Entered the US illegally and is now claiming asylum? He’s really hoping being a white conservative is going to stop him from going to jail.

Making great progress! Bill is such a great character. He’s turned his town into a fortress occupied only by him. Sounds great until you realize he’s been alone for years. It’s less of a fortress and more of a prison and, with the way he talks to himself, you get the sense that the isolation is starting to wear on him. Even then, when given the opportunity to leave, he doesn’t. He’s going to die alone in that place because he sees trusting others as a weakness. Something he tries to impress onto Joel. But does Joel want to be like Bill? Does he want to be like Tess? Such a great chapter!

“A speed camera that has recently spent more time on its side or in a pond than it has upright and functioning has clearly fallen well short of addressing the dangerous speeding on Parkside Drive,” Gholizadeh said.

It has issued over 68,000 speeding tickets and generated over $7 million in fines to date, according to Safe Parkside.

It has spent most of its time inactive and still generated $7 million in revenue?

That’s around $100 per person which is approximately the fine for going 17 km/h over the posted speed (17 × $3 per km/h over × 2 for being in a community saftey zone). The posted speed limit is 40 km/h. The average person is therefore going 57 km/h.

Reminds me of Frank Sinatra’s burger recipe.

Canada: from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning “village”. The word was told to French explorer Jacques Cartier, who believed it referred to a much larger area than it actually did.

I’d say the story of part 2 explores a different theme. The writing and acting are still top notch, it’s just not a theme people wanted to explore. The gameplay and scenery are arguably improved so I’d still recommend it.

It’s mostly the training/machine learning that is power hungry.

AI is essentially a giant equation that is generated via machine learning. You give it a prompt with an expected answer, it gets run through the equation, and you get an output. That output gets an error score based on how far it is from the expected answer. The variables of the equation are then modified so that the prompt will lead to a better output (one with a lower error).

The issue is that current AI models have billions of variables and will be trained on billions of prompts. Each variable will be tuned based on each prompt. That’s billions to the power of billions of calculations. It takes a while. AI researchers are of course looking for ways to speed up this process, but so far it’s mostly come down to dividing up these billions of calculations over millions of computers. Powering millions of computers is where the energy costs come from.

Unless AI models can be trained in a way that doesn’t require running a billion squared calculations, they’re only going to get more power hungry.

I did. I like to read opinions to see if any good points are raised. I don’t see any valid points in this article. The author derives Carney’s entire personality from a 5 minute photo op where a chef helps him cook some pancakes at the Calgary Stampede.

The author suggests Carney is an angry authoritarian who hates working class people due to his behaviour in that photo op. Specifically, things like not picking up a pancake he dropped on the ground, and saying the reason he couldn’t flip a pancake well was because the chef was making them way too big.

I’ve seen many valid criticisms of Carney, but this article isn’t one.

If you purposefully look for stuff to be mad at, you’ll find it. Guy can’t cook pancakes. It’s a good thing PM doesn’t mean Pancake Maker. Let’s see the author of this article be the head of a central bank or negotiate a trade deal with the European Union.

Oh, sorry.

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The numbers, mason, what do they mean?

I loved this game so much! You’re in for a treat! Last of Us certainly has a way of making the apocalypse look gorgeous. All those reclaimed by nature cityscapes are amazing.

If you like the scenery and gameplay of this one then you’ll enjoy it in the second game too. Maybe lower your story writing expectations a bit though…

Weird. That works all the time on Pawn Stars

That’s one way to support your sister…

Pinecone? I don’t get it…

It’s in the quoted text: “Including third-party games”. I’ll bold it.

B. Hardware, Subscriptions; Content and Services

As a Subscriber you may obtain access to certain services, software and content available to Subscribers or purchase certain Hardware (as defined below) on Steam. The Steam client software and any other software, content, and updates you download or access via Steam, including but not limited to Valve or third-party video games and in-game content, software associated with Hardware and any virtual items you trade, sell or purchase in a Steam Subscription Marketplace are referred to in this Agreement as “Content and Services;” the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are referred to in this Agreement as “Subscriptions.”

B. Hardware, Subscriptions; Content and Services

As a Subscriber you may obtain access to certain services, software and content available to Subscribers or purchase certain Hardware (as defined below) on Steam. The Steam client software and any other software, content, and updates you download or access via Steam, including but not limited to Valve or third-party video games and in-game content, software associated with Hardware and any virtual items you trade, sell or purchase in a Steam Subscription Marketplace are referred to in this Agreement as “Content and Services;” the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are referred to in this Agreement as “Subscriptions.”

Where does it say you own your games?

It’s in Ubisoft’s EULA as well

Upon termination for any reason, You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.

Even though this clause seems to be in most EULA I’ve never heard of it actually being enforced. I’m guessing it’s to prevent some kind of loophole where you can agree to an EULA, install a game, and then terminate your agreement in order to use the game without needing to follow any rules. If you can terminate the agreement at any time without needing to delete the game, then why not always do that?

But it is in Larian’s EULA

Upon termination all licenses granted to you in this Pact shall immediately terminate and you must immediately and permanently remove the Game from your device and destroy all copies of the Game in your possession.

And in Phasmophobia’s EULA

10.2.3 you must immediately delete or remove the Game from all computer equipment in your possession and immediately destroy or return to us (at our option) all copies of the Game then in your possession, custody or control and, in the case of destruction, certify to us that you have done so.

So why Ubisoft? It’s common in lots of games. Do people want to change EULAs in general or just want to hate on Ubisoft for doing something that’s common?