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An RTX 5090 is nowhere near enough if you want to play graphically demanding games on the latest high-resolution VR headsets. Many are close to 4k*4k per eye, so essentially an 8k …

I didn't know that there were countries that required that. Can you give me a few examples?

It looks like dry humor to me.

> dedicated cameras have mainly been innovating in video production rather than stills in the last 5 years. Well, not Sony. Their mirrorless cameras have gotten much better autofoc…

Before I introduce a new game, I start by watching a video, reading the rulebook, playing a couple of games against myself, and then practicing and refining a script so I can teach…

Two petabytes, according to PC Gamer.

> It has absolutely nothing to do with pas as in a step. "Pas" as in the negation originally came from "pas" as in a step, through expressions like "I will not walk another step".

According to NATO's 2018 report, Estonia was one of only six NATO countries (out of 29) that met the goal of dedicating 2% of their GDP to defense. Not that dedicating 100% would s…

> High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism I wonder how this fits with the "extreme male brain theory of autism".

After 30 years in IT, I've never once seen anyone use a Mac for anything business-related, much less programming. That is not an exaggeration. (At my current company, we're using 7…

You seem to be literally saying that harassment is necessary when developing operating systems. Is that your intention?

> Why on earth would they not use their own platform to present their content? I know one of them personally, and I think in her case, she may have had a few hundred people followi…

A few years ago, my favorite writers and artists had personal blogs. Today, many of them have moved to Instagram, Twitter and/or Facebook, making them inconvenient or impossible to…

Do you have any books to recommend for people who aren't interested in learning in-depth about historical linguistics, but like reading about the sort of interesting trivia found i…

English used to have a four-form system, where yes and no were the responses to a question posed in the negative, whereas yea and nay were the responses to positively framed questi…

I'm on 54, probably forever as there's no response from the developer of the RSS addon I use. (I tried 15 of the most popular alternatives, and didn't like a single one, so Firefox…

I really like the original Lee/Kirby comics (and Byrne's run in a similar style), and I'd love to see movies that were true to the best parts of those comics. The only good FF movi…

> Not sure what you mean. I mean that e.g. if we create a machine that can solve every thinking-related problem that humans can solve, then we can be certain that we have created a…

We understand what intelligence is better than we understand what consciousness is. "Artificial Consciousness" would be the vague term.

I don't want it summarized; every paragraph is funny and interesting as is. You, on the other hand, seem oblivious and arrogant.

According to the book "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism", countries become hardworking and disciplined because of economic development, r…

A similar thing happens with comics; The New York Times's review of Art Spiegelman's WWII memoir "Maus" started with the line "Maus is not a comic". This was meant as praise, becau…

How about if I draw 7000 sketches or drawings in a year? How would that be "bulk registered"?

If we tell people the dangerous false idea that hard work is the main factor that makes someone rich or successful, we could end up with a terrible society where the rich feel they…

A weird detail is the Chinese transliteration of "karaoke":卡拉ＯＫ. It starts out with two Chinese characters pronounced "ka" and "la", and then tacks on the English "OK": ka-la-OK. S…