I also really like stainless steel cookware. Works with induction burners, stuff will stick but it isn’t bad if you know how to handle it (heat the oil before adding food, managing heat to avoid burning, and knowing how to deglaze (or when to not, remove the still good food, then deglaze into the sink)). And then you can use a stainless steel scouring pad to clean it easily.

From there, I prefer rivitted handles, though my nice pots right now (other than the single expensive one I’ve got) are a set with removable handles (so they fit in a stack in a drawer) but riveted bits for the handle to latch on to.

Though it’s just a preference after getting tired of re-tightening screwed on handles, as I don’t mind scrubbing around the rivets instead of tightening screws after getting annoyed at how loose the handle it. Though loosening rivits would be even more annoying because you need like a press to tighten them, but that hasn’t happened yet to me.

Held hostage? I don’t get how anyone can suspend their disbelief enough to not feel like a tool “romancing” a sophisticated text predictor.

It’s kinda pathetic if that’s the case because the affirmation from LLM is the opposite of genuine, though maybe that’s my bias knowing that there isn’t even an entity on the other side and I find it annoying it even wastes tokens on emotional platitudes.

Forced, like by gun-wielding AI bots?

I thought you said “for my family” for a second and was getting ready to report you to CPS.

But then how do your bones bone bonelessly?

Poor lighting is no laughing matter.

It’s also the main reason I haven’t touched the epic store even for the no strings attached (I think?) free games. They started out wanting (and getting) exclusive games before pivoting to free games, showing they were all too happy using business bullshit rather than good competition to take market share, which also implied things about what they’d do if they got to a dominant position.

Real dumb ones.

I spent more time “tinkering” on windows after some updates to figure out how to set it back to how I want it after some update silently resets things to default or moves some setting for no good reason. And then there’s the “hey please use our shit software that you went out of your way to install an alternative to… no? Ok, I’ll ask later” full screen ads, ads in the start menu, ignoring default search engine or browser settings when it could. It was a hostile user experience.

Linux has been such a better experience that windows shills like you are a complete joke. Though interesting that you used hedging language here and talk about “people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming” rather than “people doing more tinkering than actual gaming”, almost as if you know you’re full of shit but are trying to avoid outright lying for some reason.

My not very generous guess is someone wanted to give the impression of something being really old without a clue of what really old is.

Like it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.

Python code:

results = {}
for ip0 in range(256):
  ip0_str = to_str( ip0 ) + '.'
  for ip1 in range(256):
    ip1_str = ip0_str + to_str( ip1 ) + '.'
    for ip2 in range(256):
      ip2_str = ip1_str + to_str( ip2 ) + '.'
      for ip3 in range(256):
        ip_vector = [ ip0, ip1, ip2, ip3 ]
        ip_str = ip2_str + to_str( ip3 )
        results[ ip_vector ] = ping( ip_str )

Might look a bit nicer using format strings instead. That map will contain on the order of 4 billion entries (one for each value of 2³²), and the actual size will depend on what format the ping function returns, 4 bytes for each key (optimized from my initial version that used the IPs as keys), plus all the internal structures for the map like key hashes and the hash table itself. Ie, this takes more memory to run than viewing OP’s full sized image and I wouldn’t suggest running it with less than 32GB of RAM. Though it would take less memory if it generated the image directly or at least making the keys implicit (which the image does, as they are encoded into the x, y coordinates rather than stored).

Edit: Let’s look at runtime, too, because why not. Assuming every single IP responds in 0.01 seconds (they’ll take longer, especially the ones that time out instead of respond), rounding the total to that nice 4 billion number get us 40 million seconds. An hour is less than 4000 seconds, so it would take over 100 hours to run this script.

Though it could be parallelized, since you can ping many targets at once. Not sure what the maximum number of pings you could have in flight is, but whatever it is, you’d be much better off using a script that did like 80% of that (to leave some margin for the rest of the system to use, also ISPs might not be happy with you maxing out your ICMP traffic).

Or more specifically, what is the sum of all latencies divided by the number of responses times the total numer of requests sent (to scale up for the ones that didn’t reply, assuming their average latency would have been similar to the total average)?

You have too many negatives there.

Should be “I didn’t say she did say they didn’t.”

Though… You also didn’t say that she didn’t say that they didn’t (that was the other commenter) so I guess you’re still accurate.

Major things for me are the rise of kernel anti cheat (revolutions don’t have to be good), and the rise of linux gaming–both the steam deck and linux gaming in general (the solution to both MS and a passive prevention of kernel level bs). Around 2015, barely any games ran on linux, but today most do unless they have that kernel level anti-cheat or the makers specifically wanted to exclude linux users.

Which was only open one day per week.

Get a couple cans of spray thermal paste.

And even worse, they then follow up with a smear campaign that the person was going to rape or assault them if they didn’t ghost them to justify the ghosting if it’s pointed out how pathetic ghosting over trivial shit is.

I’m gushing a bit about the games and that part of me thought they might be the best games I’ve ever played and the other part of me that would normally say hold up a second is having trouble coming up with any strong contenders. Subnautica maybe. Metroid Prime, if the controls were better. Hades would make the top list but wouldn’t top them. Ori rivals it for beauty and atmosphere but not controls and combat; it’s not even close there (though it’s possible I just need to get farther in to really appreciate Ori).

I just started that one, after finishing the first one and immediately jumping into my second play through. I’m not very far in so far but wow, it’s already looking like an amazing sequel for a first game I’d already describe as flawless. Like I got so used to the first one that the early game seemed almost trivial in that second play through but silksong’s enemies don’t follow the same patterns and are able to hit me pretty regularly. And both games are filled with this strange bleak charm.

Wait, I think you might have misinterpreted it. Now maybe I’m wrong but we might be able to save the future. I’ll just need your hands and a sharp knife.