Storage and bandwidth definitely weren’t cheap in 2003. Additionally Steam provides features that a brick and mortar store could never even think of providing, including updates, DRM, instant access to global consumers, community features, in-depth data analytics, and the ability to adjust pricing in real time.

While a lot of the work Valve has put in Steam seems both obvious and ubiquitous today, these were features they pioneered for both developers and consumers.

I’d also like to point out that the only digital marketplace I’m aware of that charges less than 30% by default (Epic) is famous for losing billions of dollars in the endeavor.

Before steam, digital sales of games wasn’t really a thing outside of a few niche examples. The 30% cut was the same percentage that retail stores were taking.

Slipknot is not where I saw this thread going but I’m here for it.

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5.56 NATO doesn’t “fly” - it produces no lift and falls at 8 m/s²

Yes, I was referring specifically to presidential elections and the electoral college.

Citizens in the US don’t have a constitutional right to vote. States are granted electors based (roughly) on their population that can vote and are given broad authority in how to determine how these electors are selected. Technically a state could decide how to vote based on drawing names out of a hat.

PonyOS actually uses its own custom kernel that isn’t based on Linux.

More like 1/3 if you only include those who were eligible to vote. Even less of you include the “entire population.”

AMD released their first GPU with Tensor/Matrix cores in 2020 with the MI100. CDNA contains ML specific hardware while RDNA does not. However, since the PS5 hardware is made with their semi-custom division, customers can mix and match whatever hardware and features they want.

The author seems unaware of this and repeats the same incorrect statements several times.

It’s not useful to compare health insurance profit margins to other industries because the Federal Government requires that they spend 80% of all premium revenue on care. This is effectively a cap on profits and also creates an incentive for insurance companies to pay higher costs for care so they can make more profit.

I always feel like I’m missing out on so many good memes. Time to learn German I guess.

Quantum computers are only good at a very narrow subset of tasks. None of those tasks are related to Neural Networks, AGI, or the emulation of neurons.

This is incorrect, Republicans had total control after Trump’s win in 2016.

It barely works on Windows.

That being said I’ve tried this with with success in the past.

https://lutris.net/games/rocksmith-2014/

Damn, if you’re this stupid I understand why you’re scared of the machines.

No one in this thread is talking about or “defending” LLMs but you.

What would you have liked him to do in order to stop it from passing?

Apple uses bog standard LPDDR5-6400. LPDDR5 is a low power variant of DDR5. 32GB of DDR5-6400 is about $90 USD.

The only thing special about the Apple RAM configuration is the larger than normal bus on the CPU die.

I did a few years in a Security Architecture role at a large enterprise. The amount of times I had to explain basic stuff to Enterprise Architects, Principal Engineers, and Principal developers with decades of experience was truly mind numbing.

Real fans call him Dave.