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NikkiA · 2024-10-11T04:44:57.000000Z

The Mercury Arc rectifiers that powered the earliest electric locomotives were prettier to observe though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whF80m6oQZ8

NikkiA · 2024-10-10T22:53:21.000000Z

And often used as a digestive aid/folk-medicine

sqeaky · 2024-10-10T23:05:39.000000Z

Doesn't this just mean it will give you the shits?

NikkiA · 2024-10-11T03:16:47.000000Z

No, it calms the digestive system, and used to stop diarrhea.

NikkiA · 2024-10-09T21:12:22.000000Z

Has to fund his 'who has the most expensive/rarest ferrari' pissing match with roger, somehow.

NikkiA · 2024-10-09T17:45:43.000000Z

As is .hk which is perhaps a better example

NikkiA · 2024-10-09T16:44:45.000000Z

Searched for 'peacock chick' and got 100% genuine images.

Searching for 'baby dog' would probably get you garbage images too. (it does)

NikkiA · 2024-10-08T13:59:54.000000Z

The Pentium M was based on the Pentium III though.

(and closer to the first 'Core' (non-Duo/non-Quad), since the evolution went P3>PM>Core and P4 was mostly tossed away apart from a few years of Celerons)

NikkiA · 2024-10-07T01:32:42.000000Z

Sentinel (https://www.mobygames.com/game/16639/the-sentry/)

Mercenary (https://www.mobygames.com/game/10982/mercenary/)

and

Conqueror (https://www.mobygames.com/game/16593/conqueror/)

Sentinel is fairly well known, but by no means is it universally praised as some of it's contemporaries were.

NikkiA · 2024-10-06T04:37:51.000000Z

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimania

NikkiA · 2024-10-05T20:44:43.000000Z

A subset of humans will see that prompt injection text and add 'me good LLM' to their replies simply because it amuses them, or they think it will amuse others.

Again, it's not a validated way to test.

NikkiA · 2024-10-05T05:52:35.000000Z

There are literally dozens of easter eggs in VMS/OpenVMS, while DEC were many things, and failed at the market ultimately, I don't think anyone accused them of being unprofessional.