So their consistent position is consistently internally inconsistent.

Wonderful.

Please tell me this also comes with a new map set in Ohio.

Here’s the quote, for people allergic to reading the update in the article.

Update: Nvidia sent us a statement: “We are aware of a reported performance issue related to Game Filters and are actively looking into it. You can turn off Game Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode, and then relaunch your game.”

We have tested this and confirmed that disabling the Game Filters and Photo Mode does indeed work. The problem appears to stem from the filters causing a performance loss, even when they’re not being actively used. (With GeForce Experience, if you didn’t have any game filters enabled, it didn’t affect performance.) So, if you’re only after the video capture features or game optimizations offered by the Nvidia App, you can get ‘normal’ performance by disabling the filters and photo modes.

So, TomsHW (is at least claiming that they) did indeed test this, and found that its the filters and photo mode causing the performance hit.

Still a pretty stupid problem to have, considering the old filters did not cause this problem, but at least there’s a workaround.

… I’m curious if this new settings app even exists, or has been tested on linux.

The even shorter, more direct version is:

‘Local community’ actually means ‘Official representatives of the local community.’

EDIT: And ‘great relationship’ means ‘we do business with whatever entity regularly, and that business we do is more advantageous to us than it is to them’.

… Also… I’m in America so… maybe this is somehow different in various Euro countries, but I seriously doubt it…

There’s no way Amazon invests in local roads.

I’m from Seattle.

Our roads are absolute ass, I’m talking worse than the average road in a small town in South Dakota or Montana.

They certainly don’t directly fund any roadwork around Seattle, despite having many logistics hubs in and near the city.

They’re more likely to strong arm a city, even literally sue them, into upgrading their roads than they are to… like directly contribute some share of their revenue or profit directly into the city’s road maintenance or construction budget.

0 chance Amazon directly funds building of any roads beyond the roads on their property.

Provide computers to schools? Sure, I believe that.

But I am highly doubtful that Amazon directly contributes to building local roads.

Only way I can even see that kind of making sense in a roundabout way is if the city has some kind of specific tax on heavier vehicles or vehicles used in delivery/logistics…

In which case … this would apply to any delivery/logistics vehicle of any kind that either transits through or is based out of the city.

By that logic anyone that pays a sales tax or property tax in the city pays for new roads, likely significantly more, as a group.

“Amazon wont pay a living wage due to its great relationship with the local community”.

So, taken by a normal person, not aquainted with corpo speak… that is some astounding anti-logic.

But if you know a bit of corpo, what that actually means is something like:

We have the local city government by the balls, greatly overexagerated the economic benefit our warehouse would bring to the city, got them to subsidize our construction costs, relax zoning laws or fees, change tax laws or give us a special carve out so that we pay less than if anyone else tried to build a warehouse here…

… and now if the city gov goes for policies/laws we don’t like, we’ll just shut down this location, I’ll go work the same job somewhere else, everyone else is unemployed, and then we’ll tell the media that’s because of the city government, and they’ll likely lose their elected positions.

Yep. Thats actually even less bone thickness in the way than the roof of your mouth, and is more likely to destroy more of your brain, with the bullet trajectory going through most of it.

Short version:

Basically, the roof of your mouth presents skull bones which are much thinner than many other parts of your skull.

Longer Version:

If you hold the gun with the grip facing downward, as others have said, I guess the hope is you get a shot straight through your medulla oblingata.

If you obliterate that, bam, instant brain death basically.

But if your angle is off, you may only sever your spinal cord, now you get to be mostly conscious, in extreme pain, as you collapse and asphyxiate.

Or you may just blow part of your jaw off. That might not even kill you.

If, on the other hand, you go grip facing up/out, the ole’ Bud Dwyer…

You have a much greater liklihood of obliterating a whole lot of your brain’s frontal lobe, the executive decision part.

probably? You’d lose consciousness completely within seconds, 10(s?) of seconds at most, your brain activity would grind to a complete halt as the massive bleeding would just stop the remainder of your brain from working.

But also: Phinneas Gage.

Sometimes people can survive insane bullshit like this.

Personally, I once met a guy that claimed he’d been shot with a .22 in the forehead, that that was the source of his scar there, and that his forehead skull was actually just thick enough that it stopped the .22 without the fracture creating any spall of loose bone fragments into his brain.

Wait, that is why people keep censoring words in image posts?

.world has a malfunctioning naughty word scanner?

Neither of the two articles are well sourced.

But you acted like yours was credible, until I presented another one, whereupon you admitted they are both equally valid.

That’s assuming that the random article you found is correct, the veracity of which I can’t verify any more than the interesting engineering article…

That is to say, you cannot verify either of these articles at all, ie, they are both of dubious legitimacy.

You accused someone of being racist based of an article you admit you cannot verify, posted a bunch of related research papers that indicate, sure, they’re trying to develop the thing your article claimed they did… but doesn’t indicate that they actually developed it.

…

I can link you a patent for a triangular shaped aircraft, listed as filed by a US Navy Scientist that claims to outline how to create an electromagnetic, gravity negating field around the craft.

That would not be evidence that the US Navy officially announced that they basically built a UFO, that it works, and there’s a video of it, all officially documented and released.

But to you, it would be, if China had done all those things.

…

I am not saying China certainly has or has not developed a hypersonic passenger liner.

I am saying your source for this claim is dubious.

I am saying that you believe(d?) it credulously, without any skepticism, got very hostile with people who doubted its claim less tactfully than I did, and now you admit you got hostile based on a claim that you now admit is dubious, and shifted the burden of proof from the article making the claim to the skeptic questioning it.

Again, this is the logic of a fanatic.

If we just pick which dubiously sourced claims we believe based on vibes, truth stops existing.

So, you just assumed a unsourced, unverified story is true because you have a bias in favor of China, and put the burden of proof onto the other person to disprove it, and are completely fine with calling the other person a ‘sad racist’, despite now admitting that the veracity of the claim they are skeptical of is in fact not well established.

This is the argument/personality style of a fanatic, a religious fundamentalist, a QAnon adherent, an Elon Musk simp.

This is how we got ‘the Trump assasination attempt was staged!’

Please stop posting trash tier misinformation as ‘technology news’, please stop jumping to ‘everyone who disagrees with me is rascist’, this level of unjustified vitriol only makes you appear manic.

So… then… you agree that this entire Interesting Engineering article you posted is wrong?

Are you going to apologize to Sarah Brown for calling her a ‘sad racist’ when she expressed doubt as to the veracity of the dubious article you posted?

Ok so 24+ hours later and I now see a few different websites I’ve never heard of before that basically have the same article as this:

https://scienceinfo.net/chinese-hypersonic-aircraft-prototype-reaches-mach-6-speed.html

Still no actual link to the apparently original source somewhere on some social media site.

Now whats being said is that this was a flight test that actually occured 3 years ago, and was classified until now.

And they do provide an image, and credit it to CAS (without an actual link, I still can’t find this on CAS’ english site, but again maybe they are still writing a proper English post?)

This is a test article, that doesn’t appear to have any intakes for scramjet. I think I can make out two small rocket bells inside the thing, but the image quality is very low.

It’s just a test article, launched by a rocket, that Inwould guesstimate to have a wingspan of about… 4 meters, ish?

This new article also mentions that Cui, the team lead, did not mention anything about the current status of the hypersonic passenger jet which this was a test article for.

So… this test article got up to mach 6.5, 3 years ago.

Absolutely nothing about whether or not a successful test flight of a passenger jet sized craft achieved hypersonic speeds with an air breathing turbo ramjet / scram jet or something like that.

Completely different than the originally report.

… This is why I wanted an actual source.

If this very poorly sourced article from this random, clickbait style website is more accurate than the OP article (another poorly sourced article from another clickbait style website) is more accurate, that would mean SCMP, and everyone in this thread saying China has built an air breathing hypersonic jet liner is wrong, and everyone saying that this is basically comparable to the X15 is correct.

(Differences being the X15 was carried up to 45 thousand feet by a B52 instead of a rocket, and the X15 was manned, and this test article is presumably unmanned.)

I mean sure, thats a related research paper, but that isn’t the same thing as an official press announcement or video saying ‘Hey we actually built this thing, it works, take a look.’

I know that the CAS has specifically been researching/developing a hypersonic, passenger liner sized craft for around a decade… and the US has been doing the same with the SR 72, both attempting to develop … something like turbo ramjet that transitions to scramjet at high speeds/altitudes.

But a link to a research paper from 6 years ago is not actually a primary source to what your original link claims, but does not actually source.

I am willing to believe that this may have actually been developed…

But a better source sure would be neat.

Interesting/Wonderful Engineering both claim this was posted on ‘Social Media’ by the Chinese Academy of Sciences… with no link.

South China Morning Post also claims a video posted by CAS on social media… with no link, no video.

The english version of the CAS website is updated every couple of days, but this isn’t on it.

Granted, they could be taking their time doing a proper translation.

Does anybody know where to see this video?

Legitimately did not know a cat could assume that pose.

What a goober.

Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:

Poverty.

If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.

Does this solve crime 100%?

No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.

… America is a country where homeless people routinely commit bank robberies with unloaded guns and then surrender to police … because at least then they get some level of permanent shelter, food, and health care.

Mostly for memes about beans.

Uh but for real because reddit quite literally sold out and went full corpo.

Captain Crunch?

Kirk?

Who?

Bill Shatner?

Oh yeah, he made TekWar!

Your mind-body can be hallucinating all the time just as a mind can, its just a more complex hallucination.

As for lucid dreams not having body feelings, being completely produced by the mind?

I guess I’d like to see a source on that.

…

Ever met a sleep walker?

They have that ‘control mechanism’ break down, they don’t wake up when their body no longer senses it is in bed and safe to dream… and they’ll often also talk whilst sleep walking,.

You can even have conversations with them, and when they wake up later, they’ll remember parts of the conversation, but basically everything their body is experiencing during the sleep walking is a kind of garbled input into their dream.

The things you said to them may have been said by you, in their recollection of their dream, or maybe another person, or maybe multiple different people.

If you touch them, or they interact with things, this will also be incorperated into their dream, but again, exactly how is unpredictable.

They may have a recollection in their dream of grabbing their keys, starting their car, and then picking up a package from somewhere, but what they’ve actually done is grab a TV remote, sat down in a chair, and then grabbed a book off of a shelf.

With sleep walkers, the body is very clearly still part of the input process for dreaming, its just… confused.

…

Have you ever had sleep paralysis / ‘locked-in’ syndrome?

Where you mind is awake and aware, but the parts of your nervous system responsible for intentional muscle movement just… don’t work, are not active for some reason?

That’s a non lucid dreaming experience which is pretty much totally reliant on the mind, your mind is basically disconnected from your body.

…

How about neuropathy or nerve damage, where your body feelings just do not really actually correspond to what it is actually experiencing, your body doesn’t feel things that it should, and does feel strange sensations and even extreme pain with no obvious external stimuli?

That’s your body functionally hallucinating, again not in a dream, but you experience it as reality.

Similar stuff has happened to me.

Here’s a rough template of an input questionaire in MSFT Forms, its not actually ready yet as we haven’t set up the actual place the inputs will be recorded, nor set up a way to mirror it into our actual database that our entire intranet uses.

Come back after the weekend, dummy questionaire has replaced the front end of our old system, meaning we’ve just functionally not logged about 72 hours of requests for assistance from the homeless, during a blizzard, and COVID.

After this, our webmaster / marketing director, this woman who earns a quarter mil a year… straight up told me, in an email, she does not actually read anything I write in my emails to her that requires scrolling.

She’s very busy, you see.

When she asked me, unprompted, in an in person meeting, if I could ‘implement the blockchain’ in our (PostGres, not that she knows what that is) database, for ‘security benefits’, I wanted to strangle her to death, but settled on collapsing my head into my hands, then looking up and saying no, that would make everything extremely inefficient and make it much more insecure.

She says, oh really, are you sure about that?

Yes.

Ok then well I guess that wraps up this meeting (shit eating grin) keep up the good work!

… I no longer work in the tech industry.