I really enjoyed Better Call Saul and thought it was much much better than Breaking Bad. Walter White was such an irritating character. Saul was a brilliant hustler.

I could see Better Call Saul appealing more to the Hacker News community than Breaking Bad. Kim and Jimmy often give off founder/startup energy (e.g. S2E7)

Yeah, I abandoned Breaking Bad around mid-season 2 because of how boring, slow, and repetitive it had become. Better Call Saul, on the other hand, was constantly clicking for me, from one episode to another. The writing is magnificent. There were a few slow-rollers, of course, but they were nothing compared to drip-feeding in Breaking Bad.

They are way too expensive. Tanzania's per capita GDP is about US$1200.00.

Average income in the UK is ≈ £40,000. Average house price in the UK is £270,000 (6.75 × average income).

That's not to say that the UK is OK, housing affordability is a political topic (and applicable to many developed countries).

I'm guessing that at 40 thousand quid you can have some disposable income, but that at 1200 bucks you spend it all on basics.

At least in rural Syria I noticed the opposite. Food/housing/daycare in the farm never enters GDP those things are 'free' that eat most a western persons paycheck. People will spend half of their entire income on entertainment in the form of cell phone, internet, and energy drinks, cigarettes, as their necessities basically dont pass through commerce.

Belarus makes tractors. I bet people could have had these kinds of tractors long ago if not for the sanctions.

dictatorship is anticompetitive practice(slaves work is cheap) and relying on its produce to produce essentials is national security issue.

There's no doubt that it's a dictatorship, but Belarusian citizens are not slaves.

Furthermore, when have sanctions achieved anything other than suffering for the people?

Plus, I'm pretty sure that some sanctions are very convenient for some parties on this side of the game.

> Belarusian citizens are not slaves.

These laws de facto prevent most of Belorussians leave country long term and force them to work (even if they do not need to):

- Decree No. 3 “О содействии занятости населения”(including redaction from 2018)

- Decree №278 and Decree №294

There is more laws added overtime, reality on the ground even more harsher of laws - North Korea style. I doubt anybody would argue that there is no slavery in NK.

> sanctions achieved anything other than suffering for the people?

I feel that some sanctions indeed `achieved anything other than suffering for the people`, but I did not research.

Will this market be significant? This would surely affect a very small percentage of visitors.

22% of the global population are smokers according to Wikipedia. It's probably lower for younger generations but still significant.

How does it compare to a Markov chain generator I wonder.

The Transformer is the more powerful model than Markov chain, but on such a weak machine as the C64, a MC could output text faster - but it surely would sound "psychedelic", as the memory limits a MC to a first-order or second-order model, so to predict one word, only the two words before would be taken into account as context (and no attention).

On a plain vanilla C64, the Transformer cannot really show what it's capable of doing. An implementation using 2 bit per weight (vectorized) could be slightly better, perhaps.

You can build an unlimited-order Markov chain by, instead of pre-computing a table of counts for all possible contexts, using a substring-search index on the training data to count possible continuations on the fly: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17377 That paper uses suffix arrays, but more compact indices are possible: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12229

Could that be implemented in Hailo for Perl (it's two commands away from a base install:)

- Install Cpanminus for Perl, some C compiler and sqlite3 just to be sure.

      cpanm -n local::lib 

     cpanm -n Hailo

     ~/perl5/bin/hailo -t corpus.txt -b chatbot.brn

    ~/perl5/bin/hailo -b chatbot.brn

You would probably have to completely rewrite its internals.

If I can install alternative firmware, I will definitely consider buying one.

Unfortunately, the pain that Windows has become has yet to prevail over the fear of change for many users.

I bought one of these. In those days, I could keep the JDK in a box of floppies or it could fit in one Zip. Unfortunately, you had to carry your drive with you, because few people had one. So it only really made sense as backup media for me.

It was probably very localized, where my parent worked in the late 90s every office room had at least one, so my parents also bought one for home so they could easily transfer files.

It almost dissapeares overnight once 32MB+ usb drives became common, much more convenenient.

I already had the impression that auto-complete was bad for programmers, since I've many times seen coders brute-force it until they found something that looked like it would do.

With AI I've also witnessed people go crazy going back and forth without even looking carefully at the code (or the compile messages) to figure out what was missing.

I'm pretty sure nobody will read the docs now.

He should be ashamed. Why did (does) he see the punishment for the 7th octobor attack as a genocide but the 7th octobor attack itself as not-an-issue? (not an attempted genocide)

The law protects people up to a point. Collaborating with the enemy is an issue especially if you're not a confirmed citizen.

Is it OK for some Israelis to do genocide against Palestinians if some Palestinians tried to do genocide against Israelis? IMO no, there is no justification for anyone to do genocide.