I’ve probably been subscribing to Netflix for a decade now, but this is the largest price increase they have ever done on the basic plan, and this is the first time I have seriously started to consider cancelling.
I need to go through my list and figure out what I really want to watch, and then just binge it. (I have never binge watched anything, but this is giving me an actual incentive to)
It sounds like it will be a fun game, but I worry about replay value. When I was a kid, I played the heck out of all the Mario games. It was often out of necessity because it just took so much time to learn all of the courses to be able to progress. When I was older and the NSMB series came around, not only did they just feel kind of basic and lacking in new ideas, but I was able to complete most courses on the first try, and then never have much incentive to go back. The 3ds game was probably my favorite of those, actually, because the coin collecting mechanic actually gave a reason to keep playing.
I guess we will just have to see how this one works out.
But the bigger question is, how will this be abbreviated? SMW is already taken!
Examples: diablo 4 on blizzard client will let you play it before the full game is installed. The ps5 also let’s you do this when installing a new game. But I’ve never seen this option on steam games.
I’ve already been using the fakespot extension for a few years, and honestly, it feels pretty useless. I’ve seen it give A and B scores for products that I know have fake reviews. And on Amazon or Walmart and similar sites, we already know that the reviews are bullshit, so what difference does it really make for it to tell me that? It’s not like I have any better option in most cases.
Walmart (Canada) has started offering subscriptions for “free” shipping for under $10 a month. The cost of gas to go there a few times a month would be more than the subscription fee....
In Star Wars Rebels, there was an E-XD-series infiltrator droid that could quickly take inventory of everything in a Rebel warehouse. With the advanced object recognition capabilities of modern AI, it’s only a matter of time before an app for Android can accurately and rapidly identify and store objects in real-time from video...
There is an app called Object Detector which does this. It’s not particularly accurate and can’t recognize a lot of objects though. It does run on phones in realtime though.
First time poster! Outside of my retirement account provided by work, I’m just beginning to get brave enough to move other money around. I’m very late to the game and pretty scared of gambles....
Personally, I would find it annoying to frequently set up new accounts just to chase small percentage gains. I set up an account with ally and plan to just stick with them. Rates are good, not necessarily the best though. I’m not particularly advocating for them, just saying that’s where I am at the moment. I’ve not heard of ufb, but they might be good too. Also look at other options like CDs. They are less flexible than a savings account but can usually give you a little more interest (though the rate you say you are getting at ufb looks similar or higher than the best cd rates I’ve seen.)
Rates are pretty nice right now, but they probably won’t stay like this forever. Adding into your retirement account (invested in a target date fund or an index fund) is probably best long term, assuming you don’t need the money now.
So here are my win statistics in F-Zero 99. The vast majority is with the Blue Falcon (the other cars should contribute less than 10 wins together)....
Insightful post into fzero as always! I’ve definitely noticed that it does feel more and more difficult to place well as time goes on and the game becomes more populated with seasoned players. I’m currently A+ rank and have yet to get a win. I only play a few races per day usually, though. I got 2nd place in a grand prix yesterday, so maybe I’m not too far off from a win.
I started out playing as Blue Falcon, but I’ve switched to the wild goose, as it just feels easier to do well with it. I think the nature of the game having so many players, it’s beneficial to be able to freely attack them without much consequence. Especially in the Grand Prix, getting early KOs feels like a huge advantage.
I recently moved to the USA, from the middle east. My English is pretty good, and I don’t have a lot of trouble communicating with people at work or in stores. I also don’t know anyone here at all, outside of work. All my family is still back in Gaza, and I’ve been here over a year now, and still feel cut off from American...
A few years ago, a new guy started at my workplace and was assigned to sit next to me. From the first day, he just acted like we were already friends. Constantly talking to me and asking me about myself and telling me about himself. Eating lunch with me. Asking me to go for a short walk together or something during break times. We ended up becoming friends because he made it so easy. I’ve never really been able to do that.
There are lots of powerful tools, such as pytorch, which take a lot of the complexity out of creating neural networks. A lot of people are studying this stuff in college now, so tons of young graduates are coming out of school each year with the ability to create these networks. There is also lots of open source code out there where someone has done all the hard work, and you can just train new models on top of it. Not everything needs to be ChatGPT, a lot of kinds of models can be trained relatively quickly and with little resources.
Ask me stuff. I’m 1400MR and there’s a ton of other stuff I intentionally left out because I wanted to put in the absolute minimum to keep any part of this from being overwhelming/bloated.
I play with modern controls, and I like how Manon plays, but I feel like she is kind of gimped because certain special moves are not accessible when using modern controls, and for seemingly no reason. Do you think Manon is still feasible with modern controls?
I’m kind of mixed on this, because I think AI art is pretty cool, but I also hate our current copyright system. I kind of agree with the copyright office that images generated by a prompt should not be covered by copyright. What if I just type in “cat” and set the seed to 1, and try to copyright that? What if I copyright the image for EVERY seed with that prompt? Literally anyone else could easily generate the exact same image, and are they going to be in violation of my copyright now?
It gets really complicated though. What if I draw a sketch and then feed it into stable diffusion to flesh it out further? Then I do extensive inpainting across the whole thing, then I take it to Photoshop and do further edits. At this point, I think it’s fair to say this is an original image of my own creation, which should be eligible for copyright protection.
No specific person’s art is being put into my generated image, unlike if I were to copy an image from Google. If a model is trained on 1 trillion images, then every single one of those images influenced the weights in the model which then resulted in the output.
But my argument there is that when the generation becomes very integrated into the workflow as a tool, then it can be nearly impossible to separate out what was actually created by me vs what the ai did.
Mute City and Big Blue both feel challenging to me. I tend to do much better on all the other tracks. I think it’s more to do with the fact that these tracks are the most commonly selected and also the easiest, so most of the other players are able to do pretty decently, and everyone ends up bunched up together.
If it’s just for cooling, wouldn’t they just be able to pull water directly from a lake and then return the same water into the lake? Why is any consumption happening?
Well, building on that question, why do they need a constant supply of clean water? My desktop PC has a water cooler, and it just recirculates the same water.
Me and my wife are in our 40s, and currently in good health. I get insurance through work, but it’s a high deductible plan. I have enough in my health savings account to cover the out of pocket maximum for a few years....
Is this thing just broken, or what? They locked 3 achievements behind the mode, but I almost never see any tournaments being held. I saw one a while back but it was at some ungodly hour in my timezone, so I couldn’t participate. Then they held another one today which I thought I would be able to play. I went into the battlehub...
So I’m starting to figure out a bit more about these things. Looks like they have just started actually holding them, and it seems they will be held several times per week. They have a schedule on the website here: www.streetfighter.com/6/buckler/event/schedule
But, the dates and times on the website are all fucking wrong. (Even when I manually set the time zone at the top of the page, they are wrong)
Anyways, once off you see a tournament coming up, you can look in game in the battle hub event counter to see the actual date and time, but you can’t register until shortly before it starts. But don’t wait TOO long or the spots will all fill up, or it might tell you that it’s too late to register.
Then once you go to register, you have to pay attention to which server you are registering on. Because when the time comes, it’s not enough to just be in the battle hub, you have to make sure that you are on the specific server that you signed up for. And then, presumably, you should be able to play in the tournament (I still haven’t successfully joined one yet).
Here comes another Netflix price hike (www.theverge.com)
Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan....
Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Review (and HYPE!) MegaThread
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is coming out on 20th October....
Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible?
Examples: diablo 4 on blizzard client will let you play it before the full game is installed. The ps5 also let’s you do this when installing a new game. But I’ve never seen this option on steam games.
JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going (cloudinary.com)
Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
Grocery store subscriptions for "free" shipping. Do you guys use them?
Walmart (Canada) has started offering subscriptions for “free” shipping for under $10 a month. The cost of gas to go there a few times a month would be more than the subscription fee....
When do you think there will be an Android app that could accurately perform real time object recognition?
In Star Wars Rebels, there was an E-XD-series infiltrator droid that could quickly take inventory of everything in a Rebel warehouse. With the advanced object recognition capabilities of modern AI, it’s only a matter of time before an app for Android can accurately and rapidly identify and store objects in real-time from video...
Standard Savings Account: Moving money around?
First time poster! Outside of my retirement account provided by work, I’m just beginning to get brave enough to move other money around. I’m very late to the game and pretty scared of gambles....
A little bit of statistics in FZero99
So here are my win statistics in F-Zero 99. The vast majority is with the Blue Falcon (the other cars should contribute less than 10 wins together)....
New to America USA, how do you socialize and meet new people?
I recently moved to the USA, from the middle east. My English is pretty good, and I don’t have a lot of trouble communicating with people at work or in stores. I also don’t know anyone here at all, outside of work. All my family is still back in Gaza, and I’ve been here over a year now, and still feel cut off from American...
Do AI startups build their own AI or something else?
I see a lot of companies with fresh faced 25 year olds that are running all kinds of AI stuff. Everything from NPT, Vision, organization tools....
An Extremely Basic League-By-League Manon Guide (www.youtube.com)
Ask me stuff. I’m 1400MR and there’s a ton of other stuff I intentionally left out because I wanted to put in the absolute minimum to keep any part of this from being overwhelming/bloated.
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)
[Hollywood Reporter] WWE SmackDown Leaving Fox for USA Network in 2024 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The article also mentions that Raw is still on the market (so USA might get Smackdown but lose Raw) and that there will be four annual specials on NBC
A small analysis of F-Zero 99
So this is a short analysis of the tracks and cars in F-Zero 99, especially under the impression of the original game....
Which browsers are best for privacy? (privacytests.org)
Open-source tests of web browser privacy....
As a SNES F-Zero veteran: F-Zero 99 is addictive!
Ok, so I’ve won the Knight League, I’ve won the Mini-Prix against S-tier opponents, I have won on every track, except Mute City I....
What are some great open source games?
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/3160775...
A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply (fortune.com)
(USA) Do supplemental cancer/critical illness policies make sense?
Me and my wife are in our 40s, and currently in good health. I get insurance through work, but it’s a high deductible plan. I have enough in my health savings account to cover the out of pocket maximum for a few years....
What is actually up with the tournament mode in SF6?
Is this thing just broken, or what? They locked 3 achievements behind the mode, but I almost never see any tournaments being held. I saw one a while back but it was at some ungodly hour in my timezone, so I couldn’t participate. Then they held another one today which I thought I would be able to play. I went into the battlehub...