Rust is probably the wrong choice, though, due to its mega-complexity.

I left Ring a year or two ago because they did a 25% rate hike. I also was mainly using it to prove Amazon wasn't delivering my packages... and then I realized there is a conflict of interest, there. I wonder how many people accepted the rate hike so Amazon can continue being lazy-asses about proper package delivery?

And we have the tragic stats to prove it.

Heh. Ever developed film? Not trying to be snarky, just remembering some stuff I heard decades ago. This isn't exactly a fresh topic.

To me the threshold is fairly distinct and easy to see: Is the work being done on the pixels, or is it being done on the image? Are you looking at a curve of values and applying a transformation, or are you looking at a 2-dimensional set of pixels and re-positioning or re-constructing them?

Or.. in film terms- Are you playing with the intensities of light (or the balance of chemicals...) as you go through the developing process, or are you going over a photo with an airbrush and using your brain to put details back in?

There's a huge difference between an AI looking through a stack of exposures to blend in the most detailed one and pulling a stock photo of the moon and grafting it into the image. Splitting hairs does not change this even if the process does get crazy complicated an nuanced.

The specs on this machine were surprising! If my understanding of the timeline here isn't too inaccurate this was probably being developed as the game market was crashing. One of the reasons the NES loaded cartridges the way it did was to keep the product from looking too much like the big pile of shovelware that was suffocating Atari. Sega here went full "educate the kids!" in surprising ways. It doesn't surprise me that it failed, but wtf did the Sega AI surprise me in 2024 yet I've seen like four documentaries about the Nintendo CD?!

The Trump Administration DID take it. Then it was ruled unconstitutional because it was a revenge move over a prank against one of Trump's rallies.

I'd wager your choice of news sources never told you about that.

Uh huh. And when a wind farm goes up you bitch about lack of storage. Good thing guys like you come along so others have something to spend their mod points on, huh.

Someone is blissfully unaware that Hawaii has to import coal to keep the lights on.

I use Windows / WSL2 heavily (work) and ChromeOS / Crostini / Linux heavily (home). WSL2 is not functionally better in any way that matters to me. In fact, Crostini is so well integrated into ChromeOS that the experience on Chromebooks is better. This opinion is based on day-in, day-out, long-term usage of both.

Presumably without having experienced it yourself, it seems like you've already made up your mind, though. Enjoy WSL2. That works OK too.

Chromebook / ChromeOS user here. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Step 1: Enable Crostini.

Step 2: Open Terminal.

Step 3: Install Linux applications.

Step 4: Run them.

Yes, GUI applications work too. I use a dozen Linux applications on my Chromebook every day.

Is it? I stopped going to malls because they stopped having shops I want to shop at in them. (arcades and hobby shops, for example) The story I heard was greed over how much the mall wanted from the shops for rent, not lack of foot traffic.

Uh huh. I shouldn't tell you this but your like-minded buddies are now switching tacts. Now it's "we shouldn't have done anything at all to address climate change.", because somehow doing things like improving mpg in cars made it worse. If you're convincing enough you can continue to play off your increasingly-foolish apathy as "i meant to do that".

Hey now, don't bring cannabis into this!

I hate this defeatist logic because it's just silly. If they can slap a fee somewhere else they will do it right now.

coffee gatekeeping... how petty.