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So much defeatism! You can still get a house like that for cheap. Just cut out the avocado toast, ask Mom for a six figure loan, then find a gem property in the local airport flight path, next to a slaughterhouse, an AI data center, built on reclaimed landfill, and across the state highway from a pet sematary. You can get it for under a million easy!

That's what I did, and I'm living the dream. My reanimated dog gets sick every time he drinks from the oily puddles of blood and liquid fat that bubble from the ground constantly, but I did it, I own a home!

Complete non-story. The Deck has been out for years for this verification to mature and it's usually less about specs (in the age of FSR/DLSS etc.) and more about "can this game be played with this control scheme comfortably" which is not an issue for the Steam Machine since it's just a PC.

I don't usually click YT links, but this one did make me smile, thanks.

For me it was a hard drive full of DS9 rips passed around the CS department.

So, the answer to the question “Can Linux directly host another Unix-like operating system’s binary interface?” at the moment is “partly, experimentally, and impressively.”

As if there was any question on that? You can have Linux "handle" Windows PE binaries by telling it to invoke wine, dealing with a Unix-like scenario is a much lower bar.

The question is who is this useful for? FreeBSD has the Linux compatibility layer because it's playing catch up to Linux, but the Venn diagram of stuff FreeBSD can do but Linux can't is tiny, especially if extra special kernel feature stuff is stubbed.

Can anyone name a project that is BSD first, doesn't rely on BSD kernel features, doesn't have a native Linux port, and isn't a distro tool?

I have to agree. People like to say English is difficult because there are a million loan words and spelling/grammar have no hard and fast rules, but character based languages are on a different level of difficulty. Even if it shifted to something like pinyin for text, the subtle tone shifting and having tons of a homophones are a huge barrier to entry.

That was so badass. It's really a crime how hard Disney fucked the sequel trilogy, but The Force Awakens was at least fun. The other two were hot garbage.

I'd vote for AOC a thousand times harder than for Newsom. I'm not sure she actually wants the position though, she's potentially got a long career as a rep in front of her and could probably turn into a Presidential candidate in any cycle, but having a major legislative win is bigger than that, according to her

That sounds cool!

I had an Aussie team lead in 2016 and he messaged me the day after the election like "WTF happened?"

I was feeling grim and said "we just woke up in a fascist hellscape" which at the time was gruesome overkill for effect but I often think about that interaction now. America is not the same place it was a decade ago.

Weird Al is a national treasure, an institution. I'd bet it's his sort of music, parody, that AI threatens most simply because it's riffing on songs that already exist.

On the other hand, the only reason I'd worry that a gen-AI could attempt a masterpiece like "Alternative Polka" is that Weird Al created it first.

Bari Weiss is a disgusting hack, and laughably unqualified, but being a news outlet editor is way more complicated than just rubber stamping factual reporting. Editors allocate resources - from writers and photographers/crews to even start a story, to how the front page is divvied up, how stories are promoted, how many column inches (or words, or minutes) a topic gets.

Point being that there are definitely feelings involved. Even if it's one story is more interesting than another, or we've covered this topic more than enough lately, or this story is factual but not adding anything new, etc. etc. etc. It's a hard job, and more subjective than you'd think, so I don't blame her for being defensive when she's literally the worst editor to ever hold a national news desk down.