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qantravon , to news in Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years, over 20% increase from the prior year

Most people don’t realize that your address actually has a huge impact on insurance. Moving less than an hour’s drive for me caused a change of nearly $100/month.

qantravon , to news in Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack

If a person cannot hold an office, they are typically also disqualified from running for said office, for exactly that reason. What would you do if an ineligible person won the election? That would be utter chaos.

qantravon , to worldnews in US vetoes another UN Security Council resolution urging Gaza war ceasefire

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the GOP still tries to run Trump even after he’s dead.

qantravon , to startrek in Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink.

I fully agree. In this vein, I also think that Romulans and Vulcans should prefer green-tinted lipstick rather than red. In a few episodes in DS9 they actually did this, but most of the time they just default to red and it really doesn’t feel right.

qantravon , to worldnews in Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China

Nobody here is saying it’s a cure all. It’s a step in the right direction. It’s better than doing nothing and continuing on the course we’ve been on. Do you think an “all or nothing” approach has any chance of working?

qantravon , to worldnews in Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China

Diesel engines have nothing to do with what we were talking about.

And even if you want to call it a “band-aid”, that’s still better than letting the wound continue to bleed. It slows us down and gives us a chance to course correct, rather than barrelling ahead over the cliff at full speed.

qantravon , to worldnews in Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China

You seem to be forgetting that wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and nuclear power exist.

Not to mention that, even with coal generating the energy for the cars, EVs still have lower lifetime emissions than any ICE car.

qantravon , to worldnews in China's energy sector emissions Plateau, start to fall

I was calling out the (mostly conservatives) who repeatedly say that we shouldn’t make any effort to reduce emissions because “China is worse”.

qantravon , to worldnews in China's energy sector emissions Plateau, start to fall

Oh no, who are we going to blame our refusal to lower emissions on now?

/s

qantravon , to technology in Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory"

You misunderstand. You take a picture of, say your dad at a family reunion, and in the background the rest of your family is just milling around. That’s not the subject, and so the AI model saves it as “people doing stuff” or whatever. When you load that photograph, the people in the background will be generated, and they won’t be your family.

This is all beside the fact that the AI may decide your subject is different from what you think it is.

This is just an extremely unreliable form of data compression, and extremely unnecessary. Phones and cameras can currently save hundreds or thousands of photographs locally, and cloud storage can save millions for free, and even more for extremely cheap. You’re solving a non-existent problem by shoehorning AI image generation in where it’s not needed.

qantravon , to technology in Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory"

The pitch is that everything surrounding the subject is extra, and so it doesn’t matter if it’s the same every time. It’s literally throwing that information away in favor of a simplified description. It’s extremely processor-intensive data compression.

qantravon , to technology in Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory"

I’m sorry, but no. Not only does that invoke a ton of extraneous processing on both ends (when saving and when recalling the image), but the rest of the image is still important, too! Can you imagine taking a photo at a family gathering, and then coming back later to see randomly generated people in the background? A photograph isn’t just about the “subject”, it’s often about a moment in time.

qantravon , to technology in Unity apologises.

Their ToS did say that updates would only apply to the current major version and newer of Unity when the updated ToS was released, but they removed that clause without telling anyone about a year ago and are claiming their changes are retroactive, so that can’t even be trusted. At this point, I can’t see any game dev beginning work on a new Unity project ever again without some kind of ironclad guarantee that this would never happen again. My prediction is we’ll see maybe 1 or 2 years of games released on Unity, just from the ones that were already too far into development to start over on something else, and then Unity is done for good.

qantravon , to politics in Rudy Giuliani in Vile New Audio Transcripts: 'Jewish Men Have Small *****'

This is much more than just hate, though. He’s saying nonsensical things, making random logical jumps, and more. He can be a bigot and have dementia, they aren’t mutually exclusive.

qantravon , to politics in More Republicans Say Trump Committed Crimes. But They Still Support Him.

You’re making a distinction they don’t care about, namely consent. They don’t care about consent.

"You can do anything — the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything — as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent.

“If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation, then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.”

-Rush Limbaugh, 2016

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