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...I thought that the typical practice (I don't see it in the guidelines) is the put the year next to an article based its _date of publication_, rather than the event about which the article refers.

This article was published today, and is about the investigation that just concluded, although of course Thompson's death was in 2005.


Many US states also have a state guard that is under the sole control of the state government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force

These forces are distinct from the state's National Guard and cannot be federalized.


Yes, but these state militia units would not be capable of offering much resistance to any federal forces (I was a trooper in the CT Governor’s Horse Guard. My company did have some guns, and we got a little bit of firearms training, but nothing compared to the National Guard or Army).

>> People are doubtful that the agent will be able to complete the task properly.

You answered your own question.

I do not trust an agent to give it unsupervised access to my systems.

If I had a completely local agent that was fully sandboxed and I would be willing to put data in the sandbox, give it a task, and come back later to see what it did.

I would not trust agents to run unsupervised with similar restrictions.


What Linux distributions did you try?

What hardware were you using?

What kind of troubleshooting did you perform?

>> Six weeks in, things changed. The Linux installations started to degrade — subtle at first, then undeniable. Random slowdowns. Browser links that wouldn't register for 10 or 15 seconds. The kind of frustration that makes you stare at the screen and wonder what's happening under the hood. It was consistent across distributions, which suggests this wasn't just a bad package here or there. Something fundamental was happening.

Without more details it would be difficult to determine what problems you were having.

I have never had problems like you describe with Linux. I would be interested to know more details.


You may want to consider renaming this project.

The name "Spark" already refers to:

A popular data analytics framework of the Apache Foundation: https://spark.apache.org/

A subset of the Ada programming language used for formal verification: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/chapters/01...

An Nvidia AI development system: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark...


Yeah, thanks! I didn't see it before


There are other wise sayings in the Orange Catholic Bible: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Orange_Catholic_Bible

This particular quote comes humanity's struggles through the Butlerian Jihad: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad


Hello Otto,

Thank you for creating DEP-18 and pushing it forward.

As an aspiring Debian developer, learning the Debian packaging tools and procedures has been a challenge.

There are many different packaging tools and they work quite differently from other command line tools I use for software development on Linux.

DEP-18 will help to bring Debian's procedures closer to what the industry follows and lower the barriers for new contributors. I hope it gets adopted.


Thanks!


"* The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website."

They kept the header because they legally agreed to keep it, but the rest is conspiracy propaganda.


"Either the users control the software or the software controls the users"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ag1AKIl_2GM&t=57...


Many years ago I played one of her works, Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate and enjoyed it very much.

It was a masterful blend of RPG, dungeon crawl, and puzzles and had a memorable soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5kg35dNso

Having a bard in your party let you choose a soundtrack and their songs brought magical effects. For example, the Rhyme of Duotime let your party attack more frequently in combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oR4j7w4FIY

BT3 is available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_The_Bards_Tale_3_-_Thief_O...


Interesting, I didn't know BT3 was by a different author, it definitely had its own vibe distinct from the first two, which this guy wrote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cranford). I liked them all though.

The steam remasters are incredibly faithful to the originals - right down to the timing and flow of the turn-based combat. Makes me wonder if they are emulating the original code somehow.


I believe they’re using the PC ports, running in something like DosBox or FreeDOS


The original Bard's Tale was my first RPG and I've been hooked ever since.


BT3 was wonderful, lots of nostalgia for me. Sad to hear of her passing.


The first trilogy (including BT3) was also remastered about 7 years ago and released on Steam, it's like $15 and has many quality of life improvements.


It seems Bard's Tale 3 can be played on the DosBox emulator:

https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=188&letter=B

... which is available for many platforms, including Windows and Linux:

https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

although the latest version of DosBox seems to be from 2019, so maybe others can suggest a more actively-maintained emulator.


DOSBox-X is a port that is actively developed and has many features missing in vanilla DOSBox.

There are a few other ones as well. DOSBox Staging is one. Magic DOSBox seems to be the most popular on Android. There is some iOS port as well.


That sounds promising. Do they also have a "compatibility by game title" database?


"DOSBox Staging" is such a weird name for that fork / continuation.


ahh i have fond memories of this game... and the silly anti piracy attempts (decoder ring) they shipped it with.


In middle school, a friend and I 'cracked' that decoder ring by copying all the info by hand on to paper so we could both play the game from one store bought copy because we were poor. I don't think we ever finished the game, but it's still one of my happiest early gaming memories.

They remastered all three of the first Bard's Tale games a few years ago and released them on Steam with many quality of life improvements-- I bought the set without a second thought even though I know I will probably never take the time to play it all the way through. I've spent a few dozen hours on it so far, though.


It is hilarious to think if you could beat BT3 you could also crack the decoder ring


She was originally chosen to do a remaster of the series. This was eventually reassigned to another publisher.

If you purchase Bards Tale 4 you get the remastered 1,2, and 3 for free.

I have played BT 1 every year or so since the late 80s.


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