But it's really guessing, just like we all are.

Beyond the moralistic objections I have to LLMs, I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers. I've had my share of configuration hell and I'm not above throwing code at the wall to see what sticks, but at least I have the good sense to drop a comment or mention in my commit that "hey, there's a chance this isn't right and could cause problems".

Ate without table -3

Reminds me a bit of this comic:

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That's kind of awesome! I have a bunch of home lab stuff, but have been putting off buying a domain (I was a broke college student when I started my lab and half the point was avoiding recurring costs- plus I already run the DNS, as far as the WAN is concerned, I have whatever domain I want). My loose plan was to stand up a certificate authority and push the root public key out with active directory, but being able to certify things against Let's Encrypt might make things significantly easier.

Arizona has fairly consistent and predictable weather, decently reliable power grids (with access to cleaner energy sources like solar, hydro, and nuclear), and is pretty seismically stable. Plus Phoenix has been trying to set itself up as a bit of a tech hub for a while now so you have access to an existing market of skilled labor plus a supply to fresh talent from ASU (and the other universities).

The short concise answer is mostly cost. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all spending multiple billions of dollars per year in R&D alone. It's just not a space where someone can invent something in their garage and disrupt the whole industry (like, even if someone were to come out of left field with a revolutionary chip design, they'd need to convince investors that they'd be a better bet than literal trillion dollar companies).

I'd view it as more of the opposite: a tool built into the Teams suite to tattle on who isn't complying with Return to Office policies.

VPNs would depend a bit on configuration. I know my ubiqiti router will let me dump VPN traffic into its own vlan (with dedicated IP range), so it would absolutely be possible to tell it apart from local traffic. At the same time, I'm pretty sure my workplace has all site network traffic VPN'd to the home office, so I'm not if the same logic would apply...

I make mods for RimWorld and my poor friends get subjected to this all the time (I'm really bad about remembering to set myself as offline and my friends find it more amusing than anything else) because the fastest way to test my code is usually just to close the game, and reopen it.

Not the original poster, but it's on the British Museum's channel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

I maintain a handful of RimWorld mods, going on about 6 years now. They're in a pretty stable and mature place so they don't take too up much effort, but I do check for Steam commens a few times a day, to make sure nobody found any bugs or major issues.

I kind of quit Overwatch after they sucked the soul out of it and called it a sequel. It's not entirely a replacement, but as a fun shooter to play with friends/ family, I've mostly moved to playing Deep Rock Galactic. In some ways it scratches the itch: various classes/ roles, weapons, abilities, cooperation and teamwork to accomplish objectives, clicking heads and making things die, and purely cosmetic skins. It doesn't quite have the satisfaction of a good back and forth grudge match (on account of being a PvE game), but the community is super chill, the game design about as far from predatory as you can get (while there are a handful of exclusive fomo items, it's mostly just annual anniversary hats, or gifts to commemorate steam award nominations and such, there's no collection interface to mock you or rub it in for not having them), and the devs are just all around great. Bonus points for being able to spin up or join missions pretty much whenever.

Does it have a Stargate? Does it make whooshy sounds? Sounds like Stargate to me

Where does the King keep his armies? In his sleevies!

TIL what a spotted lanternfly was, they're an invasive species in many places and are spreading. While they aren't directly harmful to humans, they can cause a bunch of damage to plants, which include the ones we as humans tend to enjoy being able to eat. They're considered kill on sight, because many of the places they're spreading to don't have predators to keep them in check (on top of the fact that invasive species throw local ecosystems out of whack).

Nah, just means that the mirror can't render the Unicode character that the ghost has sent.

I'm partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it's also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).

That's pretty awesome! I don't think it's there anymore, but there used to be an xkcd shop where you could buy signed prints. One of my favorite possessions is a print of Compiling that my sibling bought me.

From the deep Final Space shaped hole in my heart, fuck WB/ Discovery.

I'm of the opinion that claiming media for tax breaks should immediately forfeit IP/ copyright protections and require it to be made available to the public.

Was half expecting a slightly more combustible take on lemons...