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It's not that simple; there are places where your asset has value for a user but the user _cannot_ (and I really mean cannot here) pay that value.

It's not a matter of convenience, and it's not just because it's cheaper either -- piracy is the only way to actually get access to it for some people. Otherwise, it's just prohibitively expensive for them.

Sure, you could argue that that still falls under "because it's cheaper", but there's a difference between someone pirating because they just want to save money and someone pirating because they literally can't afford to get it legally no matter what.

And this doesn't cover stuff like software just being plain unavailable in some regions; I literally cannot get some software I use in university legally.

There's Chips and Cheese[0], but not sure if "layman terms" is accurate. They're really great, though.

[0]: https://chipsandcheese.com/

Speaking of which -- Are there any communities/servers with a similar feel to HN / r/learnprogramming / etc that you'd recommend?

Kind of new with Discord I admit.

Wow.. this is really great, thank you very, very, very much!

Thanks a lot, always enjoy your posts on here and r/hardware! Do you have a hardcore introduction with even more detail / perhaps even with examples of implementations? :)

I find white papers quite good (although I admit there are many things I don't understand yet and constantly have to look up), but even these sometimes feel a bit general.

You may find this[0] helpful (note -- download link to a .PDF). It's the GA100 whitepaper.

[0]: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...

The problem with the argument that this is crippling developing countries is that it's often the case that the top talent can't really shine in their country. They can't realize their potential, either due to the lack of means or corruption or envy or whatever. I am from a third world country and a large part of our scientists did great things because they immigrated, at the same time, there are many great minds here that to do anything at all have to partake in an endless uphill battle.

Like, I'd totally love to have our top engineers and scientists come from the West and do some amazing things here (they 100% can make a great change), but I feel that they actually just can't.

Thank you! I had this on my radar for quite a bit, just need to find the time haha.

Yeah, he's really great. I have been searching for more channels like his, but couldn't find anything sadly. Closest I found was nandland, but he's more focused on digital design.

Do you know any good resources for the other things?

N = 1 here, but as someone from a third world country this is definitely true for my experience. Like, 90% of students here can't really pay US-prices for textbooks at all, so they resort to either piracy or buying imported used books (which are significantly cheaper somehow, but sometimes badly worn or old editions), or even buying printed pirated books.

My university department even had someone who would pirate textbooks and print them and sell them to the students at cost (what it cost to print them), he was very popular and people to this day still remember him very fondly as he was arguably doing a major service... the students wouldn't have read the books otherwise.

It may be legally wrong in the West, but morally? The author doesn't lose (like I said, the books wouldn't have been bought) and the students get access to knowledge they wouldn't have been able to access otherwise.

This is actually better for most consumers. The SLC cache was increased nearly three fold and the controller is a superior one (it now uses the same one as the 980 PRO). TechPowerUp[0] has a much better post on this, and you can clearly see there that the new one is better in most cases than the old one.

The only ones disadvantaged by this change are people who constantly write >42GB which I would think are video editors. (The old version would get a speed reduction to 1500MB/s after overflowing the SLC cache (42GB), the new one goes down to 800MB/s after overflowing (115GB))

P.S.: Not defending this, just clarifying because most posters here seem to believe it's a straight up downgrade. Should also be worth noting that Samsung changed the product box, product number, firmware version and the spec sheet for this change. So they're significantly better than the others who have done similar moves. That said, I still believe that they should have called this the 971 Evo+ or something, as it's genuinely different.

[0]: https://www.techpowerup.com/286008/et-tu-samsung-samsung-too...

Zen 4 [so far] from all the rumors actually seems to be competing against Intel 13th gen. (Both coming Q4 2022)

Slightly unrelated, but regarding introvert - extrovert -- Quiet, by Susan Cain may be an interesting read. I was in a similar position till I read it and plenty of things just clicked.

Yeah, the acting part is a valid concern. A mod for The Witcher 3 does this to give the main character voiced dialogue[1], but it doesn't really sound.... right. I mean, it is voiced and some lines feel authentic, but some lines also just feel odd.

[1]: https://www.gamesradar.com/witcher-3-mod-uses-ai-to-create-n...

Yeah, precisely. In that case I'd only buy what I need. If there are multiple sources / alternatives, I'd buy from the one that advertised the least. If they all advertised equally, I'd probably ask people I know which one they found the best and research on the best alternative.

Yeah, I do this too. I don't know why or how, but on a subconscious level, my brain registers online ads as something bad / malicious, and so anything I see through an ad is automatically labelled as bad.

I even freak out if I accidentally click on an ad on mobile because I feel as if I have downloaded a piece of malware.

I don't know where this comes from...possibly due to having been there back when many ads really were malware? I am not sure.

Sage advice, thank you so much. I have actually been trying to apply it in my life in everything (with success thankfully), but I hit a wall lately when it came to marriage and relationships in general. I admit that this isn't just a me thing though, it's actually something that most of the youth in my country face.

Genuine question, what if you're too poor to live the life you want in your 20s?

I have always wondered about this... here in the third world, students pretty much rely on Windows Education and Office 365 Education for all their Windows / Office needs, as the cost for these is too high. Yet, you don't actually "own" these as a student; they're managed by your IT department. So I was always curious if there are any implications / hidden traps.

What different standards do you mean?

I don't understand. AP claims to have been using the building for years, and they didn't know that there were Hamas operations with them?

Not only that, but what is your proof to call it the correct explanation?

>"And I guess it's hard to negotiate with terrorists".

I don't understand this. Are the PNA terrorists? Hamas definitely is, but the PNA?

People are different, with different desires, personalities, mentalities, ..... Isn't it only natural then that 'happiness' would be different from one person to another?

Why speak low about him? You're content with your life, and he is content with his... it really is that simple.

You can't go up to an artist and say, "Hey, your painting is crap, you should change x, y, z," because it is the artist's painting, not yours.

Apologies for the late reply, but I am busy these days.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that you hadn't played it well. What I meant with giving it a chance is... "accepting it", for lack of better words. Like, someone can force me to do a certain task with the aim that I'd learn something, however unless if I accept that reasoning and open up to the task (thus giving it a chance), I wouldn't really learn anything and that task would instead be a needless, wasteful chore. Basically, it's not for you, you understandably wrote it off, but pushed on through it due to the fans' comments that it will get better in the third act... but since it's not for you, it didn't click.

Media, philosophy, etc. are quite subjective, and affect each one of us differently. I was not trying to push you towards something, nor blame you for not enjoying the game -- I only replied to that part of your original comment because I felt that it was too dismissive.

Regarding your second point, I don't have too much time to reply with a long post, however I will write some of the things that stood out, in the same way they're presented in the game. Warning, some spoilers ahead for anyone reading:

- Given the reveals in the story, do the androids' lives and stories have meaning? Why / Why not? Does the answer differ for the YoRHa ones, after knowing their fate and also the way they're created? Finally, if you see that their lives don't have meaning, do they at least have the ability to give their lives meaning? If they do, why aren't they taking the chance to give their lives meaning?

- In a similar vein, what is the point of the whole conflict and war between the machines and the androids? And how would things be different if both sides "freed themselves" from their bounds to their creators? I.e. instead of the machines trying to claim the Earth for the aliens, and the androids defending it and constantly rebuilding it in wait for the humans, they both did something different and started anew? Instead of being stuck in their tasks, they carved out a new path for themselves? And do they actually have the choice and ability to do that, or are they genuinely stuck? See the various stories of the different machine cultures and how they failed and what, precisely made them fail and caused their downfall. Pascal and feelings, the Forest Kingdom and their misguided (but pure) intentions, etc.

Check the implications of your answers with your real world experiences, and how many times there's something that people are stuck doing despite all signs pointing to it being fruitless and they're better off starting anew. The various stories of the failed machines also have many implications on things that we come across a lot in real life.

- Ostracism, hate, punishment, and forgiveness. Devola and Popola, two androids who messed up rather badly (and it wasn't entirely in their hands), are reprogrammed to feel intense guilt and shame, as well as being constantly ostracized by all other androids with absolutely no chance of forgiveness despite the passage of time. Yet, what is the point? The androids are content with this punishment, but ultimately what happened happened and hate won't reverse the past. I suppose this does fall under "inescapable self-destructive cycles of hurting each other", though.

- "Something to fight for" is present extensively in the game, and it tries to portray multiple viewpoints related to it. For instance, what happens to someone when their reason to fight is jeopardized? What if it's entirely destroyed in front of them, what happens to them, then? What if someone doesn't have a reason that really resonates with them? And can someone pick up anything to act as their purpose, or are some things more important than others?

- The ability to commit atrocities without batting an eye by believing you are on the right side. (Further enforced with the DLC) This is actually really profound given how things are going in the real world these days.

- Perspective. This follows up from the above point. The main principle behind multiple playthroughs is to make the player reflect on his/her actions in the game, with the power of hindsight added as well as revealing 'the other side'. This point is further reinforced with 9S in the third act, who chooses to ignore all signs that A2 was forced to kill 2B, and stick to his own 'side of the story' so to speak. Again, this is more commentary on human nature and while it may not be a very deep philosophical theme, its execution is quite great and does lead to some players contemplating this issue.

- Ending E, with its interesting gesture of helping someone you don't know and probably won't ever know with a sacrifice of your save file in order to break the cycle the characters are in. (However I admit that Souls games do convey this better). Now, this may be reaching a bit, but I also feel there's something to be said about dehumanizing the developers and publishers into a bunch of titles, murdering them, and continuing to push on through the intense bullet hell, all with the promise that there's a good ending for the characters at the end, somehow.

- There's so much to say about Pascal, but another comment already took care of this. Particularly the moment he decides to help A2, and completely abandon his principles of pacifism and peace, forced to do that and broken by the surrounding world. However, did Pascal actually have a choice in what he did, or was he really forced? What if the burden of the world is really too much to bear for someone with their principles? Moreover, the children killing themselves in fear of an unknown that does not come to pass is an answer to Pascal's Wager.

Finally, I just want to thank you for keeping an open mind and asking.

There's so much more I would like to mention and more details I would love to go through (what I said is shallow), but I really really don't have time.

Yeah, the combat / gameplay is quite dull (which is a shame because there's a great variety of combos with great animations[1], you're just not incentivised to use them at all), this is something that I agree with. I was only addressing the original comment's final remark.

[1]: https://youtu.be/QAU_8GEgSwI This has all of 2B's moveset and all combos with different weapon sets.

Yes, the soundtrack was redone completely in ver.1.2242... .

It's a mixture of several real world languages, so some words may sound familiar.

Yeah, I found that it needs to be said explicitly with some of the people I have recommended it to. Plenty just finished the first ending and thought that that was it, and that Playthrough B was just traditional NG+. (They didn't even know that the perspective changes!)

>"The much-vaunted philosophical aspects basically rise to naming some characters & bosses after famous philosophers, and basically nothing else."

Replying to this is tricky without spoilers, but I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion. Did you really not find anything about the Android's lives to be even remotely philosophical? Or even the multiple playthrough aspect that you hated, what do you think is its point?

Honestly, the impression I get is that you didn't really give the game a proper chance, wrote it off early on and played it while you had written it off.

It's not for everyone, but your comment is too harsh.