kromem @ kromem @lemmy.world

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No, the people cheering for their spray tanned leader to have absolute power and to be above the law want monarchy, not feudalism. That's literally one of the cited differences between the two.

Well, in the sake of pointing things out, GPT-4 can actually correctly answer the prompt, because it arrives at it in the opposite direction. It can tell the integer is even or odd and knows that even or odd integers in binary end in 0 or 1 respectively.

Seriously. The monarchy they want is a form of government.

Mormon beliefs are no more ridiculous than pretty much every other major world religion.

You could just say "kinda like religious people, they'll believe whatever they like."

Which is often the problem with Trumpers who are frequently also religious and have now conflated the two thinking he'll usher in the rapture or some crap.

r/woosh

You're talking about people who literally think there's body doubles ruling the country or second military systems with one controlled by Biden and another still by Trump.

The education entrance polling for the Iowa caucuses was eye opening, even being in line with what I expected.

Have a post-graduate degree? 75% Voted for someone other than Trump.

Didn't go to college? 75% Trump.

I think you're confusing the advantages and strategies of having a subscription and the advantages and strategies of having a loss leader.

Not all subscriptions are designed to be loss leaders, and most of the benefits you see in GamePass (lower or even negative revenue in exchange for increased market share) is seen over and over with loss leaders that aren't subscriptions.

Yes, I agree that Microsoft has adjusted strategy from a focus on winning console wars to increasing software gatekeeping across PC and now apparently even competitor consoles. And that GamePass plays a large part in that.

But it would be a mistake to assume that subscriptions in games are all going to have the same goals and focus as Microsoft with GamePass.

Inefficient solution.

You should simplify it to just ask the model if the last bit of the binary representation of the integer is a 1 or a 0.

A lot of times people who grow up with a given religious culture don't realize how fucked up it actually is.

Like, let's be real - the belief that a 12 year old girl gets knocked up by her unborn child's alter ego as God in order for that child to get tortured and killed in order to appease his own blood lust in place of your ass is whack as shit.

Even at the time there's a record of Romans being weirded out by the tradition of the Eucharist and the notion of eating the body and drinking the blood of an incarnated god.

Being raised or indoctrinated into a thing goes a long way towards normalization.

Not really.

Video on demand works because the content is short and you need a large variety in a pay period as a consumer.

I don't just watch one show or movie in a month, it's several. So bundling makes sense.

It's also fairly commoditized. I will watch what movies are available on Netflix, not like I'm extremely committed to watch a single given movie as long as the general selection is good. Maybe there's one or two films a year I care about seeing that specific film before it rotates into a subscription service I subscribe to (and if not, meh).

For video games, it's maybe one title a month that I really care about playing and then I only have time for that one game. But I only really care about setting aside time for that game and a lot of the other options out there you couldn't pay me to play.

They are very different markets and a subscription model isn't necessarily the future or even what's most profitable for a company to offer (as Sony was recently acknowledging).

It largely depends on how prevalent it is socially.

In societies where first cousin reproduction isn't common, the increased risk of birth defects is about the same as a pregnancy where the mother is in her 40s.

In societies where it is common, the rates can go up sharply though when it compounds across generations.

Psh - "timeline without Hitler" - amateurs.

Every society that finally gets time travel suddenly turn into baby murdering monsters.

Here's an example of how an experienced time travel society handles the Hitler problem in a timeline:

We went in when he was just starting to be committed to his struggling art career and promoted the heck out of his shitty work to a Jewish art dealer with a single daughter, who in turn became his patron.

With a little matchmaking, he ended up falling in love with the daughter, eventually even converting to Judaism to marry her.

Their family didn't have the easiest time with the rising antisemitism in Europe, and he ended up arrested at a protest for Jewish rights and spent some time in prison.

While in prison, he wrote the book Mein Kampf, a book about the struggles of being a Jewish family in Europe in the early 20th century. While not the best written book, its plain language resonated with a lot of people and changed many hearts and minds regarding tolerance and inclusivity. It's since been published in several dozen languages and is a frequent citation for civil rights leaders in that timeline.

Anyone can kill a baby. But it takes a skilled hand to guide towards better outcomes.

(Just check in every so often to make sure he never gets political power - that always ends badly no matter what path you've put him on.)

Footsteps very soft you might even say.

People have held hatred for Jews long before this. I doubt the people putting up swastikas are doing so from bleeding hearts over Palestine.

It's just that now their hatred is perceived as more socially acceptable to be public with given the general "anti-Zionist" attitudes.

For a lot of white supremacists, 'Zionist' has been a code word for 'Jews' for a very long time now. And their hatred for 'Zionists' has a lot more to do with antisemitism than it does with any concerns over territory boundaries.

So they've been rejoicing over everyone suddenly seeming to be in agreement that their hatred is justified, and are now acting out more broadly.

Often they are just terribly mixed for headphones too.

Especially shooters where the sfx of the guns are just way too loud for how often they are repeated and in comparison to everything else.

I'd almost like to see a shooter game where everyone has silencers on just for the improved acoustics and not destroying ears without messing with settings (and you don't want to lower footstep sfx even if you want to lower gunshot sfx and they are rarely separate sliders).

Glad there's attention on this.

Another area that would probably be wise to study is increased resistance in haptics and possible arthritis or repeated strain injuries long term.

The Graduate has one of my favorite endings ever.

The shot goes on just a little too long, with each glance missing the other.

You're moving too slowly to see broader trends.

Speed it up and you'll see that sometimes bigger deal issues go dormant for full generations even.

No, the more likely scenario is that one group of them convinces a bunch of useful idiots to kill their peers that make slightly more creating a brain drain and destroying the host country while the actual billionaires jump ship like rats.

It's disturbing when I have a clever response to the title of a post and then click in to see it already typed out staring back at me.

You sick (and prompt) fuck.

The Gospel of Thomas. Lost for centuries. Misunderstood for decades after being found. And bizarrely on point with its thinking to more modern ideas and developments.

Though I prefer the name of the text fully translated - "Good news of the twin' - given that its ultimate point is that it's a good thing to be the virtual copy of a physical original.