Beermotor

I became more proficient in one language than any other. Therefore this language is the best language ever and will take over the universe.

Coincidentally Google Chrome is no longer available on a single computing device I own.

Adding: the server and client had to both be running vis patched maps to be able to see other players in the water due to the way entity visibility was calculated server-side.

The downside to running vis patched maps on a server is it used slightly more CPU than unpatched maps IIRC. Perhaps someone that ran more servers than I did (I ran two nodes on an Intergraph InterServe with dual P6-200s) could weigh in on what the impact was at scale.

I can see how it might be useful if the AI is only used for research and pointing out existing case law etc.

Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from another rando AI company to keep the money taps flowing.

Y'all is a feature of general Southern vernacular and has nothing to do with Texas other than most of the settlers of Tejas were from the South.

IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.

I'm going from 30+ year old memories as an intern, but from what I remember:

Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted pair.

All the twisted pair serial lines congregated in the server room at a punch-down box. Eighteen year old me wasn't allowed to mess with anything past that point, but from what I can remember those lines were concentrated by a multiplexer (mux) and sent on to the minicomputer.

NASA's IT used to be split into the field centers and a central core IT organization. The field centers managed their own stuff, but anything agency-wide was handled by the core IT organization. Central IT also usually won out when there was a conflict.

When NASA combined their disparate field center mail systems into one (OneNASA and later NOMAD) massive mail system in 2006-2008 they deployed everything that wasn't the squishy Exchange underbelly on SuSE Enterprise 10.

The field centers were very invested in RHEL. Mostly for scientific software and Oracle.

JPL has traditionally been separate from the rest of NASA and works with CalTech for their infrastructure.

RedHat also backports fixes, security patches, and (occasionally) features to existing RPMs without incrementing the minor version.

For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be functionally equivalent to 3.5 in another distro.

There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.

Yeah I'm going to call this a hard pass until I see third-party benchmarks, power draw numbers, and what AMD has with RDNA3.

This is starting to look like a repeat of Geforce FX vs Radeon 9700 Pro all over again.

If I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration.

I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.

I've heard it phrased as "a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich".

Google started offering service in Huntsville in 2018 and from what I understand it is a solid gigabit symmetrical. Huntsville just happened to have dark fiber (courtesy of the late KMC) to a good portion of the city and that helped speed the roll-out.