Exactly, think of all the billions that have been spent to subsidize renewable energy instead of building insulation, public transport, heat pumps, etc. The net balance would have been better (more energy saved than supply increased) and it would have shifted the mix from fossil to electricity more.

I don’t know for UK, but I’d reckon most of the commercial deficit in EU wrt USA is gas, not food.

From my understanding, AI is the general field of automating logical (“intelligent”) tasks.

Within it, you will find Machine Learning algorithms, the ones that are trained on exemplar data, but also other methods, for instance old text generators based on syntactic rules.

Within Machine Learning, not all methods use Neural Networks, for instance if you have seen cool brake calipers and rocket nozzle designed with AI, I believe those were made with genetic algorithms.

For procedural generation, I assume there is a whole range of methods that can be used:

• Unreal Engine Megaplants seems to contain configurable tree generation algorithms, that’s mostly handcrafted algorithms with maybe some machine learning to find the parameters ranges.
• Motion capture and 3D reconstruction models can be used to build the assets. I don’t believe these rely on stolen artist data.
• Full on image generation models (sora, etc.) to produce assets and textures, these require training on stolen artist data AFAIK (some arrangements were made between some companies but I suspect it’s marginal).

More specifically he underestimated the preparation of Ukrainian soldiers, notably the fact that NATO instructors came to share their training and tactics and help to prepare for the next war. He was well aware of it though, he used that as an argument that Ukraine was about to join NATO.

This is what-if thinking. Right now the Russian are clearly showing disinterest in negotiating the end of the war, they are fully prepared to sacrifice more lives in order to gain territories, there is no reason to think they weren’t already at the start.

AI is the new consulting firm.

With all due respect, the best of your technology keeps loosing in competitions and doesn’t sell unless you bully countries into buying that crap.

Usually small, they have a trust company buy the yacht. As a company, it benefits from various advantages/cuts and can be located in the most optimal country. Then the company rents the yacht at cost to the rich person so that the company does not declare profits, the rich person does not own the expensive yacht themselves and they can even deduce the rents from their declared fortune.

Plague tale (requiem in particular) is also ridiculously beautiful on mid range GPUs. I couldn’t believe my graphic card was able to do that. It’s a shame games reviews and screenshots don’t account for average setups because that’s what most of us have and some developers deserve praise to make it work for us.

Are you playing with gyro aiming? I also loved the gameplay of the first one and was disappointed by the second. My hypothesis is that aiming without gyro was too tedious so they updated the gameplay to require less aiming. Not that the game tries to be realistic anyway but the combo/special attacks and the time spent in the inventory/wheel kinda break the immersion/flow for me.

I felt dishonored offered many more options to move around, the level design had more surprises and verticality which multiplies options. Sneaking is a viable gameplay approach which I love (personal taste here). The characters and dialogs have a lot more depth and there is a lot more lore to discover along the way.

Also It might be my fault because I opted to avoid typhoon upgrades, but the mid game was really tedious due to ammo scarcity and the end game was too easy after that.

Prey. It’s inferior to the older Dishonored games in pretty much every aspect.

Many websites now just block a large range of cloud and VPS services in order to reduce DDOS from AI crawlers. For youtube and reddit you can still access if you are logged in though.

You fail to mention how fair the taxes and redistribution are, and they are ever more unfair every passing year.

GNU only stipulates that the code must be released. Whether it is as an inconvenient dump of a well structured code history is not specified.

Google has stopped releasing parts of android as open source and it releases some as a code dump without the modification history to make harder to use. Android forks are going to struggle to keep up.

Hydrogen is hard to contains long term, it leaks through most materials. I’m no expert on the matter but I suspect the gains in lift would be partly negated by the changes to the envelope of the container.

Gnome also has a few nice things that I miss whenever I try kde or cosmic. It really depends on what you need from your DE.

Look what Paris is currently up to — now that’s an un-peaceful protest.

It’s been overwhelmingly peaceful, especially when put in perspective to the size, typical media bait…

How comes no one mentioned plague tale (both games) ? I don’t know how good the English voice acting is, but in French it was really poignant.