Comment Re:This is an outrage (Score 1) 54
Use BlastEm, a Mega Drive/Genesis emulator by Michael Pavone whose nightly builds recently grew support for 32X, an accessory that bolts two SH-2 CPUs onto the Genesis.
Use BlastEm, a Mega Drive/Genesis emulator by Michael Pavone whose nightly builds recently grew support for 32X, an accessory that bolts two SH-2 CPUs onto the Genesis.
tl;dr it seems like it's been different things at different times, officially, and that NeXTSTEP has been used for a long time.
From the Wikipedia page, this 0.9 release doc lists "NextStep" as a registered trademark.
https://vtda.org/docs/computing/NeXT/NeXT%200.9-1.0%20Release%20Description.pdf
Some CD images show all caps:
Some show mixed:
https://wagtail.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/coda/topics/nextstep/index.html
1.0 manual goes with "NEXTSTEP":
https://dn710300.ca.archive.org/0/items/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994.pdf
1993 book uses "NeXTSTEP"
https://simson.net/ref/1993/NeXTSTEP3.0.pdf
This marketing flyer uses "NeXTSTEP"
http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/NeXTProducts/NeXTSoftware/NS-Release3/files/page625_1.pdf
It's clear the original trilogy was lightning in a bottle for many reasons, and it's clear that Marcia Lucas and other skilled editors had an absolutely huge impact. But can you really say the editor is the "more talented" Lucas? Seems to me that for a time, whatever partnership George and Marcia had personally and working together, worked really well.
After the split, neither one of them ever created something as on target as the originals.
Then again, Star Wars is almost unique for the cultural impact it's had. Hard to do a repeat.
Just shows how sometimes connotations and visceral impacts of words change over time.
I learned about that movie from The Wall..
Example, my 17 pro is pretty big and heavy, so you end up gripping it every time you pick it up. But with the extra buttons on the sides you end up engaging something you didn't want. So then you menu-dive into system settings just to turn off extra buttons.
My kids call me a boomer when that happens to me. And yeah, it happens.
Though to be fair, I actually really like the side button -- the one on the lower right that is touch sensitive. I use it for activating and using the camera. I just ALSO sometimes activate it when reading in landscape mode. Oops.
My browser should have zero knowledge of what a filesystem is.
If your web browser didn't store a session identifier in a small file called a cookie, how would Slashdot's server know that you're logged in as ArchieBunker (132337)? Otherwise, I'm not sure where you've mentally drawn a line between cookie storage and "a filesystem" proper.
Before Rust can save Linux from AI, wouldn't someone need to save Rust from AI first? The Open Slopware page claims that LLVM's LLM policy requiring a human in the loop is overly permissive.
The second link (pharmacyknowhow.com) redirected to an advertisement for "Lust Goddess", which appears to be a lewd video game. I opened the link again and it redirected to a page on Amazon selling a cultured pearl necklace.
Prescription medications sometimes do harm. Even so, many drugs prevent far more premature deaths than they cause. That's why we have national drug regulators: to evaluate evidence as to whether each new drug is safer on the whole than leaving the condition untreated.
Lasting value is not my opinion. If works are being preserved by people, cultures, and governments, that's not my opinion. That's a fact.
But now you're in a position where a work can only be recognized as "quality literature" decades or even centuries after it was created and publicized. I guess that's a plausible definition, but I don't see much value in it.
I would also add that many governments deliberately preserve and publicize certain works not for their inherent literary value, but due to some message that the government wants to promote for many possible reasons.
Quality literature is generally viewed as those works generated by literate people. Authors who understand the form and context and audience well enough to produce a work with lasting value.
IMHO, everything you just said boils down to "it's a matter of taste" or "I know it when I see it."
On one level, I don't disagree. Taking two fantasy authors I enjoy, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, I would say that Patrick Rothfuss is the better literary writer, but at the same time, I enjoy Sanderon's books more and I enjoy Sanderson as an author far more. Both authors are highly literate and knowledgeable, and their works are clearly highly influenced and referential to many other works, tropes, and so forth. I would say Rothfuss's writing is more artful, but I don't know how to quantify that.
"Lasting value" is, just like, your opinion man, and (IMHO) boils down to spectrum of enjoyment.
I have done the same thing (both with actual LLM text and with my own writing). The detectors seem wildly inaccurate on all samples, and wildly inconsistent between different detectors.
I think of the Star Trek holodeck. There are many episodes that portray how human characters “write” holonovels. They design the characters, the personalities, the plots, etc., but the holodeck generates the dialog, responds to stimuli, and so forth.
I think it’s a pretty interesting possibility for table top especially. GMs could create a character plan that then operates as a Non-Player Non-GM Character. A wildcard in the game. I could see that introducing some interesting elements to play.
System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crashing.