The correct answer to this question is always Outer Wilds.

It’s a game that can be beaten in five minutes if you already know the solution. But the process of discovering that solution, and unearthing the incredible story around it, is one of the most unbelievable gaming experiences you will ever have.

It’s an absolute masterpiece and if you haven’t played it yet, you really, really need to.

Generally speaking, in object oriented programming there are ways to derive one class from another. So if you have a Car class, but you decide that it would actually make sense to have a Truck class as well, you can use Car as a starting point, inherit all of its properties, and then just change the specific parts that are different for the Truck class. This saves repeating work, and allows you to build in layers; instead of Car and Truck you might start with a Vehicle class, then derive a GroundVehicle class from that, then a Bike, Car and Truck class from GroundVehicle, and so on.

Alright, you just sold me on borg backup. Well done.

Is it even worth reading? It’s RT. They’re going to describe whatever Putin pitches as the greatest, kindest, most generous offer in all of history.

Edit:

The Russian president has shown he values peaceful coexistence

Holy shit. That might be one of the most brazen lies I’ve ever seen.

Technically, the Wing Commander successor is Squadron 42. Star Citizen is a Freelancer successor.

I understand if this brings you little comfort.

This is, just to be clear, not remotely how copyright works.

By that logic, I could decide that movie studios have to opt out of me watching their movies for free, and if they don’t then it’s legal for me to pirate them. See how insane that sounds?

Copyright is automatic and presumptive, and takes effect without any action on the behalf of the holder (this is distinct from trademarks, which have to be actively defended). There is no such thing as “opt out” use of copyrighted works.

From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

You have got to give us more than that. Come on, I need the Mario speedrun deep lore. Where do I go to find a two hour long video essay about this specific speedrun where at least an hour is spent talking about parallel universes or some shit?

The answers about using Dockerfiles are absolutely correct, but if you’re looking for a quick and simple solution that will work locally, you can always just use the “commit” docker command. This basically saves the current state of a container as a new image. You can then run new containers from that image as needed.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44480740/how-to-save-a-docker-container-state

“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.

This is very obviously step one in a plan to kill apps like alternative YouTube clients that block ads, just like the Manifest V3 rollout was intended to kill ad blockers in Chrome. Once they have everyone using this verification system, then they can just arbitrarily deverify anything that contravenes whatever new acceptable usage policy they just made up.

By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.

We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.

OK, if we’re talking about infrastructure rather than specific equipment, then yes, I would broadly agree that the datacentre infrastructure itself can be repurposed.

Unfortunately, by that point the whole data centre will already have been sold off for parts because its never going to recoup its initial investment in the first place, and throwing even more money into swapping out those GPUs for CPUs is going to be a complete no go.

If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.

Terrible for running websites though.

GPUs are only good for workloads that multi-thread really, really well. That’s why we don’t just use them as CPUs.

The idea that today’s GPU will be tomorrow’s CPU makes no sense. We’ve had GPUs for ages. If they were capable of being used in place of CPUs we’d already be doing it. Why aren’t yesterday’s GPUs today’s CPUs?

This is exactly what Young’s research shows; generally, when the wealthy move, they move to places with good quality of life. Tax brackets don’t really factor into it. Often raising taxes on the wealthy actually increases the attractiveness of a region because the wealthy want to live in places with low crime rates, good infrastructure, that sort of thing. And a well funded government has more capacity to create those things.

Bingo. They’re not actually losing tax paying millionaires. This is entirely a benefit to the UK.

Also, let’s put that number in perspective. There are over three million millionaires in the UK.

That’s why you never, ever see news articles about tax changes supposedly driving away millionaires use percentages. Because if they did the headline would be that in two years the number of millionaires in the UK has shrunk by half a percent.

Anyone who thinks that “chasing away billionaires” is even a thing that can happen needs to read The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight by Cristobal Young, by far the most extensive actual study on the subject.

Instead you can screw it up by having too many commas or not enough. Hardly that much of an improvement.