Silicon is hitting the wall, I bet a 5080 will still run games a decade from now.

Nvidia has choice, use the silicon wafers to make AI chips or use them to make GPUs, given that they are making huge profit margins on the AI chips they don't have to worry about selling GPUs right now.

You can't remote control walk people down the tunnel when the electricity goes off or the train fails or a bombs goes off somewhere. In the Tube many stations have a staff member on the platforms when it's busy. Nothing to do with voters, TFL runs the tube, voters don't get a say beyond picking a mayor.

"Chinese customers accounted for over 25% of ASML's revenue in 2023 and China represents a major market for the world's top maker of lithography tools"

And it seems that the latest reductions in stated transistor nm size aren't really leading to faster chips anyway, silicon doesn't want to go much beyond 5ghz. Rather than saving energy AMD and intel have been putting more energy through their chips to get slightly higher benchmark results and look at the trouble that has caused intel.

I've seen claimed China has 3nm tech, but that tech is in lab experiments which are a very long way from being fab output. Again though, I don't think 3nm etc matters, the chips just have to be good enough.

Lol, wut, to believe in the bible you have to believe in an absolute ton of stuff that has no evidence what-so-ever, basically you have to have faith that the fairy-tale is real. Is doesn't need debunking because it's so completely absurd and unproven that it's the other way round. To debunk something you need a half-sane assertion in the first place, the bible doesn't have that. So, a bit like UFO stuff.

For example, Jesus loves you and died for your sins, he's so good but Jesus is also god and god will inflict upon the worst pain imaginable for an infinite amount of time if you refuse to believe in a unproven massively contradictory fairy-tale (by allowing you to go to hell). And there are several branches of Christianity and if you believe in the wrong one then you're a non-believer and you're going to hell.

IMO the US gov't like having people believe in UFOs because it distracts them from the insane mess that is the US government and what they do.

IMO netflix's problem is one of discoverability, their interface sucks, the best way to find something good on Netflix is to start googling sites and blogs about what's best on Netflix. There is good stuff on Netflix but good luck finding it amongst all of the endless uncreative dross.

Having said that, they discontinued the basic no-ads tier and I discontinued my Netflix subscription because I can't stand ads or steep price rises. Other services have cheaper no-ads tiers which I'll probably fire up for some binge-ing over winter.

So many people getting so butt-hurt about someone letting off some fireworks. Just to put things in perspective, normally when fireworks are let off there are hundreds or thousands of people standing nearby.

Meanwhile politicians and MSM are supporting genocide in Palestine and the silence is deafening. Children being blown to bits and starved to death, that's what pisses me off.

Yeah, next thing you'll be saying that like gold and uranium that you can just get out of sea water.

The level of misogyny in this page is sad, the article being poor/lacking info is on PCMag as it is their article. Half the discussion here is valid talk about browsers, memory etc and the other half is nasty pointless and baseless attacks. And I won't be wasting my time replying to attacks directed at me for pointing this out.

Nothing moved, I want autonomous cars to be as safe as good drivers like I said in the first place, I don't want autonomous cars being as dangerous as the set of people including drunk and tired drivers. No change, same reason safety AND accountability reasons, with corporations running the show there will be less accountability and less safety that's a given.

So if the technology is demonstrably safer than 99% of drivers and results in a comparable reduction in deaths, youâ(TM)d still be opposed to it?

If someone drives drunk and kills someone then they can be arrested and potentially imprisoned. You can't arrest an autonomous car and the responsibility for any deaths will be too far removed - no-one will be arrested, there won't be enough deterrent to stop companies from putting shoddy autonomous systems on the road.

So yes, I don't want autonomous cars on the road that aren't far safer than your average driver when that average includes people that shouldn't be driving and aren't driving legally.

If an autonomous car could be shown to be safer than a professional driver with years of experience that isn't tired or under the influence of alcohol or drugs then I'd be happy for that car to be on the road. But I would not be happy if the bar was set so low as that the car is barely be safer than drunk or tired drivers. I would also not be happy if the allowing the car to drive in all weather conditions on all roads if it had only achieve a good record driving only on easy roads in daylight in good weather conditions. etc.

PS I have also heard of a theoretical intriguing device that consists of gyroscopes configured in such a way that they could cause lift within a box without violating any laws of physics including the laws of thermodynamics. It is simply a quirk of physics and gyroscopes used in such a way as to cause lift, no laws of nature violations because of the amount of energy needed.

I've since tried finding sources but never had any luck.

Unless said machine runs off a battery and uses more energy to raise a device than sticking a battery with a motor on a vertical rail.

So the machine would not be perpetual motion because you could not gain back more than it took to lift the device.

If he leaves it in the garage he should get his insurance adjusted for like 500 miles per year. (I assume it comes out _sometimes_ or he wouldn't need to register or insure it at all...)

And if he then drives 50K miles the next year, should he backpay the insurance company more money for that year?