You didn't use the main deflector dish *or* reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to dock some points on your technobabble score.

"Ugly is in the eye of the beholder."

Well, a lot of beholders found it ugly. When one of the most common types of reaction videos is "Here's how I would fix the unappealing character designs and color palettes," you've got a problem. Didn't help that it cost money when the competition was FTP.

It was worse. It was a mediocre game that was *really* ugly and was going up against entrenched competition that outclassed it six ways from Sunday.

Too much money for not enough content.

When I had my morning toast and coffee earlier today I chose between three YouTube videos. An analysis of a high-performance motorcycle engine, a review of an off-road vehicle and troubleshooting a hybrid car. All cable ever has these days is reality shows.

...laura

How on earth can you "exhaustively" deidentify millions of chat logs that could contain literally any personal details, and presumably all without OpenAI's own employees also sifting through personal information in exactly the way they're claiming would be bad if others did it?

The company standard for servers is RedHat 10. RedHat 10 does not support 32 bit applications.

The legacy app is running happily on RedHat 9.

...laura

I support a legacy app that was written back in the 1990s. It originally ran under VxWorks with custom hardware, variously 68k and PowerPC.

The first port I did was to Solaris. No byte-order issues and I kept the 32 bit ABI. It worked well.

When the Powers That Be decided to ditch Sun hardware and Solaris in favour of x86 and Linux I ported it to Linux. Parts of the code weren't byte-order clean, but I worked through them. The code is heavily 32 bit dependent and I never did create a viable 64 bit version (I tried, believe me...), so it runs on our last 32 bit server in the data center. The service it supports is slowly dying so there's no business case to spend any more time or money on it. If the business case existed I'd apply what I've learned in the meantime and rewrite it from scratch anyway.

The Linux port was initially unstable. It would run for a random time, hours to weeks, then two threads would deadlock. After a couple of years of letting it run and watching it crash I traced the deadlock to an "optimization" that didn't actually do anything, with an if statement that had about a one in a trillion chance of going the wrong way. I removed the optimization and the application has been running fine ever since.

...laura

You too can be a tool!

"reductions in the price of groceries!"

Someday I 'd like to see your alternate reality for myself.

"What does Trump talking about sending tariff money to citizens say about the rise of basic-income-type policies?"

It says that Trump will spin self-serving lies without end to get what he wants. But we already knew that.

It's never going to happen. The money is not there, and Trump would never do it anyway.

Science? Really? There's a lot of soft-brained, unscientific and technophilic pseudo-religion in the article.

Let's work with the argument's load-bearing phrase, "exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit."

There are so many things to criticise in that single statement of bias. Suffice it to say there's a good case to be made that "provincial domesticity and tribalism are prevalent inherited traits in humans", without emotional appeals to a "spirit" not in evidence.

The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

No. ChatGPT parrots language without understanding it. That is not using language. "Using" something implies achieving a purpose by means of that thing, and ChatGPT has no purpose of its own.

...seems to be about four years late.

"Grand Theft Auto Forever"