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People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren't owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.

They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.

...so it's only half of 150 wasted acres of arable land?

The frame's foveated streaming is a separate thing from foveated rendering. Foveated streaming does nothing to reduce the rendering load on the hardware running the game, it just reduces the network bandwidth required.

Not sure what kind of sequestered live you lead but schools are definitely not the only place you encounter them. Analog wall clocks and watch faces are still reasonably common.

What drives me crazy about the use of water for datacenters is that it isn't necessary. Unlike growing crops where the water is a non-negotiable requirement of the endeavor just by its very nature, you can cool a datacentre without continuously consuming water.

It just so happens that by a completely insane series of circumstances it's the cheapest way to do so. You could run the servers in the datacenters at a lower power limit. You could use non-evaporative cooling. You could build the datacentre in a colder or less arid climate. But no, all of those options either cost slightly more or generate slightly less money, so they aren't even considered. Couple that with the fact that a significant proportion of that consumption is in service of prompts that no end user ever actively asked for, like the LLMs responses being generated many thousands of times per second by Google searches. It's just this utterly pointless pissing away of resources.

Reads an article about people falling for the doorman fallacy, immediately falls for the doorman fallacy.

Oh, I haven't purchased any of the revised 2024 material but I still follow it and am playing in a campaign being run by a friend.

I don't feel like it's worth giving up regularly seeing friends I've had for decades just to avoid WotC materials on principle.

They changed True Strike significantly in the 2024 rules making it no longer a waste of an action for regular attacks.

New Strike lets you attack as part of the casting using your spellcasting stat in place of str/dex for the weapon, optionally changes the weapons damage type to radiant, and adds cantrip scaling to your weapon damage.

The one use case for original True Strike to give advantage on leveled spell attack rolls and reduce the chance of wasting a spell slot (or other consumable) on a miss is gone though.

No, the initial versions of Edge used a new engine that was different from Internet Explorer's Trident engine.

Edge has been Chromium based since 2020.

I don't believe you.