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I have an M2 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM that I bought three and half years ago. For browsing the web, listening to music, watching TV and movies, using Gmail, Google Sheets, Googl…

> it asked you to wind the cassette tape to a specific location to load a new room. Wow, that's dedication! I wrote my own adventure game for my Commodore PET, which had 8K of RAM.…

> At which point the computer dutifully saved as much as it could, before running out of disk space, informed via a text response of my poor choice in the real world, and left me w…

Bohm's Interpretation is experimentally indistinguishable from MWI. On the other hand, Bohm's interpretation seems pretty ad hoc. And it also includes all of the other worlds that …

When I was a kid, I once brought a stethoscope with me on the airplane so that I could watch the movie for free. (Or rather listen to it.) I pulled off the heart-listening cup part…

A Fire Upon the Deep is one of the all-time great science fiction novels.

It's likely he did, since he read just about anything reputable related to gambling. But he was doing this before Dr. Z 's was published.

My uncle was a professional gambler and did well at it. At first he counted cards playing Blackjack, but eventually was banned from most casinos where it was actually possible to w…

I detailed how I tracked down the problem in reply to another query in this subthread.

That particular section of ethernet, which served about half of a floor of an entire building was intermittent. It would work the vast majority of the time, but would have mysterio…

Don't even get me started about the short section of RG-59 cable spliced into the middle of our RG-58 Ethernet. Hidden in the ceiling.

Why is the sword worth $150k? Did it appear in something famous? Or is it just because other Weta Workshop items have appeared in famous films?

The Diamond Age is my favorite novel of all time.

It's pretty fast. On an 8GB M2 MacBook Air, it produces more than 2 images per minute using the default settings. E.g., it's about 20x as fast as InvokeAI, which doesn't have an FP…

I shudder at the thought of all the three-armed people with seven fingers on each hand that I will end up shaking hands with.

There's nothing in the release notes that says whether 2.0 can do hands without a 99% chance of producing deformed results.

"Prey". Well that's a pretty generic term. Perhaps much of this "prey" are the mice that are a danger to bumblebees.

> So, I wait for her to return, sometimes until pretty late at night, because I don't want her to have to be outside for the night. I've bell-trained cats that I've owned. I.e., I …

> Letting your cat roam free is a tacit acknowledgment that one doesn’t really care that much for the animal This is untrue. I've owned both indoor cats and indoor/outdoor cats. An…

> Outdoor cats are an invasive species which are destroying the native bird populations This is certainly true for feral cats, but I'm highly skeptical about this claim being true …

I have one of these! It was my first computer. I got the 8k model, but it had the chiclet keyboard. Eventually I got a full-sized keyboard for it, but it was made by a third party …

I haven't used Pythonista myself, and it is true that, as I understand it, Pythonista doesn't directly provide the capability to use "pip" or pull code from GitHub. But it seems th…

> You can't even compile and run code on a (mobile) Apple device. It's explicitly against the app store terms and conditions to allow users to do that. You better inform Apple then…

Plan 9 was designed to work with Blit (or similar) terminals, which were basically thin-clients that would be backed by a Plan 9 server cloud. On the other hand, maybe there's a go…

> In terms of mass-market success, goodness of recommendations is like, #12 on the list of must-have features Well, maybe that's why they generally are not so great. On the other h…