My first ‘good’ computer was a Compaq (from Radio Shack!) 512MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive! It could run Windows 98 and Starcraft!

Previously I had a 486dx with 64MB RAM and 512MB hard drive. We played qbasic games, like Snake and Gorilla, I shared a copy of Wing Commander with a friend (and hand copied the instruction booklet because the DRM at the time was that the game wouldn’t launch unless you could tell it what was the 5th word on the 3rd page or whatever).

Later, I found a modem and was able to dial into BBSs to play MUDs. MajorMUD was the first I found, but they only let you do about 100 commands/day unless you paid ($15/month!).

On the new PC we had dial-up from a local ISP and I could play MUDs via Telnet (or zMUD 5.55, the version who’s DRM broke and didn’t count down the 30 day free trial clock).

We also used to have to fight off the dinosaurs on the way to school (which we walked to, barefoot, uphill in the snow) of course.

Back in my day we used to have to draw on the processor with a graphite pencil in order to unlock overclocking.

Kids these days with their UEFI and Windows-based overclocking utilities…

Those kinds of simulations are inherently chaotic, tiny changes to the initial conditions can have wildly different outcomes sometimes to the point of being nonsensical. Also, since they’re simulating a limited volume the boundary conditions can cause weird artifacts in some cases.

If you run a simulation of air over an aircraft wing and the end result is a mess of turbulence instead of smooth flow then you can assume that simulation was acting weird and not that your wing design is suddenly breaking the rule of physics. When the simulation breaks it usually does so in ways that are obvious due to previous testing with physical models.

I’m failing to see why the creative writing machine is better than a simulation set to ‘rough’.

The problem is that you saw AI and thought LLM.

Machine Learning is a big field, AI/Neural Networks are a subset of that field and LLMs are only a single application of a specific type of LLM (Transformer model) to a specific task (next token prediction).

The only reason that LLMs and Image generation models are the most visible is that training neural network requires a large amount of data and the largest repository of public data, the Internet, is primarily text and images. So, text and image models were the first large models to be trained.

The most exciting and potentially impactful uses of AI are not LLMs. Things like protein folding and robotics will have more of an impact on the world than chatbots.

In this case, generating fast approximations for physical modeling can save a ton of compute time for engineering work.

There’s software that adds achievements to emulated ROMs: https://retroachievements.org/

Yeah, it’s almost certainly a VM.

Nope. Selective Service registration applies to all male U.S. citizens (including those who live abroad), and immigrants residing in the U.S., who are 18-25 years old.

If you don’t register you can’t get federal student loan assistance, access to job training programs or work for the federal government.

I always wait until it’s at least 300%, 400%, 800% off. Just like my prescription drug prices.

They’re doing it to mess with the delivery robots who would have a perfect record if not for the bus stops being placed in their path constantly.

I think what we have here is a case of ‘haters gonna hate’.

I’m sure the guy is a douche, based on my complete stereotyping him from one picture, so I’m sure there’s something more substantive to criticize him for than ‘he’s using both of his hands.’

Going a millions different ways is more in the FOSS spirit than starting off by saying ‘everyone will use this list of software’. They can’t know what will be the best fit for everyone so they’re approaching it flexibly.

They can iterate in the future or come up with standards as they need, but in the beginning it’s better to try a lot of different things to see what people discover.

Felon disenfranchisement should be unconstitutional/prevented with an amendment. The government should not have the capability of removing people’s ability to vote at all for any reason.

The guy may be a poser but this is such a ‘I don’t drink or smoke’ post.

It’s a martini glass, you can hold it with your pinkie. It’s very easy to smoke and drink with one hand. You can even do it with a full sized glass:

Then, when you want to smoke, you extend the two fingers holding the cigar/cigarette and you can take the end in your mouth. You only need your thumb and two lower fingers to hold the glass.

Thirding Kagi. Their research assistant is pretty good too, if you don’t recoil from AI like a vampire to sunlight.

Or LBH

To add:

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country.

Pope: US Born -> Lives in Popelandia -> Expat

https://www.newsweek.com/avignon-papacy-explained-what-reported-us-threat-to-pope-and-vatican-means-11803877

As things got heated, Colby reportedly lectured Cardinal Pierre on the military power of the U.S. and told him that the Catholic Church must pick a side, according to Hale, and mentioned the “Avignon papacy.”

All information about the meeting was obtained by Ferraresi from Vatican and U.S. officials briefed on the Pentagon meeting. What Could Such a Reference Indicate?

There is no doubt that a reference to the “Avignon papacy” by a Pentagon official was meant to make the Vatican feel uneasy about crossing the Trump administration.

Some have suggested that the reference of this chapter of medieval history might signal the Trump administration’s intention to trigger a new schism, while others think it would suggest its willingness to use military force against the Holy See. Ferraresi, however, said that interpreting it as a military threat is “just absurd.”

According to Mike Young, author of a newsletter on civic accountability, the mention of the “Avignon papacy” was a reference to “an implicit model for what happens to religious institutions that oppose state power.”

In a post on X, he wrote: “That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s a studied historical reference deployed deliberately in a room with the Pope’s senior diplomat. The message was not subtle.”

What’s crazy is, bus stops, and their associated shelters DO NOT MOVE.

TIL

That is correct, the fix targets the AMDGPU kernel driver so nvidia users will have to wait/implement it ourselves.