A streamer set up his Nintendo switch to take input from his swimming fish. He then started Pokemon and let the stream run while the fish’s motion controlled the action. When the game crashed, the fish kept swimming so the input kept coming – except now it was feeding input into the game console menus.
Eventually the fish entered the Nintendo store and even bought something – exposing the users credit card information to the stream.
Straight from the horses mouth. Why did some actors have to do dozens and dozens of takes? As he hints here, it’s maybe because they didn’t study their lines in the evenings and get plenty of sleep so they were ready.
Instead, he did a very practical thing – he made them think about the lines by working them out on-stage in take after take until they did what they should have done in preparation. It’s a subtle but very effective way of making them want to do more work on their lines because they’re standing there in front of the whole crew and wasting their time too.
The Old Church Concert Hall holds a Lunchtime Concert Series. Every year about this time, Michael Barnes does a Halloween themed organ concert. He’ll be playing this year tomorrow on Wednesday Oct 21st at noon.
Above is a video from his 2022 concert – which often has many of the same tunes:
FUNERAL MARCH OF A MARIONETTE CHARLES GOUNOD
TOCCATA AND FUGE IN D MINOR J. S. BACH
SCHERZO FROM GRAND SONATA IN E FLAT (1866) DUDLEY BUCK, JR
KOBOLD (PUCK) FROM LYRIC PIECES AND EDVARD GRIEG
MARCH OF THE DWARFS (1899)
He is then joined by Gina Piroli to sing along:
HALLOWEEN SONG TRADITIONAL
HAVE YOU SEEN THE GHOST OF JOHN? TRADITIONAL
MIDNIGHT RENDEVOUS ROBERT T. DAVIS
ADDAMS FAMILY THEMESONG (1964) VIC MIZZY
RONDO ALLA TURCA WOLFGANG A. MOZART
Arc-Pro driver allows up to 93 percent of system RAM as iGPU memory
Intel Panther Lake’s new Arc-Pro driver will let you set up to 93% of system ram as iGPU memory. This means if you have 64 GB of RAM – you can theoretically allocate up to 59.5 GB of memory. Since Intel Graphics Software 25.26.1602.2 and driver 32.0.101.6974, the old limit was 57%.
While this is really cool (and something that should have been done a decade ago when integrated graphics was first a thing), the reality is that the memory is the slower system clocked DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR memory with all the corresponding bandwidth and latency limitations. So, do not expect your models to run very fast – but they might actually run for a change.
Xiaomi’s MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks. (Article)
MiMo Code is available now on GitHub under an MIT license, and installs with a single terminal command (curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash) on macOS and Linux or via npm (npm install -g @mimo-ai/cli) on Windows.
While supposedly beating Claude, on the official Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard maintained at tbench.ai, OpenAI’s Codex CLI running GPT-5.5 scores 82.2% — roughly nine points above MiMo Code’s self-reported 73% — and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.5 announcement claims 82.7% on the same benchmark.
As a teen, she was a division I runner with the University of Illinois, and was one of the fastest in the country. She planned to become a professional athlete until a foot injury her sophomore year led her to discern another path. She joined the Franciscans of the Eucharist in Chicago in 2010 at age 22.
Sr. Stephanie completed her 15th consecutive year running the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday, October 11, raising funds for her order’s Mission of Our Lady of the Angels. She and the 192 runners on her marathon team (with another 30 running the half) brought in $579,589, setting a new record.
All funds go to her order’s mission, supporting its food pantry that feeds 3,000 to 4,000 families each month, as well as other outreach programs the sisters operate in an under-served Chicago neighborhood. She has raised more than $3.2 million since she founded the team in 2011.
An Intel patent application published on August 6, spotted by Patentlyze, describes an orbital data center architecture that moves some of the computing used to operate massive satellite constellations off the ground and into space. The architecture proposes a two-tier satellite network in which a small number of more powerful satellites in higher orbits manage large constellations of relatively simple satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Enter cracker_barrel_69 who createdNogero Trail – the Oregon trail backwards to Missouri. You load up at an REI garage sale of used equipment, and then maybe get robbed before you even leave town (car breakins are a pandemic in Portland). Perfect.
Hahaha this is amazing. 80% of my stuff got stolen while I was trying to load it up at REI
WE SURVIVED THE NOGERO TRAIL! We bought a big house for a fraction of the price in Missouri. That was fun thank you!
The Weather app in macOS consumes five times less memory and isn’t riddled with ads, Windows 11’s app can sometimes reach 1.6GB of usage.
Memory prices are astronomical. Sales of new PC’s are down because people cannot afford systems configured with 32gb or 64gb of ram. Microsoft has been trying to say you can run Windows on systems as low as 8gb, but when your ad-chocked weather app uses up 20% of your system ram, it’s hard to believe any of their claims.
