There are quite a few shops like that for reptiles, likely because of the special care requirements.

On the one hand, you don’t want a minimum-wage no-training staffer who cam barely keep a hamster fed killing a $4000 lizard by not setting the heat and humidity right.

On another, it’s sort of weird to sell pet and feeder rodents together.

I don’t get it either.

If they said “requires a beefy dGPU or one of the handful of high-bandwidth APUs” that feels like it would make more sense than just 64G RAM. I thought most models weren’t optimized to run on a CPU even with gobs of RAM.

And plenty of firms don’t ship their devs 64G machines, especially in ghe current RAM crunch. Mine sent me a 16G machine in like 2023 and only replaced it with 32 on request because Win11+Docker were heavier than the old Win10/external server workflow.

Up to 1990, PRC banknotes had different portraits. I suspect many of them were “representatives” for different types of labourer or ethnic groups rather than idolizing a single figure.

For example https://en.numista.com/211574

The 100-yuan of the series features Mao with three other early leaders of the republic, but the lower notes are representatives.

I’ve been using the CoW compositor lately and it has a neat, but possibly accidental, feature:

You get that “virtual desktop with additional screen space” feature, as was common on older X11 setups, with a little minimap that shows the real screens within the context of the virtual space. What’s unusual is that it’s possible to move the individual screens on a multi-monitor rig independently, rathrr than as a group.

Classic MacOS on clearly an x86 desktop. Absurd.

Oh, noble darkness, I’m turning into my father watching WWII movies!

The state of the science for reptile care is advancing so fast that we sometimes still don’t know what a reasonable lifespan in captivity is for some species. She might have gotten 10 years in 1980 but now 25 is feasible.

Just siuth of Vienetta.

Oh, Heavenly Principles, please rid me of Paimon!

K7S5A?

There was a week when it was both the cheapest and best performing mainboard you could buy.

There’s probably a story in building systems to address this.

I could see a network of vampires who exchange safehouses every few decades, so as to avoid people noticing they’ve been there for 150 years, and the relocation forces them to reboot their cultural references, accents, etc.

They play the “new immigrant” card until they can blend in properly.

Tell us what we’re supposed to be excited about?

If you’re a white-collar worker, it’s either a bludgeon your boss is using to threaten to sack you, or an excuse as to why you should generate 5x more output without any more pay.

If you’re a media consumer, it’s a fountain of endless low-quality crap. Resources you used to be able to trust are being undermined.

These might be exciting if you’re a sociopathic billionaire or wannabe-billionaire, but for the rest of use, the closest to a positive payout we have is a bunch of gacha machines that can produce mediocre graphics/music/text shaped things which might dovetail with what you’re doing, until their economic unviability causes them to go out. (I think consumer video gen is already disappearing)

Not sure I’m quite willing to undermine civilization rather than fibd stock photos for my blog posts.

The optical turning point is here for a lot of things.

The non-US world is seriously considering Chinese cars, which was always a high burden to clear (see Japan and Korea getting their manufacturing together enough to field a competitive product)

I suspect we’ll see some flailed attempt to block Chinese RAM from the US market (cf. The router fiasco) but this one might have enough corporate inertia to sail through. When every business in the country can’t afford even basic 16GB office desktops, Intel, Dell, HP, and Apple are probably going to be making compelling arguments to their captive legislators. This might be the only way to avoid huge losses on their non-datacentre product lines.

They said “country”, not “performative farce.”

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I use it as a desktop. I like that it’s free of the nasty surprises of modern Linux (flatpak/snaps, systemd, X11 is still pretty first-class) while not feeling quite as isolated as Slackware and its sort of pre-broadband approach to packaging.

My biggest issue was poor support for an old Epson scanner that rewuired a binary package that wouldn’t install cleanly as it was designed for Debian; solved by buying a $10 used Canon scsnner which worked out of the box.

I like it better than Devuan for a non-systemd distribuition because, as its own thing, you don’t end up with as many “do I need to follow the Standard Debian guides or do something special” questions.

There’s probably some interesting digestive side effects to a body used to a liquid diet.

Can imagine a plotline where the vampire is always disappearing after human-style “masking” meals to sit around with stomach cramps and the runs.

Use a shared external source of randomness, like one of the shortwave “numbers stations”, to seed an agreed upon algorithm that simulates shuffling a deck and dispensing the cards. You’re running the same code on the same data, so you could show the cards you had seen after each hand to confirm everyone is in sync.

I was always more of a fan of the Pennsylvania Railtoad than the competing New Youk Central.

It knows and demands blood.

One huge issue is that LLMs do weird and stupid things differently than how humans do them.

If you’ve developed an eye for reading human-made changes, you’re not necessarily going to recognize new and surprising failure modes as easily. It’s literally harder than regular code review.

Humans with modern tooling, for example, rarely hallucinate field/class/method/object names because non-spicy autocomplete keeps them on the rails. LLMs seem much more willing to decide the menu bar is .menuBar and not .topMenu, probably because their training corpus is full of the former.

Many things still fall back to VGA, like old projectors.