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Except it has 64MB of RAM... Anyway, in the early 2000s machines were already doing better than DeepBlue, so it didn't last long
Dark honey can be worse: insect secretion digested by another insect and secreted again: insection.
Re:The first broken iPhone Duos are here on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:38PM (#50224381)
> now give us smaller devices

Yeah, there's TENS of us :')

Re:VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:12AM (#50205058)
Probably for smoothly transitioning from the border of the VM to the host, and back?
Re:Apple Pass Designer on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:52PM (#49939582)
And otherwise Pass4Wallet lets you do that on earlier versions too. And you can add an image or colors, the result doesn’t look bad imho
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:12AM (#49432597)
> "EU" is too broad of a term to describe cultural/social/political norms such as public toilets

This calls for Slavoj Žižek's reflections on toilets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs

Although he's of course not talking about the room, but about the fixture.

Also “ethnocentric”. But as usual, we first need to have a shared definition of fascism. If we use Eco’s Ur-fascism, many aspects are there (the moral and cultural decadence of the West, which is both too strong and too weak)
Re:Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:06PM (#49028050)
Maxell cassette players are not cassette players from back in the day, but cheap stuff like everything else: https://youtu.be/6XyaBls8jyg?is=Lrgqe23yWlelBvl-
Re:Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:32PM (#48963501)
The Asus 1000H served me well for my whole bachelor, and also became my first hackintosh with the glorious 10.6.8, iDeneb flavor (i even bought a new wifi card natively supported by Mac OS X for that).

I still have it, it still holds a charge. Amazing little machine, portability and usage time were really top notch (not so the performance, but I was patient, and even used it for Sketchup and Illustrator)

According to the Dutch railway maintainer, it's not needed there, and the effect is not really proven: https://www.prorail.nl/veelgestelde-vragen/zomer/waarom-zijn...

Same for the Swiss, according to the natioanl railway company the results of their tests were “inconclusive”, but other operators of the Swiss network say that it depends on the exposure and other factors (but the challenge is keeping them clean, in a week they are already too dirty). https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/I-binari-sbiancati-non-serv...

Tbh this was somewhat underwhelming… I expected using a microcontroller+motor to replace the mechanisms of a regular cassette mechanism, or some other uses of modern tech for the cassette.

Instead, it’s just… a tape recorder connected, in a somewhat convoluted way, to spotify.

Re:Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:59AM (#48935514)
Can’t you use notarized AltStore to install AltStore original, and from there install Firefox? I did that earlier today in EU.

I just wish they had a different name now for AltStore Original… telling them apart from the icon is basically impossible

Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:11AM (#48516509)
I didn't know tank have regular problems with starting, especially in cold weather, regardless of whether the choke is open or not :)
I was thinking that it’s been a while since I saw those file names… but I guess your username checks out :)
Re:Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:49PM (#48339464)
Not the submission title, just the automatically revised submission title. Pretty sure I submitted it with the proper casing/spacing
Re:WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64 on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:12PM (#48153921)
I don’t know, I remember them being great from a HW point of view (I had an iPAQ 514 and it was mindblowing even without touch and just a tiny screen), but UX wise…

I now have another iPAQ with a stylus and touchscreen, and I’m grateful back then I did not have it nor the mobile version of Age of Empires… it’s addictive stuff and a crazy good port. I don’t remember anything so good on PalmOS 5 (we had a Garmin iQue 3600, with integrated GPS and navigation… also very futuristic).

Re:The Vatican's Website in Latin on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:43AM (#48046988)
If I had to take a guess, I would say he heard it in a lecture by Prof. Alessandro Barbero, same as I did :)

But I think the source is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_vulgari_eloquentia In the Italian Wiki page, the "constructed nature" of latin is hinted at; it doesn't seem to be present in the English wiki.

Update: It's indeed in the book, at the end of the 1st chapter of the 1st book:

3 There also exists another kind of language, at one remove from us, which the Romans called gramatica [grammar]. The Greeks and some - but not all - other peoples also have this secondary kind of language. Few, however, achieve complete fluency in it, since knowledge of its rules and theory can only be developed through dedication to a lengthy course of study

4 Of these two kinds of language, the more noble is the vernacular: first, because it was the language originally used by the human race; second, because the whole world employs it, though with different pro­nunciations and using different words; and third because it is natural to us, while the other is, in contrast, artificial.

Here, vernacular refers to "italian" or whatever dialect, while "gramatica" is latin - the artificial one :)

It’s not just “touched by the LLM” — it’s literally transformed. /s

I have the same feeling, I skipped reading any paragraph that starts with “not X, Y”.

It’s possible the author has so little proficiency in English that without LLMs they would be hardly intelligible. Unfortunately I developed an allergic reaction to LLM-generated texts…

YES PLEASE! AI's rigor in terms of evaluation of ML systems has been only barely improving in the past 15 years.

Thanks for the concrete recommendations; unfortunately, most of these will fall flat, because nobody teaches how to do these, why they are important, etc.

I am asking about a specific claim: Leon Black or Les Wexner have been implicated in a sec trafficking ring. This seems specific enough that you can’t say “it was probably in a document that nobody could see”, otherwise literally anyone who has ever said “hello” to Epstein can be accused of being a child rapist… which is sort of what is happening, isn’t it?

For context, I have absolutely zero idea who these two people are, I just think rationality about the Epstein case and “innocent until proven guilty” left the room a while ago…

Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:21PM (#47725093)
Yep, started coding iOS apps on an EeePC 1000H on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and XCode 3.1.something.

While the updates would break things, it was not more complicated than a Linux of the mid 90s to set up, especially with “hackintosh distros” like iDeneb. Surprisingly ok, given the anemic machine!

Luigi Mangione, the guy who shot an health insurance company CEOs in 2024
Re:From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:59PM (#47536934)
Wow, you still need to even ask questions.
Re:Migrating to the EU on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:47PM (#47493541)
To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work?

I have been a user of gmail since you needed an invitation to register, and even though I have felt for years the pressure to de-google myself, I find it a daunting task due to the amount of people/services that think my email account is gmail, and forever will be.

Re:TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:29AM (#47363568)
Look up Visual Basic for Dos for a surprisingly good TUI editor!
Re:macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:57AM (#47320258)
So… the moment the Interface Designer in XCode can identify the app only has a single button at the center of a window, the window should be a circle? :)
No, Windows NT until 4.0 had the same interface design as Windows 3.x (although there existed a semi-official SP/addon to give NT 3.5 the Chicago interface, making it quite similar to 95), and NT 4.0 came later than 95
Re:Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:10AM (#47119050)
I picked something that can be rooted and made cloud-free with Valetudo for the same reason
I mean, I’m sure there _are_ drive adapters without CHS support; in my sample size of 1, a cheap no-name adapter bought from Amazon a few years ago, it works just fine (I’m assuming the very early IDE drive I used didn’t use LBA, but I don’t have it anymore).

For what is worth the adapter is one of those half-red half-black vertical-insertion ones with a cursed USB-A to USB-A cable, connections for SATA and PATA (2.5 and 3.5”) and a sliding “Molex” connector for the 3.5 PATA drive. Not a quality item…

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