As an old fart, I actively dislike photorealistic graphics in most cases. I'm playing a game, and I kind of want it to look like a game, which generally means more surrealistic - exaggerated contrast, high saturation, low texture - than realistic. I'd rather play where the characters look like caricatures than my next door neighbor. And that doesn't even go into great games with sprite-like graphics.

Enough is enough. You've saturated the art budget, it's time to pay writers more.

Have an updoot, Offspring-fan.

I got my current number around 3 years go, and the vast majority - easily 95% - of calls I get are still real estate, political, or job search spam for the previous owner. It's on permanent DND, but I'll check the text log every day or two.

I don't know about this specific case, but it's common for the big name researchers not to do any actual research or play any direct part in generating their images. That's often done by kids - 25 year old grad students, even 20 year old undergrads - or other trainees. Those people may not appreciate how easy it is to detect image manipulation and are still learning what kinds of 'refining' of imagery and datasets is acceptable, while the PI that pays their stipend or sponsors their visa rages at their inability to get an expected outcome or replicate a previous result.

Not saying there aren't people out there just flat-out frauding, but these are group projects with a structure of trust and pressure that can muddy assignment of culpability. Like any committee or corporate action, it can be tough to say that any one individual is the guilty party or which people where just going along with the group.

In some schools. In my public school, we took practice ACTs and SATs.

Just because something's "been done for decades" isn't a good reason to keep doing it, much less to expand the practice. I mean, 50 years after the draft ended, but men still have to register, isn't a good reason to sign up women.

It's hard for imprisoned people to have a fair vote, unhindered by pressure from guards, administration, or gangs. You think for-profit prisons selling slave labor of their inmates is bad, just offer them the opportunity to sell their votes.

Also, at least for the Yubi implementation, fixable in software, firmware >= 5.7 not vulnerable. Also not upgradeable, so replace keys if you're worried about nation-state attacks.

Woodworking planes.

You can go to Home Depot and get a plane for $15-20, and it will - mostly - cut wood. Spend $50-60 and get a decent name brand tool that gives a lot less grief. Spend $500 and get a Lie Nielsen that's just on another level.

Here's the thing, though: you have to be pretty competent to appreciate the difference between the $50 and $500 tools; and if you know what you're doing, you can easily tune the $15 so it works almost as well as the $500. Buy cheap to get started; upgrade if it turns out you stick with the hobby. I'll never know if I could have learned easier/faster starting with a $50 plane, but my guess is that I'd still have been gouging the shit out of everything.

Dog races are worse than horse races, mostly because the dogs are trained to be more-or-less psychotic. Horses, you can see as understanding the competition they're in and being (at least mostly) willing participants.

University is ok if you're starting at zero and don't even know what's out there. It's for exposing students to a a breadth of topics and some rationale of why things are as they are, but not necessarily for plugging them into a production environment.

Nothing beats having your own real world project, either for motivation or exposure to cutting edge methods. Universities have tried to replicate that with things like 'problem based learning,' and they probably hope that students will be inspired by one or two of the classes to start their own out-of-class project, but school and work are fundamentally different ways of learning with fundamentally different goals.

Trump is exactly the kind of Karen who would describe anyone disagreeing with him as 'having a mental health episode.'

I make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but my ACA premiums, net of tax credit, are $0. Sorry it hasn't worked for you, but that's obviously not the universal outcome.

There's a new theory going around that we age stepwise at 44, 60, and 78. Plus/minus a few years, individually, because biology is fuzzy.

And exercise isn't very good for weight loss. There's about the same calories in a 15 minute run as a 12 oz beer or a 30 gram "serving" of potato chips.

Maybe you can find a way to couple activity to something else that you do want to do. Exercise for its own sake is tough for me, but I don't mind walking 15 minutes to get lunch, and then, obviously, 15 minutes back. The meme's message is that you don't need to sweat, get out of breath, or get swole to have meaningful physical activity.

Fun fact: armadillos are all born as identical quadruplets. If you saw 5, then one was either a parent or adopted.

It's been 40 years, but I can still taste those potatoes. Do not want.

It kind of sounds like OP morphed from hobbyist to investor, then lost interest when his investment lost value.

There's a lot of hobbies that offer a path to professional, and I've watched friends go down that path. It's rarely a good experience - there's all kind of things you have to do as a professional to make a living that you can blow off as a hobbyist/volunteer. There's a lot more stress when success or failure is tied to whether you eat or not. You lose a lot of freedom to tell dickheads to fuck off.

Never been into collectibles, myself, but the investment pressure seems insidious. Like, it's one thing to trade cards among friends because you got doubles of something your buddy's missing, but buying a rare card because it's "underpriced" to hold until its price recovers is very different. The money is pressure to change from looking at your collection as good, fun, or complete and to looking at its presumptive cash value. Then you've stopped being a collector and started being a businessman.

Without an adblocker, I used to mute the system and put youtube in a background window. Do something else long enough for the video and all its ads to play, then go watch it. They wouldn't play the ads on a second play through, and it would interrupt the cycle of constantly playing a new video.

You know that people pay taxes on the wealth embodied in their house, every year, right? Not even their equity in the house, but the full value - both the piece they own and the piece the bank still owns. Their primary residence is most of the wealth for most of the middle class, so we already have a wealth tax for everyone but the ultra-wealthy.

Tax on hoarded wealth is pressure to make that wealth do something productive. If you can't get enough return on your invested millions to pay the tax, then you will slowly lose that wealth. Property tax works similarly for farmers and landlords.

The ultra wealthy are exactly the people who should be making big, bold, high-risk bets with their money, because they'll be just fine if they lose a few million. Yet these are the same people who can live a comfortable, even lavish life off the lowest risk, lowest return investments, like government bonds. The rich say social safety nets discourage poor people from working, and I say that tax-free capital discourage it from working.

Also, very important to remember that wealth tax proposals generally target only wealth over a very high threshold. US proposals have been $10-50M, which seems pretty equivalent to the Spanish implementation.