> Are they still on the market or crashed by the ever-more-increasing onboard chips? I don't think any major vendor has made ISA sound cards in almost 30 years. Discrete PCIe sound cards exist but I don't know who…
> Here in Europe all that is 100% resold either locally, or further to balkans/eastern-europe My company's policy is that retired laptops are destroyed. (I suppose properly wiping them or removing storage devices should…
> In the last decade, keeping my OS on a different volume from my data in `/home` has saved my work at least 5-10 times. Mine is of course just another anecdote, but despite seeing some crashes or hangs over the years,…
I think the first release of Windows 95 did include TCP/IP networking support. I remember using it. But I think it wasn't installed by default, so you had to go and install it separately via the control panel.
I remember at least Civilization II, Descent II, Settlers II, Outcast, and I think some rallying game I had as using Redbook audio. The industrial soundtrack of Descent II was actually pretty good. The interwebs also…
The sandboxed application would be something you explicitly chose to run. When the browser is the platform, every web page you visit has access to the general-purpose runtime. (Of course permission checks e.g. for…
That has been the trend for decades in lots of other developed countries as well. It doesn't have to be in any way because of increased means of surveillance.
> There is no objective evidence of qualia. You can argue there's no objective evidence for qualia in others than oneself, but I'm sure you know you have subjective experience just as I know I do. > All of these appeals…
I wasn't trying to give a model. The point was that I don't think it's necessary to give one. You didn't address any of what I wrote, let alone provide any counterarguments. Which part of what I wrote do you think was…
I honestly don't think a language model is enough for self-awareness, regardless of the exact model of awareness. A language model (or an image model or whatever) cannot even be sentient, and I think sentience is a…
16 GiB was good 11 years ago but laptops were also sold around that time that maxed out at 8 GiB due to limited slots or soldered memory. And lots of laptops are still being sold today with 16 GiB of memory soldered in,…
Police do need authority and respect in order to do their jobs, of course. But at the same time their position of power and their role as maintainers of public peace mean they should have a thicker skin rather than…
> a tiny minority of people care about [...] You know, unlike the minor issues of war and peace and hunger and poverty and economics and minority rights et cetera :) The complexity and realism of some particular…
> I experience some habituation actually. I suppose it can be quite different for different people. I stopped using it because it often (not always) made me still feel tired and unfocused in the morning, something that…
Shortcuts, mostly. The shortcut for toggling fullscreen in Firefox is F11. Many default shortcuts in JetBrains IDEs also use function keys. The keymap can be changed, of course, so you can design your own keymap to…
> From what I've seen in these HN discussions, most people are using "determinism" when they really mean "prompt sensitivity", i.e. minor variations in framing leading to different results. This, in turn, confuses…
Sounds like the short answer is "because there was no standard for the variable set by MS-DOS from the get go". The background is that the issue hadn't existed in CP/M because there hadn't been environment variables.…
I think #2 is actually circular, or perhaps rather contradictory. In order to be able to have an illusion one would have to be conscious in the first place. Or how would you have an illusion of something if you're not…
You could do all of those things on an OS with proper security separation as long as you have full root access. There's no megacorp stopping you from reading and writing kernel memory. Unless, of course, the computer…
What do you do to address health concerns before they become ER-level?
I think Transport Fever is of a slightly but significantly different genre. Railroad Tycoon is a strategy game with competition whereas Transport Fever is pretty much a building and optimization sandbox. Even Transport…
If humans are considered apex(-ish) predators, it's because there's mostly nothing "above" us in the food chain. We aren't typical prey for any other animal, so we are at the top-ish. It doesn't mean the diets of humans…
Games that require kernel-level anticheat will probably try to detect VMs and refuse to run.
I remember not getting Close Combat 2 (from 1997) running on Windows 10 some years ago but I did getting it running under Wine, albeit with some tweaks. Whether that was a Windows compatibility issue or potentially some…
> Im pretty sure I read in the past GoG still sells you a license to a game in perpetuity, rather than ownership Just about every commercial software license says the software is licensed, not sold. Of course the…
> Are they still on the market or crashed by the ever-more-increasing onboard chips? I don't think any major vendor has made ISA sound cards in almost 30 years. Discrete PCIe sound cards exist but I don't know who…
> Here in Europe all that is 100% resold either locally, or further to balkans/eastern-europe My company's policy is that retired laptops are destroyed. (I suppose properly wiping them or removing storage devices should…
> In the last decade, keeping my OS on a different volume from my data in `/home` has saved my work at least 5-10 times. Mine is of course just another anecdote, but despite seeing some crashes or hangs over the years,…
I think the first release of Windows 95 did include TCP/IP networking support. I remember using it. But I think it wasn't installed by default, so you had to go and install it separately via the control panel.
I remember at least Civilization II, Descent II, Settlers II, Outcast, and I think some rallying game I had as using Redbook audio. The industrial soundtrack of Descent II was actually pretty good. The interwebs also…
The sandboxed application would be something you explicitly chose to run. When the browser is the platform, every web page you visit has access to the general-purpose runtime. (Of course permission checks e.g. for…
That has been the trend for decades in lots of other developed countries as well. It doesn't have to be in any way because of increased means of surveillance.
> There is no objective evidence of qualia. You can argue there's no objective evidence for qualia in others than oneself, but I'm sure you know you have subjective experience just as I know I do. > All of these appeals…
I wasn't trying to give a model. The point was that I don't think it's necessary to give one. You didn't address any of what I wrote, let alone provide any counterarguments. Which part of what I wrote do you think was…
I honestly don't think a language model is enough for self-awareness, regardless of the exact model of awareness. A language model (or an image model or whatever) cannot even be sentient, and I think sentience is a…
16 GiB was good 11 years ago but laptops were also sold around that time that maxed out at 8 GiB due to limited slots or soldered memory. And lots of laptops are still being sold today with 16 GiB of memory soldered in,…
Police do need authority and respect in order to do their jobs, of course. But at the same time their position of power and their role as maintainers of public peace mean they should have a thicker skin rather than…
> a tiny minority of people care about [...] You know, unlike the minor issues of war and peace and hunger and poverty and economics and minority rights et cetera :) The complexity and realism of some particular…
> I experience some habituation actually. I suppose it can be quite different for different people. I stopped using it because it often (not always) made me still feel tired and unfocused in the morning, something that…
Shortcuts, mostly. The shortcut for toggling fullscreen in Firefox is F11. Many default shortcuts in JetBrains IDEs also use function keys. The keymap can be changed, of course, so you can design your own keymap to…
> From what I've seen in these HN discussions, most people are using "determinism" when they really mean "prompt sensitivity", i.e. minor variations in framing leading to different results. This, in turn, confuses…
Sounds like the short answer is "because there was no standard for the variable set by MS-DOS from the get go". The background is that the issue hadn't existed in CP/M because there hadn't been environment variables.…
I think #2 is actually circular, or perhaps rather contradictory. In order to be able to have an illusion one would have to be conscious in the first place. Or how would you have an illusion of something if you're not…
You could do all of those things on an OS with proper security separation as long as you have full root access. There's no megacorp stopping you from reading and writing kernel memory. Unless, of course, the computer…
What do you do to address health concerns before they become ER-level?
I think Transport Fever is of a slightly but significantly different genre. Railroad Tycoon is a strategy game with competition whereas Transport Fever is pretty much a building and optimization sandbox. Even Transport…
If humans are considered apex(-ish) predators, it's because there's mostly nothing "above" us in the food chain. We aren't typical prey for any other animal, so we are at the top-ish. It doesn't mean the diets of humans…
Games that require kernel-level anticheat will probably try to detect VMs and refuse to run.
I remember not getting Close Combat 2 (from 1997) running on Windows 10 some years ago but I did getting it running under Wine, albeit with some tweaks. Whether that was a Windows compatibility issue or potentially some…
> Im pretty sure I read in the past GoG still sells you a license to a game in perpetuity, rather than ownership Just about every commercial software license says the software is licensed, not sold. Of course the…