Oof. The second-hand market is full of stuff that businesses are throwing out since they won't run Win11, but which run Linux perfectly well. I've just recently replaced my NAS / home server with a £20 core i5 mini-PC that if anything is a bit overpowered for the job. Runs Mint desktop very nicely.
I'd imagine that if you're spending a hundred times as much, then you don't just have "web and office" in mind, though...
Given that all lottery draws are equally likely, you'd want your own to be numbers that no-one else has chosen, so that if you win you wont have to share it so many ways. Don't choose numbers that are birthdays, for instance. But "generate six numbers completely at random" is such a bad ask for an LLM that I can't even - it's likely to pick ones it's seen before in its training data, which is the worst possible selection.
As a "caps lock is another control" enjoyer, I know that pain. Don't need to take your fingers off the home keys to type ^[ , whereas the proper escape key is a bit of a stretch.
Well, having not played the Xbox version... ;-) Once you've got it running, it remains one of the finest games of all time.
Getting it running is the real sands of time, tho. It has a particular hatred of multi-core CPUs, requires a graphics card that supports both hardware transform & lighting but also truly ancient versions of DirectX, and is obstinately not-widescreen. You'll be wanting a fan patch; last time I tried one, it was a bit of a crash-fest (it wasn't, back in the day) and some of the SFX looked plain wrong.
Graphics still held up perfectly - the art style is very strong - and the story remains charming. All I wanted from a remake was the damned thing to start up in a modern screen resolution, and it seems they've managed to spend years on it without even managing that.
"If you make noise in real life, then the alien will hear you in game.". As if A:I needed to be any more terrifying than it is.
Still - it's a very expensive bit of hardware to implement the microphone feature that eg. the Famicom had, and the 'tracking' functionality only benefits a couple of games. Bizarre decision to make it mandatory as part of the console.
AmigaOS is still available and able to run all your Linux favourite applications as well as 'classic Amiga software', except of course it requires you to be running a PPC processor. Plus it costs money. So you'd have to invest £lots in 'most of a new PC' to see whether it even works for you.
Now, if we could open-source it and get it running on x64, I'd love to be running workbench again. It was ahead of its time.
Saw them at a festival a couple of years back. They know they're a bit cheesy and play into it, but they're a tight band and can still smash out all their hits.
Now, the fact that the festival could hardly afford anyone else because Filth were headlining, that was a problem, but it did mean that a few lesser-known bands got to play a decent set, so it's all good I suppose.
What is my cat doing on your mat, when she has a perfectly good beanbag to stretch out on? At least I know what she's up to when she sneaks outside, now...
They've a lot of canals, the ladders are custom, they'll need to be coated to stop them from corroding, and that'll be the installed price, so that's a small team driving round, barriering off bits of the canal while the work is done
If anything, seems cheap for a council job. My town would probably spend ten times that on the desk study to decide where they'll go and to get the paperwork together.
Dark Souls 3 is a great game to play at SL1. You've got quite a selection of weapons and armour that you can equip, plus one spell, so it's a bit of a puzzler to find optimum combinations of stuff to beat all the bosses.
Dark Souls 1 is okay to play at SL1. You're limited to being a pyromancer and have a good selection of flame spells that you can cast, but you're limited to weapons with fairly boring movesets, and you'll be doing a lot of running back to Blightown to get pyromancies and level up your flame.
Dark Souls 2 is goddamned brutal to play at SL1. Your dodging is tied to your agility, which means you're a sitting duck until you get some stat boosting gear. Start the game by murdering Cale for his hat of +3 dexterity, grab the work hook and the ladle to swap out in your off-hand for their small stat boosts, and get yourself to Tseldora to grind the peasant set for its small adaptability bonus. I hope you're good at beating end-game bosses with a rapier, no shield, and bad rolls - maximum four in a row due to your low stamina, which makes throne watcher / defender hellish.
Scholar obviously has all of the pain of 2, plus you can't rush into the DLC areas for their high-powered rings. By the time you get the ring of the embedded for its massive SL1 stat boost, you'll have most certainly earned it.
Yes, I did play through all four at SL1 in preparation for the release of Elden Ring. DS3 is fun at SL1, but I also do not recommend the others to anyone. Elden Ring is quite good at RL1 - it still allows some quite varied builds, and it forces you to learn the bosses rather than just "DPS race" them like you do normally.
Heroic get a referral link if you buy games from GOG via their launcher, which I always make sure to do. The fact that Heroic has 'first class' integration with Glorious Eggroll, and in fact updates GE for Steam for you as well, means that it's damn good for Linux gaming. If you don't need Steam's workshop or social factors for a game, there's no reason not to buy through it.
If GOG could collaborate with Heroic on their API integration, then that would be perfection - could retire Galaxy in that case.
If you're just wanting to play it, you don't really need the models, do you? Couple of packets of the cheapest army men you can find in the toy shop will do it you want fancy pieces, but just folding a piece of card in half so that it stands upright and writing on it what it is will suffice.
3D printing would do very nicely for the one-off models that you don't want to kitbash, of course. Also great for playing DnD with; another game where you're not obliged to use the 'genuine books' to play either.
Yes to the days of the year - only sensible way to do it. Added bonus that the first day of each month is always a Monday, which makes it easy to calculate days-of-week in your head. Also, two days holiday at new year every leap year, yeah.
Metric seconds is a bit trickier. Most units of measurement have 'time' in them in some way.
The SI is obviously that way - length is defined as metres per second of light in vacuum, mass by fixing the Planck constant in kilogram metres squared per second. But Imperial units, besides the fact that they're usually defined in law in terms of the SI, also have a lot of their derived units include time - mph and psi for instance.
Unless you're wanting to redefine basically every unit of measurement in your new system, then you need to stick with the second, which means you're stuck with ~86400 seconds per day, because that's how fast the world turns, and there's no particularly better way to subdivide it.
Although if your new calendar could also fix the damned mess that is time zones at the same time, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Proving a thing that's only known empirically is extremely valuable, too. We've an enormous amount of evidence that the Riemann hypothesis is correct - we can produce an infinite amount of points on the line, in fact - but proving it is a different matter.
If you've selected Python as your programming language, then your problem is likely either to do some text processing, a server-side lambda, or to provide a quick user interface. If you're using it for eg. Numpy, then you're really using Python to load and format some data before handing it to a dedicated maths library for evaluation.
If you've selected Go as your programming language, then your problem is likely to be either networking related - perhaps to provide a microservice that mediates between network and database - or orchestration of some kind. Kubernetes is the famous one, but a lot of system configuration tools use it to manipulate a variety of other services.
What these uses have in common is that they're usually disk- or network- limited and spend most of their time waiting, so it doesn't matter so much if they're not super efficient. If you are planning to peg the CPU at 100% for hours on end, you wouldn't choose them - you'd reach for C / C++ / Rust. Although Swift does remarkably well, too.
Seeing how quickly you can solve Fannkuch-Redux using Python is a bit like seeing how quickly you can drive nails into a wall using a screwdriver. Interesting in its way, but you'd be better picking up the correct tool in the first place.
Oh, good shout. I normally nip across to New York when I'm wanting to prepare Special Interest websites, but the latency sucks. A jaunt over to the Emerald Isle might make a nice change.
Back when I owned an XPS, one of the driver options was 'compressed screen updates', which only updated the part that had changed. As far as I could tell, made no difference to battery life whatsoever - turning down the screen brightness even a notch did much more.
Daily driver laptop for nearly ten years, and the part that finally failed was the CPU fan, which wasn't easy to obtain replacement parts for, so treated myself to a new laptop entirely. Mind you, the power connection was a PoS, would have been as well keeping that on an annual reorder for how often it failed. Pretty good laptop otherwise.
Oof. The second-hand market is full of stuff that businesses are throwing out since they won't run Win11, but which run Linux perfectly well. I've just recently replaced my NAS / home server with a £20 core i5 mini-PC that if anything is a bit overpowered for the job. Runs Mint desktop very nicely.
I'd imagine that if you're spending a hundred times as much, then you don't just have "web and office" in mind, though...