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I've never owned a games console so I don't know, but I thought they could be used to play DVD films. It makes perfect sense as part of their function. ISTM anyway.

Fresh cardboard can be a prize bitch too. Even worse perhaps. (source: was picker in a 3M warehouse)

I said this is where it would help (AFAICS), not that it was the best solution.

At a guess, a single thread which benefits from as much cache as it can get.

Seems very complex therefore very expensive (and possibly slow where it matters, at L2). Or it might just work.

> As for what I mean by narrative, much of the appeal of D&D seems to lie in crafting the story and adventure, being a part of the plot That's what I was after. I know some people …

> with its slow pace and focus on narrative am curious, could you elaborate a touch on these? TIA

> I hit a case where I actually test nothing and have no results. Did I pass? equally, can you reasonably say you failed?

Okay, I'll respond because you made an interesting point, but you've also pissed me off. Let's follow this through: for a start, just because it's an intuitive doesn't mean it's wr…

It's a consequence of enforcing logical consistency. You can't get around that (but if you want to suggest other behaviour and justify it, I'd be interested).

That was not an example of low risk, responsible drug use - "There is more stupidity in the universe than hydrogen"

This kind of stupid behaviour does not improve the image of drug use.

Word. I borrowed a circa 2005 – 2010 server and the fan roared on start-up. I would not want that on full-time for reasons of noise, power and wear.

Can't remember but have read you can bootstrap a forth interpreter from an amazingly low number of bytes. Maybe more of theoretical interest than practical but still.

Do those without amnesia do so?

They are fragile I've heard, and quite likely they dull quickly (don't know), but I'm not saying they're 'better' than steel; it's not a competition. Horses/courses.

apparently yes. Broken glass (which obsidian is, a volcanic glass) have edges a few atoms wide beating anything manmade.

How strangely, bafflingly, charming.

Very cute but that's all. No reason for me to consider it true. This if we are making unbacked claims then let me riposte thus, "the past is another country, they do things differe…

You've just made a whole load of claims this without backing any of them up. But okay, let's take one which does make sense: > When people understand the causes and consequences of…

Makes sense. Understanding the past isn't necessary to understanding yourself is your argument, which seems largely reasonable.

What kind of proof would you want?

> A people cannot understand themselves without understanding their past This kind of stuff gets rolled out regularly by arty and literary types but never with any explanation as t…

It makes perfect sense in context. You're assuming that the bottom % of engineers drag things down because they're bad. That's not what it's about. Some companies imposed rather br…