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Even simpler fix - If in France, reduce peak transmit power by 10%.

Not surprising, any degradation in the connection leads to intermittent connection/high resistance fault = heat and poof, there it goes.

Can confirm, my parents had an aluminium telephone line in the UK until it failed and had to be replaced. Moot point as it's replaced with a fibre optic cable now though.

Critical national infrastructure should never have been placed in private hands, their only interest lies in minimising expenditure and maximising profits for either themselves via nice bonuses, or to the shareholders. It's never been about delivering the best service to the customer for the most reasonable cost.

Power, Water, Road, Rail, and Healthcare should remain and have remained under public ownership - those are a public service and should not be run for profit. Telecoms is about the only one to have worked - ish, but it took decades and a lot of lobbying and regulation to make it happen.

Not as cold as the Nordics, sure, but depending on cycles, it can drop a few degrees below freezing between November - March

The main issue is that homes were designed to trap and keep heat in, rather than true insulation, which means that as summers get warmer, our homes turn into ovens, with no way to cool them down properly. Case in point last summer with UK temps hitting 40C and above for a few weeks.

Government are trying to kill off the old gas boilers though, with heat pumps being pushed very heavily, not sure if they're enforcing it yet or not though. Apparently they're also looking at switching out natural gas for a hydrogen mix, but that means having to rework a lot of the piping/valves as hydrogen needs much higher standards than currently applied.

Paizo's website has been hugged to death, so it's fair to say they're getting a lot of attention...

Estimated wait time: 6 hours, 33 minutes

Oops, sorry OP for all the traffic :D

Automatic1111's stable diffusion web gui works with apple silicon: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...

I was referring to the "metaverse" VR vision Meta is having trouble implementing.

Exactly, SD is basically a pile of python scripts talking to Cuda via pytorch, it can be completely disconnected from the network and run via a commandline, sure, there are web frontends available for it, but there's bugger all web 3.0 about it.

Or VRChat, which does everything Meta is trying to do years ago

How does the cost of living compare? The wage in SV might be higher, but with astronomical rents etc, you might actually be better off in real terms with the German 10 months.

Certainly on the Mac, compatibility issues stop you from even installing older versions (installer is 32bit), then I think there were other issues with certain functions.

Folk are already using lower end cards with Stable Diffusion, even the 4GB models.

My 3080 is well capable of generating 512&768 images with a high step count in under a minute, and 500 odd steps (just for fun) in around 2 minutes (or even less with different samplers)

The interesting bit is when we get more VRAM (24-32GB) and can actually train the models with off the shelf hardware without breaking the bank.

The Daily Mail online has been branching out into the US for a while, hence covering things in language catering for an American audience.

Temperature measurement in the UK is measured in Celcius, Fahrenheit is not a thing here.

The temperature thing is complete nonsense, nobody uses Fahrenheit here unless we're translating for Americans.

The others are a fairer point, although we do actually sell liquids in litres or millilitres, but for some things it just happens to be some multiple of 568..

Weight is KG, unless it's a person, in which case it's Stones and Pounds.

Distance is fun, It's Miles on journeys, but metric for everything else, unless you're talking about people's height, then it's feet and inches.

It sounds confusing, but when you live here it's not something you really have to think about, you just switch rather effortlessly.

Yup, FB Groups was really the nail in the coffin for a lot of forums. Source - Me, ex large-ish forum admin.

Reddit and Discord piled the dirt on top and added the headstone.

Xenobots combine and roll out?

All jokes aside, it sounds like we're almost at a real-life game of Spore!

Cracking effort either way...

/coat

Or terraform/terragrunt, Pulumi or one of the other options out there

Yeah, that seems to be becoming the new "sent to Siberia", although I very much doubt he'll be placing himself directly in danger, unless he had no choice.

Either way, he picked his poison long ago.

Nope, clipped or glued ferrite, you used to also get them on power cables for certain devices

"standards"

Yup, "they walked" was my answer too. Thought that was pretty common knowledge that the North Sea as it is now was formed as the ice from the last ice age melted, cutting off the British Isles into what they are now.

Trawlers still occasionally pull up tree stumps etc in their nets from the Doggerland area

You don't need to be of legal age to get a debit card, but you do for a credit card, hence why credit cards are often used as age verification.

Golden parachute incoming... Probably hanging around for a few months until the buyout completes, then off he goes.

Nice! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Nail on the head, this is entirely about Epic wanting carte blanche access to a lot more eyeballs and wallets so they can ram in as many v-bucks purchases or whatever into the applications and funnel as much cash their way as possible.

This was never about fairness for all developers, it was always Epic wanting a bigger slice of the pie factory.

Well, other than the homebrew folks and those inclined to sail the high seas, very true. I don't get how this is suddenly an issue just because the device is portable - where is the outrage that developers can't distribute whatever they like on the Nintendo Switch outside of Nintendo's system (which also takes a 30% cut)?

Yep, I think the couple actually improved it, not that it elevates my opinion of it much more.