The big waste of resources is not the 25 separate connections to a high-bandwidth video call. That’s kind of minor. The big waste is these 25 bots running separate LLM queries each.

I’d expect Israel to see the decline at 2024. For Russia I’d expect it to be at 2022. By 2025 these countries probably didn’t see a decline simply because they started from a low baseline.

I also didn’t mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.

Weren’t the black and white buttons replaced by triggers? The joystick buttons already existed in the first XBox.

The original PS1 controller didn’t have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.

Right. I meant the second PS1 controller, not the original one. The design changed over the years, but the general specs stayed as the baseline of controllers.

The XBox layout with its six face buttons did not stick, and the XBox 360 conformed with Sony’s design of four face buttons and two triggers. Which makes more sense for shooters (since you have more buttons while keeping your thumb on the right thumbstick)

The entire industry has agreed on a de-facto standard for controllers, which is pretty much the PS1 controller:

• Two clickable thumbsticks
• Four face buttons
• D-pad
• Four triggers
• Two menu buttons
• The only thing the PS1 didn’t have (but games can’t use it, so maybe it doesn’t count?) - a button for showing the platform’s menu

You can add things on top of that (trackpads, gyros, making some of these digital buttons analog), but if you don’t have that - your controller won’t work for games that expect these inputs to be available.

If I had to put a date on when this became the established standard, I’d say 2005 or 2006 - the years when the XBox 360 and the PS3 were released, since both consoles had these capabilities (Nintendo kept doing its own thing, and only supported this standard starting with the Wii U). So when the Steam controller was released in 2015 - this standard was already established, controllers for PC made sure to support it - and even PC games stuck to it.

This is why I think the Steam Controller failed - you had to map it. You couldn’t use it like you would a standard controller even if the game was made for standard controllers.

Just how docile are your cats? If I’d take my cats to the bus without a container I’d have to run back and forth trying to fish them from the overhead storage racks when I reach my stop.

I tried releasing them in my car once, and they managed to squeeze under the driver and passenger seats. At least that was an environment fully under my control.

The hate being picked up in general, even if there is no threat of vet, so they’ll struggle to get out of my arms and if they succeed - I’ve lost the element of surprise.

Also - I have two cats, and if I need to take both to vet then even if I manage to place one in a carrier he’ll alert the other that something is wrong.

The problem is getting a hold of them in the first place. They just bolt from one hiding place to another, and I say “hiding place” but they’re not as much “hidden” as “hard to reach when you are a human-sized human”. The only reason I eventually manage to catch them is that ambush predators get tired quicker than persistence predators.

Persistence predation is the only way I can manage to take my cats to the vet.

Order of magnitude better. Three orders of magnitudes better once you also fix the misuse of percentages.

No matter where you click, it’ll open some pop-unders for the first few clicks.

Plot twist - the one calling out your anime pfp has a furry pfp

People died in concentration camps too - they are still distinct from death camps. There may be death camps in the near future, but there aren’t yet.

Concentration camps are bad enough as is, and calling facilities like Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps has the advantage that it’s the truth - they check all the boxes in the concentration camp definition checklist. If you make stuff up for dramatic effect your argument is no longer factually correct - which means it can be disputed using facts.

I mean, clapping between words (syllables in this case, but who cares) automatically makes your claims the indisputable truth. Anyone with some internet experience can tell you that.

Is voting for continuing to drive on the road harm reduction? It’d keep the bus from getting ice cream until people vote to drive off the cliff out of boredom.

Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.

“The America Party”?

TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it’s pronounceable.

Don’t be ridiculous. The machine that crushes the mother is not the orphan crushing machine - that’s the orphan making machine. Different part of the same pipeline. Don’t confuse them - they are maintained by different companies.

It’s Rule 34. It’s always real.