Years, sadly.
I have the same gigabytes of ram as that has megabytes and my graphics card nearly the same storage as the hard drive. Oof.
I used to have a PC like that, though, as an upgrade from an Amiga 1200. Amiga was a great gaming and coding machine, but struggled a bit for 'office' work and was more suited to bulletin boards than websites. A PC like that thing got me through university, though - able to do it all. I don't remember the internet as being much worse, back then - more limited, but so much less shit on it. And if you get a list of the best RPGs of all time, it can probably run three-quarters of the list.
I have a Tuxedo Pulse 14 gen 3 as my personal laptop, was looking for something with a bit more display resolution than my old 1080p machine, but did not like the price of 4K laptops.
It has been superb for over a year now. Came with Tuxedo's own Linux, which looked pretty but wasn't for me. Installed Arch on it, has been rock solid. Is a great machine for coding on, makes a great job of running Dwarf Fortress and less stressful 3D games - Crusader Kings 3 and Disco Elysium run great, for instance. Battery life impressive too.
Been quite robust, too - heard complaints that the lid can get a bit loose but mine's fine. All the rubber feet have come off the bottom, but that's probably because I use mine on my lap. They prefer that you install their own fan control app rather than eg. just providing drivers so that you can set it up in CoolerControl, but it works fine.
All in all, good machine. Better than the ThinkBook that it replaced, and those are fine laptops.
Well, three is prime and pi starts with a three, therefore, even if there's larger primes, there is one which is the largest. QED.
Supposedly Asma filed for divorce soon after her husband fled Syria for Russia and is planning a new life in London, if you fancy your chances?
Nothing to me says 'sexy' quite like your grandad and your great-grandad being the same guy, or your (great * 5)-grandmother / grandfather being one man and woman, when most people have that responsibility spread between 64 people.
Close family. Must have made Christmas easy - having the in-laws round isn't so bad when they're your own blood relatives too.
Brainless, foul-smelling and hateful creatures, who can't be trusted not to shit wherever they stand. And the noise that they make is really offensive as well. The donkeys next to them are quite cute, though.
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Obligatory www.web3isgoinggreat.com - catalogues all of the grifts, hacks and thefts, with a running $$$ total.
Which makes perfect sense - none of the previous producers have. Mostly, they've just used their stock characters and locations, and made a game that they thought would be fun out of them. There's a couple of games that qualify as 'direct sequels' (Ocarina -> Majora's, Wind Waker -> Hourglass) but even then, it doesn't benefit you much to have played the preceding one. Would be weird to try and twist the games into a chronology that strikes me mostly as 'fanon' anyway.
Well now. A few things, here:
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there are not 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × .... possible ways to play. After the first move, 8 squares remain, and so on, so there's at most 9 × 8 × 7 × ... = 9! = 362880 ways that the game can be played, ignoring the fact that most of those can be eliminated as reflections and rotations, or as win positions before you fill the whole board.
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we don't care how we got there. Each square can either be blank, a cross, or a nought, so 3^9 combos = 19683, and most of those are illegal, as only the boards where there's (one or zero) more crosses than noughts are good. And you don't need to store 'the computer's move', just jump directly to letting the player go again. Let's guess we need at most a quarter of that.
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we could have created a single web page with 5k anchor elements on it back in the HTML 1.0 days, ignoring the fact that it would have taken a while to download on our 28.8K modems. That wouldn't have been 170 Mb of unnecessary tagging, even with the 'lay it out with tables' style we had at the time.
Google do seem to have a predilection for reinventing the past, poorly. I hear that their bonuses are based on inventing 'new' things, though, so it's in their interest to pass it off?
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Let's get it to 25 hours per day, I could do with a bit more time in bed.