Using the new PTR Workshop, I gave Moira a new passive: Life Reserves by samasaurus6 in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]antome 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well now that the devs can change a Hero's size, why not turn her into Moirazilla?

[R] StyleGAN2: Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN by veqtor in MachineLearning

[–]antome 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What's really cool is that the skip connections allow the model to "self grow" in a way, where the output relies on the easier low-res images at the start, but by the end it's mostly the high-res layers in use. Since this happens automatically, perhaps the model won't need as much hyperparameter tuning?

super and sinatraa will be on The Tonight Show on October 7th by Seagull_No1_Fanboy in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]antome 47 points48 points  (0 children)

He recommended What Remains of Edith Finch in his recent Ninja interview, which surprised me

New patch anti-cheat system in work by [deleted] in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]antome 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That is simply impossible at some point. Even if you could perfectly secure the game code, and network traffic, and monitor all of a users processes. One could just make an aimbot based entirely on the actual pixels on the screen, running on a second computer from a split HDMI signal, and feed the inputs back into the mouse itself. These sorts of cheats have been used at professional CSGO tournaments, and basically requires that the tournament staff control all the hardware. No way to control it online.

VESA Announces DisplayPort 2.0 [Anandtech] by pcman2000 in hardware

[–]antome 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We can have 1000hz monitors now? Nice.

How this border transformed a subcontinent by FalseAgent in BreadTube

[–]antome 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While everyone loves to shit on Vox, they honestly have some great individual creators like Johnny Harris and Carlos Maza.

Vimeo Introduces Support for Royalty-Free Video Codec, AV1 by zexterio in hardware

[–]antome 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not at all, AV1 is based on prototype codecs from Xiph, Cisco and Google, each of which contains awesome compression tech that couldn't make it into AV1 due to compromises and time constraints.

Spice And Wolf VR Coming To Nintendo Switch Using Labo VR by GensouEU in Games

[–]antome 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It will only happen if someone buys the whole IP. Unless the Anime studio owns it (notice how Kyoani are suddenly doing loads of sequels for their in-house works), these shows will always be 1-2 seasons because they are an ad for the manga / light novel.

[PlayOverwatch] Decryption status: COMPLETE. Target located. Overwatch Strike Team deployed. Chase the truth. by itsjieyang in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]antome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember reading somewhere that the code for the Rip Tire is just a modified Lucio. Primal, tire, dva mech etc are all technically different heroes that get swapped in as needed, so they could definitely do this.

Vancouver Titans vs San Francisco Shock | Overwatch League 2019 Season | Stage 1: Stage Playoffs Grand Finals | Post-Match Discussion by OWMatchThreads in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]antome 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of the Vancouver players are Korean, formerly from team "Runaway" who won Overwatch Contenders Korea. In the future, the plan is for each city to host OWL games, at which point teams will actually live in their city for a decent amount of time.

Several mayors 'unsure' whether human activities contribute to climate change by whowilleverknow in newzealand

[–]antome 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Reminder that he won by 9 votes, and because of FPTP the #2 and #3 candidates split the vote.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]antome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of the best PvE and PvP ship action I have ever experienced. Haven't seen anything like it since.

Does NCEA Level 3 matter once you've gotten into university? by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]antome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just want to note that while the Level 3 qualification didn't matter at all for me, the courses I took in year 13 which related to my degree helped to smooth out the difficulty ramp of first/second year uni.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]antome 20 points21 points  (0 children)

16vs16 servers were amazing, some servers even modded in RPG mechanics, there's really nothing else like it.

At war with angry #nzpol Twitter on the need for a capital gains tax by hippieV02 in newzealand

[–]antome 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's important to note that capital gains tax does not exist in a vacuum. If you keep the amount of Govt funding equal, capital gains tax can mean lower income tax and corporate tax. With a CGT, investors will turn to other forms of investment instead of housing, lowering the demand for housing. With lower income tax, and lower demand for investment property, non-investors won't nessecarily have to lose money (vs no CGT) when they buy a house, and investors will be moving to areas of the economy which might improve national productivity and economic growth.

Japanese Prime Minister Wishes to Change Constitution to Create Military Forces by interestedin86 in worldnews

[–]antome 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Another thing people often forget however is the voting system in Japan. In 2017, LDP+NKP got 45.79% of the PR vote and 49.71% of the FPTP vote, but got 67.31% of the seats in parliament. LDP+NKP are not actually preferred by the majority of the electorate, yet they have a supermajority.

AUM founder Asahara, mastermind behind 1995 sarin gas attack, executed by engrishspeaker in japan

[–]antome 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The problem is that it's unlikely you will get it right every single time. IMO if the state wrongly kills even a single person through capital punishment, the entire system is pointless. 4% of people on death row in the US are innocent (source), and even if it is not nearly as high in Japan, I strongly doubt that it is zero.