If the point is nostalgia, maybe they do want all of those things.

Probably not. You want to remember the good bits but it helps if they are in fact better.

It's like playing doom on a vaguely modern engine, where it looks retro, sure with the sprites and 2.5D and etc, but supports my screen resolution and has limits removed vs playing doom on original 320x200 with small levels.

I think the sweet spot is keeping all the best bits of the original, i.e. you know what was filmed not the shite Lucas added later when he got a bit up himself but with a newer remastered where they could do the technical bit better.

Eh?

There's a supply capacity crunch and obviously NVidia are going to heavily prioritize manufacture of the more profitable cards. That's basic capitalism for you.

But they don't half-arse CUDA on consumer cards.You get a different mix of functional units, but the code still runs fine. If you think a consumer card cuts it, they'll take tour money for one.

The most complicated thing with hosting your own stuff now is domain registration and DNS setup. For email specifically, that can be quite confusing.

You'd think that you'd make your healthcheck systems scale proportionately to the number of systems you've got last reporting active. That seems like a good thing to do.

Personally, I'm not sure this would result in the remaining systems getting healthchecked more often, though. How would that work?

Let's say: you've got 1m servers and (say) 24 healthcheck system. They each send out one service API probe every, oh, 15 seconds, for something on the severely high side of things, with a 3 second timeout. If you suddenly only have 500k servers due to a network partiation, this doesn't cause healthcheck to occur at 2x against the backend services. Infrastructure isn't built this way, because if it was, the healthcheck would be meaningless.

Very different than what the client would see on the service facing side. Even then, it's going to cause 2-3x load to all the systems due to 2x the traffic to each system (assuming it was an extremely homogenous system) and cause things to be slow, and you'd have seen a different failure mode.

Format, reinstall Linux, and reboot

FTFY. :)

Perhaps under Trump, there is enough craziness to consider launching a nuclear strike, but even Trump isn't that crazy.

The US President is also the Commander in Chief of the US military, in effect their most senior military officer. The US military does include provisions for a subordinate to remove a senior officer from power under specific situations, most of which can be summarised as "unfit for duty". So, a crazy POTUS attempting to launch an unjustifiable nuclear first strike could - in theory - be legally removed from post by the ranking officers in the room, in effect, the plot of "Crimson Tide" set in the Oval Office, Ballroom Bunker & Air Force One rather than on a boomer.

Could be an interesting scenario for Hollywood to speculate on, although I think it might work better as a legal drama rather than an action flick by mashing that prologue up with the post-action repercussions of something like "A Few Good Men". Cover the attempted launch in the first act and spend subsequent acts of the movie dealing with the major stages of what would almost certainly be an extremely messy aftermath taking several years to play out; an act on the next few days, the next on the House hearings, another on SCOTUS, leading up to the fates of the key players.

AMD is showing definite signs of competence with AI, and with its product portfolio, robotics.

Yeah but not very strong signs. They are still desparate to segment their nonexistent market share so you need to buy their punishingly expensive compute cards instead of the relatively cheap gamer ones just to see if it works.

NVidia don't give a shit as long as you are giving them money. If you want to run a 4090 in a datacentre, then go nuts it's on you. Your dime.

Also for some reason they are obsessed with NVidia compatibility rather than simply making the ML stuff run properly. Given the difference in architectures stuff optimized for NVidia is never going to be optimal for AMD. The problem with AMD is not that you can't run CUDA stuff out of the box it's that you can't do fucking anything out of the box.

Sure there is: it gives you several days to download it on a shitty internet link so that on the day of release you're able to play it. Some people are stuck at 50Mbit or less internet speeds, particularly in rural or financially depressed urban areas. You're going to have people tethering their phone to download it.

I'm going to bet we'll have an AI port and unlock of the game by the end of the month.

Russia's war with Ukraine is basically wiping out a significant proportion of its "men of fighting age" demographic, which has a heavy overlap with the "men breeding age" demographic, a loss that is probably already severe enough to cause serious economic and society issues in a generation or two as the population balance shifts. Now, evil thought, but if you were to see Russia as some kind of threat, and don't particular care about the toll all this is taking on Ukraine, wouldn't it be in your best interests to see that trend continue?

Also, let's face it, Russia has no clear successor to Putin that is going to be able to do the one thing he does *really* well, namely stop the military, oligarchs, and mob bosses tearing each other apart. When Putin eventually does go, however that happens, Russia is highly likely to implode in a spectacularly messy fashion, so having the country on its knees in as many ways as possible when that happens might be seen as strategically advantageous as well, and so especially regarding men of fighting age.

There is also a relatively popular third option in Russia that doesn't involve a container; "accidentally" falling of a high window.

If Europe and the US were doing that too we would be in a much better position regarding climate change. It would doubtless be a huge boon for those economies as well.

This goes to show the utter fecklessness of the right wing positions. If you ignore the environmental side (which is also just abject stupidity), it's obviously good economically, and for national security. These are things conservatives claim to be in favour of, though I've never seen any evidence of it.

Being insulated from externally imposed energy price shocks is good. Circulating money in the local economy is good. Heck if you're a true blue Tory, there's even British companies run by cronies to support.

I could go on...

I'll do it. Ones I've read below. Some of them are cracking. Some get annoying, but have really good bits (cough cough Neal Stephenson) for miss out the entire ending (Philip K. Dick y u). Some of them are completely bananas (City& the City, the Ninth series) but compelling. Some are just trippy (inverted world, anything by Dick), Some are a book I didn't even know I wanted until I read it (Spinning Silver). Some are great series (Vorkosigan series), there's good space opera, good mil-sci fi in there and on and on.

I won't say every one of these is the best book I've read, but some are really great,many are good and none I found bad (depending on your tolerance for particular author's style). Many of the older one are still really good.

A canticle for Leibowitz
The man in the high Castle
Cat's cradle
The inverted world
The Dying of the Light
Ringworld Engineers
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Falling Free
The Vor Game
Barrayar
Xenocide
Mirror dance
Memory
A Storm of Swords
A feast for Crows
Old Man's War
Rainbow's End
Halting state
Anathem
The City and the City
Cryoburn
A Dance with Dragons
3 Body Problem
Goblin Emperor
Ancillary Sword
The Fifth Season / Obelisk Gate / Stone Sky
Uprooted
Ancillary Mercy
Seveneves
The Collapsing Empire
Spinning Silver
Gideon the Ninth / Harrow the Ninth / Nona the Ninth
Project Hail Mary