frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 hour ago

Given the contemporary examples, they weren't wrong to think so. Everyone was trying to make a console in the 16/32-bit era.

  • PC Engine/Turbografx
  • Phillips CD-i (only sorta a console)
  • Atari Jaguar
  • Neo Geo
  • Amiga CD

Some of these are better than others--I'm fond of the PC Engine--but none can be called successful. Neo Geo is somewhat of an exception because it was used as arcade hardware. Some others here are the butt of jokes. There's also a bunch of Japanese consoles around this time that go nowhere, and are little more than fodder for retro gaming YouTube channels.

Sony took a big gamble and won.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Nvidea. Their share price would be a fraction of what it is without AI. Just like the last two cryptocurrency bubbles, they went all in and then acted surprised when they popped.

At the same time, they've lost a lot of goodwill with gamers, formerly their core audience. With the AAA industry pulling back, games might not be pushing the limits of GPU tech anymore. Microsoft still has their old core products, but Nvidia may return to it to find a wasteland.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 hours ago

There's a worldwide clandestine effort to make you believe butt joints are fine, actually. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

When I was a kid, Dave Berry had a column where he made fun of the US Strategic Helium Reserve. This taught me an important lesson: when people make fun of what seems like government waste, 75% of the time it turns out to be really important. Not always, but you should look into it more.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Next, you'll be telling me synthetic motor oil isn't synthetic.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 hours ago

What if it's very hard light?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's generally for clearing dead people off the list so that someone else can't pretend to be them.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 35 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, he is very consequential. If you went to an NRA self-defense shooting instructor in 2019 and laid out everything Rittenhouse did, and then asked if that was valid self defense, the answer would be unequivocally no. What Rittenhouse found was an argument for shooting protestors and getting away with it.

That's scary, because if you spend much time around gun shows and gun clubs, you'll meet plenty of people who are clearly looking for an excuse to shoot somebody with a legal loophole.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about mushrooms. This one tastes great. This one will send you to a deep mind state for an afternoon. This one will melt your liver. They all look the same.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Which sometimes comes down to nothing more than paperwork. FISA wire tapping warrents became a rubber stamping operation under Clinton. Bush then couldn't be bothered to do that much.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They can take out an ICBM. It can't take out all the ICBMs.

 

Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

https://midwest.social/post/10123989

The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

 

Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

  • GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
  • GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

 
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