Ghostalmedia

Ghostalmedia , 8 hours ago

It could. But it won’t

Vote.

Ghostalmedia , 18 hours ago

The increase of male births can be linked to a historical preference for sons, a decline in birth rates driven by gender selection preferences and advancements in technology, such as ultrasound, that facilitate gender selection, according to the report. The report also emphasized that the prolonged period of a skewed sex ratio at birth since the 1970s has had a significant impact on marriage rates. Regions with high marriage rate imbalances are characterized by particularly skewed sex ratios at birth during the 1980s and 1990s.

So basically a lot of people saw a vagina in the ultrasound and decided quit and restart the level.

Ghostalmedia , 17 hours ago

This isn’t the only country that’s an example of this.

Ghostalmedia , 21 hours ago (edited 21 hours ago)

IMHO, it depends on the game and the remake. The old Halo games are probably the best case study on what to do and what not to do.

Halo CE - Don’t do that. The game was old enough to warrant major texture, geometry, and animation upgrades, but the developer also completely changed the art style.

Halo 2 - Do this. It’s the old art style, but with more detail. The game looks like how you think it looked, until you toggle the old graphics on and see how it ACTUALLY looked.

Halo 3 - Do this. The game was in good enough shape to just need a few frame rate, texture, and resolution bumps. New animation and geometry wasn’t needed, and avoiding that was the right call.

Ghostalmedia , 19 hours ago

Yeah, I wonder why they never added the option to combo new visuals and old sounds. MCC will only allow old audio with the old graphics.

That said, it’s still one of those games where I get together with my middle aged friends, and no one thinks much about the game’s in-game presentation until someone toggles the graphics, then people suddenly realize a LOT more has been updated that they realize.

IMHO, they did a better job than most at recapturing how the game felt when you played it back in the day. Not all of the creative choices were perfect, but nailed a lot of it.

Ghostalmedia , 21 hours ago

Puppies destroy your furniture for a few months if you’re not paying attention. Cats demand sacrificial furniture that they can fuck up life.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4786ac2e-9092-4262-a622-d48a738207af.jpeg

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Why is Robert De Niro there?

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

IMHO, part of the big problem is that this is a state budget. State budgets are much more restrictive than a federal budget. States can’t print money, and they’re stuck in a race to the bottom with other states in “incentivizing” big business to stay in the state and pay taxes. I feel like we need some proper income laws at the federal level to really fix this.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

A reference that no one under 40 will get.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

I guess talk show hosts did get about a decade out of that dick joke.

Ghostalmedia , 8 hours ago

Me going through TSA…

I want to look and smile that the good boi, but I must look ahead and ignore him, because he is at work. Also because I have indica gummies on me so I can sleep on the plane. So I need to play it cool.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Paywall

Some Microsoft insiders worry the company’s AI strategy has become too focused on its partnership with OpenAI.

A few even grumble that the software giant has turned into a glorified IT department for the hot startup. These comments were part of a recent exclusive story from Business Insider in which Microsoft insiders shared candid views on the company’s AI future and its new Copilot tools.

The group at the center of this is Microsoft’s AI Platform team, run by Eric Boyd. This sits within Scott Guthrie’s Cloud + AI organization.

Insiders say Microsoft is focused less on the internal services that previously made up Azure AI Services and more on the Azure OpenAI service.

One former executive who left as a result of the changes said products like Azure Cognitive Search, Azure AI Bot Service, and Kinect DK are practically gone. Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw said these services exist in some form but either aren’t part of the Azure AI org, have been renamed, or have been bundled with other products.

“The former Azure AI is basically just tech support for OpenAI,” a former Microsoft executive said. "Eric Boyd is effectively maintaining the OpenAI service. It’s less of an innovation engine

Ghostalmedia OP , 1 day ago

Apparently the museum used outside investigators, and Fox / Nat Geo used internal investigators.

It wouldn’t surprise me to have a media company’s bias being toward protecting their content investment. That person’s face is in every show set to run, rerun, and stream. A museum is kind of different. It’s the in-person exhibits that are the main draw, and a their bigger risk is probably the litigation from substantiated allegations.

I work in this risk / ethics space, and I’m not surprised that the museum was more motivated to look into the claims, as opposed to simply saying they looked into the claims.

And that said, I’m also just some rando on the internet.

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

To be fair, she looks pretty good for almost 50. For a parking lot cosmetic surgeon, she must be one of the better ones.

Ghostalmedia , 1 day ago

Hopefully their parking lot isn’t too much farther away.

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

This shit makes a LOT of sense for the north west. A lot of places in NorCal and up don’t have AC because the climate used to be much more temperate a few decades ago. In door temperatures can get pretty bad in places without AC, and it’s only going to get worse.

It’s particularly miserable when everything is on fire, and the county is advising people to close windows and doors because of bad air. Your options are cook to death, or inhale toxic particulate from burning homes.

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Better than OP could do

archive.ph/GNgAe

Ghostalmedia , 2 days ago

Is No.11 your scent as well?

fastfoodclub.com/…/kfc-launched-bbq-cologne-and-s…

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

Pay wall

Ghostalmedia , 3 days ago

Transportation in general usually has a lot of public funding and government involvement. Tend to be common for air, sea, rail, and car transport solutions.

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

He doesn’t want to get rid of the swamp, he wants to rule it.

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

It’s also had the three finger tap gestures for 5 years. There are gestures to quickly copy, paste, undo, redo, etc.

They’re also something you need to learn and can’t really intuit. But, like shake, they are system wide.

9to5mac.com/…/gestures-undo-ios-iphone-ipad/

Ghostalmedia , 4 days ago

I’m always kind of surprised that, Google has yet to follow iOS in having universal, system wide, undo / redo shortcuts.

Back in iOS 1 and 2, we used to mock Apple for lacking universal undo. Then they added that shake to undo feature in iOS 3. That gesture is stupid as hell, and the newer three finger gestures are also kind of janky, but at least they work everywhere.

Ghostalmedia , 6 days ago

Trolly style = hooking on to an over-road power line.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4084b21c-c9e3-4226-a678-acd02980ec14.jpeg

Ghostalmedia OP , 6 days ago

At least they said it in the first sentence of the first paragraph. The real clickbate assholes hide that info deep into the body of the article.

Ghostalmedia OP , 6 days ago

Lemmy allows title editing. I will just change the title from what NPR previously wrote.

Ghostalmedia OP , 6 days ago

Good call, I’ll update the title

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

On one hand, the CCP fucking sucks. On the other hand, the US alternatives to some of these banned / tariffed Chinese products also really suck - especially when it comes to bang for your buck. ugh.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Problem is that, especially with the automakers, is that a lack of competition becomes an excuse to not invest in innovation. For example, General Motors is throwing billions into stock buy-backs, when they probably should be throwing that into EVs.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Stilts is his solution to raising seawater.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Random activity pub thing - since you’re replying to a Lemmy post from Masto, is there a reason you’re @‘ing the original poster?

The original Lemmy user doesn’t need to be @‘ed to get a reply notification from you. Does the @ add functionality on the mastodon experience that those of us in a Lemmy client don’t see?

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

After Fallout 76 and Starfield, I can’t say I’m eager for Todd Howard’s next RPG.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Paywall. Boo

archive.ph/4FOdA

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

To be fair, your odds of being seriously injured in a car are insanely higher that an amusement park ride. The odds of serious injury on an amusement park ride are crazy low.

Ghostalmedia , 7 days ago

Someone did go to the hospital, but my main point is that rides at these rides are very very safe, and waking up and driving to work is much more dangerous than a ride at a Six Flags.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

As the others have said, it’s a blood blister. The can happen if you pinch you hand and or do something that results in a lot of friction. Very common for folks that use their hands a lot.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

Cue Lemmy comments complaining about this being RND and people can’t buy 35% efficiency panels from Costco this weekend.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Just saying that, with energy and medical scientific advancements, you’re often looking at decade long lead times before something is available for the masses. And humans famously suck at contextualizing things over long periods of time.

It’s normal to hear about R&D that is a decade or more from commercialization. It often takes a long time to secure investment for consumer applications, invent new mass manufacturing processes for a new technology, etc.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

But let’s go back in time 10 or 15 years. Back then people were buying stuff that was around 12 to 14% efficient. Now people are buying stuff that is 19% to 22% efficient. That’s a big ass jump in efficiency over a decade.

The tech is rolling out, it just takes time to move stuff from R&D to manufacturing at scale and at a reasonable cost.

There is often a long lead time between the breakthrough science, new industrial applications, and when you can buy something at HomeDepot. It’s always going to be that way.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

I wish they’d just provide a list. That would be more useful for readers.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

So, when this finally jumps species, will we continue the tradition of naming a virus after its origin?

MAGA Influenza or maybe the Florida Flu?

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

They always get ya with the damn sauces.

Ghostalmedia , 8 days ago

Also, happy cake day!