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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Well there was a game on the C64 called Quake Minus One...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it's available on Windows, but it's OK in a pinch.

There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Important: The article mentions that they are being replaced not that the SAC is being done away with completely.

On the other hand:

Twitch declined to comment on whether the [new council members] would be paid.

The text I replaced there is "ambassadors", that is, Twitch ambassadors, people given a title that means nothing outside of Twitch, but is the only payment these people will be getting, outside, perhaps, a sense of pride and accomplishment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I never said that the way they've gone about it is the best way to have gone about it.

Frankly, I'm not even sure what that would be, only that this ain't it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This has bell curve meme vibes. I'm just not sure what the middle guy would be saying.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It's not about whether it works, it's about proving that they're keeping pace with the trends in technology that they're not directly driving.

They're afraid that if they don't give that impression, their stockholders will pull their money and give it to someone who does, and since that's what their stockholders also fear about all the other stockholders, that's what will happen.

AI funding is so far up it's own backside I'm not sure they'll hear the cry of the small child pointing out that this Emperor has no clothes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Set one up when I used a different handle but literally never used it. Thought I had a short ID number but, for reasons I'm not sure of, the piddly scrap of paper I wrote the number down on has always been in a particular place (and has been there for well over a decade), and it was 9 digits.

Must have been thinking of that handle's Slashdot ID. That was 6 digits.

... and technically still is. Wow. The account is apparently still there. Not sure I'm going back there any time soon, but took this opportunity to reset the password just in case.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah! So you're a waffle man! Wanna buy a waffle iron?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Let me guess: I'll buy a toaster because my old one died but then I'll get ads for new toasters constantly. You bought one, you must want another. And another. And another. Why aren't you buying more toasters. You bought one. Buy another! Buy twenty!! People who bought toasters also bought microwaves and kettles. Do you want a toaster? Does anyone want any toast?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ay, there's the rub. Almost no-one's going to pay for the top-notch system, and will instead go for the lowest bidder.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surprised they haven't tried to train a neural network to find a compression algorithm specifically for their sort of data.

There's a ridiculous irony in the fact they haven't, and it's still ironic even if they have and have thrown the idea out as a failure. Or a dystopian nightmare.

But if it is the latter, they might help save time and effort by telling "the public" what avenues have already failed, or that they don't want purely AI-generated solutions. Someone's bound to try it otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it still the norm to go to the dev's office, yank their power cord and when they ask what we're doing, tell them we're shipping their machine to the client because it's the only one that the code runs on?

And can we do that with whatever server ChatGPT-4o is running on?

I'm assuming that this response from 4o isn't real and was invented for the laugh, but it would be tempting to throw this scenario at it if it decided to give this response.

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