Me: hello, nice to meet you!

You: What the fuck!?

Are you trying to say that we don’t follow the laws of nature? That our activities are supernatural?

No, no, John Travolta wasn’t from Battlefield Earth, you’re thinking of Keanu Reeves. John Travolta is from The Matrix.

Use a 0-255 range to represent the amount of rotation for each finger knuckle and you get up to like 2⁹⁶.

Yeah, that’s “Wolverine frog” as in The Wolverine, Logan, not the animal he was named after. Because those bone blades are kinda like his (except they come out of the finger tips like that other version of him that he fought in X2).

That’s how I understand it. Cash is legal tender and has to be accepted to clear debts, so restaurants where you pay after you eat might not be able to refuse cash (though I don’t think there’s a requirement to provide change), though they can refuse all future business with you.

Nature has a way of dealing with that from time to time. Several ways, in fact.

Yeah, I was briefly disappointed to find that the rock station I listened to like 15 years ago had become a classic station when I forgot my phone at home and decided to just do my errand without it. Until they played mostly the same music as they did before, just without what would have been new releases at the time.

Didn’t really feel old from it because I’m already used to 90s music being called classics. Since those are both 90s bands, just be aware that “classic rock” has edged into the 00s already and will soon include the new music that would have played back when I was listening to it.

If the station even lasts that long, who even listens to radio still? Is it just people like me who temporarily found themselves without their usual entertainment device?

4GB is the 32-bit address space. You could be right. My thought was that there wasn’t really a technical reason to not boot with more RAM than is addressable, but it’s certainly possible that BIOS/firmware or even the OS treated it as a fatal error.

Some systems are less stable with 4 dimms populated instead of 2. This is the only real valid one I can think of.

Or if you have an algorithm that tries to use all available ram, it will spend more time filling up more ram. Though that’s the stupid algorithm, not the RAM.

Or if you add virtual ram and run programs to the point where it needs to constantly page data out and in. Though that’s running more programs than you have ram for and it suffers from a lack of RAM, not the other way around.

Maybe with bad RAM refresh settings where all RAM access is paused during refresh will slow down the system with a sufficient amount of RAM if it needs to be refreshed in series. Though I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen UEFI settings to do that dynamically over sections of RAM, plus I think that RAM already parallelizes it inside the dimms because it’s an obvious limitation for them.

Oh, another real one, though I don’t think it has a huge impact, but the amount of available RAM can affect how many bits are used in the data structures used to manage/track memory allocations, and the number of bits could determine the size of the structures, though those could also be dynamic and depend on memory used rather than available, but I’m not familiar enough with memory allocators to say for sure (both whether it would be a factor at all and how well current managers would handle it). Though even if it does make an impact, each bit added means double the RAM handled, so it doesn’t even scale that badly, and could be optimized to that “used” version if it is the “available” version.

So yeah, without a better mechanism to create bottlenecks, I’d call BS on that statement.

I don’t think that results in a failure to boot. Not to mention 64bit addressable space is like 16 QB (though I’m not sure all bits have traces since we’re still orders of magnitude away from being able to use all those bits).

Uncanny valley. Them being a lost nut seems just as plausible as it being a shitpost.

Edit: also, even of they are doing a parody, it’s more of an annoying one than a funny one IMO. Seeing another one of their comments confirmed that for me.

Or bath salts. And in reality, Hyrule is normal and peaceful. At least until Link, tripping balls, thinks 100 years have passed while he napped and the world has gone to hell.

His quests to collect shit all over the world were given in hopes that he would come down by the time he returns, but Zelda gets some really good shit (she doesn’t have a hook up, she’s the ruler of Hyrule and has a fully staffed lab) and likes getting Link high on various substances, sending him out on “quests” then does meth and follows him around disguised as a ninja until she crashes.

Then she usually needs him to deal with the head chemist, Al, who likes to invent even stronger shit and tries to take over the kingdom as his alter ego, Ganondorf (or sometimes just Ganon when he’s too fucked up to add the “dorf”) while Zelda’s out on her Shiek binge. The castle guards are too wasted to know what’s going on and prefer to patrol the garden (so they can just puke in the bushes when they need to).

Isn’t this the reason for using hot water to make ice?

Though if you’re using a plastic ice cube tray to make ice cubes, there’s a good chance you’re bringing your own microplastics.

Source: got a metal ice cube tray and noticed that weird “old ice” flavour and subtle sheen on the drink surface as it melted is no longer there.

You have to be a member of the secret photographer society before they’ll tell you. They are a secretive and judgmental bunch, saying things like “Hey! Get out of the frame, this is a professional photo shoot, not a photography tutorial. How did you even get in this studio? How would you like it if I randomly showed up at your job asking why you did the things you were doing?”

Turns out that last question is not a request for an info dump about my job.

Wait, they have jokes on the internet now!?

Firmware shouldn’t care what OS the CPU is running as it’s doing its own thing, running on an embedded processor of some sort on the device.

Though it can be used to lock out unapproved software if it needs an encryption key or relies on an undocumented interface they only told their windows driver writers about.

So I’m not saying firmware can’t be used to lock linux out from being able to use certain hardware, just don’t believe them if they try to play it off as they would need to write a special linux version of the firmware to make it happen; it’s a deliberate lockout either via encryption or by making the information needed to implement it proprietary.

Though at least the latter case could be reverse engineered, especially if you can sniff the bus traffic.

Sometimes you don’t even want to go on the date after post-nut clarity kicks in and you can save some money by just canceling.

It’s called security. Hackers can’t tap into our data if they can’t find the data cable!