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Literal translation vs localization strikes again.
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See, during the 1970s, Xerox had become so dominant in the U.S. that the company started receiving antitrust attention. The Federal Trade Commission got involved, and a 1975 consent decree forced Xerox to license its groundbreaking printing technology with competitors.
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Legend says 3DS players are still mashing A through it to this very day.
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Excellent, excellent. I picked up a BSP D8 (also hall effect and cheap) around the time Apple started allowing emulation and got my money’s worth playing Wipeout Pure, Symphony of the Night, and, uh, Genshin Impact.
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Ideation. Typing. Shame.
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Fake?! Tay. This is exactly the kind of attitude that leaves the beans undefended in the woods.
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Yeah I couldn't get it outta my head:
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The theme is what gets me. Every now and then I’ll be like, “why did I ever stop playing Elden Ring? I remember having some fun,” and then I’ll load in on top of a hill made of bones. “Ah, yes.”
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Their most obvious use of AI before was foreign language chatbots. Which is one of the more legit uses for an LLM, as these things go.
The recent inciting incidents were (1) that post about dropping contractors and (2) replacing a whole bunch of courses with lower quality AI-designed ones.
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Or more recently, when newer games started dropping DirectX 11, and suddenly people with decade old cards had to upgrade. Similar situation, no developer wanted to do more work and update a rendering engine for old tech.
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Small communities for niche games still exist, but a lot of them have moved to Discord. It’s a bit unfortunate. Harder to stumble across.
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@gork.botsky.social is this true?
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This is the best utility overview list I’ve seen.
www.hanselman.com/tools
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Yeah, 7zip is orders of magnitude faster, is the main killer feature.
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Anakin/Padme meme: a good episode, right? Right?
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Eventually. Maybe even now, depending how much you like to tinker.
Nvidia stuff has historically been kind of a pain on Linux because they insist on closed source drivers and stalled on implementing Wayland for a decade.
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Nvidia agrees with you!
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I’ve been avoiding GOG Galaxy ever since they lied about and ignored a 0-day privilege escalation bug for two years.
linustechtips.com/topic/139815...
Oh hey, and there’s *another* issue in the same vein.
www.anvilsecure.com/blog/galacti...
Any company that makes a habit of this doesn’t get my money
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I would play Match 3 Tactics.
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I don’t know quite what Animal Crossing Tactics is, but I really want it.
The series is so nonviolent, I suspect it must be characters attempting to present specific gifts to other characters to raise friendship meters. Maybe based on a color coded “gifting triangle.”
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If your license has one of these star symbols in the top right, you’re good.
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I dunno how it’s been nation-wide, but my state has been issuing drivers licenses with Real ID for over a decade.
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The peak innovation of the Mass Effect 1 conversation wheel was that any option might correspond to a wildly unexpected line of dialog that derailed the conversation in exciting, undesired new directions.
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So the most British clergyman (and proto-academic) ever, our man John doesn't abandon his History of Northumberland. He's sitting on evidence that will change a key part of British history, but nope! Out of scope.
So what does he do? He footnotes it. A 173 PAGE LONG FOOTNOTE. 13/22
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That’s why I’m selective. I pick only the best to get distracted from ten hours in and never touch again.
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That last ten seconds hint at a significantly longer story.
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Well sure. He lived a long time ago, they hadn’t been invented yet.
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Jesus’ comparison of the human race to sheep given dramatic credibility by the advent of online message boards.
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My VS Code profile for Ruby is named with a fox emoji.
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I enjoyed _why’s guide a lot and had very hard time getting anything practical out of it.
The “pickaxe book” from Pragmatic Programers was what actually got me going.