thatKamGuy

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I understood - your comment g actually triggered a curiosity in me as to why we don’t combine the two methods (boiling and falling) to “double-dip” on electricity production.

I’m sure there are plenty of practical reasons why not, but I genuinely don’t know.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe not to the rest of us, but it is news to the MAGA crowd!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Now here’s an idea - we boil the water to turn turbines, and then have the steam collect and pool in an upper chamber before running through another turbine into the first boiling chamber below?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

To the best of my understanding, AMD/Nvidia/Intel each run their own forms of architecture (eg. AMDs RDNA) which are probably closest to RISC for simple instructions and SIMD/SIMT (single instruction, multiple data/threads) for more complex vector calculations.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I am assuming that’s a GTX 480 and not an RX 480; if so - kudos for not having that thing melt the solder off the heatsink by now! 😅

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I drink two beers in the morning, I drink two beers at night, I drink two beers in the afternoon, and then I feel alright!

I drink two beers in times of peace, and two in times of war; I drink two beers before I drink two beers, and then I drink two more!

My friends say I have a drinking problem. A drinking problem! What drinking problem? I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, if you don’t mind gaming at 1080p, and keeping graphical settings reasonable in order to maintain a playable frame rate - you could be OK for a couple more years.

Otherwise if the upgrade itch just becomes too much, the Steam Machine could very well be a suitable entry point - provided that RAM model prices don’t continue to skyrocket.

I truly cannot wait for the day that the current AI bubble bursts.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Pre-COVID, when the Ethereum mining went crazy… so around the time of the RTX 2000 series? Which honestly was pretty lacklustre compared to the GTX 1000 series…

So yeah, it’s been a while!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s interesting to see what people genuinely consider to be bad, or maybe they just missed that word? 😅

For me, it would have to be Under The Skin; a solid 6/10 game, in a world where 7/10 is considered average!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s not as much a “feel-good” story as comments who haven’t read beyond the headline might make you believe:

The PIF values its total investments at nearly $1 trillion in assets, but a significant percentage of these are hard-to-sell assets with no public valuation; as a result, the NYT reports that the PIF reps have told international investors that it is "unable to allocate" for the near future.

Despite this, a spokesperson for the PIF, Marwan Bakrali, told the newspaper that it had $60 billion in cash and “similar financial instruments”.

ETA: Its not as though they’ve lost a significant chunk of the fund, but rather that a sizeable portion of it is tied up in illiquid assets that can’t be readily sold, or valued and loaned against.

Though there is some mention of some of their investments being in “distress”, so there is at least some good news?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

This, I think, is the big open secret about the push for consoles to move towards pure digital distribution.

It’s easier to not have to compete against your back catalog for gamer attention, if you cut off end-users ability to access it!

Rockstar already tried something like this, when they released the ~~Definitive~~ Defective Edition.

It failed successfully, in no small part to the remaster being absolute garbage, but for the AAA publishers, it’s merely a small setback that they will try again in the near future.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's literally a laptop CPU with a laptop GPU.

Not trying to have a go at you, actually genuinely curious: Do you have a source to confirm this, or is it more of an educated guess on your part?

All I’ve seen so far is that it’s a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6c/12t CPU and RDNA 3 28 CU GPU.

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