Heck, if you’re the people type you could probably get a place on Risa and make a living out of hanging out in a bar and telling the tourists where they can get the best Bolian food on the planet. That’s a perfectly sensible life trajectory in the Federation.
They did; the Z at the end denotes UTC.
We see another flat one in the back so I’m willing to bet it’s four flat tires on a school bus.
Plugins and extensions could make sense if the site and plugin are designed to talk to each other. But that could be made safer by each extension being able to decide whether to announce itself (and the user being able to override that).
I think you’d like how Exalted handles money. (Note: I’m talking about second edition here; I never got familiar with third edition.)
In Exalted, wealth is represented by a Background called Resources. Backgrounds are essentially stats that represent useful things your characters has in a general sense like wealth, fame, contacts, or a mentor. They go from zero to five.
Resources is a vague representation of wealth. At Reduces 1 you’re one meal away from total poverty. At Resources 5 you have something that passively generates substantial amounts of money for your character, whether that’s ownership of a lot of land or an army of accountants maintaining your investment portfolio. Whatever is is, it works without you having to deal with it.
In terms of game mechanics it’s easy to use: Prices are expressed as Resource scores. If you want to buy something you just compare your score to the item’s.
It’s a nice system for a game that doesn’t want resource management to get in the way of epic adventure.
I got tired of it in 2013. While it does work in some places (Android does it reasonably well), I haven’t yet seen a good flat design on the desktop.
Windows 8 and 10 looked garish and hard to read, especially since everything is a rectangle with a one-pixel outline. Is it a button? Is it a text field? Maybe a thick progress bar? Who knows, they all look extremely similar.
While Apple did overdo it in the later big-cat OS X releases, I’ll take a felt-textured widget panel and a calendar bound in leather over an endless sea of hairline rectangles.
Is actually have a good answer but in my case it’d be “I wanted to know what that one plant I saw was”. AI-based pattern matching to identify plant or animal species is pretty handy.
It’s also way more sensible than trying to use text generation for anything useful.
“Unintuitively, there is more than one employer in the world and I happened to work for a different one previously. I know; I’m as surprised and vaguely terrified as you are. Please let me help you put an end to this multicompany nightmare soon.”
“Certainly! What makes you think that there is more than one employer in the world and you happened to work for a different one previously. You know; you’re as surprised and vaguely terrified as I am. Please let you help me put an end to this multicompany nightmare soon?”
Never use Amazon for expensive electronics. There’s too much nonsense going on.
I tried to preorder a phone once. Sony offered a pair of earbuds as a preorder gift and I wanted that specific phone anyway so hey, why not. Unfortunately, their fulfillment partner happened to be Amazon.
Instead of my phone I received a book about Lemmy Kilmister. Oh, and they couldn’t correct the error; all they could do was to have me send the book back and get a refund and buy the phone again – which of course took me out of the preorder program.
Yeah, no. There’s too much bullshit with Amazon to trust them with expensive gear.
There is the whole thing with Schleswig-Holstein at least. I’m not sure about how far around that is but they are planning to move to an open source stack. I’m also not sure how much money Microsoft will try to throw their way; I doubt they’ll offer to move their German HQ to Kiel.
Apparently we got our floppies for cheap because we just had a whole bunch of pirated floppies.
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Very true. Good coworkers can make work a lot more bearable.
Looking a bit into the company’s business can help, too. If they do something vaguely interesting that can be a bonus. I ignored that once in favor of perks and that got me into the complete disaster area that is fintech. Don’t make the same mistake.
I wouldn’t have gotten that far. That utter savage can’t even tell the difference between MT/s and MB/s.
230 bucks? I usually paid twice that. Then I spent 7000 bucks on getting ICLs implanted. The years later my eyes got worse again so now I’m wearing glasses again plus I’m a bit farsighted from the ICLs.
But those glasses are only at -2 dpt and are so comparatively cheap that I’m still saving money over my expected lifespan.
So. Fucking. Worth. It.
Planes generally don’t go on rails so maybe that’s a factor.
Das Millionenspiel.
It’s The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn’t exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted “reality” TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany’s most famous TV hosts (as the show’s host, fittingly) and one of Germany’s most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn’t construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a “law on active recreation” dated three years after the movie first aired.
To make it even more odd, it’s actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.
Bei zu hohen Mieten spielt noch ein wichtiger Faktor eine Rolle: Grundstückserwerb als Investitionsvehikel. Wenn ich Land kaufe und davon profitiere, dass die Grundstückspreise steigen, dann habe ich einen Anreiz, das Verhältnis von Angebot und Nachfrage zu verzerren. (Und das kann halt auch nachträglich passieren, obwohl sie Stadt das Haus gebaut hat.)
Ein schönes Beispiel dafür wäre San Francisco, wo (IIRC) to den schlimmsten Zeiten über 30% Leerstand bei gleichzeitigem Wohnungsmangel herrschte. Vielleicht war’s auch LA.
Wenn in der Stadt Wohnblocks gebaut werden sollen, die dann aber in der Hand von Privatinvestoren oder Vermietungsfirmen landen, dann kann es sein dass der Effekt auf die Mietpreise eher klein ausfällt – wenn z.B. der Bau absichtlich verzögert wird oder Wohnungen nicht vermietet werden. Oder wenn zwei von fünf Stockwerken für 300 m²-Luxuswohnungen reserviert werden.
Von daher sind “Stadt größer” oder “mehr Wohnblocks” nicht zwangsläufig sinnvolle Lösungen. Perverse Anreize müssen aus dem Wohnungsmarkt entfernt werden, sonst wird es nur wieder den selben Unfug geben, nur jetzt mit 30% mehr brutalistischer Architektur.
Sprich: Es muss mehr Grundstücksfläche geschaffen werden, ohne das Stadtgebiet zu erweitern. Alles andere würde das Problem nicht lösen.
Wie genau das gehen soll sei dem Leser überlassen.
Also, there’s not as much value in high-powered GPUs right now because these days high-end graphics often mean Unreal Engine 5. UE5 is excellent for static and slow-moving graphics but has a tendency towards visible artifacts in situations where the picture and especially the camera position changes quickly (especially since it’s heavily reliant on TAA). These artifacts are largely independent of how good your GPU is.
Unlike in previous generations, going for high-end graphics doesn’t necessarily mean you get a great visual experience – your games might look like smeary messes no matter what kind of GPU you use because that’s how modern engines work. Smeary messes with beautiful lighting, sure, but smeary messes nonetheless.
My last GPU upgrade was from a Vega 56 to a 4080 (and then an XTX when the 4080 turned out to be a diva) and while the newer cards are nice I wouldn’t exactly call them 1000 bucks nice given that most modern games look pretty bad in motion and most older ones did 4K@60 on the Vega already. Given that I jumped three generations forward from a mid-tier product to a fairly high-end one, the actual benefit in terms of gaming was very modest.
The fact that Nvidia are now selling fancy upscaling and frame interpolation as killer features also doesn’t inspire confidence. Picture quality in motion is already compromised; I don’t want to pay big money to compromise it even further.
If someone asked me about what GPU to get I’d tell them to get whatever they can find for a couple hundred bucks because, quite frankly, the performance difference isn’t worth the price difference. RT is cool for a couple of days but I wouldn’t spend much on it either, not as long as the combination of TAA and upscaling will hide half of the details behind dithered motion trails and time-delayed shadows.