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According to Terminator 3 Skynet used a mere 60 TFLOPS

It was the New York Post (not Fox) that broke the story about the laptop, and that got censored by various social media companies acting on the (false) advice of federal agents to do so.

Because the laptop includes a lot a emails. A lot of those emails include Hunter selling access to his father and suggesting that his father was in the the scheme with him. Whether or not Joe was actually involved vs. Hunter making it up to get these people to give him what he wanted is an open question, but this isn't something that should have been actively suppressed by the media just a few weeks before the election.

“While we certainly do not endorse the use of unfair and deceptive practices in negative option marketing, the procedural deficiencies of the Commission’s rulemaking process are fatal here,”

Sounds like they have no issue with the rule itself, only with the fact that it was passed by bureaucratic fiat.

I can still play multiplayer Doom, multiplayer Warcraft 1, and many, many more. Seems eminently reasonable to me.

not sure the current state, but WoW didn't us to be

WoW has always required a monthly subscription since release

But you’re not renting or subscribing to it so that is inaccurate

If the game can be taken away from you st any time then "buying" is definitely inaccurate too then. "Licensing for a limited time" might be the most accurate, but something like "Lease for X years" might be more concise and accurate enough.

It's not simply a matter of knowing what/how to ask. LLMs are essentially statistical regressions on crack. This is a gross oversimplification, but the point is that what they generate is based on statistical likelihoods, and if 90%+ of the code they were trained on was shit you're not going to get the good stuff very often. And if you need an AI to help you do it you won't even be able to recognize the good stuff when it does get generated.

AI is trained on the same shitty code you're inheriting, so probably not.

Except you actually sometimes get money back from the slot machine, with gaming lootboxes/gacha/microtransactions you're just getting imaginary digital goods that will disappear as soon as the company shuts down the game's servers.

I remember watching some pirate streams of UFC pay per view fights about a decade ago. The streams were being provided by someone in the UK, and apparently had commercials between each fight. Every single commercial was for sports gambling, and I just remembered thinking every time "I'm glad this isn't an issue in the US." I'm a bit sad that's no longer the case.

The first computer I remember using was a Tandy from the late 80s or early 90s (I don't recall what model, I'll have to ask my dad if he remembers). The jump from that to a PC running Windows 95 was mind-blowing to me.

Also the secret truth about the world in Nausicaa (not going to spoil it here) has been copied by several other animes and video games since, it's been very influential. Notably the anime Ergo Proxy and the video game Nier seem to take some significant inspiration from it.

Does Carter, Clinton, and Obama pardoning and commuting the sentences of the Puerto Rican terrorists that shot up congress count?

The current administration explicitly condones violence against political rivals.

Citation needed

So he's the Japanese Nicholas Sparks?

For some reason my brain was remembering The Cat Returns as being directed by him, my bad

I thought Nausicaa was ok, but I'd read the entire manga before ever watching the film snd the changes from the manga were just too drastic for me.

"I used to be garbage. I still am, but I used to be, to."

-Gnome

The dub is good, but Moro's Japanese voice actor makes the subs superior every time.

Well their top directorial talent is retired (and even if it's another fake retirement like his last two, he's too old to do too much more) or dead. Miyazaki's films seem to be more popular and well known than Takahata's (personally Grave of the Fireflies and The Cat Returns are the only Takahata films I've seen), but both men were the heart of the studio. Goro Miyazaki has improved since his debut but is still nowhere as talented nor as visionary as his father.

Also The Boy and the Heron was quite a letdown for me for Miyazaki's final film. I understood the point he was trying to make, that the films he made were his attempt at creating a perfect world, but the malice in his own heart made him unable to accomplish his vision. But the rest of the film didn't really seem to be built around that message, it seemed like an afterthought for the final scenes where the great-uncle is trying to pass the mantle on to him.

In any case, Princess Mononoke is my favorite film of all time, and the closest that Miyazaki (and Studio Ghibli) ever got to perfection. If you haven't seen it you should absolutely check it out.

Perforce is still widely used in the game industry

They'll be prosecuted by Kevin Bacon, with Tom Cruise as their defense attorney, and with Jack Nicholson giving a rousing testimony in which he confesses that he is the one who gave the order to the marines to commit the crime.

But that didn't happen.

The latter part definitely did. See Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave) and all the parts of Germany that were ceded to Poland.

And the expulsion of ethnic Germans living in non-German lands across Europe postwar was certainly a form of ethnic cleansing, even if you believe it was justified to remove the justification Germany had for prewar annexations like the Sudetenland.

Specifically you need to be in the top 10% for female grip strength to be stronger than the bottom 5% of male grip strength.

And women need to be in the top 10% of female grip strength to have stronger grip strength than the bottom 5% of men.

My Mom got me Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and other tools to help me to learn to type "correctly", but I didn't have any motivation to learn how to type until I started playing the original Starcraft online. I needed to be able to communicate with teammates (and trash talk opponents) in a timely manner, so I was forced to learn to type fast. But as a result, I also developed my own unorthodox style that looks a lot like hunt and peck.

On a typing test where they provide me with what to type I can consistently get 60+ WPM, but when I'm typing something from my head I'm pretty sure I get 100 to 120.

Doesn't really do anything to ensure the end-user truly has ownership over the device and the ability to control what software runs on it. 10 years of security updates is nice (assuming the company making the device doesn't go out of business in that time) but doesn't stop those devices becoming vulnerable after that (and a truly useful device will likely have more than 10 years of useful life). I don't know the specifics of the CRA, but most proposed regulatory solutions I've seen intentionally take control away from the end-user.

Not going to happen any time soon because there is no concern about this from the consumer side, no financial incentive from the manufacturing side, and no regulatory pressure from the government (and I have low hopes that any regulatory solutions would actually fix the problem).