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I had a 386 with 40Mhz (which does not exist, so in hindsight it must have been a clone chip) and 4MB Ram. I could run all Doom 2 levels with reasonable speed, except the last one, where 4mb just wasn't enough.

One thing I liked about Gothic 1 was how you could fight people and not kill them ( Kill was an extra action after you won).The NPCs reacted differently to winning vs killing, pushing you to let others live. In a brutal penal colony, this made a lot more sense than win=kill.

Picture of me, outdoors. According to this, I lost 10 years and gain €10k salary. I also moved to the Netherlands, started smoking, don't like computer games and am racist. I might be interested in pottery and painting, also in unhealthy food. The main correct thing is a hetero male. It will try to sell me garden gnomes.

I have no idea who this man is, and am not worried at all for my privacy. Maybe it works better on US inhabitants?

I don't think there is any reliable source in this war, so the best thing to do is try to read from all sides. I'll take a look at them. Thanks.

Who would you consider reliable news sources for this war? Honest question.

AFAIK The USA governement has proven unreliable, even more so than Iran. USA news sources are owned by the same oligarchs owning the governement. Other western sources follow the USA train of thought, with more or less doubt thrown in. Mint from India and Al Jazeera from Qatar (not happy with Iran right now) seem closest to neutral of the pack, even if not that great. I am not aware of a reliable Israeli news source.

The ACOUP article was one of the best analysis of this war I've seen, which is pretty damning for the real news sources if you think about it.

I recently switched to Lutris, so my son can install games without me. It just works. Great stuff.

I've been wondering if a linux GUI applucation can be made by compiling wine libraries into a linux ELF executable, skipping the EXE format. Do I still need the wine supporting extra processes or is this shippable?

We're looking for a new car. I'd love to go electrical, but there are a few problems:

1) I have no garage and no parking space next to my home. I can't charge it.

2) We have no trustworthy garage for repairs. It turns out the garage regulations require a separate space for electrical forcsafety, and nobody has room to expand.

Apart from that, electricity in Belgium is expensive. I did the math on swapping our gas heater for a heat pump, but I'd pay more for energy even of the amount of watts is so much lower.

I wonder if it is possible to double all token types . One token is secure, the other is not. The user input is always tokenized to insecure variants. You kinda get a secret language for prompts. Of course, new token kinds are not cheap, and how do you train this thing?

From that page:

grow your business by creating ongoing revenue streams

a.k.a they sell your customers' eyeballs. I don't want these creeps near my tv, european or not.

I feel the basic premise here is wrong. People do not choose C++ because of trust(ing they cannot back themselves in a corner).

Main reasons are more: Our people know it, our vendors support it, our libraries use it, our workflow is built for it, etc. It is understanding that the cultural work has been done. The cost of switching is huge.

That's a good reason, but it is also the reason why people start new Cobol applications in 2026.

The other reasons for C++ were very good control of the lowest level, and very good performance, combined with decent ergonomics. You could have some of these (eg fortran's performance being better than C's), but rust brought a new player that gave this too, and bringing much better stability as a bonus.

If you have a huge C++ code base, looking into things like this might be worth it. But if you start without knowledge of either C++ or Rust, choosing C++ would probably be a bad idea .

When a computer crashed, cd audio continued to play. My PC just kept playing trough a hard reset/reboot, in fact. It would only stop playing when DOS booted far enough that it loaded mscdex, a step I could skip with a startup menu. I've always wondered why it managed to survive a reset pulse on the wire.

This reconceptualized the article as victim blaming. Spot on.

I see a group of countries trying to work together. As this is a massive coordination effort and the participants all want different things, it can only go slow. As with every governmental entity, there probably is some waste. But the alternative is each country for himself, so I rather have the UN.

Seconded. My 9 year old son has in his life worked with Android and Debian at home, and iPad at school. There is 1 game I could not get to run under wine (beltmatic), but apart from that everything works. I was a bit scared about his school stuff (from Die Keure) but it just does its thing. He recently installed Planet crafter, a game I had never heard of or checked out, and it was a non event. Lego, basic programming, ...

He went to a friend, doing networked minecraft on friends windows laptop. Son then took our laptop as he did not like Windows, and I think he accidentally convinced that whole family to migrate to KDE on Debian, just by showing them how reliably boring it is. I was smiling at that one, to be honest.

In the book The Cuckoo's egg, Cliff Stoll talks to I think Luiz Alvares. I don't have the book handy here, but Alvarez basically told him to nit get distracted by grants, bosses, ... Here is interesting science to do, so go for it. Just run faster than the rest of the world.

In a way, it was a sidetrack of the book, but for me the attitude speaking from that text was interesting and inspiring. When I could pull it off, it tended to work.

I've always thought the opposite: IP law was created to make sure creativity stays hard, and hence controllable by the elites.

Patents came along when farmers started making city goods, threatening guilds secrets. Copyright came when the printing press made copying and translating the bible easy and accessible to all. (Trademark admittedly does not fit this view, but doesn't seem all that damaging either)

To Protect The Arts, and To Time Limit Trade Secrets were just the Protect The Children of old times, a way to confuse people who didn't look too hard at actual consequences.

This means that the future of IP depends on what lets the powers that be pull up the ladder behind them. Long term I'd expect e.g. copyright expansion and harder enforcement, just because cloning by AI gets easy enough to threaten the status quo.

There is also the signalling when a new, truly meaningless fragment pops up. The bigwig says it first, then his direct reports, then their underlings, etc.

So by using such a phrase, underlings signal both how close they are to bigwigs by knowing such a phrase first, and also demonstrate a vote for alignement, by quoting some phrases more and others less. Bigwigs raise status of underlings by repeating and expressing interest in their new phrases.

These phrases come and go in waves. Underlings laughing with them basically signal they are not worthy of attention in the political melee.

Someone mentioned how they had to go to America for the job, and everyone worried for his safety. His answer: Don't worry, it is South America. Everyone felt better for him, then we all wondered how 1 year could cause such a flip.

Thanks. I learned something. Also the fact that it only worked on NTSC, so people from the EU like me simply never saw the nicer variant

I'd add Al Jazeera to decent media. They are heavily skewed about the middle east, and readonably neutral/disinterested for the rest of the world.

As a non muslim EU inhabitant, they tend to open the window where our media stay silent.

I remember. You get a tiny little sliver of sound and then press reset.

Part of it was the video mode. EGA 640x350x16 had 16 simultanous colors, from a palette of 64 possibilities. And non square pixels as a bonus.

They might have made better choices from the palette, but the limitations were severe.

If you really want to stab your eyes out, CGA had a mode with white, bright pink, light blue and black. I remember playing Keen on it. I've never seen that mode used for anything nice.

I'm dealing with MS Teams, which is for me a chat and video app. It uses 2GB of RAM, which is more thand my local postgresql. It must sit there in the background wasting 2/16 of my laptop or people can't reach me.

And if MS stopped randomly moving things around in the UI with no benefit whatsoever, their documentation could be usefull instead of telling me where I could find some setting 3 years ago.

[I removed this post because it was a long boring cliche. Sorry.]

Interesting you mention pizza. Fast food fucks people up a lot worse than porn.

It has binding arbitration. I assume/hope you must be an adult to sign away your right to sue.

This jumps out for me:

    ... concerns about security vulnerabilities on aging hardware ...

That's the cost of shoddy engineering. A security fix is basically a recall in any other branch of industry. We've gotten so good at recalls that we can basically throw anything at the wall and fix it next month if foobar again. And now the party is, well, far from over, but at least cooling down a bit.

There is no reason for PC hardware from 10 or even 15 years ago to not be usable today, except shoddy engineering and software decision makers giving up. I own a thinkpad x220 so I can mean that.

That's not how I am reading this. Here, the reaction seems mostly that Europe doesn't want to touch this mess. Which is weird, as Iran was clearly on our list of bad countries and Israel can do nothing wrong.

Local news publishes articles of Iranians in our countries being happy, political commenters indicating it can go both ways, and not much comments from politicians.

This perfectly demonstrates the point: Before James Watt came along, neither had the English. Steam was unreliable, broke down a lot, killed people, and was only tolerated because it was the only game in town. This bothered society, so money became available so smart people could sit down and give it a solid theoretical basis.

The greek had plenty of smart people, but nobody bothered to assign them the unreliable steam problem. There are secondary problems like metallurgy, but smart people can work on them or find away around them, too.