Source code for _Hadean Lands_.
Happy IF Source Code Amnesty Day.
The carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction easily exceeds the per passenger carbon footprint of a direct flight from New York to London.
On top of that the average e-waste generation per Bitcoin transaction is also equivalent to throwing away an iPad.
For daily updates on this data and more background check: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
I have found myself in the _most bizarre_ conundrum today my friends, where i bought a second copy of Samurai Warriors 2 for Xbox 360, because my first copy doesn't work anymore for some reason, even though the disc looks totally fine and we gave it a good clean a while ago. …
… Only to find the second copy can't be read either!!
My X360 reads every other game I've thrown at it just fine – installed games, games from the disc, original Xbox games, discs in much worse condition than these ones. And I've tried both of my copies of SW2 on a different Xbox 360 and they don't work there either.
I can't just keep buying X360 copies of SW2 until one works. And we do have the PS2 version (and Xtreme Legends) if I want to play it that badly.
But this is just _so weird._ There's nothing visually wrong with either of the discs, and as far as I can tell the other PS2-era musou games I have on X360 work fine. Very strange situation.
I had occasion to refer to this page online today, so I took a quick photo.
"Gore, and Hazards of the Course" from Barbara Ninde Byfield's _The Glass Harmonica_. (Also reprinted as _The Book of Weird_.)
This is a strange literary treasure which really deserves to be available online somewhere.
INTERNET RATIONALIST: Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a hyperintelligent artificial intelligence–
ME: No
INTERNET RATIONALIST: What
ME: I am declining to imagine the hyperintelligent artificial intelligence.
INTERNET RATIONALIST:
ME: I'm thinking about birds right now
INTERNET RATIONALIST:
ME: Dozens of crows, perched atop great standing stones
Coming up on 70 years of person A going “You see, software will never be able to do X!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, then person B going “You see, this software is basically a person!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, and so on like the world’s most evenly matched and annoying game of table tennis.
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