Just double click your headboard and your bed maximizes.

Yeah, when you’re compiling from source code, it’s much easier to add in ARM support. Kernels do need to handle more hardware-specific stuff, like interrupt handling, context switching, feature enablement and the like will likely need custom ASM code and might have different parameters/events to handle. But at the user level, you can often compile for ARM by just changing a few command line arguments and it’ll be fine as long as you don’t rely on inline ASM and have ARM versions of any libraries you need.

You still might need to do some adjustments for specific behavior differences when it comes to concurrency and atomicity of operations. It didn’t surprise me to see that the previous attempt to make an ARM ReactOS didn’t support multi-threading, because trying to enable it was probably an unreliably buggy mess with race conditions all over the place.

They tried to jump right into the “popular thing drives high demand for popular spaces in popular thing” and skip the whole “make thing popular” step, banking on their name and people thinking it’ll make them a ton of money.

Though tbh I can’t say that was necessarily the wrong move (at least not if their entire goal is maximizing gains), since it wasn’t going to get popular like they wanted in the first place, so skipping that step and going straight to fleecing those dumb enough to throw money at it might have made the most sense.

That said, I think they put more money into it than they got out of it, so I doubt that it was deliberate. Zuck probably just thought if he paid people to make it, users would just flock to it and it would be as popular as fictional VR worlds are, despite missing the tactile VR system they tend to use or the whole “VR world is popular (or the focus of everyone’s life)” being a plot point rather than the consequence of someone building the world and people choosing to spend their time and money there.

Also, I’m in the demographic that probably would have been the most interested (like as a user of VR, not someone looking to just make money from it), but their offering didn’t even raise enough curiosity for me to check out what they made. There is an anti-meta bias in play, but even if it had been offered by a separate entity, I still wouldn’t have been interested because it sounded enshitified from the moment of concept.

Lol I wonder if they’ll rename the company again to try to make it look like AI in general is them.

Running another uarch is a whole new level of complexity vs just running on a different OS but with the same uarch, especially if concurrency is involved because translating from one instruction set to another can break atomicity assumptions that concurrency depends on to maintain coherency. You’d need to do thorough analysis of the code to determine where special care is needed, and even then, it won’t be trivial setting it up in a way that avoids deadlock because you have to understand what the threads are doing before you can say if it’s safe for one thread to wait for another (since they could end up waiting for each other).

Whereas running code meant for a different OS just requires implementing that OS’ API (and behaviour, possibly including undocumented behaviour some code relies on, which can vary from application to application, hence windows compatibility modes where they add a translation layer themselves). Not saying this is trivial, but compared to the above problem, it kinda is.

Not that ARM support is impossible, just if they manage that, it will be proclaimed loudly, not something that requires digging. If they don’t say it supports ARM, just assume it doesn’t.

Other than the ones that were bred to the point where their bodies barely work anymore.

Pancakes are soft enough to cut with a fork.

You’re probably right, though there’s a nonzero chance that it’s coffee because that was the closest thing to a clean mug available.

Can’t say I’m surprised by any of this, everything about the guy screamed to me that it would be a shitty experience. They are using purely business things to attract users: paying big for exclusive titles (eg mini monopolies that force interested users to their platform) and giving games away for free. Neither of those require a decent experience, so no shit they cheaped out on that. Those who are just in it for the money are far more likely to end up at a “ah fuck it, it works good enough, ship it” point than someone who wants to build something good, knowing people will come if it’s good enough.

It also makes it obvious that they’ll lean right into the enshitification as soon as they think they have that marketshare captured. So personally, I hope they don’t fix that shit, because it won’t indicate that they are becoming better but just that their strategy and tactics have improved while the end goal remains the same.

And tbf, that end goal might be about control instead of money, so only approved video games can be played. Oh right, they already did that with UT because it might compete with their fortnite cash cow.

Lol I was about to say I just saw her in Gen V, but I looked it up first and turns out Jessica Clement is a lookalike (and GoT doesn’t show up in her credits, so another lookalike).

Did this meme evolve from it being about Jesse saying stupid shit and Walter being the smart one for not following to Jesse saying smart shit and Walter being a closed-minded idiot about it, like he was in the actual scene from the meme? Or was there ever a period where the meme treated White like the hero?

It’s very difficult for a set of volunteers to combat people being paid to manipulate their platform, so I’m happy with this platform remaining small enough to not be worth spending money on to manipulate.

That “brain matures at 25” bs is a myth that was caused by a study in brain development losing funding when its subjects (that it follwed from birth) were 25.

Concluding brain development stops there is like assuming the road ends at any point where you have stopped following it.

I’d keep getting screwed because in RL, you need to build supports before the building they support, not as an afterthought to make it look more realistic.

“Need a bridge? Zoop mode, aaaaand it’s done!” Longest part of building a bridge comes from finding or fighting things on the way.

Yeah if the movie industry got their hands on it, Jack Black would be the engineer and the machines would talk (or act like animals that perfectly understand him and communicate effectively via body language) and the psychologist would end up an unlikely love interest that ends up remaining with him and his wacky machines at the end of the movie.

And after the conclusion, there will be a shot of his love interest looking at something in horror and saying, “ew, bugs!”, setting up the sequel that never gets made because the people who would like it aren’t drawn to Factorio, and those who are drawn to Factorio are disappointed that the only thing it has to do with Factorio is that it has machines. The execs played the game for 5 minutes and came up with a building system that involves him quickly building things by hand and Harvey Cavil quit production two weeks in, once it was clear they didn’t care about the actual lore.

For where they are today, they got rid of UT so it wouldn’t compete with fornite. So I don’t even give them any positive thoughts for that legacy.

Also iirc it was one of the few games that targetted linux compatibility back in the day, but epic has more recently taken a “fuck linux” stance and from what I understand deliberately prevents it running on linux via proton (“from what I understand” because it might just be the kernel level anti-cheat bs, but iirc he’s said things like all linux users are just trying to cheat). So he can keep his free games and while I would like to see someone actually compete with Valve, I hope some fortnite players wake up and stop spending money on dumb mtx shit so epic goes under.

To an immortal, it probably wouldn’t make much of a difference. Either they die from cancer or they survive but then die anyways a few decades later. Plus, vampires have ways of extending someone’s life without any medical science anyways.

Though some lores for Dracula had him very deep and advanced in science as well as magic, so it’s possible he did have a cure for cancer but just didn’t care to share it because humans are just livestock to him.

The odds of even siblings having a child with issues are apparently pretty low still, but the issue comes from having several generations of it if it gets normalized. Like the Hapsburgs weren’t even marrying siblings, but did the cousin and second cousin marriages often enough that they ended up with a lot of inbred family members and those distinctive chins and noses.

So rather than needing to look at everyone’s family history to determine whether or not there’s been too much incest that the risk of inbred issues in the offspring is too high, it’s just generally looked down upon, which means the times it happens completely by accident (like two orphan siblings that never met or secret half-sibling affair children), it’s not as big of a deal because the odds of issues are still pretty low.

Walmarts tend to be pretty big and buddy doesn’t want to be found out after the interaction, so is probably nowhere in the vicinity when the customer finds someone else, not to mention it’s not obvious that he’s putting on an act, so not everyone would feel like they need to go tell on him. It’s probably more like customer asks for help and mentions Dimitri wasn’t able to help, then the employee, if they care, tries to figure out who they are talking about but the customer just wants someone to point them to the paper towels or unlock the axe spraypaints.

I always found it really weird how he was puking on day 1. Alcohol being in the mix makes so much more sense, guessing he was either hungover as fuck or just drunk when that happened, probably also didn’t try to fight it as much because his drunk ass thought it would make his point better, but even when I first saw it, it hurt his credibility. And especially when combined with that big mac dude, figured reality was more complex than he was presenting.

I still avoid McDonald’s, but because it’s one of the shittiest fast food options based on my own experiences (I’ve never been satisfied from just one meal from there while A&W or Wendy’s can satisfy my hunger), not to mention their patties are pretty sad and unappealing IMO.