lightedman

"What animal species often offers males only one chance of mating ?!"

"Fighting to the death and mating are not the same!"

Your original question and your current statement are in confliction. Pick one.

Underpowered where it really counts. The GPU is barely better than that in a Quest 3 (Adreno 750 in Steam Frame vs Adreno 740 in Quest 3,) and while the CPU is almost 250% better overall than what is in the Quest 3, CPU power hasn't really been the limiting factor in most VR games I've played, it has been the GPU, both in PCVR and in standalone devices.

Windows 95 had a beta build for 286 systems, which is what this system 'ran.'

Bet you don't even know about Windows 97.

The ToS lines up with specific laws that will very quickly make your point moot. the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 (since the place in question is in the UK) works alongside that ToS - accessing computer systems, networks, or data without permission is not only A breach of the ToS Discord has set forth but also a breach of that law.

The mole shared access credentials - forbidden by Discord's ToS and by UK's law. This is very plain and simple to anyone with half a rasher of logic about them.

"Like I said, it will delay the Chinese labs for a couple years."

Not even that long. China can simply order its industries to stop supplying externally and go full-domestic. It has happened before in others parts of Chinese industry; it will happen again. As it stands China can easily build computational nodes at scale, and their LineShine supercomputer holds top place in the Supercomputer Top 500 at almost 2.2 exaflops. They have zero issues building performant hardware.

Couple of years? Their current technology level can make that less than a month.

Sounds like Discord also has a case against RockStar because their ToS expressly forbids sharing login credentials.

You wanted your IPO money, Discord? Suing the shit out of RockStar and winning is the way to go here.

We had Win95 running on a 25MHz 4MB FPRAM 286 back in high school. Poor teacher, half of first period was roughly how long it took to boot up, only for them to exit into DOS mode because the grading software and report card software was DOS-native and would hang if you tried running it under the GUI.

US Person is not a tax definition, it is a security definition. holds up access badge with US Person written on it Taxes do not care if you're an American or not, you're still paying them.

"How would you force the judge to do that?"

You read my wording wrong - you wouldn't force the judge, the judge forces Google.

"I advocate for right-sizing your hardware to predicable workloads and not using swap at all."

You do realize in the current semiconductor-short code-bloat-heavy economy we're in right now that your advocation would be prohibitively expensive for many people, yes?

At least, the gaming community would basically need to be grabbing $5K systems just because of garbage AI companies and crappy inefficient 'AI' upscaling algorithms with garbage engines that insist on doing intensive rendering optimization and upscaling on low-res models when simply rendering the regular model is faster (I'm looking square at you, UE5.) You know, that kind of thing. Plus the open world streaming, yea that's about already equal to a massive swapfile just for world data.

I think your advocation is very short on vision given current realities.

Then you sue them again in small claims court for the damages of not having access to your accounts (to which other online services require/are tied to which are not Google-owned properties) and have the judge force your reinstatement with a warning to Google that such punitive actions taken maliciously against the user will result in a prior fine*exponential multiplicative levied for each occurrence, with the base fine amount being the prior multiplicative fine issued.

That leaves Google with very few chances to fuck up before they're financially wiped out, and this is a ruling you can have issued in a small claims court.

The moment Google removed 'Do No Evil' from their values the only explanation left is pure malice.

Or be a proper computer user and have a full drive on its own dedicated bus for swap. There is literally no point in time where a full swap drive is less performant or useful than swap directories or swap files (and swap files are a relic of the 90s when a single application would need gobs of virtual memory.)

Funny watching someone advocate going back to something that sucked when we have far more performant hardware today which makes most of the other stuff wholly irrelevant.

"No child would ever play with this ball. Have still seen this idea at least three times now despite the fact that if the reporter spent 15 seconds with the actual ball they'd realize it's a complete non-starter."

No child would use it, but those would be really awesome in my Muay-Thai classes.

""Water from the air": Doesn't work in practice because the place this needs to be deployed to is precisely the place that doesn't have water in the air."

There is literally no place on earth where the relative humidity is that low outside the Antarctic dry valleys. Even in the Mojave Desert here, I have a water from air condenser out atop a miner's hotel blasted into rock. I even posted the GPS coordinates to it here on HN. It works great, and produces enough clean water daily for several people. It does need a recharge on the carbonate rock and charcoal, though.

Of course HN isn't going to stop advertising the very thing it's probably sunk a ton of money into.

If you want actual technical discussion of other subjects, maybe slashdot is still around.

Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.

Which process, though? Every human alive easily went from millions of cells to billions of cells to trillions of cells.

I am on IPv6 and I cannot access your site.

For an example of this that most anyone can find in nature, look up the humble agate (banded ones, most seam agates do not display the phenomena to as great of an extent.)

I was about to come in and say - orange groves are ALWAYS topped. I worked at the California Citrus State Historic Park, topping was done frequently. Same thing for most any orange grove from Cali to Florida. In fact, they're basically topped and hedged around explicitly to keep their size, shape, and productivity.

If only it were not dog slow in performance metrics. Still not as slow as Open Office but man it's close.

And that's on a newer Dell Pro Max with an Ultra 7 processor, 96GB RAM, and dual GPUs (Arc and RTX Blackwell.)

Probably the same reason it was written with explicit DOS support.

I'll provide a citation since I'm in this industry and watch it closely.

De Beers currently has about 2 billion worth of diamond stock in its holds. This equates to about... 5-6 months of sales volume. It used to be worth more but lab-grown and other re-valuing initiatives have dropped the worth of their hoard.

If you're in the USA you file in small claims where most lawyers are not allowed and you win there.

bonus: You set precedent for other people to sue and beat Verisign down cut by cut.

"I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion)"

It's a great insult, because it is usually used to describe someone whose viewpoint is basically a brainwashed and braindead pre-programmed one (either through upbringing or other things) and clearly demonstrating a lack of self-conscious critical thought.

Then you'd have standing to sue the hell out of Verisign for their lying on their document to ICANN and the damages you sustained as a result.

Sounds like a win to me if you play your cards right.

The full sale over to GM happened in 2005.

My 9-3t was the year SAAB sold entirely to GM but SAAB was still doing all the builds. So, no, no GM anything in it. Not a single American part (which made getting OEM replacements a pain in 2020.)

My 9-3t stock could dust many modified Mustangs in a drag race.

I never saw a 900 do that.

I'd be happier with a 9-3t (small t not large T) redo.

But nooo, SAAB sold their auto division to GM in 2005.