“When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated.” —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October

I miss mine. They were awesome. Just don’t touch the bulb when installing it.

I found this on skeptics stack exchange. Supposedly, it’s a hoax/urban legend that goes back way before the internet. (The entire stack exchange page on this topic is fun to read, btw)

The quote originally came from Prof. George T.W. Patrick of University of Iowa, who translated an ancient stone tablet into modern English and published in “Popular Science Monthly”, May 1913. The full text of the original can be found online at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo82newy, page 493.

One writer found this same quote in a slightly earlier source dating to 1908.

Yet another writer noted that there was no Chaldea but …

… there was a stele of a King Naram-Sin of Akkad which has been exhibited in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum since 1892. The inscription on this stele is fragmentary and has nothing to do with degeneration.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

No one will dig up our Lemmy posts in 1000s of years. :(

Don’t even get me started on finding decent copper.

Believe it or not, jail.

The hero we need! Ty!

I’m not entirely sure why but Calibri has always mildly annoyed me. Maybe because it was the new default at one point and I preferred something else. Or maybe because I felt that the default font size should be 10 or 12 points not…11 (pffft huff) Maybe it was just misplaced resentment for having to use Office products (at work). The new one has kind of a fun look, though. Maybe I will enjoy it.

I finally did but…gawd turning a key is so much work!

Also watch out for AMD’s army of Neanderthal social media accounts on reddit, forums and youtube, they will be singing their own praises as usual.

Wat

Fellow AMD Neanderthal Army soldiers: any idea when I get my cool uniform and …paycheck?

Zen 4 needs to bring substantial IPC improvements for all workloads, rather than overpriced “3D” marketing gimmicks.

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… the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Uhh… Aren’t… Aren’t these two statements kinda contradictory?

Timer based interrupts are the foundation of pre-emptive multitasking operating systems.

You set up a timer to run every N milliseconds and generate an interrupt. The interrupt handler, the scheduler, decides what process will run during the next time slice (the time between these interrupts), and handles the task of saving the current process’ state and restoring the next process’ state.

To do that it saves all the CPU registers (incl stack pointer, instruction pointer, etc), updates the state of the process (runnable, running, blocked), and restores the registers for the next process, changes it’s state to running, then exits and the CPU resumes where the next process left off last time it was in a running state.

While it does that switcheroo, it can add how long the previous process was running.

The other thing that can cause a process to change state is when it asks for a resource that will take a while to access. Like waiting for keyboard input. Or reading from the disk. Or waiting for a tcp connection. Long and short of it is the kernel puts the process in a blocked state and waits for the appropriate I/O interrupt to put the process in a runnable state.

Or something along those lines. It’s been ages since I took an OS class and maybe I don’t have the details perfect but hopefully that gives you the gist of it.

I don’t think it is simply “huh this place looks sketch”. Not sure if you read the article.

The thing is, the criminals knew that Google routes rental cars along a typical route and so they ambush tourists violently along that route. For all I know the route may look fine.

Anyway, you don’t have to label neighborhoods. Just have the app route them differently…

…But wouldn’t the criminals catch onto that before long so that the new route becomes the ambush zone?

Maybe there is a solution like randomly choosing a particular path at different hours but the fewer alternate routes the less effective that will be. Criminals could simply stake out one route and wait a little longer before a victim passes by.

But is this really a mapping company’s problem to solve? Is the map app responsible for traveler security? What if you ask to be routed into or through a war zone (e.g. somewhere in Ukraine). Does the map app refuse? Warn you? Or what?

What if someone gets a paper map? Is the map maker responsible? How about the rental car employees?

Where does the responsibility of the tourist begin and end here?

True… I think even if they don’t, it’s still potentially anti-competitive.

(Gawd, Imagine how life would be with gas station incompatibility with your car. Holy shit that would suck).

Yes except everyone knows YouTube has a massive, massive market advantage in that space. And the channel you want to watch isn’t on the others. And you know this too.

I don’t feel your analogy quite captures what is going on here because both McDonald’s and Taco Bell are in the same business. Maybe if you explain it more.

Google owns a major web destination, YouTube, essentially a line of business in its own right, in addition to Chrome, also its own distinct product. Firefox competes with Chrome but Google is allegedly using market dominance with YouTube to make it harder for Firefox to compete.

If a company owns two products A and B and if A is used to access B, company cannot hinder competitors to A via fuckery in B.

This is the kind of thing that MS got in trouble for – using Windows to tip the scales in favor of Internet Explorer by tightly integrating it into the OS.

McDonald’s prohibiting people from using their restaurant, which is not itself a separate product with a separate market. Nobody is clamoring to go to McDonald’s restaurant spaces to sit and eat. It’s just part of the restaurant offering. So there is no leverage like there is with YouTube being used against a competitor for a totally different product. And besides, Taco Bell can do the same as McDonald’s. They’re on equal footing.

If in your analogy there were some other product that McDonald’s owned that could penalize you for going to Taco Bell your analogy would work.

• Google – Ford
• Mozilla – Chevy
• Firefox – Chevy car
• Chrome – Ford Car
• YouTube – Ford gas station

In my other comment I provide a link to the US DOJ anti-trust complaint center website.

Yes. The US DOJ has a website for reporting antitrust concerns

🙄 No it would be like Ford owning gas stations and pumping faster for Ford vehicles than Chevy.

Watching a movie about WWII “I wonder who won??”

Same in Denver. It has never been that clear ever. That’s what I guess it could be like if we actually started to fight greenhouse gases for real.

And then animals started being seen a lot more around here.

Sigh

Enshittification of “enshittification”

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