I'd be worried if Musk's recent investments were worthwhile.

What's compression?

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Oh yes - I was on Slashdot and I'll throw in Fark. :-)

Do we have free will to think a given thought? All of my thoughts just suddenly appear in my mind or are connected to previous thoughts that suddenly appeared in my mind.

Steam is clunky... Exit -> Oh you want to exit? Let me launch a new window letting you know I'm shutting down and take about 20 seconds while I was sitting here idle before you asked to shutdown.

See you tomorrow where I'll validate your games again. Just in case!

The system could only display 400-something colors at a time. Once you reduce the number of colors that can be used, you lose gradients so one color doesn't ease into another color. Due to this, art styles were typically different and used contrast to "pop" the characters and items visuals in game since being more realistic wasn't an easy (or possible) option.

Now that we can have millions of colors, you can do whatever style you want.

A similar thing happened as polygon counts went up.

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Violence is more effective for kids?

Requesting source on that one. Here's what I found: https://www.developmentalscience.com/blog/2022/2/10/hitting-children-leads-to-trauma-not-better-behavior

Definitely won't last forever, but hard to say how long they have. Hoping things fall apart for them sooner vs later so we can actually have a functioning government.

I agree, but so far the extremists have been proven right. Their way or the highway has, so far, worked for them to get them to where they are at: minority rulers within their party.

I saw this, hit the X to close that pop-up and continued on as usual. Just me?