JohnEdwa

Apparently it does get fairly similar performance in benchmarks, just not it games, which could indicate that the hardware is there and it’s just the drivers that are lacking.

Which often is the case with Chinese electronics - often brilliant hardware with absolutely terrible software haphazardly slapped on, and support dropped before the thing even shipped.

I could have gotten access to all the required apartment paperwork, cleaned and taken the photos, written up an advertisement, answered the calls & emails, set up the showings, negotiated with people, figured out the bank paper work, and finalized the sale all by myself.
Just like I could have cooked instead of ordering food someone else made for me, or not have my new washing machine delivered, carried inside and installed, and instead spend an evening doing it all myself.

But I’d really rather not, I’ll pay someone else to do those things, and spend my time doing something I actually find fun. But yeah, I guess they are all exploiting my laziness and unwillingness to do these things myself.

I was glad to pay the 2% commission so that all I had to do was tell them I had my late grandmothers apartment for sale, and then roughly a month later get a buy offer to sign.

If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn’t gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it’s not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.

Technically it should be possible to get to 80-90% at full charging power, assuming the car/battery and charger are properly designed (read: cooled) - most are not, so the charging quickly slows down to prevent overheating.

After that lithium charging (should) transition from Constant Current to Constant Voltage charging, which slowly tapers down to zero, and it usually takes forever to finish.

Hah, I did exactly the same. Mine arrived with a broken fan, but it didn’t matter because it never kicked in anyway. I used it as a Gameboy emulator for quite a while, it was actually small enough to hold like a handheld with QWAS acting as a Dpad.
Learning how to type with that tiny keyboard was a fun challenge.

The amounts being talked about are slightly higher than just regular wages, as they are asking for a bonus pool of 15% of operating profit and removal of caps for the bonuses. For SK Hynix, that recently negotiated the bonus pool to be 10% of their profit, that means they are expected to be paying each worker roughly a $450000 bonus this year, with it being estimated to rise to over $900000 next year.
Which means the bonus alone results in an hourly wage of $240-470/hour.

Would be really interesting to know what those kinds of bonuses do for the job market, where you could be earning ten to twenty times more money doing the same kind of work just because you happen to do it for SK Hynix, or possibly soon, Samsung.

If microslop has 1 billion to build a datacenter in Kenya, they can take a fraction of a percent of that budget and slap enough solar panels on it to generate all the electricity they would ever need. It’s fucking Kenya.

We tend not to vote in the first place, especially when votes are the most expensive in the entire EU - cheapest was 0,13€ in Denmark, while it was 1,5€/vote here. Someone calculated that based on some previous years with 10 max votes, you could easily get the first place with just something like 1000 people voting the max amount. (And possibly even a lot fewer, as it was max 10 votes per payment method, so one person could use multiple to stack on votes)

Any sensible country would have traffic/vehicle laws banning something like this already.

Here in Finland? Blue and green lights are not allowed on motor vehicles. Blinking blue gets you a huge fine for impersonating an emergency vehicle.

I hate cigarettes, but I’ve always liked the designs Marlboro had in their cars over the years. The red/white triangles and the tall “rlb” in the logo giving it a bit of symmetry, it just looks great.

That is already a massive improvement, as the actual minimum for autonomous vehicles is just “kill fewer people than human drivers”. Waymo has 200 million miles driven, which means they should have killed three people already.

Interestingly in most of the EU, there’s is no expectation of privacy in public and you are free to record people without their concent.

Releasing or using those recordings is a completely different thing though.

That, and also each Pi keeps getting less and less about being a cheap, low power single-board computer, and more about impressive raw performance numbers: Pi 1 got a sysbech single-thread score of 68. Pi 5 cpu benchmarks 600 times higher.

Witcher 2 Nordic Edition back in 2011. My Steam account is 21 years old :)

It’s much better when you take into account that to get gasoline, you have to refine crude oil first. That process alone uses electricity an EV could directly use instead - somewhere from 5-11kWh/gallon from what I can find, which is enough for roughly 15-33 EV miles - not to even mention the energy cost comparison for the whole extract - transport - refine - transport chain of gas.

Windows 11 has a minimum ram requirement of 4GB. 32-bit Win 10 required 1GB, 64-bit 2GB. You won’t be doing much of anything with that little RAM, but they will boot and “work”.

Imagine how fast our computers could perform if modern coders programmed like they did in the '90s and earlier.

And as someone that has spent countless hours shaving bytes and bits off microcontroller code to fit functionality to few KB of storage and optimizing routines to shave off a few cycles from loops, it’s kinda sad to think about it. Today you do the same things by running Python code often under a full blow Linux distro…

You can, if you allow personalized ads.

Not that I believe for a second not allowing them changes a single thing, they just don’t show it.

It is if you compare it to a regular controller, but from what it offers - touchpads, back buttons, hall effect sticks, gyro, full remappability etc - it’s more comparable to something like the PS5 Edge and those are almost twice the cost.

At this point selling PCs without ram & storage is starting to sound like a reasonable thing. Especially as they claim it’s “upgradeable” as one of their major selling points and it uses standard DDR4 ram and NVME SSDs, so many people interested have spares from old builds collecting dust.