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Just the perfect example of how brazen things can get.
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11 hours ago, HM-2 said:
PBS and Associated Press consistently do well in rankings of non-partisanship in the US media. AP in particular are a good place to go if you want literal reporting of events without much in the way of editorialisation, but they're much more generalist than the OP is really asking for.
AP maybe, PBS like NPR have been slanted for the longest time, they don't allow comments for a reason, they have plenty to fear when the narrative is so fragile. Usually with such outlets its bias through what they focus on, and which talking heads they launder their opinions through. You don't have to lie, you bring on a chosen third party "expert" do to it for you.
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10 hours ago, dalekphalm said:
I’ll stop you right there. The OT didn’t go anywhere. Episodes 4, 5, and 6 are still there for you to watch and enjoy.
While the originals still exist, the legacy is tainted. Its the difference between the Matrix and the Matrix Trilogy or if they had ended with Terminator 2 instead of dragging that franchise into the dirt.
Back to the Future is the example of stopping at perfection. Stories are about the impressions they leave on you, and you can't forget what you know, once tainted the original isn't quite the same. Not many things are clean logic, its why if your wife cheats on you, things rarely go back to how they were before that, some things can't be undone.
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10 hours ago, spartaman64 said:
i tried to play a video yesterday and this popped up ... excuse me microsoft
You can get it for free, legitimately, just google it
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It needs a decade or two on hold for people to forget, and a changing of the guard in all the positions of power and creative control before a fresh take on it can be tried again.
This won't happen since Disney has to milk the cow they bought, so there is no hope for the ruined franchise, they literally reached back to destroy the originals with what they did in these ones. It was the last chance with the original cast, and they forced them to watch the ruin.
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The Hill has a clear left wing bias.
But yes what you fact check matters, if I nit pick Linus a thousand times and only bother nit picking Jayz2cents 10 times who is the bigger fibber, and there are always way to slice that fact check so it results in what you want, as you can interpret things from your chosen perspective. Its a war of the never ending "ACKCHYUALLY".
It also doesn't help that the war extends to deplatforming "authoritative" sites, excluding them from the glory of circular citation that builds up authority on places like wikipedia.
Data and models and academia are a dirty business. Remember the imperial college covid model everyone was citing for so long, turned out to be spagetti code and bogus assumptions, hidden behind a wall of false authority, and when it was useful for the "right thinking" people to not question it wasn't questioned and people who did were denounced and faced being censored and unplatformed and were smeared as "conspiracy" people.. as twitter did to zerohedge when they questioned whether the virus was man made. Why question when the authority already has all the answers, even when they've been proven to be wrong time and time again.
There is no easy resource, especially as the major platforms have revealed singular bias, you just have to find out for yourself.
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12 hours ago, mr moose said:
There is one problem with humans, we can't educate the stupid so we have to protect them from themselves and us from them.
No, quite the opposite, we have people educated in stupidity now, The cult like double speak now flows from the tongues of the new elites which have been over produced thanks to lowered standards and massive levels of debt. Intersectionality alone is pure sophistry, Orwellian redefinition's to apply every double standard possible.
Linus doesn't know what he's asking for when he asks for more. Being from Canada where his news is second hand CNN no doubt there is plenty he has not seen. What is truth? Which religion is true? Facebook has been wiping out legitimate political parties Facebook pages. Even skeptics aren't safe, notably anti Islam groups who can cite chapter and verse of contradiction in their fact checks, but these fact checks are "hate speech" to Facebook, you see how that works. What's true doesn't actually matter, and no silly examples of hippy crystals really deals with this reality. Clearly Linus leans a bit left, and most of the cherished unquestioned presuppositions of that ideology do not survive fact checks. Evolution implies inequality, diversity entrenches this inequality into reality, any questions, any science is simply suppressed.
One can really sum up "hate speech" as blasphemy, everything makes sense after that, so the there is no answer for Linus, let alone one one he can just demand "more" of.
As for who is doing the subjective calls, lets just say they aren't hiring phd's from philosophy departments
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Can't wait to cram nearly flawless transcode of the criterion collection onto a sd card.
No details, but this and av1 are necessary, web video compression is still pretty horrific, what good is 4k or 8k when a bluray at half the resolution has more real world detail free from artifacts.
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The idea that its "indefensible" is based on gamers having no sense of self control
You know what else can harm your life? Gaming in general, how about we regulate it even further, you have too many games, how about we limit that. I could go on. and as said, card games are games of chance. The people complaining generally didn't know what they were complaining about, their idea of "unfair" was like a childs. If its pay to win, don't play, why would you do that to yourself. If its pay for cosmetics, why be envious at digital vanity, the problem isn't with the companies, its with the people who can't control themselves.
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Considering the number of hours people use their pc's for so many other uses than just gaming, the amount spent divided by the life span of the item is very very minimal, as a hobby PC gaming is incredibly cheap. The differences in things like high end monitors and cheap one is non trivial once you use them, and that difference only grows the more hours you have into such things.
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17 hours ago, VegetableStu said:
strange, I'm kinda curious on how poorly the 7.1 headset "reproduces directionality" now o_o even Creativelabs mentioned never doing multidriver headphones because "that's not how things work"
Yep, an ear cup isn't a room, a cup over your ear produces the "ocean" as we all know from childhood.
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One problem I see with the test is what bluetooth codec was being tested?
They all use a different one, so unless your host device supports LDAC/AAC/APT-X its going to default to the crummy default bluetooth codec which is old as dirt and never performed well.
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Whoever was hired to design their site should be fired, its an unintuitive eye sore.
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On 12/2/2018 at 4:47 PM, Hunter259 said:
TIL 4 = 10. Every bit of a modern SSD is saturating SATA. Period. Full stop. There's a reason why the NVME drives are faster in every single benchmark. It's called extremely higher bandwidth allowing for it combined with NVME also has lower overhead than SATA which helps for all those random read and writes.
Yea no, 4k random read/writes aka 99% of windows/app access is double digits to low triple digits. NVME straight line performance doesn't apply to most use cases, very few people spend their time wiping through raw 4k video files during editing every day.
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On 12/1/2018 at 10:37 PM, Marshy88 said:
This is by far the worst giveaway ever, and I put no blame on LTT. It's IBM who have severely screwed up. No international shipping is reasonable (it's expensive), but the fact that it is impossible to enter is not. Their site is horribly buggy and they contradict their own rules. They don't even do the bare minimum and notify you of entry. I've seen better giveaways that are fake.
You are blaming the wrong people. International giveaways have become impossible because of all the consumer protection laws passed in many countries. Some require an option of cash value for instance. Sometimes you can't have nice things because you chose protection, like with steam sales now kind of garbage because steam had to follow EU refund laws.
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8 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:
The response by Stefan alongside most of The Verge's editorial team really hits the nail on the head on why I don't read or follow portals like Vox Media.
I can't understand why there was a need to deflect to racism/misogyny/sexism on a topic where none of those things are involved. Sure, maybe you can do that on whatever controversy President Trump is going to stir but not when it comes to computer hardware.
Plain and simple, the guy made numerous errors when building that PC (things that someone who has been building PCs for a while as he claimed should have known) and many have called out on it. Sure, maybe there were some asshats who made fun of his skin color but I guarantee you that 99% of the response was pointing out what he did wrong.
His response afterwards related to toxicity in gaming (even though it was more related to PC hardware) along with the dismissal of legitimate criticism because "I have a better computer than most of you and it still fucking works" just reeks of absolute stubbornness.
Dude, you built a computer wrong. Many of us are pointing that out so that you're aware and then able to fix and potentially re-upload. Nothing about it was racist or misogynistic in any way, shape or form. Just man the fuck up and grow some thicker skin because right now, many of the folks at The Verge and most of Vox Media seem to have skin thinner than Apple's ambition of thinness.
And it doesn't matter that "it still fucking works". That's just bad practice for building PCs. Yeah it works but it doesn't work nearly as well as it should.
Yep, once you realize they were founded as propaganda outlets, it makes more sense
Listen to the founders give a presentation saying so to microsoft an eternity ago
9 hours ago, DaPhuc said:Where did he say that? I don't see nowhere on Twitter ( skimming ) that he was not allowed to reshoot the video. He blocked a lot of people on Twitter that try to correct his mistakes in the video. I rather buy an Alienware computer or HP computer than watch Stefstefan Etienne build a computer. He shouldn't be on the tech field if he doesn't know what zip tie and tweezers look like.
Yea especially since he tried to claim it wasn't his first pc, there was no excuse, 1 hours top of youtube video from linus/pauls/jayz on this exact topic and he wouldn't have made half the mistakes he made, and he should have done this research during his earlier builds meaning he couldn't complain about time pressure. These just aren't mistakes he should have had to fix if he had done even the the minimum due diligence.. Compound this with his editor and boss also being this dumb, and its just a disturbing look into the dysfunction in that organization. I mean seriously, even the sponsorship integration was botched, it wasn't related in any way and I misremembered which bank it was in my earlier comment because why would I remember.
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7 hours ago, RotoCoreOne said:
*eyesore snip
$2000 dollar build people. It's so beautifully built. Don't mind the missing screw for the cpu cooler mount.
The real question is how much did they pocket. Are review samples marked confidential meaning they didn't even pay for that? I wonder how much citibank paid them in total.
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that timing, this video came out yesterday as well @LinusTech
and the part that matters, the sound is better;)
Looks like someone beat Linus to it
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On 8/30/2018 at 8:52 PM, mr moose said:
Population will cap at 11B.
The whole world is actually moving toward health and wealth
Everything else just an opinion.
This might enlighten you:
Ah yes, "big think" the lulbert site. Drawing straight lines right into mouse utopia. I've seen Pinker do the same with his cherry picked data as well. The native western populations they claim are doing so well are well below replacement rate, especially once you deduct the children from recent immigrants. Not the sign of a functional sustainable society, let alone one built on the ever expanding ponzi scheme of a giant social welfare state. All the while the very same types proclaim the end of labor due to automation, while they mass import poverty they won't know what to do with after even their labor is made obsolete. And all the while this is going on, they continue to shift the IQ bell curve with reckless immigration policies, which will result in far fewer scientists and engineers, not very smart when their utopian dream relies on science to save us in the end. Remember, not even the west produces enough top tier minds at the top end of the bell curve to sustain our advanced societies, we import and poach what we cannot produce ourselves. Now imagine how hopeless it is for countries which start with an even lower starting point. To put it simply, the "data" he's willing to show is selective, because there were questions he didn't dare ask.
and back to censorship
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Tech were given special leeway to grow during the boom to ensure world dominance, they were able to avoid basic things like taxes, and of course the eyes of the regulators because they were the golden goose. They are effective monopolies now, oligopolies, trusts, whatever you wish to call it, and the fact is Microsoft was slapped hard for doing far less. If their argument is that they have become integral to the electoral system and that foreign influences are an attack on our democracy, they can no longer claim to be private spaces where they can arbitrarily do what they wish.
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And yes, silicon valley culture is toxic to the point where google fired a man over legitimate science. They have proven that they aren't fit arbiters of the truth. Its been fun watching the left stoop to becoming the defenders of corporate corruption and market abuse.
And it goes far beyond this, because what these companies build, will always eventually be used by the government.
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Doesn't matter, its a tiny amount of power, usually the setting is in bios to turn off the "charge while off" usb ports. That or you have a powered usb hub backfeeding into the system, in any case, its no big deal.
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if it does this on any pc without drivers, it maybe hard wired.
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15 hours ago, Heliamsoi said:
Is it worth to spend some little more money on extended mouse pad? I have been looking this one https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Gaming-Mousepads/Cloth-Textile-Surface-Mousepads/MM300-Anti-Fray-Cloth-Gaming-Mouse-Pad-—-Extended/p/CH-9000108-WW
I just want my setup look good by having extended mouse pad lol recommend me if there is better ones than that
Yes, I have this one, from this seller, the surface is actually "control" not speed, micro fiber like, quality is good, so, why pay more. Shipping took 2 weeks. Its good to have a single surface, no running out of space, and the keyboard can't slide, and probably benefits from a dampening effect. 900mm width extra important because the microsoft keyboard is wide. But in any case its probably better than the smoother speed fabric which is more likely to stick or snag because it takes less dirt to make the surface not uniform.
avoid the 300% markup, and how? I guess its chinese ghost city economics...
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14 hours ago, thedude4bides said:
Can someone help me understand this? Or let me know if I'm understanding it correctly?
Basically download something (at normal speed) into your own storage so that you then can put in on a different local machine later on at a higher speed than you can download from source?
Cool to do... but really only useful for LAN parties where people do not already have the game that will be played at said LAN party which would be odd to begin with?
Yes its just a cache server, but the most transparent version. The same type of concept has been used for web stuff for the longest time with stuff like squid web proxy servers, mostly at corporate campuses and such.
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RUMOR - Star Wars sequel trilogy nullified
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Its easy to understand.
Would Marilyn Monroe's legacy be different if we watched her grow old.
Narrative matters, and this is narrative on top of narrative.