Fiction has to seem plausible, rational even. Though, reality is anything but.

Oh I remember those! I think minecarts can still do something like that, when you stack multiple into the same spot and remove the rails; they just push each other until something disturbs them.

Furnace minecarts are so useless, the best usecase for them I saw was putting them in the ground where the top sticks out as a decoration.

What’s a vakker?

Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎

What does a pillow like that look like? Got a pic?

Having no package manager be like:

It’s not about lack of knowledge, everyone lacks some knowledge. Rather, it’s about noticing and acknowledging if you don’t know.

The ignorant says he knows, when he doesn’t; he is unaware of his lack of knowledge.

Somone who says ‘I don’t know’ is aware of his lack of knowledge.

Not sure about development directions, but they currently have regular hybrids, plug in hybrids, battery EVs, hydrogen EVs…

I don’t think the infrastructure is there yet for hydrogen to be viable, so I don’t really consider those.

Toyota is one of the brands from which I would consider buying an EV.

Ööö (uhhh), not really.

they’ll need to use twice as many chips, which could mean doubling the bus width (one can dream) to 512 bit (ala 5900)

I misread this part, thinking you implied a bus width increase is necessary.

For a 512 bit memory bus, AMD would either have to use 1+8 dies if they follow the 7900XTX scheme or have a monolithic behemoth like GB102. The former would have increased power draw but lower manufacturing costs, while the latter is more power efficient and more prone to defects as it’s getting close to the aperture size limit.

I’d guess nvidia will soon have to switch to chiplet based GPUs. Maybe AMD stopped (for now?) because not their whole product stack was using chiplet based designs so they had way less flexibility with allocation and binning than with ryzen chiplets.

Clamshell design. RX 7900XTX 24GB | PRO W7900 48GB

Same GPU, same 384 bit bus.

NACK-ing rust at version 8 of the patchset is kind of a dick move. The 7 others were fine before? Ridiculous that Linus didn’t step in in a definitive way.

Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.

Industrial diamonds are pretty useful for cutting.

We are in “free fall” around the Sun so that’s why we don’t feel its pull of gravity.

You would similarly feel weightless if you were in an orbit around Earth.

Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

Still beats programming on paper.

Ice crystals can and do rupture cells. But it’s not a good method to disinfect as a lot depends on the freezing rate resulting in different crystal sizes.

No, you just get a new set growing in the gums.