Yep. “lol”

The Brave Little Toaster.

Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.

Possible, but I think that particular feature is more aimed at EU electrical prices.

Fix would be government regulation.

Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.

Man calls a pedophile-supporting fascist who was honoring a pedophile-supporting celebrity a pedophile.

I see nothing wrong here.

They will become available for closer to or exactly MSRP after official launch. They’ll print Edge of Eternities for a while. Collectors product generally gets 1 print run to induce low supply, but normal packs and decks get printed for a long while.

Dr. Pepper

Coke Zero

Technically just a neural net, but yes

BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla

Xbox’s strategy is unclear. Do they mean the XBOX ROG Ally or some other traditional console?

I’d argue the same, actually. It takes people to moderate people and dedicated servers make it easiest. Modern match made games could still have admins, the company needs to pay for them.

Depends on the game, really, but “relying” on anti-cheat is pretty common. Larger games tend to have teams who review cases that get flagged by the systems and players and do manual removal but these teams also tend to be quite small and unable to adequately handle the amount of cheating that occurs.

If gamers want to see cheaters less often, they need to pressure the companies to do human moderation in addition.

JPEG-XL is only really in limbo because Google chose to kill it in Chrome in favor of AVIF. Had that not happened, there would have been far more demand for it to be properly implemented everywhere. Sucks, but you’re right that we’ll have to stick with AVIF/HEIG/WebP.

I said in a previous article that this is great, but we should be adopting JPEG-XL as it is current and can now compress pixel-perfect / lossless images better than old PNG. IIRC this revision of the spec doesn’t improve compression yet but it’s coming.

JPEG isn’t great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG’s forte.

JPEG isn’t, but JPEG-XL, on the other hand, has come into existence and has great compression while being pixel-perfect lossless as compared to PNG (among a host of other improvements).

If only it got the support it deserves (thanks Google for making that harder)

Yes, it’s going to get worse

Now that’s a coup attempt right there.

This is what years - decades - of dog whistling and a presidency who emboldens violence leads to.

More people speak English as a second language than people speak English as a first/native language, so you’re in the majority!

Yeah, we gotta figure our own shit out first, unfortunately. There’s so many other beautiful and safer places to visit in the world, go see those.

It’d be easier to side with Epic if they put really any effort at all into the Epic Games Store. I know there’s a lot of features to catch up on to be competitive to Steam, but considering they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on exclusivity, you’d think they would spend more on improving EGS.

To some extent, people will hate EGS anyway, but if they just quietly trucked along adding feature after feature, those that use it would spread the word. Instead, it largely stagnated and people kept reporting to others that it generally still sucks.

Playing catch-up takes time but at least the company that does already has an enumerated list of features to implement and can glean ideas about how to do so.