You forgot the degaussing sound for those screens that had that feature. Like turning them on but louder.

*KLONK*

Hurd?

And I wouldn’t know where to start using it. My problems are often of the “integrate two badly documented company-internal APIs” variety. LLMs can’t do shit about that; they weren’t trained for it.

They’re nice for basic rote work but that’s often not what you deal with in a mature codebase.

Like every time there’s an AI bubble. And like every time changes are that in a few years public interest will wane and current generative AI will fade into the background as a technology that everyone uses but nobody cares about, just like machine translation, speech recognition, fuzzy logic, expert systems…

Even when these technologies get better with time (and machine translation certainly got a lot better since the sixties) they fail to recapture their previous levels of excitement and funding.

We currently overcome what popped the last AI bubbles by throwing an absurd amount of resources at the problem. But at some point we’ll have to admit that doubling the USA’s energy consumption for a year to train the next generation of LLMs in hopes of actually turning a profit this time isn’t sustainable.

Honestly, it’s still the F310 for me. I have mine since the early 2010s and it’s still working perfectly. Those things are built like tanks and between XInput and DirectInput are compatible with just about any PC game of the last forty years, no extra software required. Also, they’re dirt cheap.

Honorable mention to the F710, the wireless version. While Windows 10’s USB stack unfortunately broke compatibility with it (causing randomly dropped inputs), Linux does not have that problem.

So you name the road after the neighboring town. Sixty years later you merge with that town, becoming a district within it. Now you have a road that leads from you to you.

In my experience rear-mounted sensors are the most accurate, closely followed by under-screen sensors. Side-mounted sensors are utter garbage.

Accuracy isn’t even that much of an issue, it’s that the side-mounted ones are far too easy to accidentally trigger just by handling the phone. I can’t count the number of times my last two phones told me I had three incorrect fingerprint attempts after I had just pulled them out of my pocket.

Then I got a Pixel and I have no more such issues and virtually perfect accuracy. Same on a Samsung tablet. Same on an old phone I had where the power button was on the rear and had a full-size sensor.

Basically, I’m perfectly happy with any front- or rear-mounted full-size sensor. Those tiny side-mounted ones suck.

“Well, excuuuuuse me, princess!”

gets shot twice, just to make sure

It happens on Linux – after your package manager has updated Firefox. Which typically means that you told it to. So it’s not really a surprise.

Oh, right. Fast Boot. I forgot about that bundle of joy.

But that’s wasn’t the only instance of an NTFS volume suddenly being broken. Another favorite was when I shrunk a volume on one disk from Linux (and then remembered that Windows correspond done it better) and rebooted to have it fixed and Windows proceeded to repair one on a different disk.

NTFS feels rock solid if you use only Windows and extremely janky if you dual-boot. Linux currently can’t really fix NTFS volumes and thus won’t mount them if they’re inconsistent.

As it happens, they’re inconsistent all the time. I’ve had an NTFS volume become dirty after booting into Windows and then shutting down. Not a problem for Windows but Linux wouldn’t touch the volume until I’d booted into Windows at least once.

I finally decided to use a storage upgrade to move most drives to Btrfs save for the Windows system volume and a shared data partition that’s now on ExFAT because it’s good enough for it.

Manga is typically read right to left.

I just use the Europass CV Builder. Works fine for me, has been for well over a decade now.

Definitely one of the more subtle benefits of the EU: They made a perfectly serviceable resume builder.

(But yeah, a LaTeX template would also just work forever. This stuff is what TeX and its derivatives are great at.)

That’s why they’re on the plane; they’re working overseas.

Warum nicht abgestuft, so ähnlich wie bei Motorrädern?

Man kann einen Führerschein B1 machen, mit dem man im wesentlichen Kei Cars fahren darf. Maximal zwei Tonnen und 70 PS, begrenzte Außenmaße, kein Anhänger, nicht mehr als 150 km/h. Dafür niedrigere Steuer. Praktisch für Stadtmenschen, die meistens eh nicht viel Platz im Auto brauchen.

Vielleicht noch eine Klasse B2, mit der man alles bis zur Größe eines Kombis und bis zu 150 PS, 200 km/h kriegt. Vielleicht sogar mit Anhänger.

Dann kann man die volle Klasse B machen, womit man seine 3,5t mit voller Leistung und Anhänger kriegt. Dafür höhere Steuer und regelmäßige Nachkontrolle, weil der Inhaber prinzipiell einen aufgemotzten SUV mit 300 PS fahren darf und dementsprechend nachweisen muss, auch das nötige fahrerische Können zu besitzen.

Dass die EU bei den Bürgern aus ungenannten Gründen extrem unbeliebt sei. Um es mit der Wikipedia zu sagen: [Belege fehlen]

The literal translation of what’s on the box makes it easier to understand:

Width of the condom when laid flat: 52 mm

It’s simply the easiest width measure you can do yourself.

Ein wichtiges Problem ist, dass es nur ein Stecker ist. Wenn ich Kopfhörer fest am Handy habe, dann weil ich in einer lauten Umgebung schlafen will. Dann will ich aber auch das Handy am Netz haben, weil 8h Geräuschkulisse auch Strom zehren.

Mit Klinke kein Problem, mit USB brauche ich einen Adapter und mit Bluetooth völlig unpraktikabel, weil die meisten Bluetooth-IEMs selbst brandneu kaum so viel Akku haben, geschweige denn nach ein paar Jahren Betrieb.

Wenn die Handies zwei USB-Buchsen hätten, könnte man vielleicht über USB-Kopfhörer nachdenken, aber aktuell wäre das nicht besonders sinnvoll.

I gotta agree here. Every game doesn’t feel the same if you don’t constrain yourself to the world of overhyped overmonetized AAA slop.

In my library I have a game about running an alternate-history navy sitting next to one about being a scrapper in space. The next one over is about terraforming a planet with your own labor. Then there’s a pure-bred Igavania next to a quirky game about power washing.

Sure, there are multiplayer titles in there as well but virtually none that even bother with anti-cheat bullshit because coop beats competitive in my opinion.

(For the record, I do own overhyped AAA slop but it’s nowhere near the majority of what I play.)

• “You can’t pass through here. We’re waiting for the inquisition.” - “We are the inquisition.” sets fire to the stakes and immediately moves on (No, they weren’t the inquisition.)
• “What is this summoning circle supposed to be? It’s all smudged! Did you tip over that candle and just put it up again without fixing the circle? Did you reuse this circle? Is that a lump of unsecured unmetal over there on the table? Have you idiots ever heard anything of elementary workplace safety?!” (Said after a demon summoning by the demon the PCs summoned. For reference, unmetal has the bad habit of going nuclear if exposed to too much magic.)
• “You haven’t lived until you’ve done a jumping puzzle in a non-Euclidean space.”
• “What is your opinion on trees?” - “Trees… are.”
• “Talk to the hand.” (A demonologist trying to banish one of the most powerful entities in the setting with a low-end banishment spell and a pentagram scrawled into his palm.)

That’s all I can think of right now because also tired. But yeah, that campaign was wild.