Duke 3D's soundtrack was not exclusively the work of Bobby Prince; Lee Jackson, Apogee's go-to music guy, also did some of the tracks, including the title theme, Grabbag.

Prince used not only his MIDI skills but also his experience as a lawyer to ensure his 'inspired' derivatives were as close as legally possible to the originals. The relationship between individual tracks is often very clear and sometimes even hinted in the metadata of the source files.

>"The Resin Identification Code(RIC) mark was deliberately chosen to look like the recycling symbol without actually being the recycling symbol. That's clearly a problem with the mark."

Is it? The only reason to need to know the type of plastic is for recycling. And plastic can be recycled. Putting the number inside the symbol makes perfect sense to me.

Tires have a speed class rating number on them. That indicates the max safe speed for that type of tire composition before it will fail. It doesn't mean it WILL be driven that fast, or that it SHOULD be driven that fast, or that there is anywhere it can be driven that fast in your area, or that it is otherwise a safe speed to drive.

>"The mark was originally intended to inform waste processors what polymers a plastic item was made from. But the public reasonably assumed anything stamped with the symbol was recyclable"

Then the problem is education, not the mark. Every product with the mark is ABLE to be recycled (methods do exist), but that doesn't mean it can be or will be in your area. I don't recall running across anyone who thought having the symbol means anything more than the number inside it is the type of plastic. And if you remove the mark, the already confused people are just going to say "oh, plastic" and put it in their container [incorrectly] just as before.

My biggest issue with the mark is that the number is often way too small or malformed to read. Where I live, only #1 and #2 are accepted (along with paper/cardboard, glass, and metal cans) and sometimes it is nearly impossible to see the number. Even so, by volume, I almost always have more recycling than non-recycling waste.

>" ... 'cause now I'm craving peanut butter and jam sandwiches."

Well, you can certainly buy a hell of a lot of PBJ sandwiches for just one of those SSD's. Probably way over a lifetime's worth for one of those servers.

>"The companies are pitching the hardware squarely at AI and hyperscale workloads, where storage is rapidly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute."

And where, apparently, price is no object. I wish they would focus on that crap and leave normal business and consumer-sized parts alone so we can afford them again.

>"Kioxia claims the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption"

So the AI datacenters can just buy more of them in the same space and still strain all the grids as much so consumer electricity prices continue to rise.

>"The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capacities are escalating"

While consumer-grade storage capacities are stagnant or even REDUCING just so people can get by.

I wish this bubble would burst sooner than later.

My thoughts exactly. How exactly is this "local" and they clearly say it is using ChatPGT and other cloud services? It is just making queries to AI data centers. You can do that with any computer already. You can even do it semi-anonymously through something like Venice.

And "it is on 24/7"... so what? So is my Linux desktop computer at home. And interacting with it through Telegram??? Why? Wouldn't just a plain, direct web interface make more sense?

Clearly I am not the target market for such a machine, but I really don't understand who the target market is and why.

>"I swear that flying things have a radar set to seek and bite me, so I have to live with 1 acre bug-zappers indoors near all doors creating ozone because of this bullshit."

I, too, am one of those people who get ATTACKED by mosquitos, apparently way more than others. It really sucks. I am also apparently unusually allergic to the bites, so I can have a horrible welt that lasts for a week or longer. If I could snap my fingers and eliminate all mosquitos from the earth, I would do it in a heartbeat. I don't think it will upset the ecosystem much, but I kinda don't even care- they are responsible for more human (and animal) suffering than perhaps any other living thing.

In any case, I hate to break it to you, but biting mosquitos are NOT attracted to bug zapper lights. It will certainly attract flies, moths, and tons of OTHER flying insects, but not mosquitos. You might be able to get them to go near the zappers if you put a mosquito chemical lure inside them.

There are mosquito killers that work, but they typically burn propane to create heat, CO, and moisture, and typically have a vacuum fan that sucks them into a mesh bag where they are then trapped. They are expensive to buy/operate and require upkeep. But at least there is no annoying light or zapping sound :)

You are correct. The mitigation of banning of the modules for Dirty Frag also covers Fragnesia.

However, if you removed the mitigation after getting a patched kernel, the previous patches do NOT protect against Fragnesia, so you will have to mitigate again until the kernel is patched again.

>"They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns."

Well, no. They are printing parts of guns, not a whole gun. The barrel is certainly not printed. Nor are springs, fasteners, striker, etc.

>"You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM"

At least for now, [essentially] nobody has an EDM machine at home. And this is no different from just making parts with metal machining tools. Are we going to ban/restrict metal lathes and such? Or force computers on them so they can somehow detect you are manually making a barrel, trigger, firing pin, charger, springs, etc?

>"so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself."

Right. You could always do that. This new stuff doesn't really change that much. And it doesn't replace needing metal work. It might make some things easier, but still requires a lot of work/time and some expertise.

>"This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us."

Please define "gun nuts" because exercising your constitutional and lawful rights to be able to defend yourself and others is not nutty. And printing accessory parts isn't really all that nutty, either. People aren't "printing guns", at least not with plastic printers.

Your ire should be pointed squarely at the people at fault for making this mess- legislators who are apparently completely clueless about both firearms and technology.

>"The new Harleys have a feature that randomly dumps oil on the ground to mimic the classic HD experience."

You forgot the horrible out-of-balance vibrations, strange noise, and mediocre performance. Then you would get closer.

There is a reason I ride a 16 valve inline 4 with variable valve timing (and stock muffler).

>"Frankly I'm thinking... whatever it takes to sell bikers on replacing their painfully noisy kill-me machines with silent kill-me machines is worth it."

They are only loud if illegally modified. Mine is no louder than most cars.

The problem with electric motorcycles is that there is not enough room for batteries. Until you can produce something with 160+hp per 600lbs *AND* 250 mile range, not interested.

>"Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting."

Um yeah, sure. But that doesn't require unrestricted internet/app access.

>"following pressure from parents who claim too much in-school screen time has zapped children's attention spans and left them worse off academically."

And how many of these parents gave their children phones/tablets/computers with full internet/app access?

>"seriously? of course firefox users fucking complained. That's why the mozilla had to add their AI kill-switch after they got caught auto-adding AI."

No. Mozilla never "added AI". They added the ability to optionally hook Firefox into third-party AI systems (with the default on). And there was ALWAYS AN OFF SWITCH. It just wasn't in the main settings, it was under about:config. Then they later added in the main settings as well.

It never downloaded or installed any AI system. Very different.