The 2600k was exceptionally good and was relevant well past the normal upgrade timeframes.
Really it only got left behind because of its 4C/8T limit as everything started supporting lots of threads instead of just a couple, and just being a 2nd Generation i7.
Yes. By necessity. The grid has to be kept in sync within a fairly small frequency range to operate. Every generator that is grid connected, is spinning at the same frequency. It is a small enough window that you can use it as a reliable clock.
Every time the power load changes they have to compensate with increasing or decreasing the power available to balance within the small frequency window. A deviation as small as 0.5 Hz can cause some protective relays to trip and bring down sections of the grid.
This is also one of the major reasons why it takes so long to bring the grid back online after a blackout. They have to balance power output with the load in each section as it is brought online so it doesn’t just disconnect itself again immediately from an imbalance.
You’re complaining about a carrier policy, not eSIMs in general. Most carriers don’t have that requirement.
In fact I never even heard of that before, and I’m an American where that’s exactly the type of nickel and dime bullshit they’d do.
So you’re now fully bound to your ISP
Do you think you can only use an eSIM on a locked phone? Physical SIM or not, a carrier locked phone is a locked phone. You can use eSIMs on unlocked phones just fine
their proprietary shit app, and their servers providing you a new SIM instead of just swapping a physical piece of hardware in seconds
The difference is you don’t have to physically go someplace to get a card or have one shipped to you. You just need the Internet and an app.
You’re complaining about semantics with no real difference, just convenience 99% of the time.
I switched from Nvidia to AMD back when the 9070XT came out and none of that was necessary with my Windows 11 system. I just swapped the card, uninstalled the Nvidia stuff and installed the AMD drivers. Haven’t had an issue.
I swear a decent chunk of these issues are “power users” following guides making changes they don’t understand in areas that aren’t meant to be modified directly, then months later having issues when something tries to read or modify those areas again.
You mean the text that states the extremely obvious reality that children learn and understand without any issue on a daily basis? Any child that’s ever had a goldfish or a hamster knows this directly. All living things will inevitably die at some point.
The only people reading more into this are the people that think kids are somehow stupid and constantly need to be protected from reality.
Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.
Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.
Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.
Oh short term rentals shouldn’t count at all, regardless of the method used to rent them out.
Single family homes should be used as single family homes.
Companies should be limited to like 3 single family homes. This allows for individuals to have an LLC for rentals, but prevents hoarding homes solely for investment with no intention of renting at reasonable rates.
Homes that aren’t used as a primary residence should have higher taxation. Rentals that are not inhabited should have taxes increased until they are rented out, to prevent setting ridiculous prices no one will ever pay and having viable housing sit unused for years on end.
So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.
Depends on the exact scenario.
We’re also dealing with language differences. English is not the developer’s first language. What may seem a clear sentence to a native speaker, could be easily misinterpreted/mistranslated to something similar, but different enough that the answer changes.
It seems that the AI use was early in development, and limited to temporary placeholders that were going to be replaced. Since they were patched out within days of release, that seems to imply they already had replacement assets on hand, they were just missed during final checks before release.
The answer from the devs also changed prior to the awards show that implies that they may have had an updated interpretation of the qualification question or answer. If they thought the question was about AI use in the final product, then accidentally missing a placeholder swap shouldn’t be disqualifying. Likewise, early experimentation with the tech and then deciding not to use it probably should not disqualify either. But if the qualification is a hard yes/no with absolutely no context or consideration whatsoever, then that’s a different outcome, and hence them clarifying for the awards team.
Personally I think the hard limit without any room for consideration or interpretation is a shit qualification. Especially considering that isn’t really the case for most awards. Look at the definition of “indie” for example. There’s a half dozen different interpretations people have ranging from having to be self published, avoiding just large publishers, or just the publisher not having creative influence. That’s a lot of interpretation comparatively.
We’re not talking about a development team of 100+ artists here and a company forcing them to work 80 hour crunch weeks leading up to launch like much of the industry.
I don’t know exactly how their 30 or so team members break down for specialties, but I’m willing to bet we’re talking maybe 5 asset artists. Making the tens or hundreds of thousands of concept art pieces, and in game assets. Their time is finite and much better spent working on final assets than making placeholders that will just be replaced later. Experimenting with AI and dripping a placeholder in during month 6 that never gets touched again, and the final asset is made but missed when swapping them in at the end of development isn’t exactly damning
Literally removing work from a human(concept artist)
It’s not really “removing” work from a human, it’s utilizing the time of a very small and limited team more wisely. The AI didn’t replace a human, there was never going to be an additional person hired just to make that placeholder, at worst it just let the existing artists spend more time making final assets.
It was released with the original placeholder AI assets, but patched out within 5 days. It’s pretty clear that they just missed replacing those assets prior to release.
I don’t know exactly which assets, or exactly how many… but from several article it seems one of them was a newspaper only used in the prologue, that no one would notice without directly looking at it up close, which 99.9% of people would never do, and could easily be overlooked doing final testing for game breaking issues prior to release.
And the failure to properly disclose could easily be explained by them messing around. Early in development, deciding not to use AI, and then forgetting about it. Which also explains it being left in for release accidentally. Updated assets were clearly made, just never replaced.
The disqualification had nothing to do with the assets being there for the release, it was solely about development as mentioned in every statement from the awards. Meaning even if it hadn’t been there at release, they still would have been disqualified. Hard criteria like that which disqualifies any sort of context or consideration is not fair. Especially when we’re talking about cutting edge technologies that teams will obviously be experimenting with before making decisions.
Yes. It was reported basically everywhere.
https://gamerant.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-no-doge-parry-completion-all-hit-run-feat/
Want to move that goalpost again?
Cool… Generative AI used for placeholders during development that are replaced by actual artist work for the release is the definition of responsibly.
Given these assets were replaced within days of release here… Definitely seems like placeholders that were just missed during the final checks before release.
And yet someone completed the game without parrying a single time.
They didn’t just replace the art later. It was intended to be placeholder art from the beginning. And was replaced 5 days after release. That tells me that they just missed replacing those temporary assets among tens of thousands of assets before release.
Using GenAI for something temporary that’s not intended to be final seems like the perfect use case for it. Especially on a small team where artist time is much better spent working on the final assets.
Rushed CGI is different, doesn’t matter if it’s bleeding edge or not.
At this point the only “issue” with it is power usage versus processing capability. Newer chips can do the same with less power.