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Good. Much better than that auto exec who was suggesting tariffs on imported EV vehicles would be needed to "save" Europe. I want to say it was BMW but that might just be my own bias against them speaking.

Smart of Mata to tell them that. I like that they fight the hackers on their own "turf", so to speak, in the propaganda war. Makes their power and hegemony that much more believable.

I wonder what other applications this might have outside of machine learning. I don't know if, for example, intensive 3d games absolutely need 16bit floats (or larger), or if it would make sense to try using this "additive implementation" for their floating point multiplicative as well. Modern desktop gaming PCs can easily slurp up to 800W.

The rail gun's 10k starting damage will be great to counter the Vulcanus Destroyer's 6.5k HP/s Regen.

So at the very least, it seems like Wube still wants us to be able to scale up our end/post-game factories and SPM without too much effort.

There's a scene in the game where the character is taking a shower. The shower stall is glass, and the glass is frosted from around ankle height to neck height.

I haven't played the game myself, just came across the scene on YouTube several years ago, so I don't know how justifiable the choice of the scene is in the first place. At least, from a technical point of view, it makes sense to me that they modeled the full nude body so that the frosted glass would blur what we "see" in a realistic way. It's a lot easier to model something and then have the glass blur it, instead of directly modelling the blurred version for example.

Personally I think most of the creep factor comes from the fact that this character is explicitly modeled after a live human being who presumably didn't sign up for that.

I think I would have more sympathy with those focusing on the "not all men but always a man" sign if this weren't in the context of a woman being drugged by her husband and then said husband inviting about 50 random men to rape her, over 10 years.

One of the worst times to advocate for men's rights/issues is when everyone is talking about the heinous crimes a bunch of men have done. Especially if the comments you're leaving are focusing on how women rape just as much as men do, etc.

So, a few things:

• many of the men accused have stated that the husband pitched the idea as "this is a kink she really enjoys, being drugged and then having sex with strangers". (Of course they never pretend to have met her in person beforehand to get her consent for the whole thing in the first place)
• there are some that have said "what's the big deal? It's his wife, he gets to decide to lend her out to his friends." (!)

I don't know how many of the first group are being honest, but the existence of both can give you an idea of how bad our culture used to be towards rape, and still is to a large extent.

There's a pretty striking moment of archival footage, from the 60s or 70s I think, of some french dude being asked in the street "and you, have you ever raped a woman?" And his response is a very matter-of-fact "well, of course!".

People don't want to believe that rapists are, in many ways, just ordinary people. So they both refuse to see it in others, and refuse to see themselves as capable of even contributing to the problem. Hopefully this can be the wakeup call many men here in France need to realize they must push back when their friends make rape jokes, for ex.

Critique agréable a lire ! Ça m'a donné envie de réécouter l'album ; comme le suggère l'article j'avais moi aussi un peu oublié sa sortie.

De souvenir, même ressenti que l'article, d'ailleurs: «Pilule» est juste frappant.

To be fair, weren't Valve the first company to do that? People were really annoyed at having to install steam just to play some Half-Life.

Of course, that was only 1 launcher, no launcher-in-launcher shenanigans back then.

Fuck me, are we really getting a red-brown resurgence?!

Aside from echoing @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone and Doctorow's statements about unionizing, I am aware of a few others who are trying things that I'd describe as complimentary to unions.

This is a panel titled "Why hasn't Open Source Won?" where several of the speakers attempt to sketch out a framework wherein a programmer would have more decision over how their code is used: https://youtu.be/k3eycjekIAk . I'll admit, I'm not the most impressed with where they get to in the limited time they have. Nevertheless, I think it's a useful angle of consideration to have in the tool belt.

This is an org/foundation that is trying to walk the walk with regards to governing tech democratically: https://nivenly.org/ I haven't kept up with any recent developments of theirs.

First there was no difference between gaza/the Palestinians and Hamas, now there's no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon...