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It doesn’t help that a lot of it is simply so out of date now, that it’s considered the norm now.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

Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn’t support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

Right, but the volume was the issue. The cURL team could only work through and verify them so quickly, so the deluge of bug reports just made it impractical for them to dedicate time to sort through it. The idea in getting rid of the bug bounty being that there would be less of an incentive to generate and write a bogus bug report.

If it was just a small handful of fake security reports, they wouldn’t have minded nearly as much.

It was volume that was more the issue with the bug bounty program.

They were flooded, and recognising it is all well and good, but not if there’s no good way to filter it out, not without massive collateral.

It does make it harder to find them, because the phrasing is similar, but not identical due to randomness.

Whereas before, you could probably filter a good chunk of it out by just finding the same message/keywords and filtering by that.

The cards might be against humanity, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the company is.

Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?

That’s not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it’s multimedia.

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It’s a very Roddenberry design.

It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don’t care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.

So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

There’s also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

Specifically since RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

Whilst people really shouldn’t use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the “results” like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

It’s probably also bad for people who don’t use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

now they quit supporting old windows?

That’s not too surprising, since Microsoft stopped supporting it earlier this year.

Not much point supporting an OS the manufacturer no longer updates in any capacity. Similar to how Firefox no longer supports Windows XP or Vista.

You can still use the old version, they’re just not going to bring the newer ones to Windows 7, or fix issues for it.

It’s the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?

Humans don’t have LIDAR because we can’t just hook something into a human’s brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?

I don’t know, TNG could be up there, but it was also generally influential as a whole, so both its good and bad ended up getting carried over.

The entire exploding bridge trope came from it, as did evil admirals. It also set up the Enterprise as the flagship, with the best and brightest of Starfleet. Which also meant that people generally assumed it to be the norm when it was the exception, and that the hero ship was some special ship, when it was a normal ship of the line in TOS.

VOY Borg are really bad compared to TNG Borg.

They are, but more due to issues with overuse more so than anything. In TNG, we saw the Borg for all of 4 times. In Voyager, they were shown much more frequently.

But as far as the timeline goes, it also wouldn’t make sense to show an earlier iteration of the Borg, not when they were severely affected by the actions of the Borg.

I heard PIC stinks because it makes VOY Borg the main villains

I’d honestly argue that which version of the Borg to be a minor issue in Picard. Picard’s bigger problem was that it didn’t seem to know what it wanted to be, and kept leaping between multiple different plots and story lines, which confuses it a bit.

It arguably have been better if it has taken one of those plots, and run with it for the entire show. Like the matter with Synths and former Borg drones being treated as subhuman, vindicating the concerns Guinan and Picard had in the Measure of a Man, or visiting the TNG crew and seeing where they are now. As it actually was, it seems like the writers/producers felt that now they had Patrick Stewart, they wanted to do everything before it was too late, and the result was a bit of a mishmash.

The issue with the Borg tends to be more that they really aren’t very much of a threat by the end of Voyager, and were dealt such a blow that it would be almost impossible to ignore.

Their greatest threat, assimilation, is trivially curable, and it’s now known that their assimilation abilities are one of their greater weaknesses. The Federation might have issues with infecting someone with a pathogen to make the Borg assimilate them and self-destruct, but others have no such qualms, and we know of at least one species that did use such methods (Icheb’s parents).

Their adaptation is a greater issue, but even older Federation ships, like the galaxy-class saw good effect just cycling their weapons frequencies. The Voyager’s ablative armour would be well-studied after they returned to Starfleet, and dedicated anti-Borg weapons would have both been in active development, and also use.

As of the events of First Contact, it’s also known that not only are there Borg ruins on Earth that may still be intact and active, but that Borg ships are not as truly uniform as they seem, with Picard pointing out a weakness in a Borg cube that dealt catastrophic damage to it. Local signals, what he felt, scans of what remains of the area, and everything would have been thoroughly studied to determine how to both find and exploit those weaknesses on other Borg cubes, without a former privileged Borg unit at the helm.

It would be difficult for them to retain much of the mystique and terror of their TNG appearance, with all of that now.