Even one nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.

Only if you get hit. The issue isn't one or two nukes. We've had that before in WWII, and there have been a lot of test nukes detonated around the world after.

The issue is that the main nuclear powers have a lot of nukes pointed at each other in a chain reaction, and the people in those countries today don't have the moral fibre and courage that their grandparents generation had.

So if the crazies MAD each other out, the rich part of the world will be destroyed. The third world will be spared and survive. The remaining international norms will be erased, and there will be a period of violence and survival, new empires and famines and population migrations. Climate change will be mitigated by the complete destruction of the world economy and its constant need for polluting industries and products (aka "demand destruction").

The world will eventually flourish. You and your children will not be part of it.

Make it happen, Number One!

I can't remember either. I'm pretty sure I had access to NN on the university SPARCs, and I suspect I must have downloaded the Windows version from there and saved it on a diskette. I somehow think that the browser was free but you had to pay for the email client extension, but I could be wrong. Trumpet Winsock was definitely shareware, but it was the only way to do proper TCP/IP at the time.

Where?!

*thump*

Have they turned off the power for the ASCII characters O,Y, and A already?

Floppy disks in general were never any good. The surprising part about Zip drives were how well they worked compared to floppies, not how poorly they worked compared to hard drives.

The problem there is they came at a period in the market where people were transitioning to hard drives, and some saw Zip drives as a cheaper alternative that would have the "advantages" of floppies but with better speed and more capacity.

If I could go back in time I'd probably try to persuade Commodore and Apple to go with hard disks instead back in the 1970s, as floppies, and removable media in general, has never really been good as a primary storage device. Given it's physically cheaper to make a hard drive than a floppy drive, there's no reason to suppose the higher prices for hard disks in the 1970s was anything but an artifact of the reduced demand, and "premium product", aspect of the whole set up. And we could still have used cassette tape for transferring data and/or backing it up.

PATA is the retronym, which previously was just plain ATA or IDE (you could choose), and probably actually more appropriate here than IDE as IDE came in PC/XT (8 bit) and AT (16 bit) variants. I've never seen the XT version, but I know, for reasons unexplained, it was offered as an alternative to SCSI in Commodore's A590 expansion sidecar for the A500. I think everyone just used SCSI, as there were almost no IDE XT drives in the wild.

PATA only refers to the AT variant of IDE. If the XT one had taken off I guess it would have been called PXTA and we'd all be using SXTA interfaces for our spinning rust drives right now.

Oh god, this brought back memories of the late 2000s when I was trying to get ATSC listings for my MythTV set-up and found, to my surprise, you just plain couldn't without either subscribing to a service that seemed absurdly expensive, or using various hacks to scrape the listings off of various websites that kept breaking each time the websites were updated.

Sony not going along with this is probably the best approach. The other companies really need to do the same thing too. Make the listings service worthless, and publish a protocol they'll use to get listings if OTA TV companies actually want their channels to have be on the TV's built in guide. If the OTA TV companies want to, instead, send their listings to a company which will have few if any subscribers, so be it.

*That* depends on the movie. Some movies NEED to be long, others need to be cut. But making each movie the same length is a really bad idea. (E.g. I saw a version of War and Peace that was so long it ran in two days. It didn't need to be cut, but the break was necessary.)

We have different tech, providing different benefits, doing different things

Agreed. For example, people today don't know what a "file" is, Oldtimer!

Since any translation package would beat most linguists alive today

Citation needed. For those who want to believe your statement, it helps when one doesn't live anywhere near a border with another country.

Don't mention the Clone Wars!

Don't be so negative!

First, the employees didn't know how to play chess but needed to fake a teaching app. So it's super impressive that they just cobbled up some random ideas that they picked up from other employees about learning Spanish.

Then if that isn't impressive enough, they asked an LLM to find some low quality chess examples from its internet memory. Just to make a set of slides, and that didn't even use all the little pictures! There was this embarrassing early checkers lesson that they had to find and remove too, it was sneakily hidden in lesson 2 on the first page. Definitely not trivial.

And now, here it is: Chessing with the language masters (They actually had to change the title to better mislead some smart kids. Just business stuff).

But joking aside, it's a real hit with first time buyers who are attracted to the learnings because they don't know much about chess and buy their lessons in bulk. And everyone's so impressed now because they know how to conjugate the word chess, and why castling is a tiny little house with impressive walls.

Acting is literally about representing a human being.

If you want genAI to play things in movies, have them play robots.

The transphobic network that keeps platforming Actual Fascists like Nige and pretty much never puts on anyone to the left of the Labour Party? Really? That BBC? Did you have a stroke?