Arguably there is still strategy between folks of a similar level as there is a lot of variations of many of the standard plays even before taking new novelties into account which can be fun to explore and discover and can add an unknown element and fun to games, plus most who play for fun don't play so conservatively from what I see. Granted a lot boils down to who makes a mistake/misses something first sometimes which of course makes for boring games, either watching or playing, yet if skill levels are matched and you're playing for fun in a casual way it gets interesting with various different strategies. Not everyone plays the way you suggest even if they started that way. I learned that way as a young child playing casually from around age 5, seriously by early teens and admit a lot is pattern recognition and memory but it gets incredibly boring fast playing like that. Admittedly I don't compete now but when you're doing so it is more a job than entertainment and you need to work on such studies more out of necessity. Family and friends who competed or played seriously more often than not feel similar and dislike that conservative style. I play very different these days and only for fun, living in a household were we play daily I can say we play more risky and semi thoughtless in regard to the done thing. Skills learned from playing well can be useful outside of the game too, for instance my youngest son in learning to avoid certain traps and seeing the less obvious in something, or weighing up when seemingly heavy sacrifices are worth it long term and win the game all of which are concepts he became familiar with through chess.

I think of it like playing music in a way. If all the performers are of a similar level and competent they can all play off the sheet note perfect and technically most correct manner, but many find that boring. It has a place at times but for entertainment outside of official events were that kind of conservative approach is called for most would rather have a more freeform play style for fun, with embellishment and flourishes along with mistakes and the bits that don't work but it was fun to play and try it out anyway and all of it adding interest whether it worked or not. They all know they can play music by the book, but it just isn't as fun vs a more dynamic approach when you're in situation that allows for that flexibility and free approach. I find casual chess very much like that.

Same here as I really struggle getting stuff that fits me at reasonable prices at least. I'm 6'4" which isn't uncommon but I'm thin waist and carry little body fat but blocky upper torso with larger than average shoulders, delts and chest and long arms. As a result I can barely get anything that fits well even for the niche markets as most tall skinny guys cuts are too tight upper, tall fat guys is like wearing a sack, average size wrong in every dimension. Thus this could work out well but I'm cynical myself as I suspect it'll be modified off the rack based on a generic size that is too far out to be customised to none average sizes well.

Sadly only clothing brand I found that makes stuff that fits my kind of build well is Arcteryx and they're overpriced IMHO and they don't make every type of clothing I'd like although for outdoors activities I like their stuff along with ME and OR although the latter is cut a little too short I find at least the athletic ectomorph cut is closer than average clothing.

If he means correcthorsebatterystaple verbatim I agree as I have seen it in dictionary lists, the theory behind it of constructing easy to remember passwords though which I presume is your point is it stands up quite well despite being all lower case. I've tested my own to some degree created using similar method. I haven't tested extensively but seems good enough. Not by entering into one of those test password sites as I suspect they are just pass harvesting lists myself. I checked by running several types of attacks including hybrid in JtR or hashcat and I have cuda gpu assisted workflow on my editing rig and they held up.

Fwiw I know cracking passwords isn't how any of my security risks are likely to be broken though since so much of the other side out of my control fails before a low entropy choice of password would, including leaking passwords in cleartext in the worst cases and who needs to break a lock when you have a key. Plus all the other social engineering and weakness to exploits especially in a word with so much of the infrastructure exposed to internet side that need not be my password choice is not a big deal arguably. Seems contradictory to what I said but it's why I use several of those wordchain+numbers at given positions for several pass' I use for different security tiers I decided to fit sites into. My critical stuff has unique one as not many needed, my forum and trivial none personal identifier stuff another common one shared (ish), and a tier in between for sites that have some personal details or carries more inconvenience or risk to me.

I modify the last part of my common shared phrase relative to the site url with a few letters so if the password shared between say slashdot and some other site gets leaked by one of the sites then trying it against every account elsewhere registered to that email wont work, but if someone guessed that was what it was paying it individual attention and mask attack mypasswordphrase?a?a?a?a for example it'd break quickly but all they'd get is my low tier stuff. Makes the effort worthless for easy ones like my new slashdot account (this one, lost my really old one but even that I didn't care about) and it'd be quicker to exploit me for the details they are after tbh.

The problem is not music they are playing over the top of the gameplay in many cases, although there is some cases from issues with them having radio/spotify etc on in background. The rest are a problem from music that is part of the game. Also they've been known to strike against CC licence works used correctly, or stuff where artist holds the rights to distribute etc. I mention the latter as some artists got strikes for playing on stuff on other platforms BUT the record label owns the rights to distribute not the creator. However when they strike against the creator who holds sole rights to distribute you know it is BS.

Impressive you've got that long with no problems and perhaps a lot of the bias for me is historical quality vs competition and things change, as well as I tend to only see stuff that has problems. That said not all issue prone models will always have problems, for instance had a set of formula oros on a hardtail commuter that was used on light to mid xc routes and road that only saw maintenance when problems occurred which was basically never despite formula being finnicky and generally pissy beasts that need troubleshooting a lot. I didn't do much to it in way of pre-emptive maintenance like my main one and only touched it when something went wrong which was never for the brakes surprisingly. Despite that they worked fine for many years unbled and only pad changes admittedly I'd not recommend it though especially since I do know others with similar or same model who had problems when not regularly servicing. Although I disagree with the zero maintence = safer on mineral though as water in mineral ones causes much more trouble and will total fail but that doesn't happen with dot so you have it the other way. If the seals are compromised and water has got in the system dot will just get spongey or fade quicker due to absorbing the water. Mineral with seal integrity problems that gets enough water in the system because it can't be absorbed leads to boil off and total brake failure which is why some designs refuse to use it and opt for dot. It is rare enough to be a none issue though for that much water to get in and never in a short period, although I dislike the modulation and feel of all the mineral brakes I've tried.

I've found they do need a fair bit of maintenance much more than simple pad changes if you ride in less than ideal weather or regular basis. They can be prone to sticky pistons from crap building up on pistons or creepign in the seals, minor mushiness from moisture and so on. Especially the 2pot designs on most ebikes (or xc mtb's) vs the downhill or FR types on none electric mtbs that oft use 4pot and beefed up sizes. I find shimanos are worse with the mineral oil vs others that use dot4/5.1 but they all get some level of maintenance needed or you trash your brakes completely and need a complete rebuild of caliper seals, full flush and bleed and so on or you get unbalanced pistons as one side (usually inside goes before outboard) starts not completely retracting/extending and brake pad making up for the difference too much on the other side letting more dirt in with the travel and causing rotor wear faster and squealing starts if you keep running it. All that can be avoided with minor maintenance but so many folks don't know it is needed or how to and by the time the problem starts and they ask me (knowing I build my own and maintain my own since don't trust bike shop staff) they need more than simple quick floss clean of pistons, check and top off fluid if spongey and check they're centre aligned.

Also imho I find magura are more often junk than not for the price although sram and shimano are prob more popular here in Europe from what I see. Some of shimanos line are great some aren't, I actually find hope are much higher quality.

the methane figures of dairy cows is known to be bullshit. Sure some genetic lines produce more on average than other none dairy cattle especially when you don't add minute amounts of kelp extract to certain feeds but it really really is exaggerated. Myth got repeated so many times now people just believe it without checking. Started many an argument with other vegans pointing out facts and sources on it myself in the past when I was still vegan, although I'm lacto veggie now admittedly but I work well to keep my choices from biasing objective facts.

I suspect a lot of industry and petrochem, mining and so on have thrown cash at the PR to blame dairy cows for GHG oversimplification. Way most of these things go the actual big picture is much much more nuanced than such extremely low resolution soundbites can convey and even folks who specialise in a field requiring much deeper knowledge of matters admit it is more complex than they know. They may play a small but not insignificant part of the problem but they are far from a major source of GHG and certainly don't deserve being singled out much the same way small amount of consumer behaviour is with recycling of certain products.

Although over consumption is an issue it is not that simple. This stuff gets oversimplified and there are far too many bullshit myths that are knocking around courtesy of the calories model and sugar industry disruptions. This info is starting to come out but has been known for a long time and the same guy responsible for a lot of the valid early research also later took big ag sugar company money to blame fats and push the moderation thing and calories model. I got my degree in biochem late 90's and even then it was being suppressed somewhat but word was getting out regards the deception very similar to the autism vaccine myth it is hard to kill these misconceptions in the general population and none specialised areas of expertise folks like general scientifically literate but not well read and up to date in those areas folks

What is actually more important is hormonal conditions within the body. Insulin is the key player but PYY, CCK, ghrelin, cortisol and so on all have major role however insulin pretty much shuts off some of those other pathways or causes complications and shuts off MMC and so on. The body generally prefers to use fats at rest and that is out preferred biological energy source for muscle at rest save the brain since they can't cross the blood brain barrier. GNG can still generate glucose of course but even carbohydrate sources are valid nutritional sources if they do not spike insulin. Even small amounts of added sugars tend to spike insulin and cause a lot of issues. Larger doses are not just a problem because it spikes to greater degree but also different pathways kick in to deal with intermediates or processing of things like happens with large doses of fructose so you're correct it is worse. If you actually care you may want to look into it more as a lot of what used to be accepted has started changing and being recognised as bullshit to the point even the likes of most recent edition of Stryer (what most students will be familiar with and in my experience late to the party to change accepted norms) is picking up on some of the new things. The issue though is really quite complex and not something many folks I meet have much of a clue about including some nutritionalists. In fact the person I spoke to last who really had a much higher resolution understanding than EVERY certified nutritionalist I've encountered is actually a microbiologist and his wife a molecular biologist both working in related but not directly relevant fields. Even general practitioner medical doctors don't really tend to know that much although public work by the likes of Jason Fung is bringing more exposure to it (himself if endocrinologist).

No they don't, since cake is zero rated as it is also classed as staple. Their problem is it doesn't qualify as bread due to sugar content and may not qualify as cake, if they can get it classified as such they'll be exempt too, otherwise there is risk it could come under what a lot of high sugar foodstuff does such as "confection" which are mostly standard rated except for exceptions.

That's not true anymore for the most part, you can use SD instead of GRD and limits that were present were removed a while back by nvidia, Albeit only because competition offered solutions for less forcing their hand such as 10bit output for colour critical grading and design work. Thus you can still get likes of 10bit output in none fullscreen exclusive mode now on studio drivers. I use the previous gen in a workstation use such apps and it works fine. You can see the independent benchmarks for such pro apps and compare performance to high end quadros that cost 6 times that of the flagship "gamer" card and will see they are not hobbled and often can result in higher perfomance depending on the applications.

It is marketed at gamers with more money than sense but mostly exists for cheaper end of workstation needs thus the amount of vram and cores etc which is overkill for gamers and isn't that much price wise for that kind of power card, not what you'd call high performance workstation card price going on historical prices which cost 6 to 8 times that usually and only really offer more performance for the applications that are more dependent on more vram than this has which is not so many. Also most the applications that really need such things are not solo workstations but tend to be clustering for the heavy lifting. Overkill for games since none will utilise that much vram even 3x multi monitor, the power is possibly slightly useful in future in VR at over 90fps per eye on maxed on settings such as an index running somethign demanding at 144Hz per eye with no ASW and so on.

That isn't apples to apples and I feel you're missing the point. Or at least if you haven't don't indicate that you get it. Fwiw I totally get what you are saying and I've taken plenty of photos of white people in dark clothing/dark hair against dark background. Same for very dark skintone people in pale clothing against dark backgrounds yadda yadda all without blown highlights or crushed blacks. I am not a pro as I do it as a hobby and not for a living for various reasons, however a bit more able than most for fun photographers in that regularly get demands for prints of work I've taken for myself/friends/family when others see it. I maintain a studio at home mostly for potraiture and tabletop stuff although do some landscape, astro and architectural stuff on occasion. Studio in one of my rooms is a simple 2.8m backdrop 4 to 6 light monoblocks 2x v-flat 2xreflector small studio with speedlights to make up for the odd extra hairlight or kicker etc so not crazy level warehouse with ultra complex lighting or anything but still more than most amateurs.

So basically yeah I am in a position to agree what you're saying is true of those kind of produces images. However this is twitter, and the purpose of the algorithm is to crop average twitter users average images. If it was an algorithm written for somewhere like 1X then you may have a point but it is twitter. For a start the kind of images you're creating are likely already cropped appropriately for output format so even to twitter would be precropped thereby redundant need for AI. Plus even training it with a lot of pro portraiture and maybe headshot work if you had free access to a huge archive would be of little use in training it to ID faces in general images with people taken as snaps in uncontrolled lighting and perhaps unideal settings etc.

Also they don't like advertising the scale of the problem, partly because makes them a target and fear of Streissand effect but another consideration is some of the infosec press and concerned targeted parties don't like validating the fact they got their data back ; encryption key in return for paying, rather than take the money and don't give key some may assume would happen. Thus they'd rather just not mention it and keep it under wraps and quietly pay.

Heard a lot of similar things regarding ransom of person rather than data. Mostly kidnap and ransom problems affecting the mega wealthy and how it is more common than you think and stuff you don't even begin to consider from normal person lifestyle. Not that I myself or have friends who are multi millionare or royalty of course but had eye opening education from a family member linked to the circuit and stories regarding SO14 I won't go into, also a friend who worked directly in that world on relevant area (not a cpo, although she later did work as one but private within a single organisation not on the circuit in general). They'd made a comment I though was joke or severe exaggeration thus I laughed and it was clarified as not joking which took me back as crazy I'd not heard much of anything like that thus started asking how likely that was and so on.

We had mutiple conversations over time on the topic and it was foreign to me considering the stress and concerns over close protection duty needs and technicalities linked to that, kidnap insurance technicalities and specifics like needing safe just for holding cash for payments in kidnap or held hostage scenarios and whether you need more than one such safe, locations of them and how much cash in them with concerns too much makes you future target and not enough means someone may get hurt.

I'd lived and worked along side the person for several years and trusted them enough to know there were not having me on, plus once you start looking for it you can see the concerns both exist and are valid. I mean I know those things happened but I didn't consider it very likely or common but they'd made it clear it is a lot more common than folks realise. Not common daily occurance and wont happen to all people of course yet certainly not as rare as I presumed and happens a hell of a lot more than is reported, and partly it doesn't happen as much due to the amount of energy they put into avoiding it. Not just Streissand effect again in making more people consider it as easy money, but also things like advertise the fact you have weakness in your cover and are potentially easier target and so on. Should make it clear I haven't heard about cyber ransomware from anyone I know in person, just more general impression seems similar going by what I read over the years on various tech orientated sites and blogs I frequent such as Schneier's site.

Aye agree it shouldn't work in theory and there are standards, problem is manufacturers don't always follow them or impliment them properly. Seen that on a lot of devices, not necessarily just this, where teardown show sketchy implementations and all the parts of the chain are not suitable. If the terminations are correct for purpose you'd assume the cable is but that isn't always the case as some manufacturers seems to have no QC nor care past makign a quick buck. For example seen various USB based charge and power have all kinds of poor implimentations I wouldn't trust gear on recieving end of, strange powerbank configs such as wrong bms or wrong cell types, cell monitoring /ID chips and so on not accurately reporting what it is/they are but hacky fixed value copied from something else so it essentially spoofs different capabilities and it will work just it may cause issues when it allows current to flow telling psu it if good to recieve power when it really isn't.

So much of it is cheaper crap but price is one of things consumers care about. Not disagreeing with you as such in initial post btw I should have made that clear sorry. More mentioning I'd agree in a perfect world were standards adhered to but sadly there is too much junk out there. Except one thing maybe which is PD being different connector when it is a standard C type. I have small USB1/USB2 items that have C connectors on them for instance and I can use my camera and light gear tagged cables on them. Common for a lot of newer things to use that over mini or micro connectors they used to due to size and reversibility thing and because more robust. Some standards need pushing or breaking at times I admit but this is more copying some elements of well designed things and cheaping out. There is a glut of Chinese junk like that. I single them out vs most the other Asian stuff because most of the electronics and precision things I see from elsewhere are fine, even cheaper Thai and Vietnam contracted stuff tends have QC and so on of their parent company from SKorea, Japan and Taiwan which are usually great. Not that affordable Chinese made products are all bad as there are a lot of great ones, there seem to be a lot of terrible ones too though with poor QC or stolen designs etc.

Problem is that is for older stuff as not only can it be up to 20v but at a few amps, with USB 3.1 and various PD versions it can be up to 5A ish so around 100w. Granted I mostly use devices that use under 20W max and use custom packs not off the shelf USB PD banks I've DIY'd for anything over, Mostly because I'm more paranoid/ott for avoiding damaged gear and not trusting manufacturers ratings/testing in higher power (expensive) things so want to make sure, plus often cheaper for me getting quality cells of suitable type from trustworthy EU source, quality protection and other control circuits, known thickness wrap that wont degrade and is known material not mystery plastic and pure Ni ribbon etc etc than getting quality manufacturer equivalents at a price premium for lesser performance/less overhead safety margin. Peace of mind knowing it wont break something and performance makes it worth it to me but a lot of consumers can't be bothered with all that and just want good deals without any brainpower invested so go with cheapest for what looks the same on paper. Some laptops and higher drain devices using USB-C PD v2 or v3 are often at least 60W and it isn't that uncommon to find. There are glut of cables that all look the same with different ratings and I've found friends who ran into problems not knowing. One of them is even an e-eng who works in safety systems (not related to this area admittedly) and even he seems pretty ignorance of the differences and ran int otrouble and had me troubleshoot if for him knowing I'm a bore about such things hehe.

You need to research each part of your chain, as I did even on low power devices such as my mirrorless camera (canon R) to a 18W PD battery bank which is more than in spec and cable is rated for more (and thick and not so flexible due to it so it isn't the weakest link). Most folks think a cable is a cable and just because it fits assume it is suitable. Thus not hard to see why these problems happen now as I've heard of this stuff a lot. I've never had a problem with anything because tend to research my cables ,what cells are in the battery bank looking for teardown (or DIY) so I know it can handle the current draw likely to be exposed to and make sure it has a large margin over that so not operating at near max capacity. Most consumers don't spend the time to do that and are not interested and don't want to learn. When user error leads to fires or damage equipment due to lack of diligence they blame manufacturer (hold partial responsibility admittedly, yet sconsumer ignorance also factors in IMHO).