FlowingRiver

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by FlowingRiver 8d ago
While others have made good points, your view is also valid. The messaging nowadays is more toward sovereignty even if the core direction hasn't fundamentally changed significantly. I do find it funny how the harder some folks push for
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by FlowingRiver 8d ago
I did find it funny recently when Huawei when talking about its folded logic say the Vertical Bonding Pitch's are every 15,000 angstroms. It is a very fancy way of saying an interconnect every 1.5 microns.
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by FlowingRiver 8d ago
The lowest spec machine I have been able to get 60fps 720p video out of Youtube is a 2nd Gen i5 2.4Ghz. Anything lower and the frames start dropping. It is funny that during that time period, Intel's media decoders got significantly fa
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
It think we are now heading towards the final long term ISA setup. x86 and ARM at the top, ARM in the middle and RISC-V for smaller embedded machines that don't need the ARM toolchain.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
These things feel like, if they have any video output, it would be a single VGA port for if you REALLY need to get a signal from it.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
About 25 years back here in Australia they were advertising Fujitsu air-conditioners, they had the promise of some like "They will get the air down to 17c in all conditions." About a month later there was a summer heat wave and I
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
Yep, I have said it for a good 20 years now. POWER/PowerPC is what happens when you take a brilliant design to execute it poorly. x86 is when you take a poor design and execute is brilliantly.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
POWER is still holding on just barely but I do suspect that IBM are looking to sunset it in the next few years.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
It was funny looking over this just waiting to see what ISA it was. No surprise that it was ARM but you never know. Nowadays if you have the source code the ISA is practically irrelevant.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
Carney saying 'middle powers' really is the most polite way of saying this.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
It is said that if you are resource rich it is best to sell your resources to others than to hoard them even if you sell them basically at cost. It is better to have an economic alliance than a potential enemy.
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by FlowingRiver 9d ago
Thank you for this, that would explain why difference field are talking different numbers.
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
Funnily enough, I guess the more you cycle them, the bigger they get until they just collapse. So you have a lot of potential storage just before you have none.
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
It is funny seeing how the estimates of the lower end stability vary drastically. Have seen numbers between 70 and 150 million barrels. I have just called it half way between that and think 110 million barrels is probably the lowest they sh
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
Very true. If everyone on the planet was allowed to walk over the great pyramids of Egypt, they would be pounded into dust. Sometimes it is better just to observe and move on.
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
A wild take I have seen was "Japan is the white mans Wakanda". It is a rough way of saying something important. There are many parts of Japanese culture that is seen as desirable and aspirational to others. The sense of social coh
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
It is an interesting position we are in here, I suspect we will do the usual thing and walk the middle road. Australia, is part of the Commonwealth, huge trade partner with Asia and allies with the US. Why not throw Canada into the mix some
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
The Monkey trap is a very powerful analogy. It is looking like we are venturing into harder times these new few years for various reasons, as such one has to wonder what things you are still clinging to that can be let go and what is still
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by FlowingRiver 10d ago
Will add Chapter 46. "When the Tao is present in the universe, The horses haul manure. When the Tao is absent from the universe, War horses are bred outside the city." I would consider surveillance weapons against the people. I th
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by FlowingRiver 11d ago
VRchat is what Zuckerberg wanted out of Meta. It is impressive but still suffers from the barrier to entry problem. I think VR is in the same position the PC/Mac was in the mid 80's. It is finally technically capable enough to do
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by FlowingRiver 12d ago
Every single time I use VR, it is a brilliant experience and then a day later I completely forget about it. The object permanence and product stickiness just isn't there yet. It is like the Apple Vision, I only remember it is a thing w
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by FlowingRiver 12d ago
I said it when it came out, Alyx was the single best chance VR had to prove itself. It was going to be either the launching pad of the future or the high tide mark. 6 years on, it is looking like the high tide mark. Unfortunately, it is a t
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by FlowingRiver 16d ago
We are in a silent recession, have been for a long while.
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by FlowingRiver 17d ago
Long term I worry what happens when you absolutely gut out the mental capabilities of a generation or two. We are only just now seeing the first stages of this, we are at the Facebook in 2008 stage trying to warn people about the societal f
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by FlowingRiver 17d ago
Apparently Rupert Murdoch absolutely loves when they rip into Fox and associated assets. Married with Children used to do the same thing. I know a few people who have met and worked with Murdoch and all have said he is perfectly pleasant to