It’s nice to have ntsync, I’ve been using it for a few weeks. Knowing that the thread sync api is solid means one less thing to worry about when debugging modded skyrim.

If you’re only going to watch one video this week about urban planning in Prague, this one is a fine choice.

Your other doubts and concerns seem slightly biased, e.g. wondering what settings could be tweaked on only one of the systems being tested and then reminding us all that there do still exist some things that won’t run on SteamOS. It’s only that one that is outright ridiculous.

Did the author run the benchmarks few times to rule out shader compilation

Really grasping at straws there, eh? I’m no big fan of Ars but I hope we can assume they’re not quite that incompetent.

Maybe that path that got wider did so because it gets muddy sometimes and people walk around the mud? That’s what often happens around where I live.

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Translation is something the LLMs are pretty good at. It makes sense to use them for it, though obviously it should be a separate product and not part of Firefox.

The rest looks completely useless to me.

In the early 2000s I actually thought made sense to buy a console, since not many games would run on linux.

continued innovations from major players like Microsoft

MS using its massive reserves of innovation to acquire many of the major game studios.

Paid and freeware but either way non-free, unfortunately.

It was patched in early 2023.

Federal agencies are required to apply the necessary patches by July 8, 2025

I think I’ve spotted an area in which there may be room for improvement in federal cybersecurity procedures. They should hire me as a consultant.

How on earth did CDPR fall on such hard times that they had to bring in Epic Games to make an engine for them?

I wouldn’t be willing to disable my vpn for the nyt so thanks for confirming that it wouldn’t have made a difference. It appears that they now block everyone who doesn’t let javascript freely do whatever it wants to fingerprint you or whatever. I’ll not miss them too much.

It was just bothering me this morning (not the time of day but I want ISO date format.) It’s probably this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935895

I’m shocked! — shocked to find that LLMs aren’t superhuman intelligences that will soon enslave us all. Other things they’re not good at:

• Summarizing news articles. Instead of an actual summary they’ll shorten the text by just leaving things out, without any understanding of which parts are important.
• Answering questions about anything controversial. Based on subtle hints in the wording of your question they’ll reflect your own biases back at you.
• Answering questions about well-known facts. Seemingly at random when your question isn’t phrased exactly the right way they’ll start hallucinating and make up plausible bullshit in place of actual answers.
• Writing a letter. They’ll use the wrong tone, use language that is bland and generic to a degree that makes it almost offensive, and if you care about quality the whole thing will need so much re-writing that it’s quicker to do it yourself from the start.
• Telling jokes. They don’t really get humour. Their jokes tend to have things that superficially look as if they should be punchlines but aren’t funny at all.
• Writing computer code. Correcting their mistakes is even more laborious in computer languages. Most of the time they’re almost as bad at it as they are at playing chess.

Still they are amazingly clever in some ways and pretty good for coming up with random ideas when you’ve got writer’s block or something.

We have Mod Organizer for that. Giant game retailers that want exclusive deals to distribute the hottest mods in order to force more people to sign up for accounts on their service can fuck right off. I’d be less inclined to complain if GOG Galaxy had a linux version.

There are lots of new Skyrim mods since the last time you played it. Even if that was only last week.

I don’t think so but I can report that whatever did cause it, it stopped after an hour or so.

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Is it a big spoiler, or did you mean to say “protagonist” instead of antagonist?