It’s also quite unexpected, given that it’s Apple, and they’ve traditionally made more expensive machines, with worse hardware. In my country, for example, it is nearly unheard of for a new Apple computer to cost less than four digits/US$800+.

Particularly at a time when it’s more typical to hear of new computer prices going up instead, due to shortages.

Bring back trinary computers.

It should be fine as long as they are killed humanely and you use all body parts right?

It’s much too modest a proposal. Scandalous for a politician, given that they need to keep up appearances. It would reflect poorly on the country if the leaders seemed poor.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the change from clear good and evil in 80s/90s kids media to modern “we’re all just buddies at the end” wasn’t some kind of psyop to normalize the next generations to tolerate and handwave powerful people doing horrible shit.

I don’t think it was quite an intentional one, as much as it is that with media having a wider spread, the companies behind them want them to be less controversial, and more palatable to a wider audience. It’s a lot easier to do that if everyone was getting along at the end, since it’s a safe option that doesn’t risk any controversy over the audience thinking the treatment was too extreme, or having to risk offending the ratings board, or any of that.

…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don’t replicate quite as well.

I don’t miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it’s on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer’s booting up.

It really is a terrible business. I had a friend who went the United States once, tried it, and then had a psychotic break where he started thinking he was a male sheep.

He ultimately had to be sent to a farm upstate for treatment. Some place called the Ram Ranch.

I can never quite tell whether that means that they loathed it, or that they went mad for it.

The “human brain cell” part is just marketing anyway.

At the scale they’re using (200.000), neurons from any species would work fine. Human ones don’t do anything special. They’re also not in brain form, but a blob growing on a glorified PCB.

But it is nicer in the press release to mention you have human brain cells, and they are doing intelligent things, so here we are.

A projector might be an option, but they have their own problems, like with the contrast not being great.

Would it not make sense for them to? Since they make budget televisions, they have to subsidise the cost somehow.

Either that, or because they’re so budget, you’d expect them to cheap out on the electronics and not bother with anything that sophisticated compared to a bare-minimum chip.

You wouldn’t download a citizenship

It’s also pretty important infrastructure. Even before AI, one of the major providers datacentres going down would take out a solid chunk of modern internet.

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On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.

You’d need to mod it in.

It doesn’t help that a lot of it is simply so out of date now, that it’s considered the norm now.

We don’t exactly think all that much of Picard being bald, or Janeway being Captain of the Voyager. For us now, they’re normal, ordinary things.

Whereas back in the day, it was an unusual choice. There were many jokes about it being natural the Voyager would get into a space accident on its first voyage, because Janeway was in command, for example.

I don’t know if it was only a part. The world has moved on from the day, so a lot of what would have been in-your-face bleeding-edge progressivism back then no longer is.

The women could wear miniskirts. No-one was smoking. Uhura (African American) was not a maid or cook, but a well-respected competent peer, along with Chekhov (Soviet Russian), Sulu (Japanese), and McCoy (Caucasian American).

We may not think much of it now, and in the miniskirt case, think poorly of it, but back in the day, they were bleeding-edge social stances.

It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.

The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what’s on the market.

You can also use https://www.youtube.com/v/<xxx>. It’s the old video link structure, but it still works just fine. It’s easier to change it too, since a lot of devices can select text by the word.