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    Official Board Game Discussion

    Ikusa (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/221/ikusa) takes a more time but is a much better game. Try to get this done in 3 or 4 sessions, not all at once. Axis and Allies takes a LOT more time than both Risk and Ikusa, but is probably one of the best wargames. Though at 20+ hour games in...
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    Lenovo Unveils Its New AI-Ready ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 Mobile Workstation

    Amazon.com: Plugable USB to Ethernet Adapter, USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet, Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, XP, Linux, Chrome OS : Electronics
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    USA's Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024

    I only heard about them from the astronomer at our Hotel after we were discussing what we saw. Ya know, free continental breakfast lol. The eclipse was basically the topic of discussion. So just keep your ears open when you travel, there are a lot of smart people out there!!
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    Apple Preparing M4 Chips with AI Capabilities to Fight Declining Mac Sales

    Every "AI Capability" I've seen is a 16-bit floating point matrix multiplication acceleration of some kind, but its obscure how far any particular company goes. NVidia has 4x4 sparse matrix (if more than half the locations are 0, NVidia executes them a bit faster). AMD Called dot-product an AI...
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    Anime Nation

    Happens to be my favorite three Ghibli. Strong recommend on all of them, for different reasons.
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    USA's Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024

    IMO: Its close but not quite there. The wisps are moving, and "softer". The wisps are clearer in some respects, its like multiple wisps are overlaid on each other (clearly the HDR-algorithm capturing multiple moments in time as the wisps move around). The HDR-effect makes the photograph...
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    An interesting AMD GPU issue.

    Did you check if your RAM is crashing your system yet? Why do you think this is a GPU failure and not some other component (like RAM) ?
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    USA's Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024

    That's an HDR picture from 2017. I don't remember the eclipse looking like that back then. HDR is a technique where the cameras take multiple pictures to get "deeper blacks" and "lighter lights", extending the visual range of the camera, at the tradeoff that its blurrier / merged-picture kind...
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    USA's Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024

    I had a great time! Did a "downtown Cleveland" Eclipse. Sat at Voinovich Bicentennial Park, great weather... very slight clouds (still saw an awesome eclipse), but was not able to see the crazy 2017-like Corona this time around (too many clouds I guess). I did see ~3 planets. I was talking...
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    Kagi: $5/month for a search engine in 2024?

    The issue is that in practice, I don't need search when I already know a thing. I use search because I don't know a thing . I can test search-quality on knowledge I already have, but I can't test search-quality on knowledge I don't have (aka: the actual use of these tools).
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    Kagi: $5/month for a search engine in 2024?

    Yes, its correct... except for the part that wasn't correct. Just ignore the incorrect parts and any search is good. /s If you seriously don't see the problem with your logic or how you conducted your test, that's on you man.
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    Anime Nation

    Slime S3 returns. Spice and Wolf returns after 16 years. Looks like a remake from the start (with a tidbit of the sequel-novel in the first episode now). Apparently the writers felt like the original anime diverged too much from the novels, so they want to start over and tell it from the...
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    USA's Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024

    Latest forecast. Looks like Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana... and then a bit further northeast, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine all get very sunny skies. The other states have likely clouds to deal with.
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    Kagi: $5/month for a search engine in 2024?

    Bullshit. Ounces is smaller than quart. No one says "miles per foot", its "smaller per bigger", or "ounces per quart", or "feet per mile". ----------- Okay, British Ounces, US Ounces, British Quarts, US Quarts, are all different sizes, values and ratios. I'm guessing that the various search...
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    Kagi: $5/month for a search engine in 2024?

    You know that 40 is the wrong number too, right? So DDG also failed. The answer is 32. Its taught in most chef's books and I've got a solid reference on this. But yours (DDG) says 40, Google said 38.4, Kagi said 32 at the top (but still has the incorrect link to 38.4). This is a shining...
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