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“Gomi” is the Japanese word for garbage. Gotta wonder if someone has a sense of humor…

Yeah, if you watched Obama’s energy he had kind of a “Thanks guys, but why?” air about him through the whole thing.

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote…

He did, but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he insisted they shoot on location.

‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said. - Terry Pratchett The poor have ethics just like the rest of us. They just can’t afford to keep it.

I suspect that this might not ship given the recent dramatic change in memory prices.

With the added fun of nuclear weapons!

For the duration of gaben’s life, to be fair. Beyond that there be dragons.

They didn't buy DDR5 - they bought raw wafer capacity and a ton of it at that.

I know they (Ars Technica) do A/B title tests sometimes from discussion with one of the people who works there.

I have mild tinnitus, and I don’t really notice it at all when my hearing aids are in. (Phillips, got them at Costco) Sadly, it’s a lot more noticeable once I take them out. I am s…

I can speak to this - the main variations are in the kind of butter you use. Using salted, unsalted, or margarine result in similar yet different cookies. I personally use unsalted…

I know one of those two is Bevy, what is the other one?

Well, we could always just set up solar panels and use it to capture output from the massive fusion reaction 8.5 light minutes away from us. Does that count as a successful utiliza…

I don’t have a source now, but a while ago (pre-pandemic) I saw a study that showed babies don’t pick up basic language structures very well at all from videos for whatever reason.…

My gut says Nintendo, because Microsoft doesn't give a shit what you use as long as you write for them, and Sony doesn't feel like they'd be that petty.

I also moved over to PopOS over a year ago and have been quite happy with the end result. Between Steam and Lutris I’ve been able to run everything I want to, and I don’t have to p…

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-... I know someone who works for Qualcomm, he says they are taking Linux support very seriously.

We just need to ask the NSA for their copy via a FOIA request.

I live near an airport that is very likely a major target. My plan in the event I am aware something is kicking off is to get on a bicycle and get as close as I can. Hoping to get …

They can try to collect it from the shadow of me burned into the wall of the building…

I'm personally a fan of the old stuff (Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Jimmie Lunceford, Slim Gaillard, Ella Fitzgerald to name a few) but the best thing you…

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I moved to PopOS about a year ago; I've tried a few times to move to Linux and until this most recent jump I've had to move back. It's gotten a lot better than it used to be, altho…