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Anyone who played LSL1 on a 5 1/4 floppy disk please stand up.

Could these world models be used to build some sort of endless GranTurismo type street racing game?

It seems inevitable that they'll soon be used as the starting points for developing almost all video game environments.

Not for the rendering (that's still way too expensive), but for the initial world generation that gets iteratively refined and then still ultimately gets converted into textured triangles.


> It seems inevitable that they'll soon be used as the starting points for developing almost all video game environments.

Almost all video game environments? No way. That statement really needs to be qualified with the genres of games you're considering.


It begins...

You used to be able to buy leaded 110 gas as Sunoco in the early 2000's. It would make your exhaust tips turn white and had a sort of candy like smell when combusted.

AFAIK that's why leaded paint is bad for children: it tastes sweet so they continue licking it/eating the chips of paint that fall off the wall

You’re conjuring an image of children licking walls, but just the dust from the flaking paint chips is harmful.

https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/prevention/paint.html


Water from lead pipes must have tasted amazing


It’s why they added it to wine

You can buy it online from Sunoco

https://petroleumservicecompany.com/sunoco-supreme-112-octan...

I think they only sell the unleaded race gas at the pumps now but I may be wrong.


I remember people with various "tunes" at the racetrack would run this stuff. It definitely smelled like candy!

Wait 'til you learn about avgas!

You can still buy the same stuff at an airport or race track.

I always wondered what the earth looked like below? Were the Jetson's part of a breakaway civilization like in the movie Elysium?

A common joke is that it was the flintstones.

It's arguably canon, even, if you consider the cross-over specials meaningfully "canon" as works designed not to hold up to storytelling scrutiny but simply bring in TV viewers.

I used to think, as a kid, that's a colonized planet. Nothing down there but rainforest.

There was no TSA in 1996 just private security screeners.

For people who work in very classified/secure environments (designing weapons systems, rev eng UFO's, etc...) does M$ offer some version of windows without all of the AI crap and bloat?

I think the windows 11 IOT LTSC release is what you're looking for

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...


No, not the IoT client build, but the Server build with Desktop enabled.

The latest Windows 11 Pro for Workstations builds appears to still support workgroup or domain joins without requiring a Microsoft account. In terms of the OS still shipping with crap, it is still there but since there's no Internet connection the crap is largely useless.

Yeah absolutely, but you'll never be able to install / license that version of Windows

Well the lizard people control not only all the oil but also all of the rare-earths so to them its a win-win.

Do any browsers recognize a 420 response code?

Your browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans.

Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache hits) If you don't include a body in the response, the browser might sub in it's own error page, but it will just communicate that the user agent made a bad request.


I've seen sites that use unexpected HTTP response codes, I think to try to defeat bots. The front page would return a 503 Service Unavailable, but the body was just normal content that would load a bot detection script and then redirect you to the actual content.

I successfully wrote a bot that would bypass it all, but it was weird, and became a slight challenge since I couldn't rely on response codes to determine if I succeeded. When I solved the challenge, it would return a 400 Bad Request while serving me the content I was looking for.


204 has weird behavior in Safari and Firefox for example. Entering a URL returning 204 in the URL bar will not change the URL bar to it, leaving its contents to whatever was there before. Similarly if you click on it it would not actually navigate to the page.

URL to test: https://httpbin.org/status/204


Once upon a time, Internet Explorer used to substitute its own error pages if the body of the error response was too short for its liking. Those depended on whcih error code it got. (I expect nobody has used an old enough IE to see those pages for at least a decade.)

What happens if you have FSD turned off and like to drive fast on public roads. Will they see this telemetry and raise your rates?

It seems the answer is yes. From their web site:

> Fair prices, based on how you drive [...] Get a discount, and earn a lower premium as you drive better.


Bummer.. its super fun to floor them off the line.

Someone with a Plaid will need to test this out to see how high they can make their Lemonade premium.

This (instant torque) is exciting for about the first week of electric car ownership, it gets old very fast. I have far more fun driving my much slower gas-engined cars.

Speak for yourself. Over 3 years and 100k km and still enjoying it.

MT gas cars are very fun to drive!

It doesn't get old. What a ludicrous statement.

I did get lots of traction issues with FWD EV, any sort of wet - you need to baby it.


There’s much more to enjoying cars than speed in a straight line, which I do not disagree at all most EVs are exceptional at.

Booting the go pedal at every stop sign or light just feels like being a bit of a childish jerk after a short while on public roads once the novelty wears off.


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