z500

And the SD card logo was originally intended for Super Density Disc

I was one of these hapless Comic Chat users. Luckily someone gently nudged me toward a real IRC client lol. I was an absolute IRC fiend for years after that.

That's odd, it always worked fine for me. I have had that issue with archive.today, though.

I'm confused. Aren't these supposed to be photos, or are we expected to be agog with 3D renderings?

Loads for me, but not particularly quickly

That makes sense. The part where my program really benefits is in a bottleneck area that you always have to go through and where you visit every code path in it.

It's .NET 10 lol. It's not so slow you can't write stuff for it, I have implementations of Conway's game of life, Huffman compression, and a minimal TUI. The main problem is doing almost anything in it involves a method lookup. And there are almost certainly places I could have done things more smartly.

One thing I do want to try out is publishing it with native AOT. I had a lot of luck with that on one of my other F# projects, I got like a 75% speedup out of it. I understand the JIT is supposed to outperform native AOT in the long term but I haven't seen it reach that speed.

That's so cool! I love F#, but I wrote a little Smalltalk interpreter in it and I can confirm it isn't exactly a speed demon for that kind of thing if you use it as intended lol

Actually they do have one, but it's an older beta format that isn't supported anymore.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

That was what I guessed too, but according to the article Intel detected both.

Thank you for injecting some perspective into the thread of AI hysteria. I feel like everyone is imagining a bug in a CRUD app.

This is pre-virtualization, so it's not the cloud either

At least we hardly ever have to hear anyone say "cyberspace" anymore

This might be controversial, but smelling either in public makes me happy! Now the stale smell of tobacco-infused clothing, that is awful.

If I remember correctly, it even came with a utility to remove line numbers for you

It doesn't take an AI to demand graph go up

Oh I've actually been meaning to get around to reading that first one. I'll have to crack that open.

Egyptian had it, and although it's Afroasiatic it's not Semitic, so it must have gone back further than that.

Doch.

I've never heard of it being based on that root before. Do you have a source?

It's like wiping your arse with silk.

We don't have dedicated QA at my job, but personally I'm thrilled when a coworker finds a bug in my code. It's much more preferable to the customer finding it

The only problem with that is the vast number of declensions. Sure they're not as wildly divergent as, say Latin or Ancient Greek, and there's no gender, but because of all the cases there's a lot of subtle variations to remember

Like that scene in Hot Fuzz where they go out to talk to the farmer about cutting his neighbor's hedge, and they need a translator for the translator

A circadian clock must be self-sustained and internally driven, as the 20-hour cycle of the jellies’ spawning is. It must also be regulated by an environmental stimulus such as light; while the jellies’ spawning clock can run on a 20-hour cycle under persistent light in the lab, in nature it resets every day.

Sounds like that is what happens.

It's not just media files. I'm forced to use Windows 11 on my work PC, and I had to disable the new shell extensions to make the file explorer usable again. It's noticeably faster without the new UI.

Any time I have to use the Internet without an ad blocker it's truly shocking how absolutely lousy everything is with ads

Everyone uses grammar. What you're describing is elitism and elevating one particular dialect above all others.

That's just centuries of change without updating spelling, a la Leicester or Worcester.