musicale

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by musicale 15d ago
or Windows.
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by musicale 15d ago
2023 intel Macs won't run macOS 27.
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by musicale 20d ago
"So let's crack open the champagne!" -memory companies
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by musicale 22d ago
Mac minis from 2005-2024 launched with entry-level models priced from $499-$699, with the outliers being the 2018 model at $799: https://everymac.com/global-mac-prices/all-msrp-mac-mini-pri... Though $599 for the M4 in
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by musicale 28d ago
Or how to butter up a room full of shallow narcissists, whom you will presumably meet anywhere and everywhere. It probably works.
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by musicale 28d ago
> diet and exercise GLP-1 drugs do seem to help people change their diet (or at least intake), even in this environment of unhealthy, hyperpalatable foods that we have created.
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by musicale 28d ago
It was part of the training data.
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by musicale 28d ago
Good luck enforcing that. Though with AI-powered ghiblification it's pretty obvious where some of the training data came from.
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by musicale 28d ago
> Why would one computing platform be different from the other? Good question - maybe ask Epic (a video game company known for Fortnite) why they sued Apple and Google while ignoring Sony, Nintendo and (the Xbox portion of) Microsoft. As
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by musicale 28d ago
> Historical texts and recent research suggest an alternative view: that sleep can be naturally segmented into two periods across the 24h cycle – a pattern known as biphasic sleep https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2
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by musicale 28d ago
People voted with their dollars, and this is what we got. Same with hardware performance vs. security and isolation. As you note, the threat landscape has changed, so what may have made economic sense back then might no longer make as much
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by musicale 28d ago
Is there any reliable way to evaluate how well "alignment" actually works?
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by musicale 1mo ago
Research results notwithstanding, my anecdata suggest that sugar soda tastes better, and I am not quite sure why. I think it might have better flavor overtones or better mouth feel or something. Less gluey somehow even though there shouldn&
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by musicale 1mo ago
They are classic (and extremely fun) games whose mechanics and strategy include crashing into other players. Rocket League is another example. Your comment is interesting though - I wouldn't expect skill in Gran Turismo (or Forza, or m
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by musicale 1mo ago
they delved too greedily and too deep...
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by musicale 2mo ago
> why I should prefer driving against some punks that spend their evening crashing into the other players on purpose So you don't like Twisted Metal (great PS2 game) or Mario Kart (great game on any Nintendo console)?
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by musicale 2mo ago
I didn't realize you could directly download peer-to-peer to another Switch using "match version". I haven't tried that - does it work without internet authorization ("checking if the software can be played" or
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by musicale 2mo ago
> When things get out of hand organizationally it makes sense to call for a snow leopard, but it comes at great cost so you better make big changes in the system so the same mistakes are not repeated What about the recent macOS releases
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by musicale 2mo ago
> When Windows ME and Windows Vista came out, people hated them even more than they usually hated Windows, so they did not use them. Microsoft was forced to respond by making a not-quite-as-bad OS in Windows XP This timeline doesn't
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by musicale 2mo ago
Prices have gone up since then, but at the time this article claimed $7/fps for PS5 vs. $17/fps for Steam Machine (which attempts to provide a console-like experience): https://www.steamfps.com/guides/steam-ma
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by musicale 2mo ago
Interesting - I have (fortunately) not run into these issues (yet), but found a list (with specifics) at https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singlep... Most of the listed games seem to be playable
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by musicale 2mo ago
If gog.com went away tomorrow, downloaded games and installers should be copyable to another PC relatively easily (so far this has worked 100% for me at least). I'm not sure how easy it will be to copy downloaded games to another PS3 o
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by musicale 2mo ago
With the exception of a few (regrettable) "game key" cards, physical Switch 1/2 games are usually playable offline with just the game card and the console. This is part of the appeal of Nintendo consoles - you don't need
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by musicale 2mo ago
Next month (September 2026) looks pretty good: Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Dawn of War IV, Wolverine, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Orbitals, Silent Hill: Townfall, Control Resonant, Trails in the Sky 2nd, Minecraf
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by musicale 2mo ago
Someone has discovered existential dread.
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by musicale 2mo ago
How about something like clang's -fbounds-safety?
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by musicale 2mo ago
Pretty much this. Everything is a timed exclusive and eventually available on PC through emulation etc. That being said, it's still nice to be able to easily run something like Demon's Souls, Fable 2/3, or the latest Mario&#x
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by musicale 2mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461
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by musicale 2mo ago
Great tiny tapeout project; hopefully this will result in drop-in replacement Z80 parts for vintage machines as well as new designs and homebrew systems for CP/M etc. Then there is the MCLZ8, a cycle-accurate emulator that runs on a mi
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by musicale 2mo ago
GTA6 is presumably a timed exclusive, so why ignore other timed console exclusives like... FFXVI, FF7 Remake, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stellar Blade, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding 2, Spider-Man 2, Rise of the Ronin,

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