People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.
There's also a lot of complaints about stuttering, and the game wouldn't launch at all for a lot of people when it first came out.
I've long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.
They were considering blocking Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine, which is almost all of Firefox 's revenue.
It kinda makes sense, chome being the dominant browser gives Google a search advantage, and the other alternatives (like safari and Firefox) both make deals with Google to have it be the default as well.
But removing those deals would be more disastrous for Firefox than for Google.
We avoided the worst outcome, they were considering killing Firefox to prevent a Google internet monopoly.
Yeah, I was recently reading about how a companies went from getting a couple hundred resumes a quarter to 1000s of resumes a month. They're either using AI to try to process them, or ignoring resumes completely to use recruiter services.
I think astronaut has a higher skill floor than guitarist. I don't mentally separate astronauts into categories like amateur/average/talented/expert, it's just assumed that any astronaut is an expert. Leading with describing someone as a guitarist before you mention they're an astronaut too implies that they're also an expert guitarist.
So basically it's the difference between:
An expert guitarist who's also an expert astronaut
An expert astronaut who's also an amateur guitar player.
I recently helped work on a firetruck at a shop that works on existing trucks. They repair/rebuild their bodies, and do a lot of custom work. It's common for firestations to buy decommissioned trucks from other stations, and have this shop rebuild them rather than buying a new truck.
The truck I was working on had a light tower on it, with 6 led lights. During the work, one of the employees there asked me how much I thought the individual lights on the tower cost. An equivalently bright LED light would normally cost around $100, but because it was going on a firetruck I guessed it would have a premium price and guessed $300-400. Instead he told me each light was about $1500, making the set of 6 lights worth $9000.
The whole job was interesting, basically everything they had to buy new was way overpriced compared to the non-firetruck versions of the parts.
https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2022/07/no-homicide-case-went-unsolved-in-huntsville-in-2021.html
Here's an article on it, it was actually in 2021 (where the rest of the data was from 2023) so the 100% rate probably isn't the case anymore. Basically they attribute it to having a really low base crime rate compared to other cities, saying that it frees them up to give a lot of attention and resources to each one.
I suspect that's just because of Birmingham, and possibly Mobile. They have pretty bad crime rates, and Birmingham is the state's main "blue city", at least based on how counties voted in the 2024 election.
Birmingham had a violent crime rate of 1440 per 100k, making it one the worst cities in the nation for violent crime.
Mobile had a crime rate of 825 per 100k. Mobile's county was slightly red in the 2023 election.
Meanwhile Huntsville (who was slightly red in that same election) had a violent crime rate of 133 per 100k, and has been proudly claiming a 100% arrest and conviction rate for homicide cases. So to answer @yarr@feddit.nl's question, I guess Huntsville is an example of a successful "red" city (although it may be less successful in coming years due to Trump's NASA cuts).
Rural Alabama (excluding counties that were classified as metropolitan) had a violent crime rate of 248 per 100k, making it less safe than Huntsville but far better than the state average of 494 per 100k.
I'm not going to actually claim that the crime rate is just from politics, Huntsville has a big aerospace industry and it's probably more of an education/class thing than anything else. But regardless those are the violent crime rate numbers for 2023, so feel free to draw your own conclusions.
The tech industry is all about growth. For better or worse facebook has basically grown to it's max size, and it's unrealistic to expect any significant growth there. Zuck is trying to sell investors and shareholders on the idea that Meta is going to be at the center of the next massive thing. Some years ago he thought it was going to be VR, and it's completely unsurprising that he now thinks it's going to be AI (unsurprising because every other tech company thinks the same thing).
Except Microsoft will randomly decide the updates are critical and force install them anyways. I literally switched to Linux because Microsoft kept force installing an update that would lock up my PC until I reverted to a recovery. I tried everything I could to disable them, disabling updates, delaying updates, marking the network as metered, editing the registry to disable updates, etc. Some of those worked for awhile, but in the end, as long as the PC was connected to the Internet eventually Microsoft would start installing the update again making the computer unusable.
Been on Linux ever since.