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  • No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • If you've any suggestion on how to implement that, then it's a million-dollar idea.

    The "I'm a human" test that only takes a few seconds and then lets you do what you like for an hour was always vulnerable to 'auth farms'. Pay some poor bastards in the third world a pittance to pass the test a thousand times an hour, let the bots run wild. And the bots have gained the ability to pass the tests themselves, at least by boiling the oceans in some datacentre while the VC money holds out.

    Finding the people running the bots, fitting them with some very heavy boots and then seeing if they can swim in the deep ocean is probably needlessly cruel, but I'd be up for tarring and feathering a few. Once the videos got out, the rest might think harder about their life choices...

  • The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • I dunno. Oxygen Not Included looks crisp on a 4K monitor. And it makes my job easier, being able to have an absolute tonne of code on-screen and readable. I reckon I could probably use an 8K monitor for those things.

    Yeah, I generally have FSR running on any 3D game made in about the last decade - even if I can run it at 4K at a reasonable framerate, my computer fans start to sound like a hoover and the whole room starts warming up. But upscaling seems a better solution than having separate monitors for work and play.

  • Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

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  • Imperial came about as a system of units by measuring "everyday" things, and it remains pretty good for that. When you step outside the everyday, then it absolutely sucks - science deals with a lot of things that are too small, and engineering deals with a lot of things that are too large.

    When I used to work in the water industry, working out how much chlorine is required to dose a hundred million litres of water per day at 0.5 mg/l, and therefore when I'd have to place an order to refill our fifty tonne storage tank, is easy enough to do in my head. If we were working in imperial, I'd have converted it to metric first and then estimated it.

    On the other hand, metric calculations for pressure suck. If I weight 160 lbs and my bike tires are at 80 psi, then I have about two square inches in contact with the ground. If my car weighs 2500 lbs and its tires are at 30 psi, then each tire has about 20 square inches in contact with the ground. If I wanted scientific accuracy, then sure, I'd do it in metric, but I'd check the end result in imperial.

    There's near enough five thousand feet in a mile - if you need more accuracy than what you can do in your head, do it in metric with a calculator.

  • Senior devs...

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  • Abstraction is not very compatible with concurrency, so as well as your your beautiful abstract API, you also need some 'cut through the layers' functions to return the underlying classes you need to synchronise on. Now you have a right mess that's incredibly hard to understand, infuriating to debug, and impossible to refactor. Best you can do is put another layer of abstraction on top. Repeat every six months.

  • Melania humiliated as UK premiere of her movie gets single-digit ticket sales

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  • If you think you might want to leave early, more polite not to disturb the other patrons. If there were any other patrons, of course.

  • Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default?

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  • 5G is for spreading the woke gay mind virus. Collecting all of your personal information is the Jewish space lasers. Fortunately, tinfoil hat stops both.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Google Stadia wasn't exactly a responding success...

    From a previous job in hydraulics, the computational fluid dynamics / finite element analysis that we used to do would eat all your compute resource and ask for more. Split your design into tiny cubes, simulate all the flow / mass balance / temperature exchange / material stress calculations for each one, gain an understanding of how the part would perform in the real world. Very easily parallelizable, a great fit for GPU calculation. However, it's a 'hundreds of millions of dollars' industry, and the AI bubble is currently 'tens of trillions' deep.

    Yes, they can be used for other tasks. But we've just no use for the amount that's been purchased - there's tens of thousands of times as much as makes any sense.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • We've had multiple instances of AI slop being automatically released to production without any human review, and some of our customers are very angry about broken workflows and downtime, and the execs are still all-in on it. Maybe the tune is changing to, "well, maybe we should have some guardrails", but very slowly.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Unfortunately, server RAM and GPUs aren't compatible with desktops. Also, NVidia have committed to releasing a new GPU every year, making the existing ones worth much less. So unless you're planning to build your own data centre with slightly out-of-date gear - which would be folly, the existing ones will be desperate to recoup any investment and selling cheap - then it's all just destined to become a mountain of e-waste.

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • 100% of supercomputers, 80% of mobile devices (as Android), 4 or 5% of desktops depending on whether you count ChromeOS. Desktop share is a few percent higher if you just count gaming PCs, eg. the Steam survey, since it's more widely used at home than on business machines.

    The rate of adoption is accelerating, too - slowly but steadily.

  • Removed

    Saving Money

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  • 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...

  • Too late

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  • Just need a chutney that was developed in the 90s, and then we can make a delicious chutney+blue ciabatta sandwich that's all younger than you think.

  • Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex

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  • Magnet link for the actual mod download? Then you just need some fairly standard forum software in front. Let the users host the decentralised data.

  • Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

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  • 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.

  • I Am starting to actually get somewhat comfortable using emacs

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  • 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.

  • Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC

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  • 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.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • "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.

  • The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux

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  • 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.

    https://amigaos.net/

  • If only

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  • 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.

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