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Got me an AMD Tuxedo laptop and some Raspberry Pi's, and my gaming desktop is all AMD too. Fuck Intel and NVidia.

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Presumably whoever took this picture was sat on top of the beer fridge? Otherwise there's a pretty serious omission here...

So; for $2k upfront, $19 a month in saas fees, you get a bed that you can adjust the temperature of online? And also, opens up your whole house to being remotely hacked? And our guy in the article has chucked his electronics and replaced it with a tropical aquarium heater pump for $180, which suggests that it's just the bog standard kind of waterbed that you could have bought for about $300, with unnecessary tech attached?

There's plenty of "silicon valley tech" that seems to have a ridiculously poor value proposition - this isn't the Juicero, but might challenge for second place. Have to wonder exactly what they're thinking, though. And what the devs were thinking, putting it into production with a live AWS key in the firmware.

Your classic VGA setup will probably be connected to a CRT monitor, which among other things has zero lag, and therefore running your sound separately to your audio setup, which also has zero lag, will be fine. Audio and video are in sync.

HDMI cables will almost certainly be connected to a flatscreen of some kind. Monitors tend to have fairly low lag, but flatscreen TVs can be crazy. Some of them have "game" mode (or similar) but as for the rest, they might have half-a-second or more of image processing before actually displaying anything. Running sound separately will have a noticeable disconnect between audio and video; drives me crazy although some people don't notice it. You would connect your audio setup to the TV rather than directly to source to correct this.

Now, the fact that a lot of cheap TVs only have a 3.5mm headphone jack to "send on the sound" is annoying to me, too. A lot of people just don't care about how things sound and therefore it's not a commercial priority. Optical digital audio output would be ideal, in that cheap audio circuitry inside the television won't degrade the sound being passed over HDMI and you can use your own choice of DAC, but they can be both expensive and add a bit of lag as well.

TempleOS network edition.

Dunno why you're being downvoted. If you're wanting a somewhat right-wing, pro-establishment, slightly superficial take on the news, mixed in with lots of "celebrity" frippery, then the BBC have got you covered. Their chairmen have historically been a list of old Tories, but that has never stopped the Tory party of accusing their news of being "left leaning" when it's blatantly not.

Memory safety is just a small part of infrastructure resilience. Rust doesn't protect you from phishing attacks. Rust doesn't protect you from weak passwords. Rust doesn't protect you from network misconfiguration. (For that matter, Rust doesn't protect you from some group of twenty-year old assholes installing their own servers inside your network, like you say.) Protecting your estate is not just about a programming language.

"Infrastructure", to me, suggests power, water, oil and food, more than some random website. For US infra, I'm thinking a lot of Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers, but probably a lot of Siemens and Mitsubishi stuff as well - things like these: https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/hardware/allen-bradley/programmable-controllers.html.

Historically, the controllers for industrial infrastructure (from a single pumping station to critical electrical distribution) have been on their own separate networks, and so things like secure passwords and infrastructure updates haven't been a priority. Some of these things have been running untouched for decades; thousands of people will have used the (often shared) credentials, which are very rarely updated or changed. The recent change is to demand more visibility and interaction; every SCADA (the main control computer used for interactive plant control) that you bring onto the public internet so that you can see what it's up to in a central hub, the more opportunity you have to mess up the network security and allow undesirables in.

PLCs tend to be coded up in "ladder logic" and compiled to device-specific assembly language. It isn't a programming environment where C has made any inroads over the decades; I very much doubt there's a Rust compiler for some random microcontroller, and "supported by manufacturer" is critical for these industries.

Nicole the Polish girl from Toronto is my fediverse girlfriend, damnit. Get your own.

Tesla lost substantial ground in an EV market that was up 54% for the month

There's a big increase in EV sales and Tesla are selling 59% fewer cars than they did last year. That's a massive slump in their fraction of the market.

Taiwan's a small-ish country of about 24M people, and also probably the number one producer of advanced semiconductors. Their family tree is basically "rich bastards that own things"; neither Lisa Su or Jensen Huang inherited their firms, but "work your arse off until you're at the top" looks to be a closely-held family value. So yeah; surprising, but first-cousin-once-removed isn't that close, and they've both got some seriously wealthy closer relatives in diverse fields.

Brainless, foul-smelling and hateful creatures, who can't be trusted not to shit wherever they stand. And the noise that they make is really offensive as well. The donkeys next to them are quite cute, though.

True. I'd mentally envisioned it as a whole series of "bread powered water wheels" down the side of the building, with a furnace at the bottom. Nothing actually going fast enough for friction to matter. A machine that only tried to convert all the kinetic energy at the bottom would be wasteful, as you say.

Plainly, we're going to have to put some engineering design time into the concept of this.

A 'morning roll' is kind of a different thing from your standard issue 'bread roll', though - bit more robust on the outside, which makes it better for containing hot food on the go. Kind of the opposite of a brioche, which is a waste of bread if I've ever seen it.

Well, there's your problem. You've plugged a Romantic Robot into the place where your Kempston joystick should be. Never going to win at Daley Thompson's without perfecting your waggle. Also, the Speccy will probably crash from hammering the keyboard if you try.

Midnight Resistance is one of those weird games where the first level is the hardest; it's not too bad to finish it if you do the first bit. Fair play on Robocop, though - that's a hard game.

Duke's Archives and Londo Ruins are good, but everything in Izalith or the Giants' Tomb sucks a lot of ass. So you are correct on average.

The slug tree gets a lot of hate as a boss, but I think the Centipede Demon gets underrepresented. Killed as soon as you pass through the fog door because you drop to 0.5 frames per second, followed by a long run back again? Ass.

Typing this from a Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3 - wanted a laptop that was suitable for development with a few more pixels at a reasonable price. Superb machine - recommend to anyone.

A kilogram of bread is about 2000 calories, about 9 kJ. Your body "burns" food too - probably more efficiently than you could make a steam engine for the same, but it's about that much.

Energy from gravity is equal to mass * gravity acceleration * height. 1 kg of bread in a 9.81 m/s/s field has the same gravitational potential at "about a kilometer".

If you're throwing magic stake baguettes off the top of the Burj Khalifa, the energy would be about equal.

AI does give itself away over "longer" posts, and if the tool makes about an equal number of false positives to false negatives then it should even itself out in the long run. (I'd have liked more than 9K "tests" for it to average out, but even so.) If they had the edit history for the post, which they didn't, then it's more obvious. AI will either copy-paste the whole thing in in one go, or will generate a word at a time at a fairly constant rate. Humans will stop and think, go back and edit things, all of that.

I was asked to do some job interviews recently; the tech test had such an "animated playback", and the difference between a human doing it legitimately and someone using AI to copy-paste the answer was surprisingly obvious. The tech test questions were nothing to do with the job role at hand and were causing us to select for the wrong candidates completely, but that's more a problem with our HR being blindly in love with AI and "technical solutions to human problems".

"Absolute certainty" is impossible, but balance of probabilities will do if you're just wanting an estimate like they have here.

I find that the blazing bulls are fairly trivial if you just keep the "run" button held down and do your "running sideways" attack on them - makes Sekiro do a twirl. The first one takes a little while but you're not in much danger; the second one is much quicker, because you hit harder by then, and there's less scenery for it to get stuck on and so it's a lot more predictable.

There's not really any other enemy in the game where doing that move is a good idea; certainly not just that one move repeatedly. Am wondering whether it was a slightly misguided attempt to teach players the whole moveset? The ogre's "dodge throws and parry attacks" lesson is pretty brutal for the point in the game where it is. Although if you're playing again from the start, he is a joke that you're likely to take down in one go from muscle memory. Perhaps the real lesson is to go exploring, ring the wee bell and find a weapon that's very effective against him?

https://shadps4.net/ to be precise. Differs from other emulators by not emulating the hardware, but by reimplementing the API, from what I've read. More like Wine than eg. https://rpcs3.net/