I thought Christensen was really good in that movie (Shattered Glass, for anyone who doesn’t recognize the quote). Sure, a lot of it is that he was cast in a role that fit him but he was still able to carry the film while up against some very good actors, including one Rosario Dawson. The guy can act in the right…

Huh. How very Dota, although at least “Dota” can be pronounced. They should’ve gone with Plunkbat, it was always the better abbreviation.

The worst drivers by far are ones making right hand turns, because they ONLY look to their left, never to their right. I always am cautious when I’m approaching someone turning right.

Correcting myself: Sedna does have a 500AUish orbit, but it’s a quarter the diameter of Pluto. I was confusing it with Eris.

No. Solar gravity dominates out to about 100 000 AU. We know of a couple of different “detached objects” with a 500AU-ish orbit, notably Sedna which is slightly larger than Pluto and has a highly elliptical orbit with a perihelion of 75 AU and aphelion of 940 AU.

He’s not entirely wrong. When I got my CS degree — in Sweden, about a decade ago — the CS student body was 95% male. This is because CS was a sexist boy’s club and not because women can’t touch computers, but nevertheless the historical gender disparity means it is in fact difficult to find women for many engineering…

It’s not a strict legal term. There are formal criminal acts that include the word — for instance slander falls under ärekränkning, literally “violation of honor” — but not every kränkning is a crime, nor is it necessarily sexual.

Having higher-than-refresh FPS is a latency reduction. If you’re running 120 FPS on a 60 Hz monitor then what you’re seeing is 83 ms more recent than if you were running 60 FPS, all other things being equal. Maybe more depending on how many frames the game has in flight at a time, how the engine synchronizes frame upda…

Memory leaks do not cause high core utilization. Quite the opposite: if memory pressure on the GPU is very high then the card has to constantly swap more data with main memory, which causes the cores to stall.

This is not a correct understanding of how GPU programming works. High GPU utilization means the exact opposite, that the CPU code is well formed so as to avoid stalls.

The combat also improves quite a lot as you go through the game and get more abilities that aren’t tied to the GCD. Some jobs remain slow but it’s more of an intentional choice and if you don’t want that you can play a faster one. Job actions/minute range from ~30 at the low end (WHM, BLM) to ~50 at the high end (NIN,…

I agree that it would be nice but from an engineering standpoint I can see why they don’t allow a retail > trial downgrade. There are a lot of edge cases you’d need to write code for. It’s especially tricky since the base game includes Stormblood now, but trials only include Heavensward.

One of the arguments the conservatorship team uses is that “her” wealth has increased from a couple million in 2008 to $60+ million today.

If you have indeed ripped your GBA FF5 cart to a rom file, as one of course does, and want to patch it you might want to try https://github.com/Aerdan/Exdeath/

I’d love it if more companies released the source of old games, but with the way software is made nowadays it’s not going to happen. Modern software uses a lot of 3rd party libraries for common functionality, often somewhat modified for the project at hand. Distributing those modifications would require the permission…

The entire transaction network for bitcoin is intentionally designed to require an absurd amount of electricity and be slow to verify transactions, for security reasons. It’s one of many stupid things about it. The entire thing uses more electricity than the country of Argentina, and the electricity cost per bitcoin…

Man, my sympathies.

Research doesn’t imply “cure”. Most research around Asperger’s and autism spectrum disorders are about things like how to better teach neurodiverse kids, how to diagnose it earlier, how it impacts depression and other mental disorders, etc. These thing certainly need to be researched further. It’s beneficial to all of…

I appreciate the fashion choice but the Star-Spangled Subligar would’ve been more on brand I think. They’re truly the top tier shiniest underwear in the game.

I don’t hate the pop changes, they do what they set out to do. The late game isn’t as micromanagement heavy, performance is better and pop growth isn’t quite as much of an end all stat.