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Oh no, only 60%? Surely that's plenty for a conversation, no?

Now I wonder if this number, provided it is a real one, went up or down during the last 30 years. I would bet on lower but it's only a gut feeling.

I remember having cheats for thousands of games but they stopped working after to what was the latest version at the time. That was like 15 years ago. I have been playing without cheats ever since. It's a shame because some games don't work well with saves, and others are just hard to beat no matter how many lives i have.

Firefox has always been even better because you can easily scale only the fonts.

it would be easier to turn off the lights when leaving the floor/room. Sadly, that seems to be too much effort for modern humans

i don't want my water to have metal taste, so i use filters. if you care about germs, it's easier to drop some silver in the water. boiling uses too much energy

You are a funny guy, irongeek, I like you. That's why I am going to kill you last.

I stopped caring about consoles decades ago but I still want the games. Why won't they just sell this stuff. I've been feeling the itch to play Bug! for like 20 years.

Do we have to buy all the cool discs one by one? Looks like a neat product, such a shame the motor is noisy because a little motion, just barely perceptible, would go a long way.

I would think people would throw good money for the same but better. I know I would.

Agreed, it's much better than nothing, though I still don't know how to port forward.

I like this post because it boldly assumes what "typical" means.

Of course everyone is using (MS) cloud, skype, twitter one drive and what have you. It even throws some guy's name for good measure.

all good recommendations. I needed some encouragement. Thank you.

It's blowing my mind you willingly went to Pernik, though.

In Bulgaria, we use "работа" (rabota) but eventually adopted "robotya" as a slang for working hard as a robot.

Man, I really should travel more around Europe. COVID ruined my last planned vacation and I've stayed at home since then.

Google pretty much exploded 8n size around 2003 which, as luck would have it, coincided with a major US led invasion of oil rich country and major US companies being asked to spy on everyone.

It's not simply a choice. I know that I am capable of terrible things, if pushed. I know because I've done plenty of stuff I am not proud of.

Avoiding guilt, or reprisals, doesn't make me "good".

All this reminded me of this fantastic Stargate SG-1 episode: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Absolute_Power

According to my research, 30f swing does not appear linear and i cannot tell if that would be significant or not.

Still, my main point was the lights. I guess I am well into minority situation since turning them on/off is easier than talking to a thing or, god forbid, using a phone.

From experience, I just as baffling to these people as they are to me.

caste system comes to mind.

now let's imagine what might happen when genetic engineering comes into play. how can you argue about equality when there would be none, not biologically.

i find insects fascinating but I don't want humans to mimic the caste thing. we are though. and we will.

Confused by the downvotes. Are you in favour of caste systems?

you used your phone to adjust the lights at home and checking the weather?

Talk about inventing problems.

Oh, sure. Still not anywhere nearly as good as the latest Zen parts but the n100 mini pcs are very cheap.

It's a slippery slope for sure but you have to draw the line somewhere.

For example, if there's a water shortage and someone decides they can afford (financially) to use as much as they please, that's not going to end well.

I don't quite understand the obsession with carbon. Not everything can be mapped to carbon without some mental gymnastics.

heh, because normal linux distros are finally somewhat usable with the rpi 5, let alone the older versions. neat little headless servers? sure. capable desktops, not quite there yet.

these small intel cores aren't known for their power efficiency

> Once the government has that info, it will be able to come up with bespoke taxes for you according to what it ordains as fair use. 'Your showers are too long', 'your toolshed is too big a draw on the electric' therefore 'you need to buy carbon credits to offset the environmental damage you are causing'.

I am very conflicted. Deeply share your concerns regarding misuse of such info. It will be used as a weapon. But I am totally in favour of making wasters pay up, and not just fixed amounts.

I hate wasting resources.

i guess we think of different things when we read "barren nuclear wasteland".

don't use tracking cookies. so complicated!

I could bend a girder to any angle. 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...

> I'm suggesting the 5,000km^2 that currently exists as barren nuclear wasteland

Aren't you exaggerating by quite a bit?

I think they're going to have to adjust a lot more than just.

Let's see. Bandwidth seems to be the main problem but so far no one has shipped a 640x480bay 2khz or whatever. Who knows

Love the idea of Quake specific hardware. We're still a few years away from having 1khz oled (or faster) displays but i am sure they'll arrive by the time I won't be able to make use of them due to old age. But I want to see it.

If course, all that goodness would be for nothing if we don't bake a proper version of the game. It's been a while but I think Quake server tickrate is likely to be on the low side.

Quick searching confirms that. From https://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/articles/WallHug/fra...

"In normal Quake, the server framerate is controlled by a console variable called sys_ticrate. This measures the amount of time each frame should last, and its default value is 0.05 (that is, twenty frames per second.) Most server administrators don't bother to change this."

I say someone should take your idea, fix Quake 3 to run at 1khz on both the client and the server, then bake that into fpga. I would buy it

sometimes I do think about my first contributions. how i could have done this and that completely differently. kind of like going to first grade again with what you know (and are) as an adult.

confirmed as typo

https://www.techpowerup.com/317796/nvidia-corrects-l2-cache-...