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Re:Steam Machine on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:28PM (#45909309)
For anyone wondering how the Mac Studio compares:

95 x 197 x 197 mm = 3.7 L

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Here is a relevant lecture on the decay of specialised knowledge across civilisations.

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko

Included is an anecdote about Texas Instruments and loss of knowledge between generations of silicon hardware.

Re:The Spiral Language on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:22PM (#17519886)
The commit messages across the entire project are... alarmingly insightful. There's some detailed stream of consciousness stuff in there.
Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:13PM (#16972217)
It's certainly not very friendly if you want to remove categories en masse from your recommendations, but you can remove videos from your YouTube history list. There's even a search bar. I have found spending the time to purge a certain type of video from that history does improve my recommendations. Additionally, on the home page, you can click on the options overflow on each video and tell YouTube you don't want to watch it, and why.
Re:Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:35AM (#15532103)
It means you can do wacky stuff like this: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/
Re:DRM Is Toxic to Culture on Sunday July 09, 2017 @08:13PM (#14732499)
Once the game has been cracked some publishers/devs have opted to release an update that removes the DRM and the potential performance hit (eg. Mass Effect Andromeda, Hitman, DOOM). The performance hit in question, however, is an implementation detail that some developers handle better than others (Rime comes to mind as a game that performed Denuvo DRM checks many many times per second, it's speculated it was tied to per-frame update calls).

Denuvo still has a place (if it stays effective) in reducing the number of day-one pirates, which is its main selling point at this time. On Steam, interested players have a choice to put money down on release (with the potential to refund), or wait an indeterminate number of days (weeks?) to download the cracked version. This uncertainty period has a conversion rate that Denuvo clients balance against the costs of the DRM.

Re:The Umbrella as a Weapon (2014) on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:10AM (#14584587)
Lowest hanging fruit would suggest James Bond? The insane gadgetry, the dedication to Britishness, the utterly bonkers plot of the villain and "getting the girl" at the end were all mainstays of that type of film. Albeit turned up to 11 and taken in, as mentioned above, farcical directions.