There seems to be a lot of resentment about brands honoring pride month. I get that it’s mostly a ploy for more customers, but even so I don’t think it deserves the criticism it gets. Support for the community is widespread and mainstream and I think that should be celebrated in all its forms. If this public corporate pandering ever goes away it should be a red flag that the mainstream support has waivered and everyone should be worried.

Hard to tell if this is a proposal to fight over hardware or an offer for free stuff.

I choose to believe the former because it makes me chuckle more.

No need to be scared. It’s a loving relationship.

On Thunder, no complaints. The only other one I’ve used is liftoff so I can’t give you a good comparison. All I can say is Thunder checks all the boxes I’m looking for.

It was great. I moved to Thunder though and actually like it a bit more.

Liftoff didn’t keep track of (or at least indicate) opened posts which irked me. Thunder has that with the same general scrolling feel.

I hate tipping in general, but I understand some people like to show their appreciation for a service done well. If that’s the case, tip the repair person doing the labor, not the landlord!

Just in general, let’s stop tipping like the people doing a job need my generosity to survive. Pay the people what the job is worth and stop asking me to make up the difference.

“Pantheon”

Age of Empires, but you have no direct control. You’re a god that different factions can pray to and you have to use your influence to gain more followers over your rival gods. You can do that through demanding conquest, sacrifices, hedonism, or many other ways!

I think it’d be fun!

Honestly, probably the most contested* area throughout history. Maybe after Anatolia, but that has been relatively peaceful in my lifetime so it feels different.

*And by that I mean contested by the most powerful players at their respective times. I’m sure there are places that have had more consistent fueds at a much smaller scale.

Honestly, I disagree. It is much more surprising to me that lifeforms I recognize are older than stars. They’re different timescales in my mind that I never even considered comparing.

Wow, sharks @439mya, Polaris @70mya. They’re more than 6 times older! This is NUTS!

(Also, Samsung makes their own chips.)

Example holds up better with Google (for Pixel line).

Ok stupid question time. The temperature during the Cretaceous was on average hotter than the 3.9C increase stated to halt photosynthesis. There was certainly photosynthesis going on then, how is that possible? Do we assume the plants had enough time to adapt to that new temperature, changing their photosynthetic machinery to work at higher temperatures than today?

I agree that planting trees is generally good, but doing so can’t sequester the amount of carbon released by humans since the start of the industrial revolution. We need other avenues to do that. If we returned forests back to how they were 100,000 years ago (untouched by modern humans) the new trees that would grow wouldn’t be able to soak up the CO2 released. Returning the forests to that state with the current world population isn’t feasible either as we need some of that land for agriculture.

I get your sentiment, but we’re beyond a ‘plant trees’ solution.

Semiconductors are used for transistors because they give us the ability to electrically control whether they conduct or resist electrical current. I don’t know what mechanism you’d use to do that with superconductors. I agree you don’t ‘have’ to have resistance in order to achieve this functionality, but at this time semiconductors or mechanical relays are the only ways we have to do that. My focus is not in semiconductor / IC design either so I may by way off base, but I don’t know of a mechanism that would allow superconductors to function as transistors (or “electrically controlled electrical connections”), but I really hope I’m wrong!

Really appreciate the write up! I didn’t know the computing power required!

Another stupid question (if you don’t mind) - adding superconductors to GPUs doesn’t really se like it would make a huge difference on the heat generation. Sure, some of the heat generated is through trace resistance, but the overwhelming majority is the switching losses of the transistors which will not be effected by superconductor technology. Are we assuming these superconductors will be able to replace semiconductors too? Where are these CPU/GPU efficiencies coming from?

Stupid question probably - is computing power what is holding back general AI? I’ve not heard that.

Pure speculation - a typical siege strategy was to dig under walls to cause them to collapse. First, the earthen mound would make the tunneling to collapse a much more labor intensive effort. Second, if an enemy was at the base of the wall it could actually be easier to hit them with projectiles at this angle rather than leaning over and aiming straight down.

Again, I have zero evidence to support these points, just spitballing here.

Agreed, it’s a half step forward. Leaving fossil fuels underground is still progress, even if we aren’t sequestering CO2 in the atmosphere.

I’m optimistic that building a market like this can drive design efficiency for direct air capture tech. If that efficiency is improved it could make capture and sequestration a more plausible option for govts in the future.

Fingers crossed!