I mean, considering that the russians are (alllegedly) calling them “chinese” to be bigoted… that probably IS going to be the official line.

To be fair, that is true of all miniatures and model kits. It is generally less noticeable if you are dealing with injection molded sprues as a good pair of nippers can get you most of the way. But it is still good to have some sandpaper to touch things up.

Hell, I use an old pair of nippers to remove supports and overhangs from a lot of my “normal” prints.

… and now I am really curious what a 3d printed runner would be. Might do a proof of concept/experiment in onshape.

His family did

Yeah. Although I guess now I don’t really know how resin would handle those kinds of support either.

And yeah, it is pretty funny that a resin printer and curer and ventillation setup comes out cheaper than most 40k armies. But the answer probably is to scale up models (there is an artist on mastodon I keep meaning to throw money at).

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If trump loses? Yeah. They will. He is already going extra senile and has spent the past eight years proving he can’t get downballot candidates elected.

Which will get us back to bush era republicans. Basically buying us maybe another decade until they transition from “we need to fight crime and promote family values” to “let’s murder some brown people and enslave women” again.

Yes. Which was not the topic being discussed.

The idea was that Google Chrome would lose a significant market share because of this. And, on the off chance that somehow happens, that is basically a death sentence for all the browsers dependent on Chromium.

So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

Because if there is not massive amounts of money and resources pumped into Chromium development? Vivaldi and Brave will be up a creek

If the chrome market share significantly degrades then google will stop pumping so much money into it.

And considering basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree…

My vote is very much on slow day and, given a choice, would nuke this thread entirely, if that helps.

If folk MUST steal other’s work, at least pick something that is semi-uniquely them and not literally a post made while taking a shit.

I mean… this isn’t hard.

He is white. So he is an example of why we need some immigration reforms so that the smartest and most innovative and virile man on the planet doesn’t have to prove how much smarter he is than the government to make america great. The real problem are all those black and indian and chinese and native american immigrants.

I doubt that.

For me it is more a question of who is in charge. Are they effectively russian soldiers and the interpreters are relaying orders from moscow? Are they still north korean soldiers and orders come from pyongyang (after discussions with moscow) and the interpreter is just so they can communicate with allied forces? Or are they basically doing whatever they need to do to achieve a general objective?

What do we know about north korean military doctrine?

I know, at least at the start of the war in Ukraine, russia very much suffered from how little agency and autonomy they give NCOs and lower ranked officers. And while I can’t imagine north korea trusting anyone with anything, these are also their military troops who actually get fed and have hostages back home to keep too many of them from fleeing.

Basiaclly all DRM models have had variations of that problem. It, again, boils down to what the check is, when they do it, and how often they do it.

For example:

• Back in the day, Splinter Cell Conviction (and a few other ubi games) actually connected to a remote server for game logic. If you were running a cracked version and a blocker (I think peerguardian is what we used? Been a minute) then you would actually notice your game just completely hang when you went through certain doors and Sam wouldn’t start talking until you turned PG off.
• Similarly, quite a few securom and even starforce games would add the DRM check as part of the fundamental gameplay loop so you were potentially checking dozens of times per SECOND. This was a rapid checksum or a value in memory but it was still very noticeable

And Denuvo is kind of the worst of all worlds since it is an activation model which, potentially, involves phoning home to a server.

To my knowledge, every single case of “Denuvo killed performance in mah gerhms!!” was either

• Complete noise. Like, less than 5% difference which could just as easily be a case of having a different tab open in your browser
• A case of a poor implementation where the checks were way too frequent

I am not aware of anything that was fundamentally denuvo itself. I would love to know more if you can point to a documented example but everything I have seen that actually has numbers ends up being one of the above.

I am not going to say that I think Denuvo is good for gaming. I fully accept the importance of DRM for week one sales (which make a huge difference to publishers) and understand that activation models are incredibly useful for that but I also think activation model DRM is fundamentally shite because it renders games unplayable in order “Why is this random ass server plugged in in this closet?”.

But I do think people overly attribute negative performance to denuvo. Implemented correctly, there are MAYBE a few checks per hour and that is system noise. The problem is that, for whatever reason, so many games end up adding the denuvo checks to critical path operations that either completely delay the loading of a new area or tank performance completely because it is checking a dozen times per minute. And that is 100% on Denuvo for not working properly with the studios they license their tools to.

But for the ones who DO implement it sanely? It is barely noticeable to the end user… from a performance standpoint.

Remember kids: Hate mother fuckers for what they actually do. Rather than going the “bitch eating crackers” route.

I think the reality is that you just wouldn’t get paid even if you were “selected”

But also? This is an incredibly litigious man who sues anyone and anything. I am not picking that fight.

Conceptually I think this is great.

But… How many folk are now eligible to be recalled to active duty?

Again, that assumes that Ukraine want a company run by a Russian asset to know every single device.

But also? There is a lot of value in civilians being able to reach the outside world as well. Especially under an occupation.

Why would Russia move? I’ll give you a hint: it involves shooting at them.

So unless Ukraine wants to not be able to communicate with recon units before every attack…

Same problem

“Hey musk? Could you restore service to this town at 2 am on Wednesday? No reason but also please don’t tell putin or trump.”

For very obvious reasons, Ukraine may not want musk to have every single units position. Let alone groups that supplemented their own resources with Amazon.

Could starlink figure this out? Yes. But it would make everyone involved uncomfortable to know the theoretical has become documented and easily searchable.