Why do the REAL ID standards and national passport cards exist? Don’t they fundamentally perform the same function?

For your convenience here is the interview he’s going over in the video: https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-16-nintendo-switch-2-part-4/

An interesting part is this:

Dohta: If we tried to use technology like software emulators, we’d have to run Switch 2 at full capacity, but that would mean the battery wouldn’t last so long, so we did something that’s somewhere in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility.

Sasaki: This is getting a bit technical, but the process of converting game data for Switch to run on Switch 2 is performed on a real-time basis as the data is read in.

Is it like having Switch games “simultaneously translated” for Switch 2?

Sasaki: That’s right. […]

So it sounds like they are doing some recompilation. /u/jonathansmith14921 had an interesting comment over on reddit, his suggestion is that they have to recompile the shader bytecode from Maxwell to Ampere to fit the new GPU. Makes sense to me.

Another interesting titbit from that thread, there are official (in)-compatibility lists: Launch-able but has issues and has issues even launching

I checked and this does seem to fit for Switzerland.

Trade deficit of US to Switzerland: 38.5 B
Exports from Switzerland to US: 63.4 B

Ratio of the two: 61%

Half of that as “reciprocal” tariff: 31%

“I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars,” Trump said.

So maybe he understands what the tariffs do after all, despite all the bullshit he spouts.

The original developer of Git is Linus Torvalds and he wrote it for the use of developing Linux. He handed off the project to Junio Hamano after a short while who still leads it. They use a process where you submit patches by mail, for Linux and for Git itself too.

To make this easier they have the commands git format-patch, git send-email and git applymbox later changed to git am to apply them. They also added git request-pull to generate a short plaintext email like message to request a pull.

The Pull Request as a bigger concept of data and discussion that should be kept around came from GitHub and was put over top of Git. The concept has been rebuilt by various competitors separately. But it doesn’t match the Linux and Git development model so they never used GitHub Pull Request, even though there is a GitHub mirror of Linux and a GitHub mirror of Git. For them the discussions happens in the mailing list.

So it’s very unlikely they would start including the stuff that was added by others over top, that they don’t need.

My computer doesn’t really break, I’m Ship of Theseus-ing it regularly.

Apart from that, the only one among the normal window based ones that has felt like it respects my will to configure stuff in ways that feel right to me has been KDE Plasma.

I don’t see how this changes anything. Style isn’t copyrightable, so if anything it seems the least concern.

Characters or specific scenes, those are the really juicy bits

Edit: And of course still the general question of ingesting copyrighted inputs without license for other than private use

And the old WCFAN (We Couldn’t Find A Name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!

Wow, the way they write “best value” on the offer for 8.50 £/month is just brazen.

If you use Office Home 2024 for 120£ for just 15 months or more it’s already cheaper.

I used TexStudio for my Master’s thesis, it worked fine for me. I haven’t done a full survey of available LaTex distributions and tools though :-)

I heard a few times that there is this saying in English that the tree of democracy needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants or something like that. Isn’t it about time for that? They do seem to be tearing down democracy.

Sure, I’m not opposed either! Just want to make sure people here have the information needed to not be disappointed later.

Coronaviruses are not the only cause for what is considered the “common cold”. I remember that some Rhinoviruses, Adenoviruses and I think a forth family of viruses also cause symptoms that are counted as a cold. It’s kind of a catch all term.

A bit off topic but please indulge me:

“Only holders of a P.Eng. licence are legally permitted to use the title P.Eng.’ or the term ‘engineer’ in their job title, or to use any other term, title or description that may lead to the belief that they are authorized to practice professional engineering,” McCutcheon said.

That’s interesting to me. We’re looser with the term “Engineer” here in Switzerland. So I wanted to ask, do you have Network Engineers in Ontario? If not what are the people who design, plan and implement new computer networks called instead?

2004

No worries, I just wanted to make sure. I could totally have missed stuff.

25 years so… Tarzan? Lilo and Stitch? The Emperor’s New Groove?

I’m aware of:

• Unbalanced power over 12VHPWR by design, inducing some melting in some cases.
• Missing ROPs on 5080.
• 5070 not reaching 4090 performance levels because that was just a marketing lie.

None of those really seem to apply. Were there any more?

9 years and 4 months ago I bought an Acer laptop with a 4 core Intel Skylake with hyperthreading (i7-6700HQ) and a Nvidia GTX 960M, because the laptop I had was slow for compiling in my classes at Uni, and I wanted a discrete GPU for the occasional game when away from my Desktop PC (winter break and such (still use it for that btw)). I regretted that three times:

• First when I wanted to install Linux instead of just using VMs. In early 2016 the kernels on live system ISOs didn’t properly support Skylake yet, so I fucked around with Arch a bunch, but didn’t end up keeping it installed. Don’t remember why, probably got busy with schoolwork.

• Then a while later, after I had installed Ubuntu or Fedora at some point, the next issue was that cooperative mode of Bluetooth and Wifi on the included Intel wireless chip wasn’t well supported (even found an Intel Bluetooth dev saying as much on a mailing list), and it hung sometimes, so I had to make a script to turn the chip off and then rescan the PCI bus, that worked as a workaround but was still annoying.

• Finally when we had Machine Learning classes I thought I might be able to use CUDA locally, so I tried installing the proprietary Nvidia driver and was greeted by a black screen on the next boot. Had to boot from a live system and chroot in to remove the proprietary crap again.

On my Desktop PC I have used AMD GPUs for quite a while and dual booting Windows and Linux has always been a breeze.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Languages

Though they have less immigration, a bunch of those languages originate closer to China than the USA, I bet they can find staff equally well, if they really aim for a 1-to-1 replacement.