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I found this test of Cities Skylines 2 with the somewhat faster non-laptop version of my GPU. It's so bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNHqs6HYI0I

It _seems_ okay around 1080, but then you realize there's almost nothing going on and it's only doing ~60FPS. It'll choke on anything remotely complex.
That's a ridiculous fallback to the actual problem: preemptively cutting someone's livelihood ahead of a battle.

An alternative: let's send the defendant to public housing before they head to court. They'll still have a roof over their head!
That's not fair.

There is something taught to children about this idea..
Hey this is too cool. Thank you
Those were likely sodium-sulfur batteries. They employ diffusion of sodium ions through a hot ionic conductor, beta-alumina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery
Laminates are closer to hardwood flooring than to vinyl. Put it in simplest terms, they are basically the same as hardwood flooring, but you can only sand and refinish them maybe once or twice. This limits their lifespan, from 100+ years of full hardwood flooring to “only” a 30-40 years for laminate.

Vinyl, on the other hand, is completely different, and is unlikely to survive daily use in serviceable state for more than 20 years, typically even less than that.
I found CLIP to be _amazing_ for all kinds of image search, like search-by-text or search-by-image. I even ported it to NumPy to understand it better. The whole thing is less than 500 lines of Python (including blank lines and comments): https://github.com/99991/NumPyCLIP
You still haven't understood what objective means in the context of a web browser. That's what benchmarks and tests are for, to quantify objective performance of something be it a car or a web browser.

You might not agree with the importance of certain benchmarks or performance metrics because you think the UI is more important to you, but that's called subjectivity then.
I'm not a huge gamer, but I did spend 14 hours a day for a week playing this game once. Never been sucked in to a game like this. And even better if you can find the original music and graphics. The music is excellent, and will play in your dreams.

First time I played Transport Tycoon was on my 486, I got a demo of the original game on a floppy disk out of some PC game magazine. Looking back, it's amazing how much game play fit onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. I ended up purchasing the Deluxe version on a CDROM. I ripped the CD and have kept an image of it ever since, which came in handy when I found OpenTTD and wanted to use the original graphics and content. Chris Sawyer and the OpenTTD devs are legendary in my mind.
You don't build a new greenfield compute pod because you want to, you do it because it makes sense. Making sense is about cost and non-cost needs like data gravity and regulatory issues.

The cost case only works for GPU heavy workloads which this isn’t - wrong chassis, wrong network, etc.

Tofino2 is the wrong choice because even when they made that choice it would have been clear that it’s doa. Intel networking has not been a success center in, well, ever. That’s a selection that could only have been made for nerd reasons and not sensible business goals alignment or risk mitigation.

When you make an integrated solution you’d better be the best or close to the best at everything. This does not seem to be the best at anything. I will grant that it is elegant and largely nicer than the hyper converged story from other vendors but in practical terms this is the 2000s era rack scale VxBlock from Cisco or whatever Dell or HPE package today. Marginally better blade server is not a business.

They also make a big deal and have focused on things no one who actually builds data center pods cares about.

I actually hope they get bought by Dell or HPE or SuperMicro. Those companies could fix what’s wrong here and benefit a lot from the attention to detail and elegance on display.
That involves a really unrealistically narrow and abstract idea of "skill", where they're just some characteristic of an individual that manifest independent of the environment. In practice, people perform differently in different environments, and a high-performer with deep collegial relationships at HyperBiz might have pretty unimpressive impact as a newbie at HoopaCorp. This is even true among engineers, if not especially true among them.

Most of us do better work around good, familiar colleagues (once we find them) than at the place with the biggest TCO budget, and many of us prefer to work somewhere that invites our best work more than one that let us buy the fancier trim line on our already-luxury car.

The cultural distinction isn't "valuing skill" vs "valuing loyalty" - it's a worldview of radical individualism vs interdependent pragmatism.
> 99%

I don't think that's accurate. There's tons of complaints and legit issues with performance for sure, but I don't think making up numbers (likely grossly exaggerated) is helpful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17fsdx9/hav...
I’d much rather turn a knob than look to the passenger, say “hold on, stop talking so i can change the volume. car, turn down the volume… car, slightly turn up the volume” i find the noise level i want
It's a huge issue, considering the game doesn't look like a revolution in graphics AND you're essentially playing it on a super-computer by 5-6 year old standards.

> I put 8 hours into Frostpunk before realizing I was limited to 30FPS.

Yes, and I have beaten games that rendered improperly at sub-30FPS as a kid, because the requirement was 16MB of VRAM, while my card only had 8. But that's just as irrelevant to the point being made.
Websites can contain links to other websites. But, even for links to the same website, the user agent and unique combination of requests is enough to identify this as use of the share menu and track which users/IPs/whatever shared links to your website.

Definitely can be classed as a privacy violation.
> Early internet took it's cues from previously published communications
> I challenge you to name any aspect of a VR shopping

I think I know where the disconnect is. You're comparing to the wrong historical period, granted they were rather short. I think this is a common mistake, for the metaverse it isn't 2002 when Amazon started selling clothing, it's not even 1995 when CNN launched their website, I don't even think it's 1991 since we haven't settled on a protocol that would allow the equivalent of websites which would be something like the worlds you see in VRChat but not limited to a single app. It's going to happen soon though, it seems like USD might be the HTML of the metaverse[0] and once that gets hammered out things will really take off.

Shopping is not going to be the "killer app" of the metaverse no matter how much big corps want it. It'll come after the fact like it did with the web.

> metaverse content because it's... the same thing but worse

You're still thinking of flat content here. VR is not for flat content. You can have flat content in it if you want but it's not the reason people go to VR. The term used most often for the things people seek out in VR are "experiences" those can be interactive games, social gatherings or just passive full immersion. It's similar to what people seek out in the real world, novelty, surprise, laughter, connection. The best way to get across why this is better than just leaving your house is to imagine you live in a small town, without VR your options are pretty limited but with VR you have (or will eventually have as more content becomes available) any experience you want and the ability to share it with others available from within your own home. That was a similar proposition to the early internet, why would you endure the expense and difficulty of buying a computer, paying fees, and spending hours hunched over a monochrome terminal poking away at a keyboard just so you could talk to someone on the other end when you could just go talk to your neighbours? That's the motivation.

Coming back to the flat content. Low resolution doesn't really matter that much when you're watching a movie on a theatre sized screen with a bunch of other people from around the world. What matters is being able to turn to the person beside you and say "omg this is my favorite part!" or whispering back and forth about the film or getting up and acting out the scene with friends and laughing about it. No one cares that it isn't 4k since you aren't there just to watch the movie in silence, do that in your living room if that's what you want.

The best parts of social VR or "the metaverse" aren't browsing web pages, looking at pictures or watching movies. They're sitting around a room talking to people, wandering through a crowded world like you're at a party and taking in all the conversations, dancing, trying out different worlds and games with friends for the first time, going to a live show or any of the other varied experiences on offer.

It's about being with people not about consuming content.

[0] https://www.roadtovr.com/nvidia-usd-html-metaverse-foundatio...
Elitism is a disease we should not cater to in any circumstance.
> Fossil fuels have historically and still benefit from incredible amounts of explicit subsidies (e.g. government money) and implicit policies (e.g. unpriced externalities like pollution and CO2).

Fossil fuels receive an estimated ~$7T ($1.3T of which are direct "government money" subsidies) subsidies globally[0]. That's about 7.3% of global GDP subsidizing an energy source that comprises over 80% of the world consumption[1]. Honestly, it sounds like a pretty good deal.

Are you claiming that without any subsidies, that >80% of all energy consumed (or some substantial fraction thereof) would naturally come from renewable sources? That sounds unrealistic with present-day technology, and optimistic even for the foreseeable future. Besides, renewables aren't free of negative externalities, either.

In the end, existence itself is an imposition on the surroundings. Would you tell the caveman not to burn sticks for warmth, out of respect to CO2 emissions? Would you tell the people of the developing world that increased energy expenditure per capita, no matter the source, necessarily results in a greater impact to the environment?

No policy is going to "solve" the fact that we live in a world of limited resources that we must economize to bring about maximal human flourishing. Fossil fuels have done a pretty good job at that. I welcome developments in nuclear and renewable technology, but I question your assertion that some kind of panacea can be achieved with renewables where we can maintain our present population and standards of living and have a radically smaller footprint on the environment.

[0]: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...

[1]: https://www.iea.org/reports/key-world-energy-statistics-2021...
They're intentionally killing it slowly through malicious neglect. It's already unable to deal with some things in user profiles and the image galleries which force you into the new awful.
The lithium in Li-ion batteries is never in metallic form. I believe the sodium batteries being discussed here also leave the sodium in ionic form.
There's certain problematic graphical settings for CS2 right now. If you have a potato GPU and put it on low settings (as you should with a low end GPU) the performance is fine.

My card is below the recommended specs and its perfectly playable with a city of 50k.
Nice try. I said food costs 50% more and showed where that number came from. Now you're saying I need to reduce the standard of my "basked of goods" to make it fair. Guess what, that's how they come up with inflation numbers, too! Adjust the basket until you get the narrative you want. I had to substitute milk because a) it's a weekly purchase in our house and b) the previously cheapest brand in our area is no longer available, so I chose the next cheapest equivalent.

You asked for receipts, I gave you a literal transcript of my receipts at no cost to you with actual prices that showed a 47.5% increase in our grocery bill over the past two years. I showed you mine, you show me yours. Show me how you're not spending around 50% more than two years ago for equivalent products. Those two receipts are reasonably representative of the things we buy at Walmart and cover most food groups.

We typically buy the cheapest brand, usually private label store brands, except when there is a noticeable difference in quality. I took many brands off for brevity, but 12 of the 28 were Walmart brands and 5 were commodity vegetables. If a local chain grocer has a better price, we buy it there, but typically a week's worth of groceries cannot be found by just buying weekly specials.

The very reason I know where my receipts are and could make the list so quickly was because we are ruthless about keeping cost-of-living low, track prices religiously, and avoid spending money on higher priced equivalents within reasonable limits (there might be a cheaper price on widget foo across town, but if the transportation cost to get it is higher, then I cannot realize the cheaper price).

I could reduce my standards even further and replace all of it with boxed macaroni[0], but even that has increased 35% in the last 19 months[1] (the earliest price I can find, about 44% increase extrapolated to 24 months). (Target's store brand Mac & Cheese is only up 18%, but still more expensive than Walmart.)

0 - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Walmart-Great-Value-Original-Maca...
1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220325010216/https://www.walma...
I don't know how you're coming to that conclusion. 200k's not going to buy you a large house, but it'll comfortably pay rent/food/savings for a 2-3 bedroom house or apartment for a family of 2-4 in all but the very most expensive parts of the Bay.

For mortgages, you'd need to be looking in the cheaper parts of the Bay, but that still means "dense, boring suburb" as opposed to "crime-ridden slum".
DataHub is AMAZING!!!! I can't believe it slipped under my radar! Thanks for sharing/prompting me.
iMessage Contact Key Verification Added in iOS 17.2 and macOS Sonoma 14.2
just fooling around with their demo web console ..

"A disk cannot be added or attached unless the instance is creating or stopped."
"A network interface cannot be created or edited unless the instance is stopped."

really?
I'm pretty sure this is referring to PAID product placements. You want your bad guy to have an iPhone? Rock on. Just don't expect Apple to cut you a check for the privilege.
At least AWS sort of provides tooling to approximate this. I have some alerts setup in CloudWatch for anomalous Network Out, estimated charges exceeding a threshold, and a raw Network Out limit that if exceeded shuts instances down.

Overtime, bandwidth costs have gone down for AWS. What's finally causing me to think about jumping ship (surprised OP didn't mention OVH's unmetered stuff) is their upcoming pricing per month for IPv4 addresses. The alternative is proxying through CloudFlare, which I don't particularly want to do.
Mysterious bylines appeared on a USA Today site. Did these writers exist?
There are cities named Palestine in the US.
That’s basically what I’m referring to. Take a small child and show them the same violent movie scene, and they’ll scream and perhaps have nightmares. Over time we learn that some things are not real and most of us get over that but my point was that this is learned, not innate.
Andrew seems to mostly disagree with Qualcomm in general and is rejecting the idea not so much out of technical merit but because he doesn't believe them. Qualcomm is definitely not alone with its dislike of the C extension and trying to wholesale dismiss criticisms of it because they're coming from Qualcomm is not appropriate.
> Optimizations will come

As someone that has played C:S 8 years ago and last year, I'll tell you, not really, at least, not from people like paradox.
According to Collossal Order: https://twitter.com/ColossalOrder/status/1716883884724322795

> If you're having issues with performance, we recommend you reduce screen resolution to 1080p, disable Depth of Field and Volumetrics, and reduce Global Illumination while we work on solving the issues affecting performance.

I tried it and had no problems. Everything is smooth, no visual problems. I have a mid-tier Radeon from 3 years ago.

Yeah they fucked up the launch and it's unfortunate they're getting such negative press, but it's a city simulator it doesn't need 120FPS, what are we talking about?

If you want to just have fun and go build cities, there's a clear path for it
>Proposing sweeping changes is easy - making them work is hard and prone to making things even worse instead.

The US has the worse outcomes for the amount of money its Healthcare industry funnels in.
There is pixel-perfection and 'pixel-perfection'. One is a pointless fight against the nature of the medium while the other is love for the craft, sophistication, and actually giving a fuck that something isn't needlessly 2 pixels off of where it should have been. A certain attitude that will show its mark throughout the UI.
> Most of them are not paragons of optimization (well, except maybe Factorio). But these are not action games so FPS is not really something I personally optimize for and I don't necessarily understand the importance of benchmarking it against, like, Cyberpunk.

In many of these games, FPS is correlated with simulation speed. So when the fps starts to chug, the simulations starts going slower too.
s/because they were trying to exit from the inside/you were trying to outrace them in the outside lane/

The two lanes are there in larger, busier roundabouts to reduce collisions, not for "slower traffic, keep right"; it's not a freeway. Cars enter the outer lane, and may use the inside lane to avoid other cars entering.
Terraform-null-label: the why and how it should be used
I get on the regular up to 200-500kbps depending on number of peers, and their router configuration (I have my bandwidth configured above the defaults, which are very low).

I understand that is unheard of from someone living in the "instant access era" but their protocol has a cost.
SpaceX and Tesla both enjoyed most success despite Musk's continual rank incompetence by isolating him as the figurehead money guy while puffing his ego letting him cosplay a rocket scientist/tech expert for the press. At both companies he's got handlers to limit and manage the damage he causes. At Twitter he had no handlers and his rank incompetence is on full display, as it was in the PayPal days when he was rightly fired for incompetence.
There are very reasonable hardwood materials available - it's just better to prefer sourcing them from countries without illegal exploitation issues. Canadian hardwood is pretty affordable and quite durable for flooring - as an alternative.
> I don't know what this plastic wood is tbh

It's basically combining wood fibres with a plastic resin (instead of lignin as in natural wood), then manufactured with some kind of molding or extrusion process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%E2%80%93plastic_composite
> So what?

if you're asking this question then we don't have anything to talk about
Credal.ai raises $4.8M to help Enterprises secure their use of LLMs
The details would be things such as the requirements associated with the white glove installation process:

Size of doorways, weight bearing capacity of floors, electrical service parameters, environmental conditions, etc.

e.g. Does it actually handle electrical voltage fluctuations of +/- 1V, or whatever is advertised?

The guaranteed parameters of a fully set up machine:

Minimum performance metrics, software compatibility with whatever the sales department promised, maximum power draw, etc.

e.g. Can it reliably hit X metric (FLOPS, IOPS, Integer calculations, etc.)?

And so on.
And even if such filters are somehow so intensive, they should be turned off by default. I am playing Cities Skylines 2 and there is so much unnecessary eye candy that is turned on even with a mid-range graphics card. The game runs fine for me at 1440p when I turn off the really intensive post processing.
Server actions sounds great for small projects. Type safety in those calls seems like it can replace a tRPC server in small projects and SaaS MVPs.
Polyurethane is a type of plastic, and is the most common wood finish for floors.
There is a HUGE difference between 30fps and 60fps games. Very noticable. I got used to 60fps so much, that I don't even touch 30fps anymore.

It's true that your eyes(or brain?) can get used to the 30fps after some time. But if you compare them side by side...
This is getting downvoted, but I openly wonder how many ports and emulations releases Super Mario Brothers has received.
The game is originally from 1994, what do you expect? We didn't even have 3dfx 3d accelerator cards back then. OpenTTD will run smooth on a Pi. It ran smooth on my 486 when it first came out.
They probably should have mentioned the CPU specs at least, but it's very easy to look at utilization while the game is running and see that it's GPU bound even with high-end video cards.

Not to mention that this is on an empty map, so there's very little simulation even happening yet, and the big FPS gains come from turning down GPU effects like DoF and motion blur.
My kids have a hyphenated last name; my wife's last name starts with A, mine starts with L, and the kids' last name is A-L to give them "alphabetical privilege". Also, she carried the kids.
And there are mass quantities of sodium underground, in salt and anhydrite layers.
Thanks for writing this question up ;)
I worked with a Filipino friend. He mentioned in the town he grew up in someone tried to open a market that competed with the other two markets in town and they burned his store down and ran him out of town. He said that's the reality in a lot of the world. Some places the means to do that aren't as overt but they still exist and are effective.
Congrats, Bryan and team! I've been following your evolution for a while now. People might just look at it and say "It's just a rack of CPUs and storage." And I can only imagine just how much you might be tempted to throttle them (or at least flame them in online posts).

Over the decades the separation between "software" people and "hardware" people has grown. With "cloud" people have grown comfortable papering over poor basic performance by abstracting away even your visibility into how a system is running. "You don't need to worry about that! It's ~serverless~." But you'll worry when that bill comes due at the end of the month.

With systems like Oxide, you are allowing users to once again actually see what they get, and ensure they get what they paid for, from a high-end cloud server.

It should be putting other systems providers on-notice that the days of flaky, non-performant, and poorly-integrated components are behind us. People want beasts from their servers.

And software designers, this is also your wake-up call that you can't just put lousy-performing software with poor CPU utilization and memory hogging on big metal and hope that it's "good enough." You really need to design your software to run ~efficiently~ in such systems.
Well, they didn't say the stock was the same for every employee...
It's likely they had a financial agreement with their publisher that stated that the game would launch prior to November 2023 or they would lose some % of the revenue. Publisher contracts often also mandate a certain Metacritic score must be met in order to receive full payment.
I personally greatly prefer the 2D, handcrafted, pixel art look of games like OpenTTD, SimCity 2000 and Factorio over 3D sim games like CS.
Why would anyone design that? Only the things you're unlikely to use while driving should be strictly voice controlled
I really liked this when I was a kid, it looks like it may be available to download

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Tycoon

It was a _little_ buggy and felt like some feature's were about 80%, but overall pretty fun.