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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

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  • Mercurial is written in Python, Git in C.

    Given the number of git instances, had it been implemented in Python, more CPU cycles / electricity would have been used.

    Blah blah Mercurial is responsible for global warming. (I’m being sarcastic by the way - I love Mercurial).

    • The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

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  • That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.

    You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.

    • The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

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  • Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.

    • The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

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  • That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.

    • There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust. The US is not one of them

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  • CANZUK when?

    • Road work ahead

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    • This is outrageous! It's unfair!

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  • It’s because soccer is more of a southern English slang for football so it was never in parlance across the country (the UK never “switched” from soccer to football).

    There are many games of football: rugby league, rugby union, association football etc.

    Association, contracted to assoc / soc.

    And around Oxford, people like to add ‘-er’ to things. Rugby = rugger. Association football = soccer. Freshman = fresher.

    There’s no denying the UK has a bias in the media and literature, especially in the past, to southerners. Thus soccer became quite common in writing and thus exported widely across the world.

    But when many of the best football teams in the UK are northern, it’s understandable that the posh southern slang for the game was never widely regarded and remains ridiculed to this day.

    • Russell Brand charged, arrested for rape allegations

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  • "I've never engaged in nonconsensual activity, I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes," the actor continued…

    Nice little touch there by the journalist.

    • Able to run the biggest open source LLMs*, but can't run RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 LMAO

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  • Proton literally doesn’t run on macOS since Metal and no Vulkan. Proton translates to Vulkan. You’d need to reimplement everything to talk to Metal. It’s not a driver issue but an API issue.

    • Able to run the biggest open source LLMs*, but can't run RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 LMAO

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  • Drivers, subsystems, kernel are all in that list of releases. That list of GitHub repos together is Darwin (the OS). The kernel is XNU (also in the list).

    • Able to run the biggest open source LLMs*, but can't run RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 LMAO

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  • It’s nothing to do with walled garden - macOS/Unix and Linux are simply operating system architectures. FreeBSD also doesn’t benefit from Proton for the same reasons.

    There are Linux compatibility layers for FreeBSD so you can run Proton, and macOS has CodeWeavers’ CrossOver and Game Porting Toolkit (based on CrossOver) which can run Cyberpunk on macOS today.

    The only reason macOS/Unix are behind in compatibility layer efficacy is simply they don’t have Valve money and resources being thrown at them.

    Since Valve joined forces with CodeWeavers to accelerate development, well, we know the results. We got Proton and the Steam Deck.

    • Able to run the biggest open source LLMs*, but can't run RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 LMAO

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    • Able to run the biggest open source LLMs*, but can't run RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 LMAO

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  • True but Linux is benefiting from a huge project to build a compatibility layer for Windows binaries to execute on Linux. macOS doesn’t have that benefit.

    But neither Linux or macOS has native builds of those games.

    Proton and Wine are astounding and I use them daily but they do mask over the fact that so many game developers don’t care about platforms beyond Windows.

    At least macOS is partially open source and POSIX compliant vs Windows.

    • BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension

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  • Dreamcast was the best console of the sixth generation. If Sega hadn’t spun up MegaCD, 32x, and Saturn in such a short time, I think developers would have embraced the Dreamcast more rather than be weary Sega would abandon it for another system a couple of years later.

    • BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension

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  • Shenmue was insanely cool when it came out in 1999. To consider Ocarina of Time came out the year before, open world games were a brand new thing. Shenmue paired that with an epic action life-sim. It was just so unexpected; so many minigame-like mechanics for doing things around the world. It was incredibly immersive and ahead of its time.

    I don’t think it has as big an impact on players as it had on developers.

    The Yakuza series sticks out as greatly inspired by Shenmue / spiritual successor, as with Persona series. Also games like Lake, Fahrenheit / The Indigo Prophecy, GTA/RedDead, FFVII Remake, all owe a little to Shenmue.

    • Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway

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  • Why is this the case?

    • Remake Morrowind, not Oblivion, you cowards

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  • *Skywind

    • Define Greenwashing

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  • “No it is everyone else who is wrong” sounds like “half empty” to me.

    • Javascript/Linux is what I call it

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  • *Javascript (Java is a different language altogether).

    Side thought; you just reminded me of the days when websites were running Java applets or Shockwave all over the place. shudders

    edit: I just saw what community this is…

    • Astronomically difficult.

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  • You’ve had 43 years to watch that movie, dawg.