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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Here's what I got with duckduckgo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bus doesn't even run on Sundays where I live in large areas (one of the top 10 largest cities in the US)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

I think it took note of it being about rescue pigeons and assumed they would have a tag on them and then gave cooking directions for them

 

I've noticed that talking to people that some common tropes seem to come up when topics like socialism come up.

Basically I hear a lot of defense of capitalism that boils down to capitalism is good because "I personally benefit". As well as "I've heard bad things about socialism", ie taxes are too high in countries with good healthcare and social programs.

I wanted to know if other people have these issues come up in conversation and if people more well spoken than me have a way of getting through the road blocks and have some easy starting points for discussing things with people.

I feel like propaganda and fear mongering have placed a divide that make talking about things harder

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Spoiler for a later strip

The Borg don't want him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

While I don't know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I'm assuming there's some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn't have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain that the left one is Combat Evolved

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I'd argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Depending on when you do it it's possible there could be very little resistance or security in your way in some hypothetical situations. For example let's say a court order goes through for FB to release something from their servers, if an independent person with no ties to the company suddenly decided to go after the servers a less than ethical organization might see that as a golden opportunity to do whatever would allow that to happen while still getting them caught afterwards. I'm just having a fun thought exercise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No but that's like a major red flag type of thing. I was wondering how they get away with that to begin with

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All right it says in the wiki that this all kicked off because a kid was getting disciplined at school for something they did in their bedroom and no details are given about that part. That alone seems really messed up

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the process still relies on fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a protein-rich growth supplement for animal cell cultures.

FBS, which costs around £300 to £700 per litre

That's a fancy serum made from cow blood

Also this all comes from a submission to an art museum in 2020, it's not supposed to be an actual product it's more of a proof of concept type of thing.

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