JohnEdwa

"412 people (403 professional roles, 9 thanks) with 502 credits." https://www.mobygames.com/game/241065/clair-obscur-expedition-33/credits/windows/?autoplatform=true

As for those compared budgets, CoD Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million and GTA 6 has already surpassed a billion.

There is an argument to be made that Expedition 33 was essentially created by a studio with 30 people (though once you add everyone that worked on it the credits do balloon to over 400) with a rather small budget, and meanwhile companies like Rockstar, Sony and Activision have thousands working for years and spending hundreds of millions creating games like GTA 6, CoD and Concord, so naturally they should be a lot more expensive to buy too.

They just shouldn't be surprised if people don't buy all the $500 Waguy steak on offer and are perfectly happy with way cheaper options.

I do choose carefully, I buy half a dozen indie games on sale instead, and I have nothing to complain about.

Or that we keep concentrating only on the total output. China has 4.2 times as many people as the US, yet their total Co2 emissions are only 2.4 times higher.

It's like complaining that a family of four is eating too much food from the buffet when you have over half of their total amount on your own plate.

They keep building coal power plants because the total need of electricity in China is rapidly increasing, but they are also building everything else at an even higher rate so less of the total is actually generated by coal. Also many of them are replacing old obsolete plants with cleaner more efficient ones.

Many of them are also being built specifically because of the increase of renewable sources, to stabilize dips and provide reliability, so the overall usage of those plants has decreased.

That's the benefit of using AI and machine learning - once you have enough source material, you can throw it all in and it'll eventually spit out a model.
Which is exactly what Meta did with their Massively Multilingual Speech project which supports text-to-speech and speech-to-text for 1107 different languages.

Is it actually any good in 99% of them, I don't have a clue, but it exists.

Yet it is.

You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you've acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it's called an "asset acquisition" - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it's left with most of the liabilities.
Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

In this instance:

According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”

...how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.

Yup.
I've spent a good while running Deck in desktop mode compared to my laptop running Manjaro, and so far the only thing I've noticed is that the Deck has that handy "add to steam" context menu item that automatically sets a 3rd party game to run in proton through steam.
And there's an AUR package for that.

So unless there's something major I've managed to miss, Manjaro + that package gets you the entire desktop SteamOS experience on any device.

100kg-125kg (220-275lbs) are fairly common weight ratings yeah. Half of it is because the frame needs to handle you dropping a curb without snapping like a pretzel, but the other half is because gravity is a bitch and trying to go up even a small hill takes a lot of power.
Most escooters promise 25-30% climb capability, but hauling 300lbs up a 30% grade at just 10mph requires 2200 watts, while most smaller escooters max out at 500-1000W.
Even that 1000W is only enough for ~4.5mph.

We are going to hit an interesting spot in a few years when the processes run out of numbers to use - because the "x nm process" hasn't been talking about the actual sizes for almost three decades (the 250nm process back in 1997 was one of the last ones).

The "2nm" process for example has a gate pitch of 45nm, and metal pitch of 20nm. Once they go below 42 and 16 - 1nm values - is it going to be the 0nm process? And -1nm after that?

Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, both of which are roughly their entire net income for one year.

Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.

Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-are-in-a-growing-number-of-cities-heres-everything-to-know/