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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The 5V5A supply is optional, the Pi 5 alone works perfectly fine using a standard 5V3A USB-PD supply, it just limits the maximum combined USB port current to 600mA.
    But technically they are still in USB-PD spec: it’s apparently okay for a charger to support 5V5A, and a device to “prefer” to use that if it’s available. It can’t be required, but as said, the Pi 5 works with 5V3A, so it isn’t.

    It’s still dumb, and they should have just used 9V3A instead and paid the dollar for the stepdown circuitry like everyone else.


  • If it’s anything like the solution planned in Finland, the waste is placed in copper containers, transported in pretty much bomb-proof vessels, and the facility is kilometres deep underground split into multiple separated chambers that get filled with concrete (or bentonite to be more precise) once they are full. The result is a solid block that will survive basically forever and the only thing you need to do is not go dig it back up.






  • The three best current female chess grandmasters are global ranks #123, #152, and #169. So unless the process of transitioning somehow damages your mental ability to play chess massively, there are at least 122 men that could at any point transition and become the top female grandmaster. And if there was no womens only chess championships, there would be I think… One? Female grandmaster in the entire history of chess? Judith Polgar got to rank #10. Second highest was Hou Yifan at #55.

    For some other sports, back when Serena Williams was the top women’s tennis player, she lost to the man at men’s ranking #203, who said he wasn’t even playing seriously.

    That’s why there are very often womens and open (and almost never mens) divisions in sports, and why trans players aren’t usually allowed in the womens one - because usually, it would be really unfair.
    The open one is open, female athletes are free to compete in them. They essentially never do because they can’t qualify, but if you want to know what sports without gendered brackets would look like, it would pretty much be men only.




  • While true, the way DLSS 2/3/4 does it is to take a bunch of low res renders of the game over time while wiggling the camera very slightly, and stitch them all together to generate a new, higher res image that very closely matches what the original would have looked like. The GenAI part is essentially just a very advanced temporal blending function that’s really good at detecting and smoothing out edges.

    DLSS 5 then runs an AI Instagram filter on top of the frame for “enhanced visuals”, because obviously we want our games to look like cheap AI slop.