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You do have the eighth wonder of the world however. The 'Wall of Whittakers' at Pak'n'Save.

Also sorry that we send you our trash from Cadburies in tassie.

I'm across the ditch in Oz, and every time I am in NZ it is always peculiar just how forgotten they are in some spaces.

I live in Melbourne, and our population is larger than that of all NZ so I get why they kind of get forgotten, but it still sucks.

While it sounds nice in principal, it basically just means cashed up people get it first. But there is also the fun side of it becoming a status symbol I guess. Drive up future demand.

So France and Canada both build nuclear plants. Must be something in the french language that makes folks just want to do the cool stuff.

If it is anything like all my french cookware, it will be done wonderfully.

I was about to say. DDR 2/3 I can still see many use cases for that stuff in modern-ish tech.

I am currently looking for some EDO sticks for a really well preserved IBM Aptiva I found on the side of the road. That stuff is expensive for a very different reason.

When the Wii came out was also really close to when the Ouya released as well. It was funny to see that a tablet/phone processor (Tegra 3) had a more powerful CPU than the Wii U, it was only lacking in the GPU department. But you could easily see that gap closing quickly.

But it sort of became obvious, the Wii U gamepad was just waiting for powerful enough mobile technology so that it could break free of the console. And then the Switch happened and I was so glad that Nintendo didn't miss this opportunity.

This is behind a paywall for me.

For those that don't know, they make the ceramic surface that the wafer sits on when being etched. It has to simultaneously handle extremely high heat and extremely low heat as liquid helium is pumped through them. They have to be near atom perfect surfaces to ensure there is no warping on the silicon.

For all the attention the lithography gets, these folks technology is the foundation on which these chips sit.

I absolutely love that folks keep these old systems going with stuff like this.

But, I do wonder what the browsing experience is like. It was rough using Firefox back on Mac's in the mid 2000's and the internet has only gotten significantly more data heavy since.

Anything less than a G5 would be difficult to deal with.

Alas, I sit in the horrible limbo zone. The wife and I have been trying for about 6-7 years now, done all kinds of medical whatnot but still nothing. It just feels like complete defeat some days, this was the last thing on the list of goals and we just cannot get there.

Yeah, these days it kind of just sucks and days like this just makes it so much worse. This is not the fault of anyone here, this is my battle. Absolutely take this day and all the others in your stride.

That is the stats for parents. By age of 6 you will have spent about 50% of your time with them. By age of 12 it is 75% and 20 it is 90%+.

As they gain independence, you have less time with them but it is also considered higher quality time.

And yes, 10 years is short. 2016 feels like no time compared with today.

Also like a power based version of Wirth's law [1]. Software will find out ways to use more power than battery technology can improve.

I run my phone very minimally and as such I tend to get 3-5 days of use before needing to recharge. In keeping the software static I have managed to leverage the hardware gains for myself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

> Now we're building systems where language is the interface to action. A prompt can write code, launch workflows, coordinate agents, make decisions, and increasingly affect the physical world.

Remember, it only affects the physical world if people act on it. In the end those that act are the ones that made it happen.

Yep apparently I am a German author, I am not. Further searching and I could not find anyone else with my name.

Wim hof has a lot of stories, hard to tell which ones are true or not unfortunately.

I would assume it is purely because of the mass.

The optimistic take is that he is doing all this to achieve his space goals, that the ends are justification of the means.

But when he is interested in actively interfering with elections the world over and probably spends more time on twitter than anything else, I am not so sure.

The thing with the sell out routine is that they think it is all working until it suddenly isn't. The money isn't about living the high life it is about having the high score. Bezos is probably trying to figure out how he can take the No 1 spot right now. If Elon is smart, we will cash out right before the fall.

I have noticed that those that are the most optimistic about AI almost always talk in a future-tence.

It WILL do this, it COULD achieve that etc.

With all the talk about developers being lazy and younger folk not understanding the technology they use, it is always great to see examples of core foundational work still being done. Makes the rest of that talk feel like fear mongering.

The massive increases to military spending would be a big part of it. Have to feed the war machine at all costs apparently.

And welcome to our little odd ball land. Just remember, if an Aussie offers you a 'Golden Gay Time', take it and you will be pleasantly surprised. ;)

Not only x86 chips, they are going in fairly hard on Risc V and Loongarch (MIPS/Risc V inspired ISA). Risc V is still growing trying to catch up to ARM, while Loongarch LA664/LA864 chips are much closer to x86 performance than other options. They still are many years behind but not as far as you would expect.

GPU's are still a fair way behind with Moore Threads S80 being a better example of their high end. I suspect they have some major driver issues because they current benchmark far below what that silicon should be able to do. https://en.mthreads.com/product/S80

There is also the pressure to have them innovate on older process nodes so they can make this stuff domestically. For instance Huawei is doing what they call 'logic folding' which is basically just stacking dies in a way that ends up reducing the overall size of chip features. Not sure how it addresses thermals but it is a cool idea.

Sorry this article is a bit of LLM rubbish but you get the point - https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/huawei-logic-folding-moores-la...

China is hungry and that is driving them to take these moon shots, they may just make it.

And you know this one will end up compounding something else nasty on that side of the country. The universe has a sick sense of humor sometimes.

To para-quote Hedonism bot from Futurama "Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. And then the quake struck!"

I am always fascinated to see how well these kinds of interventions stick. For instance, going dumb phone feels like a solution but when you hit that inevitable wall, the whole narrative of that solution falls apart.

I have found that one of the best things folks should do is look at the original presentation of the iPhone. You have the phone, your messages, maps, music and a web browser if you really need to reach out for something beyond that. It had clear intention, it wasn't made to addict people, it was made to help people do things faster and than move on with your day.

I'm not saying return to that entirely but if you can bring that attitude to the smart phone. It is a device that helps you, not entertain you endlessly.

Yep, bundle it all together, rename the whole company X (for added confusion), get a few final pay outs in the hundred of billions if not trillions and then Elon flees to Argentina as the whole house of cards crumbles.

In the hotter parts of summer I typically down clock/undervolt my machines to at least hold off them potentially cooking themselves a little. For most work, I don't even need a whole Ghz yet alone 3+ Ghz so it isn't a big issue.

Yes, there are safety measure built in but I just give them a helping hand.

Basically given the choice of one kills in hours and other in decades. Can we try to take option c?

I have seen some Climatologists who are thinking we might hit the 2C mark by mid to late 2030's simply based on the exponential heating pace we are seeing decade over decade. Part of it being some feedback loops have arisen from our increased heating.

It's wild to think that we might be only 10 years away from that line in the sand we marked. Hopefully they are wrong but I fear they are not.

I went into this think "Oh another mini x86 board, thats cool". I was not expecting a mixing deck to pop up. Very nice.

I mean Canada is a part of the 'Five eyes' surveillance alliance since the 1950's. This is nothing new but it does keep escalating.

It was Terrance McKenna who said that the worst government is usually the one that is in charge, that is because they rarely tend to go back on what was put down before them. One could argue that in the US Trump is tearing down previous government work but also isn't doing it in a constructive fashion at all.

I pushed back on all these kinds of Bills and laws here in Australia and every time it was usually just met with the same boiler plate response of "We are enacting this at the advice of insert agency/person here."

I still do it but it sort of just feels like leaving a note to future generations that we at least tried to stop it.

There is always the Australian system. Mandatory voting, preferential votes, majority rule.

The Preferential part is the most important, it means you can vote for who you want but also have the second preference get a vote if the first fails to get a wide enough margin. That first vote however will get additional resources based on vote tally with the next election cycle. If either of the last two majority parties fail to get the necessary votes to hold control and you have a hung parliament, they then have to negotiate with other parties to gain their preference.

Its not perfect but it looks like the best case system I have seen.