cyd

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[–] cyd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's wild how CBU3 dumped FF14 design straight into FF16 and decided it was good enough. MMO gameplay makes a lot of design compromises to accommodate for the multiplayer shared-state world, network latency, etc. None of which make sense for a single player offline experience.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Funny thing is, TSMC in Taiwan is considered a premium employer. It offers much better pay and parks than other companies.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (25 children)

People are quick to blame Google for the slow uptake of Jpeg XL, but I don't think that can be the whole story. Lots of other vendors, including non-commercial free software projects, have also been slow to support it. Gimp for example still only supports it via a plugin.

But if it's not just a matter of Google being assholes, what's the actual issue with Jpeg XL uptake? No clue, does anyone know?

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Decent affordable Bandai kits when...

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Whelp... Biden was insistent on running, now the Monkey's Paw has answered. All the other plausible Dems who could have stepped in to replace Biden will be running for the hills, and being the Democratic nominee is gonna be the worst job in politics for the next four months. And at the end of the campaign he gets to be remembered by history as the loser in the worst landslide election since Reagan-Carter.

Also:

  • Sonia Sotomayor's decision not to retire during Biden's term is looking like yet another D own goal. Very real prospects for a 7-2 Supreme Court.

  • We're going to be seeing an orgy of foreign governments jockeying to cultivate relations with Trump. Official US foreign policy is going to be dead in the water, and NATO and G7 will be leaderless, until next year.

  • Trump is going to have an iron grip on the Republican party now, to an even greater extent than before. On various issues where other Republicans held positions contrary to Trump's, they're going to be brushed aside.

  • For the above two reasons, Ukraine is pretty well fucked.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

If this passes, this would have the perverse effect of making China (and maybe to a lesser extent the Middle East) the leading suppliers of open source / open weight AI models...

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Just Google for Mihoyo and Energy Singularity. They invested $65M back in 2022.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Just Google for Mihoyo and Energy Singularity. They invested $65M back in 2022.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 83 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is the one that's partly funded by Mihoyo, using the absurd amounts of money they made with Genshin Impact.

The power of the anime waifu, in the palm of your hand...

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's nothing to do with stopping pedos. The people pushing this year-in and year-out don't care THAT much about pedos. It's not a cause that's motivating enough for them to be putting in so much effort, trying to sneak in legislation after being repeatedly rebuffed.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did the car get successfully recharged though?

[–] cyd@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago

Loyalty pledges are kabuki theatre. There's no point talking about them, since the state has plenty of degrees of freedom to force citizens to do what they want, with or without them. And not just the Chinese state; the US just outright decided one day that no US citizen will be allowed to work in the Chinese semiconductor industry, as though citizens are property of the government -- they didn't need no signed loyalty pledges to enforce that.

 

These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

 

Physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues have twice claimed to make a room-temperature superconductor. But many researchers question the evidence.

 

In this preprint, the authors synthesize samples based on the claimed room temperature superconductor LK-99, and observe half-levitation similar to that seen in other recent videos, which has been ascribed to the Meissner Effect (a signature of superconductivity).

However, they performed a careful magnetization measurement and found that the sample is ferromagnetic. They also did a resistance measurement on a larger sample, and found that the majority of the material is a semiconductor. This points to a simpler explanation for the half-levitation phenomenon: it is a consequence of ferromagnetism (+ mechanical effects due to friction and sample shape), rather than the Meissner Effect.

Unless someone can demonstrate full levitation or better resistivity data for LK-99, this is arguably fatal for the claims of room temperature superconductivity.

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