I’m very glad that my definitely-100%-legit copy of Windows 10 seems to have no idea how to upgrade to 11. It still gets other updates, my hardware is definitely compatible. The thought of upgrading to 11 just never seems to enter its mind. I suspect I’ll be sticking with Windows 10 for a long, long time, until either Microsoft give up on this ridiculous idea in response to customer backlash, or Linux becomes a viable option for my usecase (Nvidia GPU, lots of proprietary software that I need to use for university and future career). It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve held onto an older version of Windows for a protracted period of time, skipping a dreadful iteration or two, and then upgrading when Microsoft have learned their lesson.
I’ve been a late adopter of every version of Windows I’ve ever used - and I skipped 8 too, switching to 10 around the same time you did because my software required it. It does seem the best way to avoid most of the problems: Microsoft has moved on to pulling its old tricks on the newest version, and there are more tools for modifying the old version. So I figure I’ll switch to 11 or 12 when Microsoft is doing awful things with 13.
Further proof that all the Tories know how to do is re-enact the 1980s. Vote 'em out at the next election. StopTheTories.vote and BestForBritain.org will both be providing localised information on which candidate is best placed to evict your neighbourhood Tory MP, as it’s not a given that Labour are the best choice in every constituency. And make sure you have some form of ID, as you need these to vote now.
Same here. Section 28 came into effect just before I started school, and wasn’t repealed until after I had left, and I’m certain the lack of proper, unbiased sex education contributed to me not knowing I was trans until my mid 30s.
Group project is due tomorrow, including the presentation of the completed animation to the client. After one person on the team (who has been thoroughly documented in these threads over the last six months) got caught lying about how much of his sequence he had done, he was given an ultimatum: a hard deadline that passed fifteen minutes ago, and if he failed to meet it, someone else is doing his scene and his name is getting taken out of the credits. We could justify this as he hasn’t contributed significantly to any other part of the project.
He failed to meet the deadline.
I would like to note at this point that his scene is two shots totalling about 15 seconds. My scene was eight shots totalling 45 seconds and I was done last Friday.
We have another assignment due at midnight tonight, which I sensibly/foolishly completed and handed in on Friday. Since everybody else is finishing that assignment this evening, I am the only one with any time available to animate and render this scene, I get to rig and animate the final scene of our animation. That’s why we can’t just cut the scene and work around it: the story would not have a conclusion without this scene. In retrospect we probably should never have trusted him with it, but it’s not like there was anything else that was short and simple he could have done.
I am very angry with this guy, and I’m not convinced I’ll be able to hold my tongue if he turns up for the presentation tomorrow.
My local museum takes this approach with some of its historical exhibits, which were, to put it bluntly, stuff British soldiers nicked while they were in Africa, which were then donated to the museum when they died. These are all low value personal items which would be impossible to trace descendants of their original owners (its not practical to find the descendants of the owner of a shirt, a toy, a musical instrument, etc from 200 years ago), so instead the museum displays them with signage that puts them in the appropriate context for the time in history when they were acquired. As a result, I now know that a lot of men from my local area served in south Africa in the 19th century, who stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.
I mean, I’d like to be surprised that a technology driven by a techbro with the “move fast and break things” mentality has broken because of moving too quickly into human trials, but…
I guess we should just count ourselves lucky that the poor human test subject patient wasn’t permanently harmed by Musk’s raging arrogance.
Companies like this really are failing to think long term. AIs cannot create new content. All they can do is rehash their training data, because they’re effectively a glorified autocomplete. So in a few years time, Stack Overflow will have new questions on it, some of which will relate to new problems. Those questions will require humans with real knowledge and understanding to answer them, and where’s the motivation for anybody to do that if their answer will immediately be fed into an AI? In the long-term AIs will be useless because they can’t advance or update without new content, and humans are being disincentivised from creating new content by companies who want to make a quick buck selling their content without compensating them.
For me the biggest problem with modern games is the obsession with high fidelity graphics. The dev teams that create games without a focus on photo-realism or jaw dropping visuals are often the teams creating the best games in my eyes.
I think this is very much down to personal taste. While I don’t think a great game needs photo-realistic graphics, for me a game’s graphics do factor into my enjoyment of it, so it should at least feel like the devs put some effort into making the game visually appealing. That could be focusing on making the graphics beautiful, or stylised and quirky, or just incredibly cute. But if I’m gonna spend hours looking at something, I want it to look nice.
Railways and public transport are grouped under infrastructure because even if climate change was not an issue, public transport is infrastructure that’s good for people and the economy. There’s plenty of statistics to support the idea that good public transport infrastructure has a wide range of benefits, including improved economic growth, that pre-dates climate change by decades, and will still be the case long after climate change is fixed. The Victorians didn’t build railway lines all over Europe because trains are better for the climate than cars. :)
It probably helped that Susan Hall is deranged, and the UK as a whole prefers its politicians as close to the centre as possible, rejecting extremes on both ends.
How Aija once dramatically declared to her parents, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the end of the world!” and curtsied.
“It’s a little disturbing to hear that from a 2-year-old, especially in the middle of a pandemic,” Marie says with a slight laugh.
Tucker nods. “You kind of wonder where she even picked up the expression.”
Because, yeah, there were absolutely no individuals on TV or radio who sarcastically remarked during the pandemic “ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the end of the world!” Just because the parents didn’t remember hearing it, doesn’t mean the child didn’t hear it and emulate it. Childrens’ brains are wired to pay attention to their surroundings in ways that adults aren’t, because that’s how they learn. It seems massively more likely that the children in these cases are echoing things they have heard and absorbed that their parents simply paid no attention to.
Unless the parents can categorically prove that, for example, they never watched a film or documentary about the Holocaust while their child was nearby and able to hear it, that seems a far more likely explanation than reincarnation. For that matter, I’d be more inclined to believe that the child was remembering details from a documentary the parents watched when the child was still a baby, and thus considered unable to absorb anything at all, than believe the child was remembering a past life.
The fact that they can never be pinned down to a specific historic individual is also suspect. The article gives a generic “Presumably there were a lot of Ninas in concentration camps”, but okay, has anyone checked how many there were, and what ages they were, and what other details might match up with the child’s story? A bit of research would prove it one way or another, and the reluctance to follow through on that research makes it hard for me to take the claims seriously.
Kids are weird, largely because they repeat things they hear without any understanding of the meanings and significance behind the words. So in the cases of past lives, they’re repeating stuff they’ve heard on TV, films, documentaries, etc, and describing images they’ve seen on posters and adverts and book covers. And they talk about it like it’s real because at that age, kids can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction, so it’s all equally real and it all gets blended together in their minds. Then adults read something into it that isn’t really there.
You get what you pay for. If you download a free game, then of course it’s going to be full of pay-to-win microtransactions. Although there are issues with greed in some larger games run by big companies, the reality is that game devs deserve to earn a living too, and that means at some point a game needs to be paid for.
There are still plenty of good quality mobile games out there, they just don’t tend to be free to download. Back when I had more free time, I actually got good usage out of the Play Pass on Android, which was £5 a month and gave me access to a catalogue of excellent mobile games with no microtransactions at all, the vast majority of which were single-player, offline games. Literally the only reason I’m not still subscribed is I just don’t have time to play mobile games at the moment - the chances of me subscribing again over the summer when I’m not at uni is high.
Final week on the final group project of the academic year. Deadline is Monday. And I am fucking pissed off.
Team leader and sub-team leader for the production phase of the project are incapable of providing leadership, because the former is lovely but timid, and the other is just never fucking there. With just days to go and important decisions and instructions just not happening, I have simply taken over and started telling everyone what to do. But this now means that on top of my work, everyone is now coming to me with questions, including the team leader and sub-team leaders.
The useless, obstructive, narcissistic, lazy, arrogant piece of utter shite who I had to work with on the last project. Well, it transpires he has basically done absolutely fucking nothing on this project since January, apart from 3D modelling half of a rock (someone else finished the rock) and modelling 80% of one character (it’s shit and the texture job is half-arsed). But this week he actually had to do something, which was building one set and rigging one character. I got a phone call at 8:30am this morning from the person who had to animate that one scene, and… yeah, surprise surprise, it’s only half done. Lighting, cameras, and rigging are not done. I hope the guy who has to clean up this mess calms down by Monday, otherwise there’s going to be a murder.
After spending all day rendering shots, after making a judgement call on the resolution because it wasn’t included in the assignment brief (so I guessed based on the previous project) and we were unable to get a response from the teacher when we contacted to ask. Nope, that’s the wrong resolution. So everything that was rendered yesterday needs to be rendered again in a different resolution and format. Which takes twice as long. Shots that took 2.5 years yesterday require 5.5 hours today. So while I set up the remaining shots today, I’ve got both my laptop and my spouse’s laptop re-rendering all of yesterday’s work. My desk is a chaotic collection of three computers, six screens, three keyboards, two mice, and a specialist 3D mouse.
Yeah, I am extremely fucking pissed off and if my teammate opts for murder I might just join him, because right now an awful lot of people are looking incredibly stabbable. I hate group projects.
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it has billions of dollars more than it needs to repay customers (www.bbc.com)
The firm says that once it has sold off its remaining assets it will have as much as $16.3bn to cover the debts, which stand at around $11bn....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say (news.sky.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21246628
how's your week going, Beehaw
busy
What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist? (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?
Less DRM, smaller filesizes, no stupid anticheat, and no always online bs. Anyone agree with me?
Biden's Infrastructure Bill Funding Stats (beehaw.org)
Checkout details in data slides...
Sadiq Khan wins a rare third term as mayor of London (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
After a fierce campaign against Conservative challenger Susan Hall, Labour's Sadiq Khan won a historic third straight term as mayor of London
Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power (www.zmescience.com)
Careful when writing your dragons (www.smbc-comics.com)
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dragons
Cat Quest II - Epic Games (store.epicgames.com)
The children who remember their past lives (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
In the last 5-7 years I’ve noticed that mobile games have devolved info always online p2w shit...
Insects and Bugs, Cute or Creepy?
Hopefully the my icon here tells you my position.