Amazon is doing some markup, but there’s also been a bunch of price increases. 5gal BIBs are over $100 now.

It’s still pretty cheap when you consider that that BIB produces 35 gallons of soda.

Being released at the same time as the significantly more modern (and unpopular) Unity didn’t do Rogue any favors.

No, Rockstar outsourced a ‘remaster’ of the early 3D games that was poorly handled.

SR4 was also way better written and acted than it had any right to be.

Outlook’s own reaction handling is terrible. It adds the reaction icon to the email, but it doesn’t mark it as unread or bring it to the top. The next day, I get an email with all the reactions for the day.

“Available for a meeting at 9 tomorrow?” 👍

Then the daily digest shows up at 9 and the meeting was never scheduled.

The thing I love about both Fringe and Eureka is that they understand that TV science will always be bullshit and choose to lean hard into it.

Their argument is that “reproductive cancers” are covered, but that breasts are only a “reproductive organ” on women.

Cruel and pointless.

I always go France or Korea. Base walking Grand Cannons or spamming Black Eagles.

I really like Mardi Gras Mustard. It has the balls to be mustard, not honey mustard.

Neural networks are deterministic. In LLMs, it outputs probabilities, which are picked from via seeded RNG. Image generation tries multiple options based on different seeds, then picks the best fit as identified by a neural network and repeats. For both, if you give a specific model the same inputs, you’ll get the same output.

The public-facing interfaces don’t give seed control, which means they give a different output each time, but that isn’t an inherent property of generative AI.

Generative AI is too. Maintain your seed and you should get the same result every time.

Most of the SaaS AI tools don’t expose control over their RNG, but some self-hosted ones do.

I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.

The summaries I find reference him theorizing that water may be spherical, leading to the hexagon pattern. He also related the feathery ends to steam hitting a cold window.

It seems to me that he knew that steam, water, and ice were the same thing.

The pixelization shader is cool. It compensates for camera rotation and warp to keep objects consistent when looking around. It’s like a pixelized 360 video.

Things still crawl when moving, but it significantly improves issues with distant objects flickering as you turn.

That series has a good progression too. It starts limited by light speed, then gets FTL communication, and finally FTL travel.

Ratchet & Clank and Going Commando are great.

Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.

Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.

Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.

Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.

They did vote to restrict access to the Measels/Mumps/Rubella vaccine for children under 4. Monsters.

For those who don’t know, that vaccine is the origin of the modern anti-vaccine movement. A company marketing stand-alone vaccines was mad that somebody made a combo vaccine, making theirs unmarketable, so they funded fraudulent studies to block it.

Not only did they not have access to the original team, the studio demanded absolute secrecy. Potential employees were not told anything about the project until after they were hired.

The game required highly specialized skills to make and they made sure the studio wouldn’t be able to acquire those skills.

Is his hat embroidered backwards? The Walmart sign and his shirt are both mirrored, but his hat isn’t.