating, so you end up in a catch 22 situation where you can’t actually scrub stuff off without making it worse.

I switched to a stainless steel pan about a year ago and I love it. The weight is somewhere in between cast iron and most nonstick pans. I’ve never had anything get horribly stuck to it, and it’s not difficult to clean because you can use abrasive sponges or whatever without damaging it.

NPR reviews games now?

Yet another reason to be skeptical of reviews is that they are heavily weighed towards first impressions. So if someone gets a product and it works great, they might go and immediately leave a glowing review for it. But if it breaks 6 months later due to poor manufacturing quality, a lot of people aren’t going to go back and update their review.

Run local models.

Several years back I got totally fed up with cvs and Walgreens. It was impossible to get ahold of anyone on the phone, and they were always backed up in the store because of lack of employees. It was a huge hassle because I take care of my grandparents prescriptions, and there are like 15 medications per month.

Switched over to a local pharmacy. Every time I go in, they have tons of friendly employees working, I’ve never had to wait more than a couple minutes to be helped, and I call and someone answers the phone within seconds most of the time. And the prices are about the same.

I started with Rufus as well, but then I just uninstalled things directly through Windows and went through the settings to disable everything I didn’t want. Probably safer than using 3rd party applications to remove things. I also use Openshell to replace the start menu. If you change the time and currency settings during install, that apparently disabled some things as well. See here And if you don’t want to set up a Microsoft account, just stay disconnected from Internet during install, it will let you just set up a local account.

I love making air fried chick peas. I usually put lemon pepper seasoning on them, just because I have a lot of it that I need to use, but it tastes great.

I feel like the deployment shouldn’t be too difficult. I have the game Street Fighter 6 on steam, and there is an option in the steam menu for whether to download single player content or not. If you disable it, you can save about 20gb, and of course it is enabled by default. I feel like the exact same process could be used for the high end texture packs. Most users would just download everything by default, but if you are someone who cares about your disk space, you could just easily disable it. It would just be on the devs to implement it.

My understanding is that the vast majority of space is dedicated to high resolution textures. I don’t have a 4k monitor and I don’t need ultra high fidelity textures. Why can’t they just be an additional download rather than a required part?

I think 50gb is a fairly reasonable max size for most games.

Well, it took them long enough. The container has been around for over 20 years now.

You never know what the future holds. Much better to work now while you are in a good position to do so, than to be forced to work later on, when you have been out of the workforce for years.

Most people don’t love their job.

Maruchan for sure

That would depend entirely on WHAT its doing. I have not personally seen any of these videos yet, but based on what was described in the article, I would imagine that a typical CPU would not be able to handle it.

You are right that nvidia cards can do it for games using DLSS. Nvidia also has a version called RTX video that works for video. But are they could to be dedicating hardware for playback every single time a user requests to play a short? That is significantly different than just serving a file to the viewer. If they had all of these Nvidia cards laying around, they surely have better things that they could use them for. To be clear here, the ONLY thing I am taking issue with is a comment that it seems that youtube may be upscaling videos on the fly (as opposed to upscaling them once when they are uploaded, and then serving that file 1 million times). I’m simply saying that it makes a hell of a lot more sense any day of the week to upscale a file one time than to upscale it 1 million times.

While it could theoretically be done on device, it would require the device to have dedicated hardware that is capable of doing the processing, so it would only work on a limited number of devices. It would be pretty easy to test this if a known modified video were available.

They could do that without upscaling. Upscaling every video only fly would cost an absolute shit ton of money, probably more than they would be making from the ad. There is no scenario where they wouldn’t just upscale it one time and store it.

It would not make any sense for them to be upscaled on the fly. It’s a computationally intensive operation, and storage space is cheap. Is there any evidence of it being done on the fly?

I don’t remember if it was 2nd or 3rd grade, but I just memorized them. My grandmother bought flash cards and drilled them with me every day until I had memorized them all.