The first one actually makes sense in a moral and logical context. (Eg. It’s technically correct that a bullet can make you quit smoking, but it still isn’t right.)

Having no package manager be like:

Not sure about development directions, but they currently have regular hybrids, plug in hybrids, battery EVs, hydrogen EVs…

I don’t think the infrastructure is there yet for hydrogen to be viable, so I don’t really consider those.

Toyota is one of the brands from which I would consider buying an EV.

Ööö (uhhh), not really.

they’ll need to use twice as many chips, which could mean doubling the bus width (one can dream) to 512 bit (ala 5900)

I misread this part, thinking you implied a bus width increase is necessary.

For a 512 bit memory bus, AMD would either have to use 1+8 dies if they follow the 7900XTX scheme or have a monolithic behemoth like GB102. The former would have increased power draw but lower manufacturing costs, while the latter is more power efficient and more prone to defects as it’s getting close to the aperture size limit.

I’d guess nvidia will soon have to switch to chiplet based GPUs. Maybe AMD stopped (for now?) because not their whole product stack was using chiplet based designs so they had way less flexibility with allocation and binning than with ryzen chiplets.

Clamshell design. RX 7900XTX 24GB | PRO W7900 48GB

Same GPU, same 384 bit bus.

Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

Still beats programming on paper.

No, you just get a new set growing in the gums.

After the failed nazi coup in Austria, a referendum was organized to democratically decide whether to join Germany or not. But one day before the referendum, German troops marched in. The referendum was changed and postponed a month. Threats and coercion were employed to manipulate the vote, resulting in 99% approval for the Anschluss. While the population’s true opinions are unknown, it has been estimated that about 70% of Austrians would have voted to preserve Austrian independence.

In hindsight it is obvious to us what was going on.

Anschluss (2025 American edition)

Space is emerging faster than it can transmit changes. This is why no light can reach us beyond the observable universe.

😢 <–

DPI scaling of the regular steam GUI can also be wonky if you have different monitors. For example, I mainly use steam on my lower DPI secondary monitor, but it wanted to scale based on my 4k main one. Could be fixed with an override though.

Philosophers: It is what it is.

Physicians: We need to be a bit more specific than that. Can we measure it?

Works on Voyager too.