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Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.

Seriously. The world would be a better place if the media stopped reporting on every random shit idea that crosses Musk’s addled brain. It’s the kind of lazy journalism that got Trump elected.

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El Salvador adopted both BTC and the U.S. dollar at the same time as national currencies. It’s not a matter of BTC vs. SVC.

Edit: The person I’m replying to edited their comment instead of admitting they were wrong. Classy.

Despite government incentives to use Bitcoin, people distrust it because they know how volatile it is and 70% of the population thinks it’s a scam.

Turns out even the Salvadoran poor are more financially savvy than tech bros.

“Blockchain” is a red flag.

While the technology in itself is not inherently bad, it has such a limited use case in real life, and has been associated with so many scam projects in the crypto sphere, that it’s an immediate alarm bell about the seriousness of the project.

I’m bilingual and this absolutely baffles me. AI translation is not at the level of a human translator at all. It’s inept at deducing context or at handling slang, regionalisms, or ambiguity.

I do translations routinely and I tried AI tools. It’s such garbage for anything except basic stuff that I prefer to start from scratch.

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For me, the value of RSS is bypassing the fucking algorithm.

Just give me the raw feed from the websites I like. No suggestions, no “someone else liked this.” Just the raw firehose of content that I asked for.

It depends.

If the game is already cast and VO/performance hasn’t been entirely recorded yet, then yes, it will grind production to a halt.

If the game hasn’t been cast yet, some studios might decide to go record VO in the UK instead. Typically that leads to lower quality unless the cast needs to be British. The American voice actor pool in the UK is much smaller than the U.S. for obvious reasons, and that leads to much lower quality of performance.

So basically, it will slow down productions if they don’t have the option to go to the UK instead. For everything else, it depends how badly a studio wants to release within the given time frame, but there are options.

This article is specifically about Australia. Globally, Netflix added 5.9 million subscribers after their password-sharing crackdown.

I hate to say it, but the crackdown worked exactly as intended.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66240390

You kid, but yes!

I was in China two months ago and the use of electric cars is honestly changing the feeling of big cities. Delivery motorcycles and service vehicles are all electric now, and with the number of electric cars on the road, streets are a lot quieter now barring the frequent honking. Less air pollution too.

What I love about Chinese electric car manufacturers is that they’ve fully embraced the cyberpunk aesthetic from the chassis design to the car sounds. Made me feel like I was walking around a cyberpunk movie set.

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I wasn’t talking about Twitter’s profitability or lack thereof. I meant it was a breeding ground for trolls, brigading, bullying, and disinformation long before Musk took over. Musk made it worse, but it’s funny how some people remember pre-Musk Twitter as this bastion of integrity and civil discourse.

Worth remembering that Twitter’s problems didn’t start with Musk’s acquisition. He just redirected the city sewers into what was already a cesspool. Then took a piss in it for good measure.

I was in China two months ago. While WeChat and AliPay are ubiquitous, it’s not true that China is cashless. You can still use cash pretty much everywhere, but expect vendors to have to rummage for a bag of cash behind the counter then panic as they don’t remember how to count money.

But honestly, it’s not that different from Europe and North America. When I’m in, say, Canada or France, I’m using a Visa credit card through Google Wallet for absolutely everything. Not sure I trust Google and Visa any more than WeChat.