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I’m returning to Baldur’s Gate 3 after a long break. I made it to the third act months ago then set it aside.

Last month didn’t play anything but was playing Factorio before that. I was trying to build a 1k SPM mega base before the new expansion dropped but didn’t get close. Was too much of a learning curve scaling up a rail block base with my own blueprints and I tried to switch to it too early so most of my time was getting production back up with the new base build. Learned a lot though. Enough changed with the 2.0 update it’s not worth trying to continue my save.

I’ll probably pick up the expansion and dive into it again after I finish BG3. Unless I play through BG3 again as a sorcerer which I just might do. My monk is fun but I’ve gravitated toward spellcasters in RPGs the past several years for some reason.

Meanwhile, US economic power continues to wane globally

And US munitions with no quick way to ramp up production capacity.

Gotcha, agreed there for sure.

Definitely, not arguing against the outcome either way

Do they actually care if they lose, is it really a punishment? Feels like they’ll just continue Republican policies whenever they’re next in power and keep willingly being dragged to the right.

I worked with a guy who had a flag with the Arch logo and his Arch forums username on it hanging above his desk.

I think if you’re storing vocabulary etc, using the C interface for sqlite wouldn’t be too unwieldy and would be a good learning experience if you haven’t done much raw SQL query writing of your own. Even when you use an ORM there are often times you need to write your own queries for more complicated situations.

One other suggestion: once you have the CLI and bots working, you could abstract this even more. Have a service process that communicates in some way (IPCC, a network port, etc.) that does the actual text analysis. Your cli and bots can then just interface over that channel. This gives separation of duties so you can easily implement new clients/servers or rework them much more easily.

With that small of a dataset imo either option is fine. If it were me I would use an ORM + sqlite just to start, in case I ever needed to migrate to a “real” database.

womp womp :)

I don’t think the point is that swap is critical. Whether that is true will depend on your workload and hardware. But the point is it makes memory management better and more efficient. Whether you notice a difference in performance or not is again dependent on your workload & hardware. I personally see no reason to not dedicate a couple gigs to swap even with lots of memory on a personal system.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used Nvidia cards for at least a decade without any major issues. Mostly on Arch, though I do vaguely recall needing to fiddle with it more on really old Ubuntu releases.

If you have enough ram, you don’t really need swap at all.

This isn’t really true. Swap is important for things other than acting as a memory reserve. Even if it was only used that way, it can still improve performance by paging out unused memory (such as from application startup that then isn’t used).

There are other benefits too. This link goes into details.

It’s possible. Tech companies do hire people to work full time on open source software. I’m not sure but I doubt there are many positions like that. There were several at a previous company I worked for.

What hashtags if you don’t mind sharing?