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I became more proficient in one language than any other. Therefore this language is the best language ever and will take over the universe.

Coincidentally Google Chrome is no longer available on a single computing device I own.

Adding: the server and client had to both be running vis patched maps to be able to see other players in the water due to the way entity visibility was calculated server-side. The …

I can see how it might be useful if the AI is only used for research and pointing out existing case law etc. Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from an…

Y'all is a feature of general Southern vernacular and has nothing to do with Texas other than most of the settlers of Tejas were from the South.

IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.

I'm going from 30+ year old memories as an intern, but from what I remember: Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted p…

NASA's IT used to be split into the field centers and a central core IT organization. The field centers managed their own stuff, but anything agency-wide was handled by the core IT…

RedHat also backports fixes, security patches, and (occasionally) features to existing RPMs without incrementing the minor version. For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be fu…

There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.

Yeah I'm going to call this a hard pass until I see third-party benchmarks, power draw numbers, and what AMD has with RDNA3. This is starting to look like a repeat of Geforce FX vs…

It has been multi-threaded since at least the early 2000s and most of the work for handling scaling beyond 32 cores was completed in 2012. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/Co…

If I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration. I remember running it on a DEC Alpha bo…

I've heard it phrased as "a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich".

Google started offering service in Huntsville in 2018 and from what I understand it is a solid gigabit symmetrical. Huntsville just happened to have dark fiber (courtesy of the lat…

Ok so that answers the age question: a study found fluid intelligence starts to decline the 60s and 70s. I think OP's article is talking about people between the ages of 35 and 60 …

Care to cite a source for that, and more specifically what age this begins? Also what level of impairment are we talking about here? You make it sound like everyone over a certain …