gerardvivancos

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Comment · 1 year ago
Asking the question with the provided data is too simplistic to even argue about.

"Here's the non contextualized percentages, what do you think of the difference between this two percentages which are more than two centuries apart, and from different countries?"

Comment · 2 years ago
It could be me not understanding something but:

> Since there is a 25% probability Alice is at the grocery store, we multiply that with the probility of her transitioning to the Planetarium: 25% ∗ 75%

Shouldn't this be 25% * 70%?

Comment · 4 years ago
> The main benefit of using a blockchain is that you don't have to build a store and manage payment processing yourself

Here by “you”, do you mean the player or the developer? If you mean the former, that’s solvable if implemented in the game (MTGO, diablo 3’s auction house, and how could I forget Artifact). If you mean the latter, I don’t see this as an advantage to me as a player at all. In fact I could argue that having to purchase eth would be an extra hassle to me.

> Also, if the games servers died so would your collection of cards. If for whatever reason the devs killed Gods Unchained someone could build a fork and we'd be able to take our cards over there because the asset is decoupled from the game

I don’t think I’m understanding this right. Is the game open source?

What’s the asset that’s decoupled from the game? The ownership data on the blockchain?

If the game logic is not fork-able as well, I don’t see the value in forking the chain. Your collection will be lost as cards in the sense of gaming cards.

I edited my post because in the paragraph above I compared that to “the Hearthstone team releasing the card art to the players once they shut down the game”, but I’ve since realized that if the fork is about the ownership, the art would also be lost unless it was either released to the public or already public. In any case I can’t see the value in keeping original ownership information about (a copy or instance of) public digital art.

I’m asking in good faith just to be clear.

Comment · 4 years ago
Historically, those taxes had been used to pay for wars and other acts that were used to spread Castillian in regions it was not spoken. Both in the Peninsula and South America.

Nowadays, taxpayers money funds institutions that preserve and promote Castillian.

Maybe don’t try to kill languages and life support won’t be needed.

Also, it makes more sense to spend in preserving something fragile than to promote something already popular and strong.

I am inclined to think it is not the taxpayers money that you are after

Comment · 4 years ago
It is easy to make my 2019 16" MBP consume more than the 96W that the included charger provides. Loading the CPU alone gets you close to that. Just add some discrete GPU work and there you go.

In fact, since connecting an external display enables the dGPU, the consumption can increase enough to get you over 96W with the CPU alone

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm really unsure whether or not to send this message. I just hope it’s useful.

Just wanted to say I’m glad you’re there, for him and for yourself. I’m glad you’ve got something to latch onto.

Keep being there, sometimes it’s hard but it always pays off in the long run.

Again, hope it helps

Comment · 5 years ago
If you mean including PS3 and X360, these two consoles had discrete GPUs. The move to AMD APUs was on the Xbox One and PS4 generation
Comment · 5 years ago
Assuming US keyboard, you can use US International as a secondary layout. That would make typing “single quote” then the letter an acute accented letter.

So ‘ then a would become á

Comment · 5 years ago
I also use dual layouts and found that switching between US (for coding) and US international (typing with diacritics) is the most comfortable setup for me. Both in Win and Mac switching between both modes is just pressing Ctrl+Space and the US international layout allows me to type all diacritics I use (Catalan) with an US keyboard.

Maybe I’m just stating the obvious and everybody already knows and is moving aware from that, so I won’t explain the details. But if someone is interested just let me know

Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, you can compare those 80 CUs to the Xbox Series X 52 CUs. Or to any other AMD’s RDNA2 GPU out there. You are going to need to know what’s the core frequency and other GPU specs to properly compare but it is not just marketing.
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Comment · 6 years ago
You might want to know that Dropbox Passwords hogs the CPU On windows if the browser is running but the Passwords native app is not. You will see high CPU usage from the Windows Delivery Optimization service, but the culprit is DBP whose extension is trying to contact with the host app in a loop, constantly spawning processes that die.
Comment · 6 years ago
On Nvidia cards the RT cores are the ones handling BVH traversal and ray-triangle intersection operations.

The part of the hardware that is running the DLSS ML model are the tensor cores. But the algorithm and the model itself is not baked in, it is provided in the driver and/or game

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