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Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel?
  • Strangers on the internet are not qualified to answer deeply complex questions like this despite what they might think.

    Foreign affairs is something that people dedicate their lives to studying and understanding. I seriously doubt those experts are here answering this question.

    Do you notice how all of the answers you’ve received are inconsistent with each other?

  • Fallout 4 Next Gen Update Discussion

    https://bethesda.net/en/article/4RcipuAES2k0KP7eYf2DwD/fallout-4-next-gen-patch-notes

    Just started playing it this morning on my PS5. I’m perpetually frustrated by Bethesdas snail like pace when it comes to this type of thing but the update seems excellent so far.

    It’s running at a buttery smooth 120 FPS in quality mode with VRR on. I thought for sure their performance mode would be limited to 60 FPS so this is amazing.

    Edit: apparently quality mode is a 40 FPS target internally with VRR enabled. Performance mode is 60 FPS as expected. So it’s doing frame multiplying to boost it up to 120. Still feels and looks incredible though. Quality mode is native 4K with ultra settings and looks crispy as fuck.

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    TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989
  • Credit scores didn’t exist but credit bureaus date back to the mid 1800s in the USA. Also, as others have mentioned creditors would do their due diligence and try to assert that you would be able to pay back your loans by doing many of the same things they do now.

    This really isn’t some new, crazy concept like you’re making it out to be. The score has only simplified the process.

  • TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989
  • uh.. that’s exactly how it worked. The Wikipedia page you linked mentions credit bureaus. If you go to that page you can see they were established in the USA by the mid 1800s. Yes, it was all done on paper. That’s how the world used to work.

  • Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR
  • Err.. no it doesn’t. There are so many bug reports of neither HDR nor VRR working properly with the steam deck. My deck won’t even dock properly with my TV after recent updates.

    It’s better than most other linuxes in the sense that it works sometimes I guess.

  • Starfield FSR 3 Support Arriving This Month; New Steam Beta Branch Next Week
  • This patch is awesome. FSR3 looks so much better than FSR2. The frame generation seems to work pretty well on my desktop. I can run the game at 1080p ultra with my midrange system now and even in new Atlantis and what not it’s managing at least 60 fps and it really feels quite good.

    Combine that with all of the graphical artifacting fixes from the previous patches and the game looks really gorgeous now imo.

  • Why does incest result in birth defects?
  • Many families have recessive fucked alleles that cause all kinds of problems. An allele is a variant of a gene. You need two copies of a recessive allele for that gene to be expressed (do something).

    Every fucked allele the parents share has a 25% chance of being expressed in the child. The more DNA the parents share the more fucked alleles they share. Usually… sometimes the opposite happens and the number of bad alleles is reduced in the child. Inbreeding can lead to fucked animals and “perfect” ones. Weird stuff.

    Now you might be thinking “why do families have so many fucked alleles?”

    That’s a good question. The thing about carrying a single recessive, fucked allele is that it doesn’t do anything to you. Mutations happen all the time and so these alleles are floating around and multiplying constantly.

    It’s only a problem on the odd chance that they get expressed which is most often when family members produce offspring.

    So it’s worth noting that this is the type of thing that we can check for these days. In some cultures it’s acceptable to marry a cousin and I’ve heard that they check for any genetic issues before proceeding when they live in a first world country.

  • Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
  • You’re certainly not the only software developer worried about this. Many people across many fields are losing sleep thinking that machine learning is coming for their jobs. Realistically automation is going to eliminate the need for a ton of labor in the coming decades and software is included in that.

    However, I am quite skeptical that neural nets are going to be reading and writing meaningful code at large scales in the near future. If they did we would have much bigger fish to fry because that’s the type of thing that could very well lead to the singularity.

    I think you should spend more time using AI programming tools. That would let you see how primitive they really are in their current state and learn how to leverage them for yourself. It’s reasonable to be concerned that employees will need to use these tools in the near future. That’s because these are new, useful tools and software developers are generally expected to use all tooling that improves their productivity.

  • What did you think of Sea of Stars?

    I thought that it was overall good fun. The battle system is excellent and the music is great. The characters are cool and generally quite enjoyable. However, the standard ending of the game really annoyed me. It’s totally anti-climactic. I really don’t want to go back and do a bunch of side quests (collectathon in particular) to unlock the true ending.

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    Plasma randomly warns that my SSD is going to die?

    I'm using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?

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    XeSS with Starfield running on Proton?

    Have any of you gotten XeSS mods working with Starfield? They seem to either do nothing or make my game crash.

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    Mixed refresh rates question

    Hello everyone. I've read some posts before about Linux behaving poorly when using multiple monitors that have a different refresh rate.

    Does anybody here know if X11 + AMDGPU + Mesa + Gnome handles this correctly? I'm thinking of getting a high refresh rate monitor (120hz+) while keeping my secondary at 60hz.

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    Bluetooth USB adapter recommendations?

    I recently bought a Bluetooth USB adapter that supposedly had kernel level support but it didn’t work at all (without patching the kernel .-.)

    Anybody have a good recommendation? Ideally I’d like for it support BT 5.0+ and be supported by the kernel.

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    How’s the AMD GPU experience?

    I’m kind of tired of my nvidia GPU. I feel like my desktop is fairly unstable and I suspect it might be the culprit. What’s your experience been like using AMD?

    edit: Y'all inspired me. I've just bought a new RX6600 for $180. Seems like a good deal. :)

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