They can name it The Target.

I mean, probably? There’s a lot of chemicals involved.

An environmental study would have to rule out exposure to fighting games.

Brought to you by the stable genius who told the Supreme Court, “I’ll see you in court!”

Dave Chappelle image: “Thanks.”

Conservatives do not believe things. Conservatives believe people. Reality itself is defined by loyalty to ingroup hierarchy. Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. And they think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.

This is nnnot that quality.

Full-bandwidth 480i is basically DVD quality. There’s no interframe artifacts, the stereo sound beats FM radio, and luma is excellent even when chroma is a bit dodgy.

My brain insists that one agent who threw a knife was still wearing a pink apron, but I don’t think it’ll be there if I check.

Evidently some later variants did. I guess it was straightforward to bolt that on, once the 486 line had it as standard.

If nothing else, Approval Voting is as simple as letting people check multiple names. Most votes wins. It’s literally that simple, and it gets roughly ideal results. There is no good reason it’s not the default.

… or you could run this cracked version.

cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

Well yeah, Denuvo is a cache defeat mechanism. It bloats executables for repetitious obfuscation. If CPUs still worked like 386s and 68000s, having eight copies of every function and bouncing merrily between them would make no difference. But modern processors are only fast because they spend negligible time waiting for RAM to get its act together. Every squandered microsecond is a thousand cycles burned.

Damn, if only this presented some solution where the publisher isn’t in control of how you run the game.

I made a Rambo comparison, but you’re right, this guy is the Soviet cousin to Burt Gummer.

Reader mode and F5, in general.

he kept his students working on crazy ideas to keep them from getting drafted.

There’s an alt-history pitch for The Producers in there, somehow even more Nazi-filled than the Mel Brooks version.

In the morning light of sobriety I only regret that I didn’t call him Ivan, as distant equivalent to John.

Good spot on the F1s. Like a Mk 2 with a stovepipe hat. We lost some aura once grenades became plastic bottles full of semtex and concertina wire.

Even as a joke, do not appease fascists pre-emptively.

My layman’s understanding is that virtual particles emerge from vacuum, but in ways that usually cancel out before affecting anything. Occasionally it does affect normal stuff - see the Casimir effect acting on surfaces very close together.

I personally suspect this is an explanation for dark matter and a possible origin of the universe.

If there’s tiny bits of stuff and anti-stuff blinking in and out of existence, anywhere there’s a big fat nothing, both halves should still exhibit gravity before blipping back out. It wouldn’t show up as normal matter because it spends most of its time not existing. The vacuum really is empty… on average. It just hums with enough short-lived quantum shenanigans to have nonzero mass.

And if this follows a steep curve for distribution, then it’s like blackbody radiation. A hot rock will overwhelmingly emit photon wavelengths near the peak, for any given temperature, but in theory any temperature can emit any wavelength. It just happens with vanishing rarity as you get up into the spicy photons. If vacuum will occasionally fart out a particle and antiparticle, then very occasionally it should fart out two particles and antiparticles, together. And with vanishing rarity it can theoretically fart out an arbitrary quantity of mass, alongside a negation that is presumably equal. But if that’s off by a little bit - if it’s allowed to be off by a little bit - then an equally arbitrary quantity of mass will remain. Even if the masses have to match exactly, they could recombine in ways that produce angular momentum and never properly rejoin. And if vacuum produces gravity, well, anything that’s left will accelerate away in all directions.

On cosmic timescales it’s possible that matter just kinda happens. We’d be left with the question of why the fuck that’s how anything works, and where all this quantum vacuum bullshit came from. But creationist cranks would have to retreat back to the first sentence. In the beginning, there was nothing. And it was slightly heavy.

Some modicum of flexibility - even in the spokes or the seat - should make rolling hills sensible to navigate. It’s not like riding horseback is smooth and gentle across natural terrain.

“Vulnerability research is cooked.” If all that was protecting some subsystem was a lack of attention, well, we’ve now automated that attention.

Bigass datacenter models are maybe one year ahead of local offline laptop fare. Recently it’s been more like six months. The optimistic view is that we’re topping out the sigmoid curve for what LLMs can do… the pessimistic counterpoint is that the full power and threat of LLMs will be achieved real fuckin’ soon. They’re already smarter than a script kiddie.

Anthropic will not immediately release Mythos Preview to the public, having determined that doing so without more robust safeguards would be too dangerous.

All safeguards can be automatically removed via “abliteration.” There’s a script that mixes mundane questions and evil questions to identify the don’t-answer-this vector and simply negate it.