Teknoman117

The largest wake-up call for me on this was realizing how little my day-to-day life changed during the COVID lockdowns. I never quite realized that what I thought was normal was isolation by national standards. I spent the majority of my 20s basically getting up, going to work, coming home, showering, gaming, sleeping, then getting up to do it again.

After the vaccines I made massive changes. I'd reconnected with old friends during lockdown and they suggested I move to be closer to them. My employer was supportive so I ended up moving to the Bay, even got a large pay bump along side it.

Now if I have an evening alone it's because it's what I chose to do. I ended up connecting with well over a hundred people through friends-of-friends and there's always someone down to do something. We have dinner parties at least once a month, sometimes its one of us cooking for the others, other times its a potluck about bringing something in season. Because of the group size and meetup frequency, there's no pressure to schedule things where everyone can attend and no one feels left out if the timing just didn't work that time. There's always going to be another time.

I am immeasurably happier. Most of my 20s I went to bed reminiscing about how childhood was more fun, now I rarely think back.

Ironically, this whole thing basically killed my video game hobby. I just don't have much motivation to play them now that I can message one of several group chats any day of the week and go do something with people in real life.

Same here. I've never had a good experience with weed. Smoking it or edibles. I feel like the former doesn't do anything for me and the latter just sends me into a panic state from which I can't come down for several hours.

To a VM? Possibly.

The DMA might actually be the easy part.

The main concern is how many VM exits per second a modern CPU can handle. Even though the interface is "slow", you can probably do ~500k to 1 million IN/OUTs or MOVs per second to ISA. You'd have to trap (VM exit) every access to a IO port or memory within the ISA window.

During the pandemic I cobbled together a KVM-accelerated emulator for an old 386EX based board I had and trapping every memory access to IO was slower than the real hardware.

I didn’t realize how many people cheated in college until I got an email from my computer graphics professor a year after I graduated asking me to remove the projects I did for the class from GitHub because a substantial amount of his students were copying from them.

Flattering, in a way.

> Are their hands tied by legal

Yes.

Even if you're the owner of the game, the contracts for the voice actors, motion capture, models, etc. frequently define very narrow terms of usage. Defining the exact release platforms is common. Not to mention profit sharing if the actors or studios you're hiring are popular.

It's even worse for retro games. Many times the original rights holder went out of business, sold their rights, died, or something else that muddies the ownership chain.

Sadly space has now been corrupted by capitalism

The problem with screening for HSV is that the HSV IgG tests are pretty terrible (the blood antibody tests). They have a false positive rate around 20% and re-running the tests several times won't yield different results. This would result in more people thinking they have HSV but don't than people who actually have it.

Most of the stigmatization of HSV in the US is mostly the result of pharmaceutical companies trying to create a market for HSV antiviral drugs. In the 1980s they ran ads that equated HSV with leprosy. Since that was also the time of the AIDS scare the public was probably very susceptible. Even in my childhood I remember ads on TV for the antiviral drugs promising a way of "living a normal life" despite HSV infection.

Herpes screening is discouraged in the US unless symptoms are present as the widely available IgG tests have terrible specificity. While the false negative rate is practically 0, they have a false positive rate of around 20%. The only high-accuracy confirmatory test (at least in the US) is the Western Blot but there's only a handful of labs in the country that offer it.

The current tests would result in a substantial fraction of the population running around thinking they have a highly stigmatized STI that they in fact do not have with little to zero ways of getting a more accurate test.

SDIO is still a fairly common interface that wifi and bluetooth adapters are connected with in embedded systems. Much lower idle power and protocol complexity than either USB or PCIe. You just don't find those wireless chipsets in an SD card form factor anymore. (and even if you did, SD card adapters don't generally support SDIO)

The problem is that this feature is generally restricted to enterprise customers because VDI systems are such a profitable market. NVIDIA and AMD both only offer this on enterprise cards, and Intel has been very wishy-washy on support in their cards.

If you're looking for a thing to google, look up SR-IOV support on (consumer) GPUs.

Also if you're wondering who the customers of these things tend to be, it's generally the CAD market, law firms, etc. If no one's laptop contains sensitive data and can only stream the desktop of a remote system, the loss or theft of an employee's computer isn't nearly the same kind of a security worry.

The trouble is that the RAM chip on the Pi is a high density module that's going to have come under pressure from the datacenter buildouts.

An 8 GiB DIMM for a desktop or server is using 8x 1 GiB chips or 16x 512 MiB chips (9/18 for ECC). An 8 GiB Pi uses a single 8 GiB chip. That's the same density as you would use for 128 GiB or larger sticks.