According to: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_64_emulators

One of the biggest hurdles to emulating the Nintendo 64 was the Reality Display Processor (RDP), which used a custom design that had to be fine-tuned to get higher performance out of the system using microcode. To emulate the RDP accurately, one would have to execute said microcode the way the RDP did, which differed from the PC graphics cards of the day. To complicate matters further, API standards available on PCs two decades ago were nowhere near as flexible as they’re today. If you wanted to make an accurate GPU-accelerated RDP plugin in 2003, you simply couldn’t with the APIs of the time (OpenGL 1.x and Direct3D 9).

Accurate low-level emulation would only come to the GPU in 2020 when a new version of the Mupen64Plus-based ParaLLEl libretro core was released containing a rewritten RDP plugin using compute shaders in Vulkan.

I had to look it up, it’s the technical term for a certain firefighting vehicle.

In particular, what distinguishes it from a normal crew firefighting vehicle (Löschgruppenfahrzeug) is its equipment for “Technische Hilfeleistung” (technical help-providing) which basically means it carries equipment beyond basic extinguishing agents. If you’re physically stuck in your car after a crash, a Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug has to arrive to cut open the doors.

A Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug

A (small) Löschgruppenfahrzeug. Note that it only contains firefighting equipment.

I can imagine little worse than doing what you just described although that is (in part) due to moderate social anxiety. I behave in the exact opposite way - ignoring people regardless of how much they stand out because I don’t want to stare.

Though I can imagine what you’ve been doing has helped others.

I’m not too well-versed with server-grade hardware but my concern is that it would end up somewhat like Intel’s (consumer) CPU sockets: Changing every 2 years to ensure you need to purchase new motherboards when upgrading.

You would?

I use public transit daily and hardly ever interact with anyone. Maybe there is one interaction every 100 days? I don’t frequently see two strangers interacting either, it’s unheard of except maybe for retirees with effectively infinite time.

I can’t really answer/reply to most of your comment but there is something about the last paragraph that I can respond to:

What about bi-/pansexual men? They exist [1][2] and there will be many that are attracted to people in between gender( expression)s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality

The issue with that design is that the PCIe standard would be replaced with something proprietary.

Honestly, I pay for the service alone.

Pirating games is easy-ish enough so if Valve ever enshittifies I will be quickly learning how to remove Steam’s DRM and put all my games on a server and never purchase another video game in my lifetime.

The issue with this definition is that it’s overly broad. For instance, a hash of a picture could not exist without that picture. Nor do certain downscalings, like 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4. There must be an exact pixel value you can legally downscale any image to without violating copyright. Similarly, there is a point where creating a book’s synopsis starts violating copyright and where a song sounds too similar to another one.

And based on their size, LLMs - in my opinion - cannot possibly violate copyright for their source material because they couldn’t possibly store more than a couple of bits per work. Only works that occue frequently in the training data can actually be somewhat reproduced by LLMs.

By the way, fair use doesn’t even exist in every - including my - jurisdiction.

This has lead to people being successfully sued for copyright infringement because they posted pictures of their home online that contained a copyrighted wallpaper in the background.

What is a derivative work though? That’s again extremely vague and has been subject to countless lawsuits seeking to determine the bounds.

Am I allowed to take a copyrighted image, decrease its size to 1x1 pixels and publish it? What about 2x2?

It’s very much not clear when a modification violates copyright because copyright is extremely vague to begin with.

And the worst part is: The murderer achieves every goal they sought to.

Assuming an islamist motive, which is highly likely based on past attacks, there will be a significant increase in anti-Muslim discrimination. And islamists despise nothing more than Muslims successfully integrating into another society. After all, which cult does NOT prey upon vulnerable people and who is more vulnerable than someone experiencing constant discrimination?

ETA:

Turns out an islamist motive is highly unlikely, after other commenters pointed to an article that found the murderer shared anti-Muslim, far-right content online. Despite the tragedy, I’m genuinely relieved. This could’ve had devastating effects on the upcoming election.

“The Holocaust was nothing but a minor blemish on the glorious millenia of German history.”

• AfD party leader

Not far right at all.

If you can throw it out for one case you can throw it out for every case.

Unlike the US, most countries in the EU - including France - have a justice system that is not attempting to maximize recidivism, which is why maximum sentences exist for every crime except murder.

Furthermore, at least in Germany the constitutional court ruled that life sentences without the eligibility of parole violate human dignity as such sentences would take away all hope from prisoners which significantly harms them. I wouldn’t be surprised if France had similar rulings.

I read Saarland at first - the smallest German state (excluding city states) - and didn’t question it.

Might as well do it, they’ve got land in their name.

Fucking Mussolini was said to have made the trains run on time again.

Even if that were true, that doesn’t make him half decent.

Something something boiling frog

Turret3857 is not in the sudoers file.

This incident will be reported.

Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.

Absolutely, I was thinking more along the lines of focusing solely on bug-fixing.