Almost, but close enough. It had hardware to draw background solid blocks, two one-pixel dots and two sprites that had width but interestingly no height. The background was repeated or mirrored by hardware registers so if you wanted different patterns on left and right half of the screen, you need to switch the correct values at the right time at every line. Any positing of graphics would be in X position only so you’d have to do it by the line when the raster hit it. It had no interrupts except that you could forcibly wait for next frame to render and then you keep track of the clock cycles to render each line. And it has 128 bytes of RAM, less than the number of characters in this comment, while games were 1,2 or 4 KB on ROM cartridges, needless to say very efficiently coded directly in 6502 machine code. Oh, and the sound chip had no chromatic division of frequencies but weird intervals that aren’t even close to any scale we know. Yet programmers managed to create great games on the platform. It’s absolutely crazy.

Clavdivs?

blocked Birkenstock ads

Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum

*not all humans. Apparently. Like billionaires and the presidents they bought.

Guess my current Birkenstock will be my last.

So Trump has managed to expand the yet dormant exploitation of resources from Greenland in favour of the European Union - without the need to bribe gift any aeroplanes. Trump sure keeps generously making favors for everybody except his own country.

You are plant based carbon fibre.

For anybody else curious;

Voyager 1 uses hydrazine (N₂H₄) as fuel for its small attitude control thrusters. Hydrazine is a hypergolic monopropellant, meaning it doesn’t require an external oxidizer—it decomposes exothermically upon contact with a catalyst, producing gas to generate thrust.

The thrusters are not used for propulsion, but rather to rotate and stabilize the spacecraft so that its antenna remains pointed toward Earth and its instruments can be properly oriented. Fuel consumption is extremely low—only a few grams per year—and Voyager 1 still has some hydrazine left, although it’s running low. Once the hydrazine is depleted, the spacecraft will no longer be able to control its orientation, which means communication with Earth will cease.

The Voyager spacecraft have no engines for linear acceleration; instead, they follow the trajectory and speed gained from gravity assists during planetary flybys in the solar system.

Then you are not on loudspeaker and speaking with an extra loud voice and it is not a problem.

If you pick a ZigBee device and don’t try to power a refrigerator or a washing machine with it, it probably doesn’t matter much. Just get some reliable brand, Sonoff, IKEA, something, for wall powered stuff. Battery sensors are fine OEM from AliExpress. I’d advice against anything WiFi that requires a cloud connection, as most of them do, but that is my personal preference.

There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.

You are free to do whatever you want that makes you happy in private bud. Anything. Almost.

Hands full, disabled, multiple people, yes. Holding the phone like an extended duck face, no.

If only there was a way to speak privately on a phone.

Today I was annoyed by a man in his 30-40s that was talking on his phone like he was a reality soap star with speaker on full blast in a doctor’s waiting room.

Then I remembered the most absurd moment on the tram some time ago when a two teen girls were talking to a third and the one holding the phone told her friend to go sit somewhere else because they wanted to talk in private. The second girl moves and the first one proceeds to have their private talk on speaker. In a tram full of people and her friend sitting a few seats away.

Yeah but not one “master” language. All knowledge it can relate across languages is available in all languages. LLM (and computers) don’t care about the data, they just process it. Humans would translate it and compile it in ordered encyclopedia. For LLM it is all just an insane number of references and cross references all over that is available from anywhere that the link has been established. The input/output of desired language and formulation and whatever is a different part of it.

As far as I understand it.

A friend helping out in an emergency for a few days, weeks or mayyybe months is one thing. Systematically living on somebody else’s bill only to save your own expenses is something else.

You’re of course free to do what you want, but don’t be surprised if your friends get tired of you.

I hear a whisper in the wind about file size being a distinct though not foolproof hint of quality.

I know that the current generation of LLM have a language agnostic knowledge base, which is damn awesome, but I don’t know how the language layer works.