@glassbottommeg I just finished it with 81 stars. Still a lot left to do - I've been trying to do the "serpent isle" on the west of the map, but oof it's nasty. I might park it now and just do a few bits here and there over time.
@glassbottommeg As far as I can see there aren't any actual visible adverts on the Gmail page. I assume it's all single-pixel phone-home bullshit. What are they for? That's beyond your security clearance, citizen.
An interesting statistical quirk: Notice the disjoint in these two posts. This is not rounding; Godfrey, on the left, is counting Grover Cleveland twice
Denis Villeneuve really missed a trick with Dune Part Two. Imagine having Christopher Walken in Dune and not having him say “If you walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm”.
@hedders Apparently Walken also didn't know the link between the Fat Boy Slim record and Dune until recently. Which is fair enough - the lyrics in the song are from the David Lynch movie, not the books.
@DataAngler Barred owls. And they look floofy! The one on the right is certainly a kid - not sure about the one on the left - older sibling, or young parent?
ok so I was trying to figure out what year the magic purple honda civic 3 door hatchback I had back in college was because my insomnia has been really awful the last two days and I had this great idea that I should make a game where you have to figure out how to drive the magic purple honda civic 3 door hatchback I had back in college, and anyway I totally failed to find it but I stumbled upon this amazing and improbable website and I don't know what's real anymore: https://www.lingscars.com/personal-car-leasing/honda/civic/4374098-2.0-eHEV-Sport-(143bhp)-Hatchback-5dr-Petrol-electric-Hybrid-CVT
It's unclear. The fifth generation is your best bet - they were magic, but not available in purple. However, since purple isn't a real colour, maybe it was actually violet? Memory plays tricks on us.
The sixth generation was somehow available in purple, but was technically only mega, not actually magic. However, there were several aftermarket groups offering a full-magic upgrade, so maybe that's what it was?
@aeva Yeah that looks like a sixth gen. The problem you'll have is the European model was made in a new factory in the UK, and it's very close, but not exactly the same, as the one the US got. But close enough so nobody makes a distinction. So might be minor differences.
@aeva Shape of the rear window. That "notch" in the 3/4/5 gen upper-rear window of the 3-door hatchback is really distinctive. They softened it for the 6th gen hatchback. So if you can remember what shape that was... :-)
I'm always grumbling about there only being videos for things in UE when I'd prefer to read a blog post, so here's another from me to go on the "reading" side of the scale.
Let me skip to the chase - it argues that x86 is shit because it's got variable-length encoding, is out-of-order, and does speculative execution. It then says ARM and RISC-V are much better.
Er... except they also do all those things in the fast chips. Which the writer clearly didn't know. So they're not just wrong, they're ignorant.
Casey's rebuttal is a pretty good intro to CPU architecture in general. I mean his actual rebuttal could be shrunk to 5 minutes, but the rest of the stuff is great background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCBrtopAG80
Not enough architects talk about the actual process of making architecture and why our decisions sometimes make no sense to software people. So I did: https://vimeo.com/450406346#chapter=1300005
@aeva@dancer_xiv They really don't matter. Anything can be fixed given enough incentives. It's literally like arguing which human languages are "best".