Art station, Instagram and deviantart are all selling data or doing iffy AI stuff as far as I can tell.
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They wouldn't though, even if 5% of their missiles/nukes work, millions would die.
thats a hell of a risk to take though, and he knows no-one can take it
For PC, get a usbC pcie card. Lots of choice there. Possible issues with GPU clearance/ heat though.
That's when Google's browser DRM thing starts sounding like a good idea 😭
but with all of the cloud resources now, you can switch through IP addresses without any trouble. hell, you could just browse by IP6 and not even worry with how cheap those are!
He gets it right everywhere else, no idea why he gets it wrong there
its in the syndicate side story - when they are doing their (first?) expedition outside of their home system (Midway?) they react to a reaction before the light of what they are reacting to arrives - or something like that.
I didn't see Pratchett on the list, even if you have been through the Diskworld before, the re-reads often reveal things you missed.
I'm not as well read as you, so have no idea if that actually matches your taste.
Another (older though) lesser known series is the Dragonriders of Pern. Great if you like to follow a lot of characters (in their own mini series) that interact over an 80 year main series. Starts as fantasy, becomes sci-fi (With dragons!)
They are made/broken by if you like how he describes space battles though. A number of people I have suggested them to hated them, while others liked it.
There is also at least one place where he breaks the in universe rules of physics that really annoys me. (Information travelled in system faster than light)
EF can have big problems with "Cartesian explosions" if an object has two lists of sub objects to return, it will get listA length x listB length items due to how the joins work. You can see how this leads to the explosion part of the name (with more objects or lists).
Their solution is a "split query" option, that does each sub table as a separate query, then seamlessly gives you the combined result.
If a change like this let's you get those different table lists as distinct lists with the processing and round trip time of multiple requests then it could be a game changer.
(Source - my last week 🤣😭 + lots of EF docs)
Artstation doesn't let you filter out AI art, so there will be AI art alongside human art. There was also some issues about if artstation is allowing AI to be trained on what you upload.
Deviantart had a similar issue, and now have an AI art generator on their site.
Instagram is obviously selling all the data they can about what you do/upload, training AI on it etc.