Is it any fun?

I’ve heard mixed reactions because of the gameplay type, but dunno if I should jump on the buildup

Just last april: https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=220436

The changelog looks small but the improvements were huge, plus the usual community content update in summer that followed.

Depends on where you say it but my most polarized take was: investment based on interest (usury) is just a legalized form of fraud.

You can always make the argument that charging money on money is literally how much of the global economy functions, but from a purely ethical perspective, it has the same if not worse effect of how a landlord rents land.

Yeah it can work, but often times it just goes unregulated and becomes a form of abuse designed to milk you dry.

Everything relating to loans these days is backed by some mega bank, which is in cahoots with every other bank, which also runs the federal reserve in the USA, so they basically have overwhelming control of the economy, which happens to be built on trillions of dollars of debt servicing (35t for the government).

The 2008 market crash was a result of fraud at basically every level of the economy from a single person all the way to the board members of banks like BofA, Chase, etc and even the SEC. Realtors were selling faulty and risky adjustable rate mortgages, which were then being packaged into mortgage backed securities (MBS), which were then being misreported as AAA value by every rating agency who were also in cahoots with every bank, which were then being packed into huge collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which they themselves were being repackaged into even bigger CDOs and synthetic CDOs which every bank was basically gambling money on.

All it took was for the faulty mortages to start to fail past only something like 8%, and every thing backing that (MBS, CDOs) collapsed and lost value.

Except because about the only people who were trading these massive gambling pools were banks, so they lied about the value of the assets (particularly the MBSs via aformentioned ratings agencies) which they sold and then promptly shorted to protect themselves from the problem they created.

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Sharing this sentiment will basically get you laughed out of the room from any finance program because so much of the economy is fundamentally based around interest, ie the cost of borrowing money. Even genuinely safe options like credit unions still have interest, albeit at much much lower rates that are much more practical.

But to me, it will always seem like a form of fraud.

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In case your wondering, the reason its polarizing is because there is a significant portion of people that actually do believe the above, notably a lot of Islamic countries. They have lots of banks that do not engage in interest based transactions, which is interesting but often seems to lack any research about it compared to a typical system.

The global market also doesn’t take them too seriously because most of those countries (controversially) also have regular banks too, that also just so happened to be involved with schemes that caused economic turmoil, especially countries that take IMF loans. Most of them have shot themselves in the foot already and have nothing much to stand on now.

Must also hate lines of text longer than 70 characters lol?

TF2 actually suffered from so much stutter until the very recent 64 bit update along with replacing OpenGL with Vulkan

Now I get a clean 300-400 FPS at 1080p which feels insane to me lol.

I actually hate this video so much because it was one of the only notable ones that properly explains how zones, records, and TTL work, and that DNS isn’t just some simple name resolution.

It’s like being forced to use Arch because it’s the only distro that has the latest package available

disgusting lol

Reject modernity

Return to C

I’d say about 99% is the same.

Two notable things that were different were:

• Podman config file is different which I needed to edit where containers are stored since I have a dedicated location I want to use
• The preferred method for running Nvidia GPUs in containers is CDI, which imo is much more concise than Docker’s Nvidia GPU device setup.

The second one is also documented on the CUDA Container Toolkit site, and very easy to edit a compose file to use CDI instead.

There’s also some small differences here and there like podman asking for a preferred remote source instead of defaulting to dockerhub.

“Hey so does that mean you can fix my laptop and make my next gen app idea for free?”

Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli

Looks at every first person shooter demographic

Warthunder lol

I actually got flagged on reddit for a joke comment I made with a 3 liner code block that had something like thread.kill()

It thought I was promoting violence lol

Yeah I should have mentioned the context is FBLA, and Google partially fixed the prompt.

Original from a few weeks ago:

BPA is another student org called Business Professionals of America

The AI ignores the subject context and just compares whatever is the most common acronym.

They lazy patched it by making the model do a subject check on the result, but not on the prompt so it still comes back with the chemical lol.

You can do this with practically any versus question and get hilarious results

This would be funny if it happened to Nvidia.

Hope Intel recovers from this. Imagine if Nvidia was the only consumer hardware manufacturer…

Lol there was a reason Xbox 360s had a whopping 54% failure rate and every OEM was getting sued in the late 2000s for chip defects.