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  • Off the commercial off the shelf "smart" TVs available, I started by looking at the OSes available. Choices were Roku, webOS, Tizen, and Google TV. I immediately ruled out Roku because of their recent changes to terms&conditions. webOS is pretty much limited to LG TVs, and I had bad experiences with LG warranties, so I ruled that out. Tizen (Samsung) was out for similar reasons, so that left me with Google TV. It's... OK. Doesn't require Internet connection to work, and doesn't nag me about it. And it came with a hardware switch to turn off the microphone. Not sure if that's a brand thing (Hisense) or applicable to all Google TV devices, but was reassuring.

  • A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward beetle, or you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the frog's ass, or your tale can't be told.

  • It's probably 4 or 8 GB actual RAM, with the rest being effectively swap.

  • Does registry still have that problem of making it practically impossible to do garbage collection on old images?

  • Don't skip the dialogue, even if you use subtitles and are a fast reader. It sometimes switches from one sentence at a time to whole chunks of dialogue and action getting skipped. Plus, the voice acting is superb, and the physical reactions of characters can convey a lot of emotion.

    Apart from White Orchard, you shouldn't need to complete all side quests in your area before moving on. Particularly with witcher gear, it's sometimes expected to need to come back at a later time when you're more powerful.

    Others may disagree, but I don't bother dismantling gear and weapons. I find it simpler to just sell things and buy materials I need from vendors.

  • Ever seen a spider molting? It's practically 2.

  • Not a stupid question at all. Here's the Wikipedia article for it. The significant part is this:

    The 5-dimensional discs [have] tiny patterns printed on 3 layers within the discs. Depending on the angle they are viewed from, these patterns can look completely different. This may sound like science fiction, but it's basically a really fancy optical illusion. In this case, the 5 dimensions inside of the discs are the size and orientation in relation to the 3-dimensional position of the nanostructures. The concept of being 5-dimensional means that one disc has several different images depending on the angle that one views it from, and the magnification of the microscope used to view it. Basically, each disc has multiple layers of micro and macro level images.

  • Moore's law is about circuit density, not about storage, so the premise is invalidated in the first place.

    There is research being done into 5D storage crystals, where a disc can theoretically hold up to 360TB of data, but don't hold your breath about them being available soon.

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  • That's uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.

  • You're going to start a fight with the doas people.

  • Missing the -i.

  • Still not as bad as chmod -R 777.

  • Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that if fertilized would hatch into a chicken?

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  • That's LLM AI, but the type I'm talking about is the machine learning kind. I can envision a system that takes e.g. a sample's test data and provides a summary, which is not far from what doctors do anyway. If you ever get a blood test's results explained to you it's "this value is high, which would be concerning except that this other value is not high, so you're probably fine regarding X. However, I notice that this other value is low, and this can be an indicator of Y. I'm going to request a follow-up test regarding that." Yes, I would trust an AI to give me that explanation, because those are very strict parameters to work with, and the input comes from a trusted source (lab results and medical training data) and not "Bob's shrimping and hoola hoop dancing blog".

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  • Hah, you caught it before the edit. I had rewritten the sentence and the comma was a leftover from the previous syntax.

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  • Another way to put it that shows that there should be no comma : "Eric Adams is charged with stealing $10M. This speaks to a larger plot."