zik

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[–] zik@zorg.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That so ridiculous it's funny as hell.

[–] zik@zorg.social 13 points 1 year ago

I'd far prefer the huntsman to bedbugs. Huntsmans are pretty chill and eat bugs for you.

[–] zik@zorg.social 8 points 1 year ago

With the right attitude, any robot's a sexbot.

...and my robot vacuum's looking mighty fine right now.

[–] zik@zorg.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's absolutely not true. The M3 Max just about brings Apple performance up to similar levels as Intel and AMD. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D for example is a laptop processor which trades blows with the M3 on benchmarks - single core the M3's slightly faster and multi core the Ryzen's slightly faster - and in performance per watt the Ryzen's marginally better. So really it's just catching up with older laptop processors from other manufacturers.

And if you venure outside the laptop space to compare ultimate speed it's nowhere near the fastest, particularly in multi-threaded. Its multi-threaded performance is around 13% of the AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo for example.

[–] zik@zorg.social 3 points 1 year ago

The base load argument doesn't hold water any more - not when there are places which are progressing towards being totally free of base load. Eg. South Australia is already nearly all renewable power with in-fill from batteries and transient gas power when needed. They're still currently getting some base load from other states but it's small and gradually being phased out.

[–] zik@zorg.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're not economically feasible anywhere right now. Unfortunately nuclear power is very expensive compared to all the alternatives. Unless there's some radical breakthrough I can't see much nuclear being built in the future. No company would pay such a huge up-front cost to produce uneconomic electricity.

So the strict answer is - no, they're not feasible everywhere. And also not feasible pretty much anywhere.

[–] zik@zorg.social 10 points 1 year ago

Historical reality - monasteries filled with monks on the verge of starvation and no gold. Vikings be disappoint.

[–] zik@zorg.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's from a famous paper. Linked by gnutrinto elsewhere in this thread,

[–] zik@zorg.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hilariously non self aware.

[–] zik@zorg.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they don't want anyone to get out.

[–] zik@zorg.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's actually 25. But it's amazing to think that people in Florida can get 30 years just for possessing some weed. I think it might be the US that has the problem here.

[–] zik@zorg.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remember the Samsung battery issues being all over the news a few years ago and everyone saying, "Apple never has these problems"? Meanwhile Apple was literally breaking people's phones to reduce fires and paying people off to keep quiet about their battery fires. Nice. 🔥

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