If you have multiple sticks, you can remove a bad one until you can replace it. Many memory modules have a lifetime warranty so you can often get them replaced by the manufacturer. I don't think there's a scenario where the system will stay stable with a bad stick installed.
I thought that was right at the start of episode 4:
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Miss Minutes shows Renslayer a recording (which appears like a tiny live-action diorama, kind of a cool effect I thought) of He Who Remains (HWR) talking to Renslayer, except she's in a hunter uniform instead of a judge's uniform. The recording shows that Renslayer used to be at the right hand of HWR. After Renslayer heads back to the TVA, HWR has Miss Minutes activate "Protocol 42" to erase the memories of everyone working at the TVA, including Renslayer.
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I feel like S2 episodes 2 and 3 were particularly bad. "Filler" definitely feels like the appropriate word, S2E3 in particular felt to me like it was heavily padded out. The finale really saved the season, no matter how you slice it.
Also, I'm disappointed that my personal fan theory didn't pan out:
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Have Renslayer turn out to be a female Kang variant. Could've made for an interestingly parallel with Sylvie and Loki, and would explain why He Who Remains trusts her with so much. We didn't actually see Renslayer die though, so maybe...
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Definitely looks to be that way. In this video at the linked timestamp you can see the refresh rate being scaled automatically as the FPS cap is scaled. Looks like the Deck is automatically setting the refresh rate to a multiple of the framerate cap so that frame times and refresh times are kept in sync. E.g. with a 30 FPS cap it sets refresh to 90hz (triple), with a 40fps cap it sets refresh rate to 80hz (double), etc.
When I took welding shop class in high school, our shop teacher literally called it "sand eye" when he explained why wearing a welding mask was not optional in his shop or in general while welding. Sure enough, there was that one kid who thought he could get by with his squints while teach wasn't looking... He was out for days with sand eye and had quite the cautionary tale to share when he returned. Everyone got downright religious about the welding masks after that.
You could install LineageOS on your existing phone instead of upgrading. The OnePlus 7 Pro is supported. The install process can be daunting depending on your technical skills, but it's a one-time process since the phone gets updates over-the-air after the OS is installed.
I did this with my OnePlus 6 a few months ago and the experience has been good. Switching to LineageOS bumped Android to version 13, whereas it was stuck on Android 11 on stock OnePlus firmware. I'm getting regular updates again, including open-source Android security patches. Not everything gets patched though, some of the core firmware is proprietary to OnePlus and that cannot be patched by anyone but them. It's letting me extend the life of a phone still works well and has a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The running theory is that he's actively choosing that hairstyle because it's the haircut Augustus Caesar had. I'm sure he has a good hair stylist, but in all likelihood he's deliberately instructing them to fuck his shit up to his exact specifications. So don't blame the stylist, they're just regular people like you and me. Instead, put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the billionaire "genius."
No, because your furnace should be venting its exhaust outside. There's a heat exchanger that draws interior air through the furnace, taking heat from the combustion but the exhaust and your home's interior air do not mix!
Edit: I should qualify the above. A gas furnace is less bad for your health than a gas stove, because a gas stove is leaving a lot of combustion byproducts in the home's air while a gas furnace shouldn't. There's still a case to be made that anything burning fossils fuels is probably not healthy and isn't good for the environment to boot.
ATVI's stock performance only looks impressive if you don't compare it to anything. Here's a graph comparing ATVI to ONEQ, which is an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ composite index. If anything, ATVI has been slightly underperforming the market average for most of Kotick's tenure as CEO.
To see what "outperforming the market" looks like, compare ATVI to NVDA. NVDA's stock has increased 16,000% in the 15 years that Kotick has been CEO of ATVI.
From a purely financial perspective, Kotick was middling at best. He deserves no plaudits. There were plenty of other NASDAQ companies that outperformed the market during the time he was CEO of ActiBlizz, including other video game companies.
I don't think it's inevitable with large groups. Take charities for example. There are very large charities that do very good work, and don't exhibit the kind of fuckery we see in the corporate world. There are certainly bad charities too, but I'd argue those are fraudulent charities run by unethical people.
So what's the difference between a large reputable charity, and a corporation at a similar scale in terms of number of people involved, and amount of money involved? One is nonprofit, the other is for profit. So it's large group plus profit motive that causes the drift toward amorality.
Remember there are actual people who are making these decisions.
Sure, but what I want to know is why they feel comfortable making immoral decisions. Are they all psychopaths? Psychopathy is known to be more common in the C-suite, by some estimates 3.5% of executives are psychopaths. Businesses reward those who deliver good business outcomes, and psychopaths might tend do better at that with no pesky moral compass to get in the way. But the rest are just average people, probably no different than the general populace when it comes to measures of morality. So if 95%+ of oil company executives are not inherently less moral than the rest of us, why the hell would they be willing to make decisions that literally destroy the fucking planet?? I mean, the oil companies knew climate change was a big fucking problem decades ago, and they still did what they did. How the fuck does that even happen??
My thesis here is that the corporate structure itself is sufficient to compel otherwise moral people to make choices that are absolutely heinous when viewed objectively. When you're faced with an option that makes your corporate targets and nets you a bonus but irreparably harms some distant other, the average person will tend to make the immoral choice. They'll rationalize it, they'll minimize it, but ultimately they will happily fuck over someone in another country, another generation, or hell, just in another office, so they can make a buck.
Corporations are always happy to pander to morality when it's to their benefit, but I believe corporations are inherently amoral. They might make decisions that are moral, but that's just a happy coincidence that occurs when the decision that's in their interest also happens to be the moral choice. Corporations are equally happy to make choices that most would consider immoral, if it meets their goals.
I have no source for this, but my theory is that when the workforce of a corporation grow past Dunbar's number it will inherently bend toward amorality. Making moral choices requires knowing the people affected by your choices, and having empathy for them. Once it becomes impossible for one worker at a company to have a personal relationship with every other member of the staff, it's all too easy for groups to form within the company that will make choices that drive the company's goals (growth, revenue, profit) at the expense of anything and everything else (the environment, the community, their customers, even their own workers).
I've got a Garmin Vivoactive 3 and it works great. Heart rate tracking seems decent, and it will also do pulse oxygen though I usually leave that off because it drains the battery faster. The price is good too, they can be had new for $230 Canadian, so probably sub-$200 US.
Android app works well often, mostly I just use it as a bridge to get my calories burned data into a calorie tracking app (Chronometer, free version). The calories burned estimate seems to be decently accurate. I've been trying to eat 500 calories under the estimated burn rate, and I've lost 30 pounds since last November. Not a linear process, there were lots of events and trips where my willpower went right out the window, but those weren't the watch's fault!
If you have multiple sticks, you can remove a bad one until you can replace it. Many memory modules have a lifetime warranty so you can often get them replaced by the manufacturer. I don't think there's a scenario where the system will stay stable with a bad stick installed.