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Mellow Seas posted:Well the idea is that it's installed and running on a PC somewhere else and you have an low latency connection that's streaming the display of that PC to you. But yeah, for hardcore gamers we're probably a long way from that latency being low enough. For casual gaming it's pretty much all right on, say, a 100/100 but that kind of upload speed is very rare in this country. I doubt the upload speed is terribly important since all that's going to go in that direction is your controller inputs. The main issue is latency, which isn't directly related. It's one thing for a low-speed puzzle game or menu-based CRPG or whatever, but anything twitch-based and the lag becomes disruptive. A narrow upstream pipe should be fine for game streaming as long as latency is low in both directions. That's just challenging itself, particularly if you're physically distant from the data center that's actually running your game.
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Yeah I had a bit of a dementia moment there, now that it's mentioned I remember seeing some videos of people reviewing Nvidia's stream-game service, my bad folks 
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It's okay, I made the dumb IT mistake so we can be ignorance brothers 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That is a biography about Tucker written by someone else. When Tucker writes a book, I am sure that it will hit the right-wing welfare circuit and sell many copies. I think that actually reinforces Zoux's point. There is no audience out there clamoring for Tucker related material. When he (or another RW pundit) is not propped up by the conservative media complex, he disappears. Mellow Seas posted:I don't buy movies streaming very often but when I buy them on Apple or Amazon, I'm pretty confident that they'll always be accessible, as it's hard to imagine anything knocking either of those companies off their perch, but yeah, it's a little disconcerting that it's not a guarantee. I don't really see a difference for myself between buying a streaming movie or one on a disc. They're both going to require me to have further infrastructure. And if I have to buy a movie again because the streaming service it's on went out of business, I don't see that being so different from having to buy a movie again because my old VCR broke. Rappaport posted:I can't imagine how it'd be technically feasible to stream-game something as old as Doom 2016, let alone *gestures at popular AAA games with hundreds of gigs of installed content* You can stream brand new triple A games on XBox Live's cloud gaming service already.
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At last Mike Lindell has unveiled his 100% surefire election protection scheme that he's been hyping for weeks https://twitter.com/kelly_dereuck/status/1692238468682850478 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That is a biography about Tucker written by someone else. When Tucker writes a book, I am sure that it will hit the right-wing welfare circuit and sell many copies. This. Right wingers don’t read books. They purchase books to demonstrate loyalty. For a conservative book to take off, there must be massive prepublication purchases by right wing groups and think tanks to artificially boost it up the bestseller lists. Then the rank and file will automatically buy it, kind of like how they automatically put money in the collection plate. Then the books that the right wing groups bought in advance get returned, or given away as part of a membership deal. It’s the entire Regnery Press business model. Looks like Tucker’s biographer didn’t make the cut for the grift train.
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zoux posted:At last Mike Lindell has unveiled his 100% surefire election protection scheme that he's been hyping for weeks Renaming my Grandpa's wifi network to DIEBOLD-69
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Devor posted:Renaming my Grandpa's wifi network to DIEBOLD-69 SEND FRAUDULENT VOTES HERE
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Imagine how much bullshitting you'd have to do to make Tucker's life sound remotely interesting. Born with silver spoon in hand, went to Yale, married into ketchup wealth, is extremely racist. What a life!
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Professor Beetus posted:Imagine how much bullshitting you'd have to do to make Tucker's life sound remotely interesting. Born with silver spoon in hand, went to Yale, married into ketchup wealth, is extremely racist. What a life! Are you mixing him up with Kavanaugh? Tucker, with all his advantages, could only get into Trinity college, back when it took literally anyone who was able to pay full tuition. He’s similar to Trump, who had every advantage but could only get into Fordham, back when it literally took anyone who was able to pay full tuition. And the ketchup guy was John Kerry, right?
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Professor Beetus posted:Imagine how much bullshitting you'd have to do to make Tucker's life sound remotely interesting. Born with silver spoon in hand, went to Yale, married into ketchup wealth, is extremely racist. What a life! I mean, even Hitler had a homeless period, he was a decorated war veteran, and he shot Adolf Hitler! Come on Tuck-tuck, you gotta get some spice in your life buddy. I suppose getting brutally and thoroughly bodied by Jon Stewart in a live segment of one's own show that results in it being cancelled is sort of interesting? Dear SS, this is not an endorsement or encouragement to inflict any sort of violence on Bundeskanzlers, Presidents or other public figures
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Professor Beetus posted:Imagine how much bullshitting you'd have to do to make Tucker's life sound remotely interesting. Born with silver spoon in hand, went to Yale, married into ketchup wealth, is extremely racist. What a life! Tucker is the heir to the Swanson frozen dinner empire. John Kerry was poor*, but married the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. *(He grew up in a middle class military family, but he was a fairly wealthy former lawyer and current Senator when he married her. She was just 100,000x wealthier). It was written by a gay conservative and sounds amazingly tedious. The author fawns over Carlson being a "cool" new model for conservatives because he was comfortable enough around gay people to make gay jokes about them. Even if you were a Tucker fan, there isn't really anything of interest in the description or the 15-pages that they make available for preview. It's just completely inane and generic. quote:Tucker, the new biography by Chadwick Moore, is based on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with Carlson that lend insight into the former Fox megastar's formative relationship with his father, Dick Carlson. quote:Carlson describes his father as 'a wonderful, committed' parent, but someone who nurtured fierce independence in his children by putting them in what may seem to some like uncomfortable situations. quote:Though he was never much of a student, Carlson attended elite schools, where he was afforded the right connections and leveraged his powerful charisma and independent thinking into access with elite circles. quote:In college, through his father's connections with Voice of America - the US state-owned media outlet that he led for a while - he and his best friend Neil Patel spent two months in Central America during the Contra War. Right after college, Carlson and his new wife - who he'd met at prep school - landed a comfortable life in the upscale Washington, DC neighborhood of Georgetown, where he worked for a while before briefly moving to Arkansas. quote:After little-more than a year in Arkansas, the Carlsons headed back to DC, where Carlson had 'lobbied everyone he knew' for a job at the freshly launched The Weekly Magazine - a journal of conservative thought that housed many leading presidential advisers in the nineties and early two-thousands. quote:Reflecting on his upbringing and his father, Tucker says he interprets his childhood as 'a really positive thing.' Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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predicto posted:Are you mixing him up with Kavanaugh? Tucker, with all his advantages, could only get into Trinity college, back when it took literally anyone who was able to pay full tuition. Oh whoops not ketchup, hungry man dinners. I don't know which ghoul I confused him with re Yale but I think I might have confused him with a print media ghoul. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Tucker is the heir to the Swanson frozen dinner empire. John Kerry was poor, but married the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Some real "I enjoy laughing and movies and hanging out with friends" in a dating profile vibes from those snippets
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The alternative to physical media isn't streaming, it's digital files. Streaming throws a wrench into the works, but it's entirely possible to have a future without physical media where you still aren't locked into subscriptions and DRM. And in fact, that future has pretty much already arrived for music and a large chunk of gaming. Movies & TV are the last ones to the party because video files are big and have recently become even bigger (4K). Downloading those would probably kinda suck for a lot of people, and computer storage hasn't become quite cheap enough yet to comfortably store a whole bunch of movies & shows alongside everything else, so I'm not sure what the best solution is just yet. I'm not sure if USB drives & SD cards are as cost-effective as discs, but I wouldn't mind something like that becoming the new standard. Though an obvious obstacle would be how to write protect them.
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I'm finally reading the leaked DeSantis debate prep memo that was posted earlier and it is just sad. Even lower energy than Jeb and just stinks of "loser who is just praying Trump dies in the next 8 months." I can only imagine what his staff were advising that they rejected for looking too weak. It literally advises him to not mention any policy and only do two things: - Try to seem like a normal human being. - Try to convince people that he loves Trump more than anyone and that he will actually be a better Donald Trump than Donald Trump. quote:It's my orchestra pit theory of politics. You have two guys on stage and one guy says, I have a solution to the Middle East problem, and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news? quote:One thing you don't want to do is get your head up too far on some new vision for America because then the next thing that happens is the media runs over to the Republican side and says, "Tell me why you think this is an idiotic idea." quote:Take a sledge-hammer to Vivek Ramaswamy: "Fake Vivek" Or "Vivek the Fake" quote:Defend Trump when Chris Christie attacks him: "Trump isn't here so let's just leave him alone." quote:Attempt to seem genuine. Invoke a personal anecdote/story about family, kids, Casey, showing emotion. quote:Carrying the torch: "The country is a mess right now. I've been allover the country. I've been to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, crisscrossing this country meeting with voters and quote:Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXmRng3ZtcM&t=1s quote:There are four basic must- dos: Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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I’ve been finally going through boxes from childhood/adolescence/parents garage that have survived decades and had been hauled across state lines. The amount on physical media that I’d been lugging around was disheartening. Especially as I get older and the kids’ stuff becomes an issue, I just become increasingly down on physical media. Im holding onto a lot of books but the visual and audio medium stuff is becoming a tough proposition. Storing, curating, and (now that the disc-reading devices are becoming obsolete and are absent from the home) accessing & reading the media become an additional hurdle. Digital files probably the way to go, but that too will pose certain curating challenges. It just starts to feel like a chore and I really have consider “am I gonna watch this again? Do I still like this music?” And increasingly as I get older the answer is no. I’m ok with no longer owning media I have zero attachment or connection to.
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Somewhat related to the sad debate memo, basically every single person they interview for this story and every line they say is gold. I was bolding parts of it, but ended up bolding about 80% of the article. Every quote is so perfect that a team of history's greatest poets couldn't have written them if you gave them a thousand years. There's also a bonus Jeb anecdote that I wasn't aware of before. https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1692192525929386090 quote:After watching awkward videos of Ron DeSantis, Derek Guy had a horrifying realization. quote:In another video, from a party after the Iowa GOP’s Lincoln Dinner, DeSantis stands ramrod straight, taking gulps of beer and checking the time on his phone and telling potential voters that normally he would already be asleep. quote:But when Guy, the menswear writer, watched a video of DeSantis cycling through four different facial expressions in about three seconds during a news conference, he saw something even more disturbing. quote:Guy is not the only awkward American who has identified with DeSantis as he has emerged as the Awkward Candidate. quote:“It’s extremely relatable to me,” said Audrey Kamena, an incoming freshman to Yale University who said she once called her high school history teacher “Mom” and still thinks “about it every night before bed.” quote:Still, awkwardness is not the kind of relatability a politician necessarily wants. It’s safe to say the DeSantis campaign was hoping their man would be defined by attributes such as toughness or youth. quote:Before law school, Coll used to work as a recruiter for a health-care company, a job that often required him to try to “be normal” in front of potential clients. quote:If you’re “a DeSantis,” the campaign trail is no place to hide it. The never-ending rope line can test the skills of even the most socially adept politician, let alone somebody who doesn’t naturally light up a room. quote:A candidate — or at least a person — who embraces their awkwardness might be better off than one who doesn’t, according to Henna Pryor, author of the forthcoming book “Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become the Bravest You.” Pryor said that, when researching her book, she found studies that showed a “direct correlation” between expressing awkwardness and the perception that a person is “trustworthy, likable, more generous and, surprisingly, more confident.” quote:“It’s all part of what I consider a negative personality,” said Whitlock, the Never Trumper stay-at-home dad. “I can’t tell where the awkwardness that I relate to ends and the malicious figure begins.” quote:He is receiving plenty of ridicule. The rival Trump campaign — who reportedly paid a plane to fly a sign that read, “Be likable, Ron!”— and the campaign stumbles have become a running gag for the satirical newspaper the Onion, whose headlines include, “Poll Finds Ron DeSantis Candidate Voters Could Most Imagine Drinking Beer Alone.” quote:The Awkward Candidate label might prove hard to shed, once it sticks. This summer, DeSantis made headlines for the kind of slightly off-putting exchange that probably would have passed under the radar if not for his reputation for maladroit chitchat. While visiting a fair in Iowa, he asked a child what she was drinking. She told him it was an Icee.
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quote:He is receiving plenty of ridicule. The rival Trump campaign — who reportedly paid a plane to fly a sign that read, “Be likable, Ron!”— and the campaign stumbles have become a running I can't believe this entire article isn't the Onion.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'm finally reading the leaked DeSantis debate prep memo that was posted earlier and it is just sad. It's also bad advice in politics. You have articulate A VISION to have a shot at winning.
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Also vibe check, I followed Derek Guy months ago because he was low key hilarious and also I was upgrading my wardrobe. Is he blowing up now, since I'm seeing him in unrelated places, or is it just recognition bias?
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Morrow posted:Also vibe check, I followed Derek Guy months ago because he was low key hilarious and also I was upgrading my wardrobe. Is he blowing up now, since I'm seeing him in unrelated places, or is it just recognition bias? No, he’s definitely blown up since the I Called Your Tailor post
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Professor Beetus posted:Imagine how much bullshitting you'd have to do to make Tucker's life sound remotely interesting. Born with silver spoon in hand, went to Yale, married into ketchup wealth, is extremely racist. What a life! Unsurprisingly most right-wing media and political figures of the modern era are the most boring loving people imaginable.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'm finally reading the leaked DeSantis debate prep memo that was posted earlier and it is just sad. Republican virtue signaling. He's probably a better target than Tim Scott because Tim Scott seems very personable in small doses, as long as you don't start talking about policy. Ramaswamy is just an immediately obvious rear end in a top hat.
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Mellow Seas posted:lol - all the "go after Ramaswamy" stuff is literally just, "be mean to the brown guy, so people know you're racist," isn't it? Eh maybe but I think it's moreso that once you remove Trump as a target, Ramaswamy is the next highest polling candidate lol Rocking a whole 5%
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Yeah, none of the trumper base types like Tim Scott or Nikki Haley etc, but they do like RFK Jr. and Vivek, so going after Vivek makes sense.
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koolkal posted:Eh maybe but I think it's moreso that once you remove Trump as a target, Ramaswamy is the next highest polling candidate lol I guess it makes sense when the entire primary electorate loathes the mainstream media. If they want Scott to be the nominee maybe they should start trashing him.
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Mellow Seas posted:Oh wow, drat. The mainstream media has been trying so hard to make Haley or Scott happen. And that guy is beating them? Jeeeez. They’re all so low it’s hard to make any conclusions about where they actually are relative to each other. I wish we had more robust ranked choice polling so we knew where they’d stand if Trump dropped out, but that would probably make it even harder to get polling results from people.
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Grindr is destroying its workforce to - Union-Busting - Business majors and the jet set deciding that flexible work must be destroyed at all costs - Finding ways to conveniently weather a tech recession without paying unemployment or severance https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/business/grindr-rto-union.html quote:Quinn McGee learned last week that to keep their job as a product manager at Grindr, the gay dating app, they would have to move to California from New York by October under the company’s new return-to-office rules.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:They’re all so low it’s hard to make any conclusions about where they actually are relative to each other. I wish we had more robust ranked choice polling so we knew where they’d stand if Trump dropped out, but that would probably make it even harder to get polling results from people. The leaked debate prep info also has leaked internal polling and other data analytics. According to the their internal polling, DeSantis is getting destroyed in Iowa, but in NH it is: Trump: 38 DeSantis: 16 Vivek: 11 Since DeSantis has sworn off attacking Trump, trying to knock down Vivek and get those 11% who are already not on the Trump train makes sense. Someone asked all the Republican candidates (except Trump, who isn't appearing in public) what they think the top 3 issues for young voters are: quote:Mike Pence Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Ah yes, infamously cheap places to rent office space in = checks notes = Chicago, LA, or the Bay area. Like, drat, I'm not a computer toucher, but except for those workers that are doing stuff like physical server maintence I don't see why a dating app needs anyone to show up in person. Doesn't productivity go *up* when you work remote anyway? So even from a purely profit motive perspective it makes more sense because you get more bang for your buck on saleries AND you don't have to either rent or own offices. But, no, you gotta make workers miserable for an ego power trip. =/ EDIT: And, yes, in this specific case legal union busting.
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Twincityhacker posted:Ah yes, infamously cheap places to rent office space in = checks notes = Chicago, LA, or the Bay area. Usually it's that the company already has office space and is tired of seeing the space empty. They're already paying rent on that space, and for one reason or another they can't just end the leases entirely and give up their physical presence altogether, so they want to see that space used. Besides, in-person work is easier for managers to manage. There doesn't seem to be any real consensus on the productivity impact of remote work. Some studies say it increases productivity, some say it decreases it. It's hardly clear-cut. What does seem to be the consensus is that workers tend to think WFH increases their efficiency, while managers tend to think WFH decreases productivity.
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