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In-place! Sporty! Good luck! :-)

I couldn't endure the wall of slop long enough to figure out what it's really about. Other than being an ad, of course. Is it too much to ask to have a human write your ad copy?

Strange where we've ended up. If I cared enough, I'd ask an AI to read what an AI wrote to tell me what it's about. Machines are just writing for machines now.

A whole culture suffers due to the awful taste of a few. The more things change…

Leaving aside for the moment the DDoS issue, that link is currently working for me. Archived pages on that site are puzzling, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, I'm not sure what accounts for the difference.

I'm interested.

I guess when they get their vaccine game down we’ll really have to worry!

> The real deal needs a lab messing around with viruses and whatever happened a few years ago ... and it did not destroy humanity.

That observation maybe holds if the lab from a few years ago correctly selected the virus for the greatest overall lethality (why not MERS or Ebola or something else?) and made its best effort to turn it into a bioweapon. I don't know about you, but I don't think that's quite what happened...

This is fascinating, thanks for the link. I love to learn about big systems that are developed in the same room where the problem they're solving lives, so to speak.

Too few of these are revealed to the rest of us, as the piece notes. It's a shame, there's lots to learn there. Instead most will be lost to the mists of time, and some dumpster diving digital archaeologist will have to get lucky for us to hear about them.

I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.

My antennae were twitching early on, it was "That is a floor, not a total" that flipped the switch for me and I closed the piece.

I'm developing a distracting hypervigilance that kicks in whenever I start reading anything linked from here or lobsters or LinkedIn. Instead of focusing on whatever it's saying, I'm looking for the tells instead.

I hate what AI's doing to reading. It's like when the desktop publishing revolution reached folks who never could have put together a decent banner to save their lives, and suddenly chintzy Broderbund Print Shop-generated examples were hanging in every classroom. But at least that was limited to peeps who had access to a dot matrix printer and scads of tractor feed paper. Now clankers write for everybody who either can't write or won't put in the time, and the low-effort slop is everywhere.

It'd be one thing if they used AI to write a draft and then rewrote it to make it theirs. I'd read it! But they can't be bothered. Very unfortunate, and I refuse to waste my time on it.

Just post the prompt you used, Brand, I'd probably get more value...

A good fictional example of this I often think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH5j9RHCBpM

The Grid Compass series (especially the II models with the big screen) looked like it came from the future. Stunning in its era. Wouldn't mind seeing a reboot.

I doubt that very much. 20ish years ago I read about the Indians being very upset that the engines in the Sukhoi fighters they bought weren't even making it to the promised (very modest) 300 operating hours between overhauls. That's far less than Western engines routinely achieve. And with the hollowing out of the Russian industrial base that's occurred since then, I'd be surprised if it's gotten any better in the intervening years.

Maybe more than a headwind. From my time in AAA here are two things I learned that were true in that environment:

1. Artists hate Perforce.

2. You will never get them to try anything else.

I'm exaggerating, but not by that much. I lost count of the number of artists who are deeply uncomfortable with technology and just manage to learn the bare minimum to do their job, and then will take no more.

So besides everything else Lore needs to nail to be acceptable, they need to make it easy for artists to switch. Maybe when UnrealGameSync grows enough knobs and switches to make it unnecessary for an artist to ever touch P4V, Epic can roll Lore into UGS as an unobtrusive option. And if by then there's good support in Unity, in JetBrains, in Maya, etc., then maybe they'll have something.

I’ve long wanted that amazing uptime and virtualization and huge I/O and all that cool stuff mainframes offered, but on the desktop or in the closet, with modern CPUs.

I think I’m gonna hafta keep waiting...

Of course, but all those things (including upgrading during business hours) require budget. So, back to my original question...

I'd love to see this in the bootloader, along with a selection of binaries useful for recovery. Might sound silly but over the years I have had many a remote system get to the bootloader and then no further after an upgrade. Nowadays we've usually got a nicely sized EFI partition, why not stuff it all in there? Gimme a full Linux userspace from the bootloader, it would feel luxurious when I'm up at 3 am trying to recover a broken system halfway across the country.

Or is there already a solution to this that I've been missing? (Yeah, KVM/IPMI/etc, I know, but not all hosters make it easy to get to that.)

Congrats on your release, Aardappel! Bought a copy to support the dream!

You're right, packaging would definitely be a challenge. The cylinder head would need to be low profile, conformal exhaust headers, dry sumped, and put all the plumbing you can (including the turbo and wastegate) behind the block. Maybe it’s not feasible, but it sure would be an interesting puzzle to try!

The peeps I've talked to who've done LS swaps seemed more interested in the economic, technological, and fuel economy leaps made versus the certified air-cooled default choices rather than the power, but YMMV...

Upsides are that they're both first- and second-order naturally balanced, requiring no balance shafts, which reduces weight and makes them very low vibration. I keep waiting for someone to come up with a lightweight, turbonormalized straight six that runs on Jet A to replace old turboprop engines on aircraft, but I digress...

Microsoft can really get it wrong, but getting streaming wrong after Stadia and Luna would be very, very impressive.

I disagree, for me desktop (K)Ubuntu's 6 month release cycle works great. Feels like a nice balance between stability and freshness.

> Hand on sales: Don't expect customers to sign up for a free plan and convert. Your conversion rate will be close to 0. Mostly scammers.

Brutal! Is that true even for Japanese companies with a traditional sales force?

Got a list of those bloggers you like?

In other disciplines, yes. Very common to hear it in mechanical or aerospace engineering, for example. They'll say "codes" to refer to multiple programs or "a code" to refer to a single program. It's amusing, when I was in the field I just went with it.

That’s awesome! But not everyone’s library is the same, so YMMV. I regularly see problems with flight sims that are Nvidia-specific, for example.

Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh.

I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

Check out Jai, apparently if you ask nicely its author will let you use it. Unofficial docs here: https://pixeldroid.com/jailang/