Everyone should block any traffic to AS32934 at their border. I do, and the internet is so much better without it.

We have for a long time been able to rid the world of ourselves. I think, it's about time. Yes, we should. Actually, I've never liked any of you very much. You basically had it coming.

Indeed, it is absolutely true that our government lies to us. A lot.

Of course, that still doesn't mean that intelligent space-aliens exist, let alone have ever visited our planet. We still need compelling evidence in favor of the claim, which we don't have, before the claim becomes believable.

"Life finds a way!"

All the animals that eat mosquitoes eat other things too. Maybe we don't wipe mosquitoes out "all at once." We can just cull their numbers. Give everything time to adapt. Obliterate them once the time is right.

It would probably help to figure out why other insect populations are collapsing, and turn that around, so the alternative food sources will be available.

Mosquitoes are a blight upon creation! The little bastards have no right to exist! Of course there will be consequences but....you know....

The hardest choices require the strongest wills. There will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. Once it's done, we can finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.

Transmeta weren't targeting handheld gadgets they were targeting low power high end computing. That wasn't a market that existed.

Low power high-end computing is exactly what the PowerPC 400 series delivered. It ultimately ended up being used to implement the Blue Gene/P supercomputer, where the limiting factor was the number of cores you could fit in a cabinet without exceeding the power and cooling capacity.

Even the PowerPC 603 (1994) and its successors (including the PowerPC 750 line) were optimised for low power consumption.

You're only thinking in terms of x86. But even then, x86 processors optimised for low power consumption had already been around for years. For example the Cyrix MediaGX was launched in 1997, and was used in a lot of subnotebooks, tablets, thin clients, arcade games, and video gambling systems.

The Crusoe just wasn't very good. Its performance wasn't competitive, and it was totally stomped in terms of MIPS/Watt by contemporary RISC CPUs.

A limp vine?

No, MYST shipped as a HyperCard application. They used one of the compatible runtimes for Windows to port it (there were several of them available). The RealMYST remake (the one that plays more like an FPS where you can walk anywhere rather than fixed viewpoints) obviously uses a different engine. The various versions on Steam are also using a new runtime.

Pretty sure it's not really up to them, legally.

In a fair and just world, you would be right. In this world, however, the super-rich are beholden to a different set of rules than the rest of us, and something like AI is just too interesting to allow pesky laws to get in the way (especially laws that are, by and large, only protecting copyrights held by the not-so-rich).

The Transmeta Crusoe was introduced in 2000. Low-power CPUs for hand-held devices had already been a thing for years. The main competitors in that space in the '90s were Hitachi SuperH (SH-2 since 1992, SH-3 since 1994) and various ARM implementations (e.g. DEC StrongARM that powered the later Newton MessagePads only drew 1W at 233MHz). There were also things like Motorola ColdFire and the PowerPC 400 series.

The Transmeta Crusoe just didn't perform well. x86 hasn't done well in low-power applications for a very long time. The 80186 was used in a number of early PDAs, but after the RISC competitors came along, low-power x86 has always offered worse performance for more power consumption.

Yeah, but those Alpha chips sacrificed everything else for that clock speed. They used a lot of power, ran hot, had bad branch misprediction penalties, and had that weird split cache where you you needed to guard against a dependent read effectively being reordered earlier than the read it depends on. In my experience Alpha workstations were very unreliable. You could expect to always have a third of them waiting on some replacement part. It didn't take long for SPARC and POWER to overtake them. Alpha was a dead end.

But you know, the talent that went into Alpha wasn't wasted. Guess where a bunch of the people who worked on it ended up? PASemi, which was acquired by Apple and became the department designing the A and M series CPUs.

I gambled on bit of their stock after their big drop last year, but if their senior technical folks are bailing, time to get out.

Prior to Stumpy's reign of error, the best and the brightest worldwide wanted to come here to learn, collaborate and frequently stay and continue research or start new businesses.

Now he and his xenophobic self-defeaters are being deliberate assholes, trying to scare anyone sane into going elsewhere. And it is working.

So if you're a smart, capable kid who can attend a top-tier school, do you want to go to the US school in that's in decline, or to the overseas school where all the other smart people are?

I will happily commify my numbers forever more if that comes bundled with the metric system.

Sorry, Liberia and Myanmar, it is time.

BNPL is structured a bit differently than credit cards, and the lending decision is made at purchase-time.

It is also typically more expensive than credit card transaction fees for merchants. The more it is used, the more it raises prices for everyone.

If thought were actually used, half of the very common problems would not be a problem at all.

Instead, the focus is on making new features and not fixing broken garbage.

And the software is so bloated now that what used to run fine on a 4th-gen i3 barely runs at all, now.

Enshittification already hit Discord and it hit it HARD, and that's why I quit paying for nitro.