That’s how I understand it. Cash is legal tender and has to be accepted to clear debts, so restaurants where you pay after you eat might not be able to refuse cash (though I don’t think there’s a requirement to provide change), though they can refuse all future business with you.

It’s analog, so it doesn’t really disconnect (at first), but quality sure does drop off.

Oh yes, cancer issues are a party topic favourite.

You can’t compare apples and oranges because oranges are such a superior fruit that they are in a different league from apples.

Wasn’t that 2022?

Nature has a way of dealing with that from time to time. Several ways, in fact.

It doesn’t say that you can’t see through your own eyes, which can always see your nose.

I’d say it’s a god power in general if you can train yourself to move accurately from arbitrary 3rd person perspectives. Though even if you just briefly look at other people’s screen and go back to yours, you can turn that into a huge advantage.

Yeah, I was briefly disappointed to find that the rock station I listened to like 15 years ago had become a classic station when I forgot my phone at home and decided to just do my errand without it. Until they played mostly the same music as they did before, just without what would have been new releases at the time.

Didn’t really feel old from it because I’m already used to 90s music being called classics. Since those are both 90s bands, just be aware that “classic rock” has edged into the 00s already and will soon include the new music that would have played back when I was listening to it.

If the station even lasts that long, who even listens to radio still? Is it just people like me who temporarily found themselves without their usual entertainment device?

4GB is the 32-bit address space. You could be right. My thought was that there wasn’t really a technical reason to not boot with more RAM than is addressable, but it’s certainly possible that BIOS/firmware or even the OS treated it as a fatal error.

I’ll push back on the gears are not wheels statement. They serve the exact same function as wheels (as in they spin to allow something else to move or spin relative to them), just with teeth to add friction and make the ratios less dependent in the specific diameters and/or flaws in curvature (give them a large thing to grab onto to prevent small variations from having an impact).

Though I’ll grant that hinges aren’t wheels (while they do have an axle and involve spinning, the hinged object itself is more like the wheel than the hinge.

Also drawers, if they have tracks, have 2 or 4 wheels each.

Yeah, that also makes sense. My line of thought was more about how returning to old great games might not seem as great after experiencing all the QoL and gameplay improvements that came since, so starting with those ones means they can enjoy them. My daughter is already handling the dual stick controllers well, so I guess is beyond that stage already (though when she was younger I remember her not even understanding that Mario Kart was something she could control and she thought we were picking characters for a movie, especially since the auto-steer and auto-accelerate still give a fighting chance even if you don’t otherwise touch the controller).

I’m caught between wanting my daughter to play a bunch of my old favorites but I’m also recognizing that some of them I only really like because of nostalgia. Like I bought the sonic collection for GCN and played it recently and didn’t really have fun with it tbh. Like the original one, while a great game for its time, is really about memorizing the levels so you don’t run into spikes or enemies at full speed which just doesn’t seem fun.

Or Super Metroid is another favorite that does stand up to the test of time, but I’m playing Hollow Knight and Super Metroid just feels awkward compares to the newer one, even though Hollow Knight only has a melee weapon as the main attack.

GoldenEye is another one. I spent countless hours playing that back in the day, both single player and multiplayer, but even when Perfect Dark came out, I had trouble going back to it, let alone all the other games that advanced console FPS (Halo where they finally figured out a decent control scheme, or CoD with loadouts instead of the scramble to find guns lying on the ground, though I suspect neither of those games invented those mechanics). While I do treasure the GoldenEye time of my life, I don’t think my daughter would gain anything from having to do that herself.

She’s making her own memories on games like Minecraft, Pokemon (as much as adult gamers complained about the lack of depth, she loves Arcerus or whatever it’s called), or Smash Bros.

I do still plan on introducing her to some amazing games, but I’m not sure that list should be essentially my own video game path. Figuring out that list is kinda tricky.

Not saying your approach was wrong btw, just that I’m not sure how to approach it myself.

Some systems are less stable with 4 dimms populated instead of 2. This is the only real valid one I can think of.

Or if you have an algorithm that tries to use all available ram, it will spend more time filling up more ram. Though that’s the stupid algorithm, not the RAM.

Or if you add virtual ram and run programs to the point where it needs to constantly page data out and in. Though that’s running more programs than you have ram for and it suffers from a lack of RAM, not the other way around.

Maybe with bad RAM refresh settings where all RAM access is paused during refresh will slow down the system with a sufficient amount of RAM if it needs to be refreshed in series. Though I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen UEFI settings to do that dynamically over sections of RAM, plus I think that RAM already parallelizes it inside the dimms because it’s an obvious limitation for them.

Oh, another real one, though I don’t think it has a huge impact, but the amount of available RAM can affect how many bits are used in the data structures used to manage/track memory allocations, and the number of bits could determine the size of the structures, though those could also be dynamic and depend on memory used rather than available, but I’m not familiar enough with memory allocators to say for sure (both whether it would be a factor at all and how well current managers would handle it). Though even if it does make an impact, each bit added means double the RAM handled, so it doesn’t even scale that badly, and could be optimized to that “used” version if it is the “available” version.

So yeah, without a better mechanism to create bottlenecks, I’d call BS on that statement.

I don’t think that results in a failure to boot. Not to mention 64bit addressable space is like 16 QB (though I’m not sure all bits have traces since we’re still orders of magnitude away from being able to use all those bits).

Uncanny valley. Them being a lost nut seems just as plausible as it being a shitpost.

Edit: also, even of they are doing a parody, it’s more of an annoying one than a funny one IMO. Seeing another one of their comments confirmed that for me.

Especially considering anything attracted attached to the dam is going to add a vertical force that could do more to help with the lateral force from the water than it would do to bring the dam closer to collapse, though probably does closer to nothing to the overall physics of the dam.

Edit: Fixed a word as I don’t think the existence of damphiles has any effect on the performance of dams until they start drilling/punching holes in them.

The Nazis plundered Europe to get that gold. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that the Nazis were a European enrichment scheme, other than maybe for Switzerland.

Lol if you didn’t see their take on Hinduism, it’s even more hilariously unaware. Some of their points are the most common skepticisms of Christianity.

It’s not an inability to cope with ambiguity, it’s a “I want to know if this is just another arbitrary rule set for a dumb reason but I’m asking because it might be another rule that looks dumb but actually makes sense when you understand the complexities”. It’s also a rejection of the idea that ambiguity should be coped with instead of seeking understanding. “Must accept ambiguity” sounds pretty arbitrary itself, not to mention stupid in this world where those who set rules often don’t have the interests of those they want following them in mind when setting those rules.

Try foreign porn. If you don’t know the language, you might not see how bad the acting is. Though sometimes the acting is so bad it crosses language barriers lol.