Artistic preference aside, the Dall-E 3 version definitely follows the prompt closer (in the it shows someone dunking a ball).
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Is that a realistic goal? I don't know, maybe not, but it seems like there's little will even in tech to try.
There was a time when tech was the biggest driver of alternate browser adoption, and even managed to make serious inroads into the mainstream. It's a huge shame that this attitude seems long gone.
I'm addition, it remains a significant platform for informal celebrity and corporate announcements.
People in tech are pretty bearish about Twitter these days (myself included), but there are clearly a significant number of people who believe otherwise.
This is over ten years old. I wonder what those cities wound up doing.
It's also a cultural legacy left over from early versions that were more challenging but less open ended simulations.
In particular, farming required setting up an irrigation system, which required exposing your fortress to a river that occasionally spawned hostile creatures which would disrupt farming. Coupled with winters where farms went fallow, it was much easier to lose a fortress for want of basics.
Additionally, there was a progression involved where access to better metals meant digging deeper and exposing yourself to additional hazards generated from fratures deeper inside the mountain.
Most of these dangers went away in the newer system, and what other dangers were added can often be avoided more easily.
With that said, the older versions also had a lot less replayability. Once you knew what you were doing, each fortress mostly played out the same, but it did make for better progression for someone new looking for a challenge.
The best attempt to escape this was Diocletian's tetrarchy, but that just led to yet another civil war.
More starkly, it seems to me that it's a redistribution scheme that exists primarily to enrich those who already have abundant capital. Who's going to be building and owning those high density structures afterwards? Not the people who are getting displaced from their homes, I suspect.
In short, it feels as though we're being told that it is right and just that you should be driven from your own home, so long as there exists some millionaire who would like to tear it down and build an apartment building in its place.
If you're talking about Mike Duncan's podcast, note that it ended in 2012 with the deposing of the final Western Emperor.
There is a spiritual successor by Robin Pierson called "The History of Byzantium" that picks up shortly after the end and is still ongoing after over 230 episodes.
Duncan's current podcast is "Revolutions", which covers a variety of historical revolutions. I've been listening for a bit now and am only on the third (French) of ten revolutions. Definitely recommend the show for people seeking a history podcast.
Which, of course, was precisely how Facebook broke into the social network market in the first place.
Initially not just for college students, but students at specific colleges. Then connecting students between college, then bringing in family members of those students, and so on.
https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/blob/master/src/Idris/E...
It sounds like you're talking about the life around hydrothermal vents[0], which ultimately depends on chemosynthesis[1]rather than photosynthesis. This has been known since the late 70s, and actually fuels significant macroscopic life[2], not just microorganisms.
There's also deepwater life surviving off of things like marine snow[3], which is nutrient carrying detrius from the surface, or whale falls. But both of those ultimately depend on photosynthesis that happens near the surface.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent#Biology_of_h...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
[2]See giant tube worm, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riftia_pachyptila
Some of the ones I found particularly interesting that are/will be settled this decade:
Bet 12 (https://longbets.org/12/) - No one will win a Nobel Prize for string theory by 2020
Bet 1 (https://longbets.org/1/) - The Turing test will not be passed by 2029
Bet 4 (https://longbets.org/4/) - Pilotless passenger planes will be routine by the end of the decade.
Bet 712 (https://longbets.org/712/) - A commercial driverless car service will be available (in Las Vegas)
The site was also somewhat notable for the "million dollar bet" (https://longbets.org/362/) between Warren Buffet and Protege Partners about whether a curated portfolio of hedge funds would outperform the S&P500 over a ten year span.
Loading Wired.com with uBlock and no javascript the page comes in below 1.5MB for me, with most functionality seemingly intact (in that the front page looks mostly normal and I can load articles that appear to have their text completely intact). The bulk of that seems to be fonts and images, which are probably unavoidable for a media site.
Some reasonable noscript whitelisting for Wired.com and a few others (out of 12 total that noscript shows me) gives a page size that's still under 5MB.
Looking at the full page with everything loaded and unblocked, the biggest offender here seems to be not web design, but an aggressively downloading autoplay video on the front page. Without that the page itself is - while not necessarily great - at least reasonably bearable.
Truth be told, I'd started this post intending to blame advertisers, and there is still some merit to that since even before the video kicks in the various third party scripts balloon the page size several times over from the minimal functional one that loads with everything blocked. But in this case, it does simply seem to be a wasteful media stream playing without regard to whether anyone wants it to or not.
There are known trees whose ages easily exceed a thousand years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#Individ...
Do you suggest imposing those restrictions elsewhere? Via what means, and how do you intend to enforce this within those countries?
As I understand it, the prevailing precedent of the Supreme Court is that revoking citizenship is something that a person must willfully do with the intention of having their citizenship revoked. This wasn't always the case, as it used to be that Congress could declare revoking actions that applied even without intent. So it's possible that this could change, but it's been the case for over half a century and unlikely to change anytime soon.
It depends on the exact context and goal. To an extent, I would consider "map painting" the equivalent of a speedrun. It's usually measured in elapsed game time rather than play time, but there's a similar effect.
Especially with some of the more difficult OPMs, there can certainly be an element of memorization and optimizing starts. This falls off as the game goes further, but it definitely can be present. I recall some years back reading an EU3 byzantine guide that described many of the nations as being every bit as much puzzle game as strategy, where figuring out the tricks and traps of the opening years can mean the difference between a thriving growth and early defeat.
Not that anyone ever has to play the games that way, but that's true of everything that gets put through a traditional speedrun as well.