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  • nur Bahnhof verstehen

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  • One of my Polish colleagues, who otherwise speaks pretty perfect English, seems to choose he/she/it at random when putting sentences together. Which is fine for objects, but misleading for people. "I saw a friend yesterday and she said such-and-such" for a male friend, and so on.

  • Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July

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  • Some people dual-boot to play games with anti-cheat that doesn't work on Linux, so a recent "AAA multiplayer" release might skew the numbers for a bit as people boot Windows instead.

    Linux installations are slightly higher in the US than in Europe, and much much higher than in China. The "use of Linux online" has a bit of a sinusoidal pattern every day depending on who's awake. But a big Chinese release - Fallen Feathers, for example - will suppress the Linux percentage for a while as well.

    Steam do publish the number of concurrent users as well, it should be possible to multiply through to get roughly the "absolute numbers" you want. I think they publish the numbers of players online for multiplayer games too, and since those are the games that Linux will be locked out of, it might be possible to point fingers at the specific games causing the problems?

  • Sometimes you just got to mess with their ears

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  • More aerodynamic for the zoomies. You've fallen straight into their trap!

  • Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland

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  • I do miss the two-player mode of Lemmings on the Amiga. Amiga could support a mouse in every port, so you could both use a mouse while battling each other. One player needing to use a joystick on 'every other platform' (which for Lemmings, was every other platform in existence at the time) was vastly inferior.

    Basically every other computer either only supported one mouse, or all mice moved the same pointer.

    Not saying that this is a generally useful feature, and networking has improved to the point where split-screen games are rare, and in an era where most games have console ports then mouse-control multiplayer games are unusual, but you know. Niche usages.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin

    The three wheels and the fibreglass construction meant that it was light enough to count as a tricycle, so that you could drive one on a motorcycle license rather than a full driving license. Plus they sip quite gently at the petrol by the standards of the 1970s. You still saw a few on the roads when I was growing up in the 80s, but it's been a long time.

    The thought of doing 85 mph in one of them is enough to make me fill my trousers, though. Couldn't pay me enough.

  • Make it so

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  • Well, the universe is expanding, and we don't know why. Dark energy has come to dominate the energy balance of universe, and we don't know what that is. We've a theory that's great for describing small things, and a different theory that's great for describing large or fast things, but they don't line up, so we can't have them quite right.

    If the universe did have a period of greatly increased expansion shortly after the big bang, it doesn't seem too crazy to suggest that you could do it again, at least in theory. Might require some absurd energy density. That much energy in one place is likely to collapse into a black hole, which would sort out contacting the universe again.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

  • The Addams Family by Charles Addams

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  • The Addams Family by Charles Addams

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  • Joke is, that he's counted six toes on her foot. Normally TLP stops at the one that went home.

  • And then never using consumables, because what if you need them later?

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  • Suspends disbelief a little that the food is still rotting in centuries-old dungeons. Maybe should have some completely dried-out fungus in the vague shape of the food, that collapses into dust when your presence moves the air that's sat motionless for decades.

    Not that the DnD economy makes any sense anyway, of course. Bret Devereaux, in amongst his other excellent writings, did an excellent explanation of why "gold currency" wasn't a thing in historical times; he's written specifically about BG3's armour problems as well.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • Problem being, of course, that you can add more certificates, but you can't revoke the original M$ one. And since it's vulnerable and you can't get rid, then these exploits still work and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

  • Lucy setting the belly rub trap

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  • My three all flop out in front of you and demand belly rubs - they will pull your hand back in if you try and stop. The tortie is quite vocal about it, too. Fine if it's one of them, but if two of them get you then that's what you're doing for the rest of the day, and good luck trying to drink anything.

  • Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

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  • I'm all here for the green energy. I think it's worth investing in "both sides of the coin", though. Now that I've replaced all the energy-wasting bulbs in the house with LEDs, and the house is well-insulated enough that there's just no need to run a three-bar electric fire to keep warm, then I'm at the point where solar panels would be sufficient for nearly all my energy requirements. That's partly because solar has got better, but mainly because I'm just using loads less

    On that note, the secret to not having power and cooling issues running tens of thousands of super-hot GPUs in the desert, is not to build them. Which as they're not being built, might be enough ;-) But investing in more effort processing units and more efficient models would do it too. They wouldn't have their "no one else can afford this" moat if it was all made more affordable, tho.

  • Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

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  • He's mentioned in the third paragraph of the link. But yes, it is. In order for it to be "worth" burning a trillion dollars every year on AI, then there has to be a time in the near future, 2030 or so, where AI will be making unimaginable trillions. If the datacentres aren't being built, then that money can't possibly be coming in as planned. That makes the massive investment in NVidia's GPUs look extremely shaky - why buy them if they'll never be turned on? - and it means Oracle will be completely in the shit.

    Ed's arguments have been, "if any link in the chain fails, the whole thing falls down". I think he'd been leaning towards "banks being unwilling to keep financing datacentre builds on debt" as the most likely stumbling block, but just being unable to power the damned things for want of infrastructure and skilled engineering, as here, is a problem he talks about frequently too.

    He thinks it's likely it'll bring down the entire tech industry, since they're now full of idiotic MBAs with no other big ideas. And frankly, it's about time.

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  • Heh heh, phallus.

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  • Professor Kitkat there has somehow gone from Pythagoras' equation and the basic equations of a circle, to Einstein's equation for mass-energy equivalence, without even showing the working for applying the Lorentz transformation. That's the kind of haphazard mathematics I'd expect from a feline and has no place in a classroom setting. Zero marks.

  • Helper doesn't help

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  • Are you the person at my work that keeps raising pull requests with all the code stuffed into AbstractWidgetReaderWriterManagerImplHelperV2 classes consisting purely of static methods with fourteen parameters each? :shakes fist angrily:

  • Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

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  • Fill up a jerry can or two with petrol next time you fill up your car, and save the vodka for making martinis.

  • Pointers explained:

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  • He dereferenced a pointer to the 1970s and retrieved the shirt that way.

  • Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years

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  • I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:

    • the worst UX that you could possibly imagine, with menu after menu arranged seemingly at random, and buttons doing different things at every level
    • functionality delivered via plugins, at least half of which do not work
    • directory scans failing seemingly at random, with the errors hidden away in log files that you have to shell in to retrieve
    • terrible documentation, inevitably consisting of forum pages about how it used to work a decade ago

    It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.

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