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[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have someone coming for check-ins, but they can’t come in 5 times every day to give food,” a Reddit user said.

You can pamper your cat however you want, but your cat is not going to die if they don't have someone portioning out food five times a day.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah, the user experience of "just wipe cookies on browser exit" is a lot better than "have a million prompts all over zillions of sites".

However, regarding "every single damn time"...some sites can have their "do you want cookies" popup just blocked by the Firefox I still don't care about cookies addon. It's not a solution for every site out there, but it'll get a lot of them.

It's also possible to use another extension, Behind the Overlay on some sites. This does require a click, so manual action, but it tries to identify "pop-over" content that covers up the browser window and remove it with that click. It's really intended as a more-general solution to "pop-over" stuff, but cookie pop-ups often take this form and can be dismissed.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are also other ATC simulation games, but it looks like that particular developer also sells professional ATC training software, so I'd kinda imagine that that "I'm really good at TRACON" might be a better standard than most ATC games in terms of someone being able to be an actual ATC.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

It sounds like it's other countries in Europe as well.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1vkgf1k/valve_notifying_hardware_customers_about_a/

They do use same partner. As I got the email and based in UK.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

This was why MMO experience was sought out.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

---The Far Side, October 15, 1990

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Actually, Major Major had been promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s.

---Catch-22, Copyright 1961

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are a number of games


particularly those since SSD storage became pretty much the norm


that do not load a whole level, but load while playing. Why not just load the game (or the level)? Because it lets devices with less RAM store more stuff than they otherwise would. You have more relaxed caps on things lile texture size.

I'd assume that the engine is still going to try to predict what content is going to be needed prior to it being needed, that it's got a strategy more sophisticated than just "load resource first time it's requested". But SSD storage is going to be more forgiving of a miss than rotational storage.

Bethesda uses the term "cell". I know that their engine uses a square grid as the loading unit, loads a sort of circle of cells around the cell where the player is.

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It sounds like the Unreal 5 terminology is "sublevel", for the units loaded.

https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1tchk8k/is_level_streaming_even_worth_it_if_your_game/

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

That comment is quoting text from an article.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So, from past reading, I believe that a lot of jobs in brick-and-mortar banks


which have historically had a major brick-and-mortar presence


have been on a long decline. That's a phenomenon that well predates popular LLM use, brought about by Internet, ATMs, and similar, which tended to displace brick-and-mortar stuff.

I physically went by my local bank the other month (for the first time in a long time) and while the building was still there, it was like a tomb. All of the service desks that had once held tellers were empty. There was one person in an office handling the few people coming by in person.

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https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/money-mentor/the-rise-of-online-banking-in-the-us

Every year, more and more Americans are going online to do their banking.

According to Pew Research Center, 46 percent of adults in the United States banked online in 2010. That number grew to 51 percent in 2013, and in 2015, a full 81 percent of adults who manage their household’s finances banked online.

https://www.branchspot.com/bank-branches-closed/

U.S. banks have been closing branches for years — thinning out “banking deserts” where the nearest branch is now miles away. Branchspot tracks 939 closed or relocated branches nationwide, sourced from the FDIC.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I agree that "open source" is often incorrectly used to refer to open-weight models, things that are more analogous to closed-source software where you get the binaries.

That being said, the article does correctly use "open weights". The submitted title here lacks it, but the current title of the article does appear to have it, so either the article author updated the title or the submitter truncated it.

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