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tablet screen size is okay, but really the people who want bigger screens should be buying tvs. not to mention they have the advantage of being cheaper than tablets. but even tv screens can only get so big. a really cost effective way to get a big screen would just be to go to a movie theater. that’s like 10 dollars(?) for 2 hours of access to a huge screen.

while it is no doubt the case that most big tech companies are engaged in perpetual wars of attrition against their users, i can’t help but feel that this AI posters thing is different from the examples you provided. at least in those examples, the users have something to gain from sacrificing their privacy. and the company also stands to gain something as well. (although typically the company stands to gain way more from these exchanges.) but in this case, i’m not really sure how anyone benefits. nobody seems to want to be tricked into talking to an AI, and i don’t see how that would make the company more money. maybe they think it would drive up “engagement” somehow? but that seems like a hard thing to accurately predict. it seems more likely that zuckerberg is convinced that AI is automatically good in any tech company, and this is the most obvious way to shove AI into social media websites. so therefore it must be a good idea somehow.

congratulations to the GOP for finally entering the 19th century. perhaps soon the GOP scholars will discover the value of pasteurizing milk.

whoa, the C++ committee finally invented a handgun

if you put the last name first then it would no longer be a last name.

that’s the national geographic logo. this post was taken from a nature documentary

most tanky positions are indefensible. and yet, they try to defend them anyways.

i find it incredible that despite having access to basically unlimited information about its users, facebook makes stupid decisions that seem almost designed to piss off its users. and then you have situations like this, where facebook was told ahead of time that this decision would make a lot of people angry, and then facebook went and did it anyway only to walk it back a few days later and say it was a mistake. why?

i’m not buying it

the audacity of making an xy-graph for an “educational” video and then not labeling the x nor y axes.

not going to name any names, but it’s clear that somebody hasn’t taken a power tools safety seminar

People in real life don't do a squat mid-air if their only intention is to step up to a higher object.

that’s because they instead crouch right before jumping, so that they can reach an even higher ledge. i would be okay with them killing crouch jumping so long as they don’t kill c-tapping. its just so satisfying to pull off.

i also worry that switching to step ups would severely impact rocket jumping and surfing. the advanced movement systems in tf2 are my favorite among any video game i’ve played so far. i’d be pretty bummed if they gutted them in tf3. im still mourning the loss of full turn control on the chargin targe.

can’t wait to see what the Supreme Legislators decide this time

i didn’t even know rjk jr knew how to write

if you work in or near a hospital then this can be a very satisfying way of getting a ride to work

why couldn’t you compute p/q < r/s by checking ps < rq? if you follow the convention that denominators have to be strictly positive then you don’t even have to take signs into account. and you can check equality in the same way. no float conversion necessary. you do still need to eat a big multiplication though, which kind of sucks. the point you bring up of needing to reduce fractions after adding or multiplying also a massive problem. maybe we could solve this by prohibiting the end user from adding or multiplying numbers

watch them go the route of the nypd on public transit and start posting officers around dumpsters. remember, in america, the answer to any problem is always to increase police funding.

both articles seem to suggest that this is only (or primarily) affecting ubisoft games, which suggests that ubisoft might share some of the blame here. microsoft is very dumb for pushing out an update that breaks a ton of games, especially given how much they claim to love backwards compatibility. but ubisoft is also dumb if they are relying on undocumented APIs, as some of the other comments suggest they might be. microsoft already struggles to keep their documented APIs stable, so i can only imagine what happens with the undocumented APIs

ironic that the crash reporter makes the game crash on launch