12/24/2023 0 Comments Dying light 2 pc pre order![]() ![]() With its day-one patch, I truly hope Techland has fixed the most impactful bugs and that fans who jump into Dying Light 2 this weekend are able to enjoy it as the dev team intended. ![]() But, given more time before release day, they’ll catch many more than they would have on a tighter schedule. QA workers and devs won’t find every bug in a game before launch. Even so, reviewers have found game-breaking bugs. Besides, delays are commonplace these days and many players will forgive studios and publishers for giving dev teams the time they need to create a polished game by launch day - ideally while avoiding crunch.ĭying Light 2 had already been delayed by over a year to allow for more development time. Affording developers more time to fix bugs before physical copies of games are pressed and review code goes out to critics will improve the experience for everyone. Creative director Adam Badowski reportedly said the approach was “simply not fair under the circumstances.”Īll of this is to say that day-one patches may not be truly beneficial for players, critics or developers. It took six months for CDPR to get Cyberpunk into a condition that satisfied Sony.Ī few days after CDPR released the game, bosses told workers that they’d get their bonuses regardless of the review scores. Sony even yanked the game from the PSN store. ![]() Reviewers only had access to a PC build, which was seemingly in better condition before launch. The action RPG was a buggy mess at launch, particularly on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. CD Projekt Red initially tied bonuses to certain review scores and meeting the December 2020 release date (after the game had already been delayed multiple times). Reviewers don’t always have access to a build of the game with the day one patch, which can diminish their opinion and, potentially, lead to developers not getting their bonuses.Ĭyberpunk 2077 is maybe the most notable recent example of this. Not only are review scores subjective and out of developers’ control, we’ve seen instances where games are rushed out before they’re truly ready in order to meet a production and marketing schedule, even if they still bear major performance or stability problems. I’m not sure if that’s the case here (I’ve asked Techland to clarify), but it’s an unfair practice. One other key issue with buggy review builds is that some studios and publishers tie developers’ bonuses to review scores. So, this is far from an issue limited to Dying Light 2. For instance, Elden Ring, one of the most-anticipated games of the year, has gone gold, and FromSoftware is working on a day-one patch. Some day-one patches for other games are much larger.ĭay-one patches have been a common practice in the games industry for many years at this point. ![]() It’d take over seven hours to download that with a 3 Mbps connection. Day-one patches are another accessibility barrier for them.Ī Twitter account that tracks game install and patch sizes for PlayStation pegged the size of Dying Light 2’s day-one patch on PS4 at around 20 GB. Live service or multiplayer games might be out of the question for those folks. Players who live in areas with slow internet speeds often opt for physical copies of games to avoid having to download games that can weigh in at over 100 GB. There are telecom infrastructure problems that prevent tens of millions of people from having reliable, fast internet access. ![]()
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12/24/2023 0 Comments Wilson cruz wife![]() WILSON in ETRO Orange Suit Jacket and Pants MORPHEW Rainbow Fringe Vest ANTHONY in ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Graffiti Oval Sunglasses, Blake Illustration Dante Jacquard Coat, Ivory Wool Serge Cigarette Pants, Tread Slick Boot DAVID YURMAN Box Chain Necklace, Small Fluted Chain Necklace, Forged Carbon Faceted Band Ring It's a different Tinseltown from when Cruz started.ĪNTHONY in ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Graffiti Oval Sunglasses, Blake Illustration Dante Jacquard Coat DAVID YURMAN Box Chain Necklace, Small Fluted Chain Necklace Discovery's co-showrunner is Michelle Paradise, a lesbian, and there are several other out actors in the cast, including Tig Notaro, Mary Wiseman, and Emily Coutts. While Discovery is in a distant future, Rapp and Cruz can look around at the present to see the better world they've helped build in Hollywood. They're part of the younger generation of actors who are agitating and pushing the boundaries and demanding to be seen and heard, and not putting up with the status quo." But also, they're really modeling for us what it means to advocate for yourself. "We have this deep connection, and Wilson and I feel incredibly protective of them and supportive of them. "Off-screen, that same feeling of family is prevalent for all of us," Rapp says. This family unit doesn't just exist for their characters. It has little edges and corners that show up, but we make it through and we support each other." "Hopefully, it's a kind of role-model couple that's not meant to be all shiny and perfect. "Paul and Hugh have been together for a long time and have gone through a tremendous amount and have earned a really strong sense of mutual respect and trust that is really important and meaningful to be able to represent on-screen," Rapp continues. "Within this disagreement, there's also this sense that everyone respects and loves each other, so they can have a disagreement in a safe manner." "There's a scene this season where there's an issue on the ship, and there's some disagreement with how Paul responds versus the rest of the family unit," Rapp says. ![]() And then to get to make real Gray's actual presence - which is such a wonderful metaphor for being fully known and seen - that's just a great next step in the evolution of our little queer found family." (Season 4 spoiler: Gray was presumed dead, but his consciousness had actually psychically bonded with Adira's he was only made visible to others with a corporeal transference made possibly by future technology.) ![]() "I'm thrilled to be in a position to be kind of a father figure to Adira Hugh. "It was a great gift when Blu came on the show," Rapp says. Due to their newfound paternal roles, the gay husbands have even been dubbed "space dads" on social media.ĪNTHONY in LOUIS VUITTON 1.1 Millionaires Sunglasses DAVID YURMAN Small Fluted Chain Necklace and Madison Pearl Necklace LOUIS VUITTON Monogram LV Toile Military Jacket, Classic Short Sleeve Pique Polo, Chino Pants LOUIS VUITTON Oberkampf Ankle Boot On Discovery, Adira and Gray have formed tight bonds with Hugh and Paul, proving that even hundreds of years in the future and light-years away, queer people will gravitate to found family. Adira (Blu del Barrio) is the first nonbinary character on a Star Trek show, and their partner, Gray (Ian Alexander), is the first transmasculine character in the franchise. In that time, their Star Trek family has grown to include new queer roles played by the first trans and nonbinary actors in the franchise's history. This is the fourth season that Rapp and Cruz's Discovery characters have beamed into international television sets the show launched in 2017. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Angry hades from hercules![]() Computer animation was used in several scenes, predominantly in the Hydra battle sequence. ![]() Animation for the film was done in California and Paris. Research trips to Greece and Turkey provided inspiration for the background designs. British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe was recruited as production designer and produced over seven hundred visualization designs of the characters. During production, McEnery, Shaw, and Mecchi were brought on board to revise Musker and Clements' script. The project underwent multiple story treatments and a first script draft was inspired by the screwball comedy films of the classic Hollywood era and popular culture of the 1990s. Following an unused treatment by Haidar, Clements and Musker studied multiple interpretations of Greek mythology before abandoning Zeus's adulterous affair with Alcmene. Their project was removed from development in 1993, and Musker and Clements joined Hercules later that same year. Meanwhile, Clements and Musker re-developed their idea for Treasure Planet (2002) following the critical and commercial success of Aladdin (1992). Featuring the voices of Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, James Woods, and Susan Egan, the film follows the titular Hercules, a demigod with super-strength raised among mortals, who must learn to become a true hero in order to earn back his godhood and place in Mount Olympus, while his evil uncle Hades plots his downfall.ĭevelopment of Hercules began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the Heracles mythological stories by animator Joe Haidar. The screenplay was written by Musker, Clements, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi. ![]() The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, both of whom also produced the film with Alice Dewey Goldstone. It is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. ![]() Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Wps on router![]() WPS presents some pretty serious security risks. The answer is, you shouldn't even consider using it. If you want to use WPS, you should weigh the amount of time it may save against the potential headache posed by a successful attack on your router. Once a hacker has your password, they'll have access to your Internet connection, which they can use for just about anything they want, until you reset your router's password. If you haven't already taken steps to improve your router security, your router can be especially vulnerable. While WPS is on, hackers can guess your router's password repeatedly until they get it right. However, WPS also presents a pretty serious security risk that can't really be avoided. This can save you a little bit of time when connecting new devices and will also allow you to connect devices whether or not you remember your router's password. With WPS on, you can connect any device to your router without needing your router's ID or its password. The biggest benefit of leaving WPS active is convenience. If you want to turn WPS off, your only option may be switching to another router. In cases like these, you won't find a button that can deactivate WPS or a setting on your router's configuration interface. Some routers don't allow users to deactivate WPS. ![]() With some routers, you'll also be able to manually enable or disable WPS with a button on the back of the router. If you're unsure whether or not your router has WPS activated - or includes WPS to begin with - you should also be able to tell from this interface. From there, deactivating WPS is as simple as switching from "Enabled" to "Disabled" using the drop-down menu. ![]() On a Belkin router, for example, the WPS section will be listed under "Wireless" on the main interface's sidebar. In most cases, however, you should be able to turn off WPS using the settings in the menu or Wi-FI Protected Setup or WPS tab. To find your IP address, follow the instructions here.Įach router manufacturer has its own configuration interface, meaning the next part of the process for deactivating WPS can vary from router to router. You can typically do this by entering your router's IP address into your browser's address bar. Navigate to your router's web-based configuration interface. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Vienna rose bts![]() ![]() ![]() Today Vienna is a thriving international city, integrating the rich inheritance of a glorious past with a dynamic approach to the modern world. Vienna City Hall (© WienTourismus/Christian Stemper) Since the fall of the Iron Curtain it has successfully resumed its tradition of connecting the East and the West. Although much reduced in importance by the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the end of World War I, and placed on the periphery of the western world as a consequence of World War II, Vienna has retained its role as one of the leading capitals of Europe. The exceptional concentration of talent, reflected by the great achievements in music, art, and the sciences, was a consequence of Vienna’s role as a meeting place of a large number of different nations and traditions. The latter route, together with the traces of the Roman settlement “Vindobona”, can still be seen in the layout of the city’s streets.ĭuring the Middle Ages, Vienna rose to importance both in defending against and connecting central Europe with the East, and eventually became the capital of the vast Habsburg empire. Situated on the Danube, the first settlements arose at the cross-roads of two important trade routes: the “amber route”, connecting the Baltic countries with Italy, and the east-west route along the Danube. It is one of the great cultural centres of Europe with a continuous history of more than 2000 years. Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a city of over 1.8 million inhabitants. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Uefa euro 2008 cso![]() However, the expected R&D spill-over into the domestic economy from having these firms here hasn’t really materialised. Is it the fact that the new jobs created since the financial crisis are predominantly in low-skilled, low-paid sectors where productivity is limited?Ĭontrasting levels of research and development (R&D) between foreign and domestic firms in Ireland is natural to a certain extent given multinationals are often where they are – at the top of the food chain – because of advances in technology. The UK’s so-called “productivity puzzle” has perplexed economists and no one seems to have a clear-cut explanation for the country’s poor performance in this department. Annual productivity growth there has averaged around 0.5 per cent since the crisis compared with over 2 per cent in the years before 2008, leaving Britain lagging most of its G7 peers.īrexiteers, the economically motivated ones, genuinely believe a nimbler, less taxed, less regulated UK economy, outside the bureaucracy of the EU, could provide the necessary jump-start. Flagging productivity has been at the core of the UK’s stumbling economic performance since the 2008 financial crisis. “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker,” he says.ĭespite the fact that we’re living in an era defined by technological advancement, productivity growth across the world, in both advanced and developing economies, has been sluggish in recent decades. ![]() Productivity as an economic concept tends to have little traction with the wider public and yet it is the chief driver of wages and living standards in an economy.Īs US economist Paul Krugman says, “productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything”. Technology and innovation underpin productivity growth and multinationals tend to lead the way in these areas, creating the big value-add jobs that, in turn, generate the greatest productivity gains. So as a high-tech and big pharma hub, Ireland will naturally rank highly in the productivity charts whereas a country trading predominantly in traditional foodstuffs or tourism will rank lower. This is not to say that workers in domestic firms here are slackers, far from it, multinational firms constantly highlight the skilled labour force here as one of the chief enticements, but productivity – in economic textbook terms – has a lot more to do with what a given economy or state produces rather than the work ethic of its labour force. The €55 figure puts Irish workers, at least those who don’t work for big multinationals, more in line with their international counterparts, above the EU average but below many peer countries. To burst the bubble a little further, labour productivity in the domestic sector here was just €55 per hour in the second quarter, half the national rate and a fraction of the multinational one. Put another way, a sloucher in Apple will always be more productive than a highly-efficient, workaholic coffee shop attendant. So no matter how productive our aforementioned baristas are they won’t generate the same sort of “value-add” while making €3 coffees. It also has a streamlined production process across multiple low-cost jurisdictions to extract the maximum value from its manufacturing line. ![]() ![]() This is because the US tech firm produces extremely valuable and highly sought-after iPhones, which cost up to $1,500 (€1,426). So an hour spent working for Apple generates more than €400 worth of value (probably a lot more, the figures aren’t broken down on a company-by-company basis). According to the CSO, labour productivity in the multinational-dominated foreign sector, as distinct from the Irish economy as a whole, was a whopping €414 per hour in the second quarter. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Who lives on mulholland drive![]() Mulholland Highway continues to the southwest until it terminates at State Route 1 (PCH) in Leo Carrillo State Park at the Pacific Ocean coast and the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Highway 101 (the Ventura Freeway), where it becomes Valley Circle Boulevard. Shortly thereafter, the thoroughfare splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway. The road opens again east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) at Santa Maria Road but remains dirt until it reaches Saltillo Street. This portion connects with other unpaved roads and bike trails and allows access to a decommissioned Project Nike command post that is now a Cold War memorial park. This part is known by many as "Dirt Mulholland". Just west of the intersection with Encino Hills Drive, it becomes an unpaved road not open to motor vehicles. It was also the place of the 'Roman Polanski incident', where the movie director raped a 13 year. The house hosted many wild drug fueled Hollywood parties. ![]() The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the San Diego/ Interstate 405 Freeway. This is Jack Nicholson’s longtime, 3,303-square-foot house at 12850 Mulholland Drive (built in 1957), which he has owned since Jand which sits on a 0.53-acre lot. The road continues to the west, offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign, Downtown Los Angeles, and then Burbank, Universal City, and the rest of the San Fernando Valley with the San Gabriel, Verdugo, and Santa Susana Mountains. The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs parallel to Highway 101/The Hollywood Freeway). This palatial enclave at 13745 Mulholland Drive in the famed zip code should put to rest any doubts. A Mulholland Drive street sign in a residential neighborhood in Woodland Hills. For those of us who grew up on Beverly Hills 90210 and wondered whether the lives of the characters in the show were really as glam as they appeared, wonder no more. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Project runway season 18 episode 1![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017, Asma launched her brand Hijabi Pop with the mission of creating modest yet trendy outfits for millennial Muslim females. Her motivation for designing a fashion line stemmed from the gap she noticed in the fashion market for modern and modest clothing that appealed to young Muslim women. ![]() From there Bibi taught herself more advanced skills aided by online tutorials and YouTube. While Bibi was growing up in Philadelphia, a city largely populated with American Muslims, her parents operated a clothing business and her mother taught her the basics of garment making. He has shown his collections in Austin Fashion Week 2019, Fashion X Houston 2016-2018, Fashion X Dallas, and Fashion HTX.Īsma Bibi, 30 Twitter: Instagram: Atlanta Asma Bibi found her passion for fashion at a young age. His ultimate goal is to become a household name and to empower women everywhere. Alantude is a mix of clean lines and pops of color, just enough to draw the right amount of attention to his customer. His line is inspired by strong women with the most inspiration coming from his mother, the strongest woman he knows. When he is not busy in the studio, he is passionate about his faith and works as a youth minister. He now designs his line, Alantude, full-time out of a small studio in downtown Houston. Knowing he wanted to pursue a career in fashion, Gonzalez earned his Associate Degree at Houston Community College and then started working to make his dream become a reality. In high school, he started to develop an interest in fashion, and he designed his best friend's prom dress. His father was deported when Gonzalez was 15, leaving his mother a single parent of two in America. Additionally, they’re competing for a career-changing mentorship with the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) and a feature in Elle magazine.Alan Gonzalez, 25 Twitter and Instagram: Houston Alan Gonzalez was born in Mexico and immigrated to Houston with his family when he was three years old. Throughout the All-Stars season, fashion lovers will see designers sketch, erase and resketch their creations thanks to Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens, the returning Official Grand Prize partner who will award $250,000 to the winning designer. Some of the most exciting names from across fashion and the arts guiding the designers to glory on the judging panel for season 20 include actor, author and activist Alicia Silverstone actor, singer, producer and director Billy Porter fashion designer Zac Posen CEO & founder of “alice + olivia” Stacey Bendet creative director of Carolina Herrera Wes Gordon actor, producer and Emmy Award-winning writer Lena Waithe image architect and celebrity stylist Law Roach actress, producer and ’90s icon Jennie Garth author, actor and model Paulina Porizkova designer Sergio Hudson actress, artist and model Julia Fox designer Willy Chavarria “Below Deck” co-star Kate Chastain “The Real Housewives of New York City” Luann de Lesseps designer Batsheva Hay Emmy-winning actor Coleman Domingo and Steven Kolb, CEO of Council of Fashion Designers of America. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park and glossy skyscraper SUMMIT One Vanderbilt. Other challenges include the return of the classic denim challenge and a uniform refresh for fan favorites from the cast of “Below Deck.” The city awakens once again to become the creative playground for these all-star designers, with iconic locales such as FAO Schwarz, historic Franklin D. The All-Stars put it all on the line for a chance at redemption in a high-stakes season full of surprises and a twist that changes the game.Įach 90-minute episode will feature challenges that test their artistry and push their limits, including an unconventional challenge that takes everyone by surprise. Fourteen of the most beloved designers from across 19 seasons are given one last shot to change their life forever with a career-defining win. The Emmy Award-winning competition series that started it all returns to the workroom with mentor Christian Siriano along with judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Amazon chatbot lex![]() ![]() ![]() The matching documents (chunks) are added to the prompt as context by the Lambda function and then the function uses the flan-t5-xxl model deployed as a SageMaker endpoint to generate an answer to the user question. We implement a chatbot application in Streamlit which invokes the function via the API Gateway and the function does a similarity search in the OpenSearch Service index for the embeddings of user question. We implement the RAG functionality inside an AWS Lambda function with Amazon API Gateway to handle routing all requests to the Lambda. We convert the HTML pages on this site into smaller overlapping chunks (to retain some context continuity between chunks) of information and then convert these chunks into embeddings using the gpt-j-6b model and store the embeddings in OpenSearch Service. We use the SageMaker docs as the knowledge corpus for this post. After Amazon Bedrock launches, we will publish a follow-up post showing how to implement similar generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock, so stay tuned. We can use the same architecture to swap the open-source models with the Amazon Titan models. Implementing the question answering task.Ingesting document embeddings into Amazon OpenSearch Service.Interfacing with LLMs hosted on Amazon SageMaker.We then demonstrate how to use LangChain for tying everything together: We provide an AWS Cloud Formation template to stand up all the resources required for building this solution. We use a combination of different AWS services, open-source foundation models ( FLAN-T5 XXL for text generation and GPT-j-6B for embeddings) and packages such as LangChain for interfacing with all the components and Streamlit for building the bot frontend. In this post we provide a step-by-step guide with all the building blocks for creating an enterprise ready RAG application such as a question answering bot. To understand the overall structure of a RAG-based approach, refer to Question answering using Retrieval Augmented Generation with foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. in 2020 as a model where parametric memory is a pre-trained seq2seq model and the non-parametric memory is a dense vector index of Wikipedia, accessed with a pre-trained neural retriever. RAG models were introduced by Lewis et al. A small number of similar documents (typically three) is added as context along with the user question to the “prompt” provided to another LLM and then that LLM generates an answer to the user question using information provided as context in the prompt. In the RAG-based approach we convert the user question into vector embeddings using an LLM and then do a similarity search for these embeddings in a pre-populated vector database holding the embeddings for the enterprise knowledge corpus. Furthermore, FMs are trained with a point in time snapshot of data and have no inherent ability to access fresh data at inference time without this ability they might provide responses that are potentially incorrect or inadequate.Ī commonly used approach to address this problem is to use a technique called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Pre-trained foundation models (FMs) perform well at natural language understanding (NLU) tasks such summarization, text generation and question answering on a broad variety of topics but either struggle to provide accurate (without hallucinations) answers or completely fail at answering questions about content that they haven’t seen as part of their training data. Amazon Lex provides the framework for building AI based chatbots. ![]() One of the most common applications of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) in an enterprise environment is answering questions based on the enterprise’s knowledge corpus. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Sixnine gooba girls![]() I am the girlfriend of Daniel Hernandez," Jade began her letter. Jade's real name is Rachel Watley, as revealed in an emotional letter she wrote to 6ix9ine's judge ahead of his sentencing at the end of 2019. In December 2019, Jade shared footage showing an alleged flirty message sent to her from Offset’s Instagram account, which both Cardi and Offset both denied and claimed were a result of his account being hacked.ĦIX9INE- GOOBA (Official Music Video) What is OhSoYouJade's real name? Tekashi 6ix9ine's girlfriend Jade leaks explicit phone call with rapper from prisonĬardi was arrested and later indicted on 14 charges, including felony assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, and later pleaded not guilty on all charges. Jade and her sister Baddie Gi both worked as bartenders at a New York strip club where they were involved in a brawl with rapper Cardi B, who allegedly ordered an attack on her as she suspected that Jade was having an affair with her partner Offset. Jade was first romantically linked to 6ix9ine - whose real name is Daniel Hernandez - back in November 2018 after he splashed out $35k on a watch for her birthday. For the people who think any different I do love you and for ever will! You are my world!!" he who goes by on Instagram, is dating Tekashi 6ix9ine and was involved in a stripclub brawl with Cardi is Tekashi 6ix9ine's girlfriend Jade? This may result in your ban."You stuck by me at my lowest. Make sure that you don’t disturb other players from enjoying the game.
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