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The Politics journalists’ practice, in contrast, set out, first, from the idea that a newspaper needs to meet the practical demands of its various stakeholders in order to remain in operation. Second, from the belief that today’s readers do not depend on the news for an understanding of reality—but do value the interesting and potentially useful facts and insights that journalists can dig up. The qualities that the Politics journalists valued in their everyday practice enabled them to work constructively under these actual circumstances. Having an eye for doable news items, taking the reporting process as a game, and knowing how to cut corners with their interviews were skills that enabled the journalists to make optimal use of their assignments to both sustain their newsmaking practice and produce more content that readers might value.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The approach that a designer follows in the asterisk is usually echoed in the typeface’s second-order reference mark, the dagger (also known as the obelus, obelisk, or long cross), and its third-order mark, the double dagger (a.k.a. diesis or double obelisk.) Both characters have functions in genealogy and other life sciences, where the asterisk indicates the year of birth (\*1499), and the dagger the year of death (†1561). There are standard fourth-, fifth- and sixth-order reference marks, too: they are the section mark (§), parallels (||), and number sign (#), after which the cycle repeats with doubles, triples, and so on:* , †, ‡, §, ||, #, **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ||||, ###,** *, †††, ‡‡‡, etc. Beyond three, numbered footnotes are always preferable, even if you are David Foster Wallace.
House of Flying Reference Marks | Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
typography.com
This sort of flexible power allocation can work well when a game is primarily CPU bound or GPU bound. But it does leave performance on the table if you’re trying to use both the CPU and GPU together to maximize compute throughput. Typically, you see that happen with compute applications, like renderers and photo processing applications. The Steam Deck doesn’t primarily target that, so it should be fine unless a game pegs both the CPU and GPU at the same time.
Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
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