I thought this was spam but that’s just the video description copypasted into the post. You might not want to do that in the future.

Fair, but there is also the matter of effort. A lot of restaurant classics are just not worth making at home except as a special treat because it’s so much effort at home whereas a restaurant just does it at scale.

Ramen, for example (and yeah many westerners may consider it upscale but it is, in fact, street food) takes a really eclectic mix of ingredients and only a small amount of each ingredient ends up in each bowl. Perfect for restaurants, because they just batch prepare the ingredients and put a little bit of the batch in the bowl, but a ton of work to make at home.

At home one-pot dishes are king.

Maybe this is a matter of where you live. I can imagine the average American chain restaurant (like Olive Garden which was mentioned elsewhere in this thread) being pretty terrible. Where I’m from, most restaurants aren’t chains, and while there certainly are terrible restaurants the average is very good.

A restaurant specializing in something is going to have all the specialized equipment for their purpose. To match all restaurants you, a home chef, need more equipment than almost any restaurant.

No, that is a dubious claim. There is nothing objective about that statement.

No it’s not, and yes there is. Since you didn’t elaborate I also won’t.

I can cook some reasonably decent chow, but most people are deluding themselves if they think their cooking is better than any restaurant that isn’t totally terrible.

Restaurant-style cooking is very equipment intensive. A proper Chinese style stir fry needs a gas jet burner and a big wok. A proper pizza needs an oven hotter than home ovens can do. Proper rotisserie meats like gyros or kebab need, well, a rotisserie. You can try to emulate these at home with varying degrees of success, but typically you do more work for what is objectively an inferior product. Many restaurant dishes also require the kind of prep work that doesn’t make sense unless you’re making them at scale.

With home cooking you have to play to your strengths and accept the fact that a lot of restaurant dishes are not worth making. There’s lots of great home cooked dishes you can make, and oftentimes making them yourself at home does make them feel better than at a restaurant, but let’s be honest the overwhelming majority of us are not cooking tastier food than a restaurant.

You can link your Steam and UPlay accounts so I wouldn’t rule out something like this being the case here without knowing more about the circumstances.

I don’t know if this is the same policy, but one thing Valve doesn’t let you do is sell Steam codes for cheap on external platforms, because that evades their platform fee while still using Steam for distribution and makes it hard for the Steam listing to compete (since it’s more expensive).

That might not apply here because I feel like Ubisoft has their own distribution infrastructure on UPlay, but it could be that they were selling the Steam version on UPlay for cheaper.

I don’t believe in death penalty but bike thieves really test my conviction.

Yeah I feel like sports fans probably do better than average on this quiz. Nationalities are quite prominently considered there.

Yeah I sat here trying to name three of:

• Chinese people (Xi Jinping, Jack Ma, uhhh…)
• French people (Marie Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, uhhhhh damn my brain forgot the name of the current president even though I literally read about him earlier today)
• Swedish people (the King and no I can’t remember what number of Carl he is, a Swedish friend, oh fuck I can’t remember the surname of my other Swedish friend)
• Estonian people (Kaja Kallas, holy shit where do I go now, oh yeah the Disco Elysium guys: Argo Tuulik… fuck who was the main guy? Who was the money guy?)
• Russian people (Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin-- wait he’s dead, ok what about the geopolitics guy on Twitter nuh uh can’t remember his name)
• Americans who aren’t or weren’t the president or the vice president (drew a blank until I thought of the RedLetterMedia guys, then realized I forgot Mike’s last name, then cheated by remembering Mike Morhaime’s last name instead)

And I’m not even on the spot in a studio. The human brain just doesn’t work that way.

edit: and for context I’m Finnish, so I picked neighbouring countries that I should (and do) know people from

From the remaining 40% of the remaining corn.

relevant Hank Green video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

Basically my (and from what I remember, his) point is, stop thinking water use is the problem with AI datacenters. Even power use isn’t the problem. We have all the technology and solutions necessary to build all this compute responsibly and sustainably, it’s more than doable, it wouldn’t even be particularly difficult.

The problem is hyperscaling and the lack of regulation (or straight up ignored regulation) that enables it, and the greedy people and corrupt politicians that want it to happen and let it happen. This is yet another thing that basically no other country in the world has real problems with besides the US of A, because in no other country is the shit your datacenters are doing legal. By barking up the wrong tree you are delaying the realisation that the problem is in your system and nowhere else.

If you think farms are for food wait till you find out what 40% of US corn is used for.

(it’s biofuel for cars)

and just wait till you find out what 60% of the remaining corn is used for

(it’s animal feed)

edit: and just wait till you find out how much water is used to artificially irrigate that corn

(something like 40 times as much as AI is estimated to use)

If anything, representing yourself should make the insanity defense stronger.

You also have to provide access to your computer so the attacker can produce labeled training data for the neural network that performs the pattern matching for the actual fingerprinting.

Because that’s what they did in the paper: they got the data and performed the attack on the same machine. There’s no evidence presented in the paper that this identification could be generalised to arbitrary machines and configurations without prior access.

So yes, this is a complete nothingburger.

This is a really well written article. Like totally irrelevant of the subject matter, this is remarkably good writing. Rare to see.

Money isn’t real so this is a meaningless question. The total amount isn’t negative though. Consider that the total GDP of the world is positive.

You’re not wrong, but what you described is only a problem because even if you don’t abuse paperless immigrants and pay them below minimum wage, your competition will.

The solution isn’t to let everyone do this, it’s to stop everyone from doing it.

I’m not arguing against immigration, just against abusive employment practices.

A lot of the present-day immigration is facilitated by neoliberal globalists looking to drive down the price of work by introducing competition for unskilled labour (well, all labour really, but this is especially common for unskilled labour). They first offshored their production to countries with lax labour laws and cheap labour, and now that they’ve offshored everything they could, the only way they can further drive down labour costs is by driving them down locally.

In other words, the “they are taking the jobs” people are not entirely incorrect, though they are still barking up the wrong tree by blaming the immigrants rather than the people hiring them. But the rest of us must also not be blind to the fact that the current model of immigration is built to benefit multinational companies and billionaires, not so much anyone else.

Yes they are all signs of desperation. Maybe you could argue they are indicators the person will accept lower wage and as such less expense to the employer.

Yes, that’s my point exactly. These are workers with no social safety net, no knowledge of local labour laws, no union membership and a desperate want to not have to go back to where they came from. They are ripe for abuse.

Then why are the homeless not employed?

Because the reason they’re homeless to begin with is that they could not find or hold a job. Usually this is because of untreated mental illness and substance abuse problems.