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Fun fact: Nothing that ICE enforces carries a death penalty, nor are any violent offenses part of their mandate. So why do they need guns at all?

Obviously I'm asking this sardonically, since we know the real answer. Just felt like pointing it out.

The win from CRAM is that it is not swap, and operates using mostly normal RAM semantics. If it works as advertised you should be able to allocate most (all?!) of your RAM as CRAM.

It's a little better than your read. The ~400x speedup is in comparison to using ZRAM, which, in very brief terms, compresses memory by creating an in-memory compressed block device and assigning that as your swap space. So your "swap" is actually a compressed chunk of RAM, not on disk.

This was significantly slower than normal memory access because page faulting when looking up something in memory then fetching from swap was, itself, expensive. Regardless of how fast that swap was. When your swap is on a storage device that overhead is comparatively tiny, but when it's just another chunk of memory suddenly it's what you're spending most of your time on.

Completely insane that there are comments here assigning any degree of blame to her for this situation. The fact that it was 2 in the morning isn't an invitation to rape or be otherwise assaulted.

Hell, I don't care if someone were nude and fixing a sign that advertised their services as a prostitute. Still not "asking for it".

Human Centipede is a tour de force

That graph doesn't actually indicate what the title says. If the number of fatal accidents rises proportionally with the number of children walking on the street then the level of danger remains the same.

It's actually possible it's the safest if, say, the number of pedestrian children goes up five times but the rate of accidents only triples.

Not everyone views it though that lens (though maybe they should). There are lots of people out there for whom LLMs are just another tool that they have become used to using and, in many cases, formed a bond with. However silly or groundless that may be when looked at rationally.

It's not really strange at all that people would speak out against "hurting" one. Though it should be regarded in exactly the same way as if they were making the same argument about a set of living room furniture.

I guess what I'm saying is that while I don't agree with them I empathize with the people who are in turn empathizing with the LLMs. It's still a ridiculous and indefensible position, but I get it.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the human capacity for empathy has extended to subjects not capable of emotion or pain since long before LLMs came around.

Lots of people don't like "evil" paths in games because they feel bad about mistreating the NPCs. People regret throwing or damaging stuffed toys and may even apologize to them. There are people loyal to their toasters because they have reliably kept working for so long.

It's no surprise at all that people empathize with LLMs. It would be more surprising if no one did.

The resolution of that story is presented as Picard, a representative of Starfleet, genuinely expressing a desire to find a more permanent and real solution for Moriarty. Unfortunately as established by Lower Decks (and indeed hinted at in the second Moriarty episode itself) Starfleet is actually really, really bad at follow-through.

A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding OP's question and just suggesting places that offer free games.

OP is asking if there's any not shady way to get a game that's offered for free on Steam without DRM other than using the Steam client.

If the game is only available through Steam then unfortunately the answer is no. Depending on the nature of your objection to the Steam client there are some possible courses of action other than going somewhere sketchy though.

You could install it, download the game, copy it from the Steam install location, then uninstall Steam.

Alternatively keep a sandboxed Steam client installed in a VM to download the game which you extract from the VM.

Another option might be to just ask someone you know that does use Steam to download the game and send it to you.

Were you intentionally trying to provide an example of what OP was taking about?

Costco doesn't give a shit about consumers. Costco cares about nurturing and communicating their brand, which is all about being pro-consumer.

You're not strictly wrong, and I understand that corporations are not anyone's friends, but the line between these two distinctions is vanishingly thin.