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yeah pretty much. The JVM but marginally less skill issued lol.

i would assume they used them in a heat sinking deal. Presumably to apply pressure to a diode package into a heatsink, while sinking heat, or something along those lines. Could be galvanic corrosion reasons also i guess.

if it’s powerful enough to yeet drones out of the sky, and hasn’t been built before, we’re talking KW range power rating, enough to presumably vaporize parts of the drone instantly, or near instantaneously. So presumably dirty optics would be a big problem. We already have problems with optics on flashlights getting “dirty” from similar issues.

unfortunately, you’re aren’t wrong.

yeah pretty much, optics would likely be pretty temperamental at those power levels, but maybe they aren’t using any? Idk.

If a bug lands on one while it fires would basically melt the optics instantly. I would imagine.

but but, minecraft in java bad and stinky??

theoretically you could do it by defining an architecture operations standard, and then adhering to that somewhat when designing a CPU. While providing hardware flexibility as you could simply, not implement certain features, or implement certain other features. Might be an interesting idea.

That or something that would require minimal “instruction translation” between different architectures.

It’s like x86. except if most of the features were optional.

yeah i get it. But it’s a little more than that at the end of the day, i just thought it would be funny to make that joke lol.

it’s not just the laser…

It’s the optics, it’s the cooling, it’s the physical mechanics it’s built on, the laser may be pushed well over it’s designed target range causing it to breakdown further.

The power supply for the laser, the circuitry for control (to some degree) and most importantly, where ever you source that energy from. Presumably a super cap bank and a generator? Maybe batteries? Who knows.

smells like linus thinks there is going to be an ever increasing tech debt, and honestly, i think i agree with him on that one.

RISCV is likely going to eventually overstep it’s role in someplaces, and bits and pieces of it will become archaic over time.

The gap between hardware and software level abstraction is huge, and that’s really hard to fill properly. You just need a strict design criteria to get around that one.

I’m personally excited to see where RISCV goes, but maybe what we truly need is a universal software level architecture that can be used on various different CPU architectures providing maximum flexibility.

i get it, but the pain with those is that they’re going to be the 1% most of the time. renpy natively supports linux, so most VNs aren’t a problem. Most modern game engines support building for linux. It’s mostly just the tiny devs doing weird niche shit not building it properly cross platform, or building it for cross platform.

You also run into the problem of dealing with things at an incredibly small scale, which just make it more annoying. Both for the user and the dev, and anybody working on proton.

It’s the development cycle thing of getting 80% of the way there takes 20% of the effort, and getting it 99% of the way there is the rest of it.

Although to be fair, the amount of shit proton just works on is actually staggeringly impressive. I’ve only found a handful of things it implodes itself on.

“why doesn’t my recently released porn game work under proton” mfers when they realize they can’t tell other people they’re trying to play porn games on linux.

Do you think there’s a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

there’s a disposition between gay people and being furries, not between being furry, and being gay.

It’s a little weird, but it’s just a technicality of the furry community being the way that it is. It’s the same reason the US government is 90% people above the age of 60 right now. It’s just demographic shenanigans.

i just want to know what picture they sent to the guy on signal…

surely this man could not possibly be presented an image of a zombie that he WOULDN’T be afraid of, could he?

Most would assume the AI thingy does its thing on the local computer.

good thing nvidia having a massive market cap isn’t a big news item, it’s worth noting that nobody is talking about all the hardware that microsoft and google are building, surely nobody will talk about the fact that nvidia is backordered for years on hardware.

It’s even better that modern consumer grade CPUs aren’t marketing for the NPU bits they have.

it’s hidden in the same sense that your closet is hidden.

Yet most people know they also have closets.

nothing, i’m just making the point that it doesnt matter what you look at, there’s terrible shit happening everywhere.

i do have comments, for some things, but there are a lot of “commenting” standards that are just shit. I find i don’t care what the actual piece of code is doing, i care more about it’s place in the rest of the code, and i’d much rather have “anti comments” instead.