> 748 can run on Steam Assuming you mean on Linux?

> Even here in Germany, any blog, including private ones, need to come with an imprint section including your full name, residential address, mobile phone number et cetera.

This is likely a moment of cultural incongruence, but this is outright shocking to me. Generally, when I am shocked by such things, it’s because I’m unaware of the reasoning behind them. What is the reasoning behind this law, exactly?

Well now I've got that crappy music stuck in my head.

That brings up a real mystery from 15 years ago that I never did solve. Back in the day you could go on kongregate or whatever and play these awful flash games that clearly took 30 minutes or less to make. Just junky, copy-paste stuff. (Much worse than the "home run derby" game above.)

And yet...

And yet they all seemed to have original sound tracks of more-or-less passable game music. Where were they getting this from? Did adobe give everybody a huge catalog of tunes to pick from?

>> Why on earth publishers continue to release paper only books in 2023 is beyond me.

Because digital books are horrible. A have a self of work-related books full of reference images (military equipment). I budget about 100/month for book purchases as many of them are 200+ each. There is no plausible replacement. Just ask anyone who collects painting or movie posters. A digital file is no replacement for a reference copy on a shelf.

One book that I purchased new only two years ago for <100$ is now out of print and apparently going for 500+ on ebay/amazon.

84 Wh is enough to propel a human on a bicycle about 20 km in about one hour. From this perspective electric cars are ludicrously inefficient ways to get around. Maybe in the future we'll view car dependency as similarly wasteful to using incandescent bulbs everywhere.

How did you prompt it to play tic-tac-toe? I'm surprised that didn't work, it feels like something it should be able to handle really well.

Hangman and stone-paper-scissors though are entirely unsuited to a language model, at least one with a chat interface like ChatGPT, because they both require it to be able to store a secret. ChatGPT has no ability to do this: each time it returns a response by evaluating the previous conversation.

You could build a system that COULD play those games via an LLM but you'd have to write extra code to do it.

If I had to guess, various used laptops from a decade or so ago.

For most practical applications, computing performance plateaued around 2011. Just look at how many people can't/won't use Windows 11 just because their ancient relic otherwise still works perfectly fine.

And if you want a source, anecdata is I'm posting this from an i7 2700K (aka Sandy Bridge) machine.