32-bit per channel graphics is a bit of a misnomer. It uses a 32-bit float for each channel instead of the usual 8/10 bit unsigned integer. Furthermore, the value must be between 0 and 1 in order to display as anything other than 0% or 100% of that color. Its real utility is in high dynamic range situations, where overshooting the mark actually means something. In ordinary situations you just get the equivalent of an unsigned integer with the same bits as the mantissa, which for single-precision (32-bit) floats is 23 bits. For half-precision (16 bit) floats, you get 10 bits. Half-precision floats are much more common than single-precision right now in graphics, but give it time. Windows 10 and 11 default to half-precision float per channel graphics, IIRC. Graphics cards are tuned for doing half-precision calculations, as well.

Non sequitur. The reason Amazon charges California sales tax to Californians is because they have a presence in California. The same is true in pretty much every other state. If you have a presence in a state, you must charge sales tax to that state's residents.

Furthermore, SCOTUS has made it pretty clear that states can't regulate businesses that don't have a physical presence in their state, for the most part. So this law is not going to survive scrutiny for this reason. And also because it violates the first amendment. And also because it's a bill of attainder. And also there are probably more reasons I haven't even thought of.

You seem to have confused gender with sex, and you have failed to remember that intersexed people exist. Intersexed people are genetically distinct from ordinary males and females, having sex chromosomes different from the usual XX or XY combinations. For example, there exist people with XXY sex chromosomes. What sex are they, genetically?

(To be clear, sex is how your genetics and/or genitals appear at birth. Gender is how you present yourself to society. Given that I'm not going to see most people's genitals, nor would I want to, I, and you, are unable to know a person's sex by looking at them. As for gender, we must simply accept a person's gender as what they say it is. To do otherwise is completely disrespectful. Don't disrespect people, especially purpose. That's bad.)

Also, there is good science showing that some people have brains that are structured similar to people's brains from the sex that is the opposite of their sex. Those people almost always consider themselves to have a gender different from their sex, i.e. they are transgendered. Given their existence, a new category is needed to identify people whose gender matches their sex. Those people are called cisgendered.

You may not want to believe that any of this is true, but that's a problem with you, specifically, stupidity and/or ignorance. Except that ignorance is not available in your case, since you are aware of these things. Have fun being dumb.

Nonsense. Violence has dropped by more than half since "you" were a kid. The reason you didn't hear about school shootings was two-fold: fewer people had guns, by far, so shootings in general were less common (violence was much more common, however, just not involving guns as much); and the newspaper you got at home didn't report on every school shooting across the country. Today, we know about every shooting, 50 years ago we only knew about the local ones. This means that 50 years ago, people were less aware of the problem, not that it wasn't happening.

This is just like autism and ADHD. We've gotten tons better at detecting those disorders and so the number of diagnosed cases has risen significantly. This doesn't mean that more kids today have those problems than in the past, just that we're more likely today to know about the ones who do.

No. That would be dumb. Privatization usually sucks more than having it publicly administered. Utilities that everyone needs to use should be public entities, or at least heavily regulated. Natural gas, water, electricity, phone, etc, all make sense to be public or well regulated. I would argue that cellphones and Internet are also at that level now, but we haven't quite gotten the regulations up and running yet. Give it time

That last thing you describe with the boiling water and tube sounds like a coffee percolator, and probably is. This is used to be the default in the US until the advent of drip coffee. Percolated coffee always tastes burnt and disgusting. Drip coffee is alright, but I'll stick with espresso, 50/50 with half-and-half. Even out of a Nespresso, espresso beats most other forms. French pressed coffee isn't bad, either, but you need to grind the beans yourself for it to be worth it, IMHO.

Generally, though, for caffeine, nothing beats Earl Grey tea, hot, maybe with a bit of half-and-half. I would say that even if Captain Picard wasn't the best Star Trek captain. He's the reason I first tried it, and I've never regretted trying it. Even low quality Earl Grey is pretty good and beats most coffees hands down. Good Earl Grey is amazing. I especially like Earl Greys that have a bit of the bergamot flowers added in. While unrelated to the bergamot citrus that normally flavors Earl Grey teas, bergamot flowers taste very similar to the bergamot citrus peel and having both is amazing. I'm considering making my own Earl Grey tea this year if I can still get some bergamots. The season for them is almost over. If I do, I'll probably also make some bergamot citrus syrup which would great to add to the tea occasionally. Bergamots are very sour same the juice tastes similar to a very sour orange, so a syrup made from bergamot juice and orange flower honey would be amazing, and an awesome addition to a cup of Earl Grey.

Maybe not 85dB but definitely 55dB. Remember that the dBb isn't linear, it's logarithmic, which means that, in this case, 10dB is 10 times louder (by power output). 55dB compared to reference silence (that's what dB means you don't mention that the reference is. dB is always a comparison, it's not an absolute measurement) is like a conversation at normal volume. 85dB is like being on the sidewalk on a busy street. I could believe that it's possible to get 85dB noise from a huge server from, from the air conditioners alone, and have the sound travel quite a distance. At like 1km distance, the sound near the source would only need to be like 95-100dB, which is pretty loud but but out of the question. It's like a drill motor, or a revving diesel truck.

No, you missed it too. You're talking about how things should be. He was talking about how things often are. Totally different things. Should it be a one tick affair? Yeah, sure. Is it always? No. Is it even always possible? No. There are many times when people need vendor logins in addition to their own company's login. There's no easy way to handle both with one click. Can it be done? Maybe. But often not.

You missed his point entirely. The problem is that it isn't just ticking one box and done. It's that there are twenty different boxes on fifteen different systems, each of which can only be ticked by a specific, different person from some specific, different department and/or vendor. Is this stupid? Sure. Is it avoidable? Probably not.

Do laptops really only get less than three hours runtime still exist? I only ask because, if I put my laptop in power saver mode and turn down the brightness real low, I get about five hours. My laptop's processor is an 8-core Xeon, so several steps above any of the standard laptop processors in performance. I rarely need to use it like that, but it's nice to be able to.

Gnome is garbage anyway. While I haven't used Linux as a primary OS in years, every time I do use it, if the system uses gnome, I'm immediately annoyed. For better or worse, Microsoft got Windows pretty much right. With Windows 10, the UI is practically perfect. New people and old hats can both use it and immediately understand what's going on. The defaults are sensible, and things do what you'd expect. There are more than enough power features to make your life easier if you want to use them, as well. Gnome is a nightmare in comparison. The only DE worth a shit on Linux is KDE mostly because it just apes Windows. I suppose there are probably a few window managers that do a decent job as well, but I don't use Linux often enough to figure that out, nor do I really care. If I'm using Linux with a GUI, it's KDE or I'm not bothering. I'll just stick with the command-line rather that deal with gnome.

Oh yeah! My ID# is smaller than yours, and as we all know dick size is inversely proportional to /. UserID#. /s

Anyway, I will point out that this is definitely a CmdrTaco problem. He didn't know how to do Unicode when he wrote /.'s code, so we were stuck on straight ASCII. I say were because a few years ago they fixed it, but then reverted the fix because they couldn't figure out how to deal with Unicode text-direction markers properly and wall the trolls kept reversing the direction of text. They still haven't bothered to actually fix it for real since. Dumb.

The language you're looking for is C#, using Visual Studio. You can write apps for Android using Xamarin with Visual Studio in C#, and then cross-compile them for iOS. Or so I'm told. I've never actually tried it. Xamarin does come with Visual Studio, even the free version, for sure. You'll still need a Mac for iOS though, even with Xamarin.

Not really. She still denies that it's a fake voice. There are home videos of her talking in a normal voice and then practicing the fake one in the mirror and telling herself that just needs to do better at this and people will look at her like an adult rather than as a little girl. There's phone video of her at a party talking with a normal voice but slightly drunk then realizing and switching back to the deep one. Personality, I think that's enough to be certain it's fake, but I wouldn't stake money on it. Maybe she had some hormone issues and her voice deepened, or maybe she's a big phoney, who knows? Only her and her parents for sure, and they're not telling.

I bought a laptop from Dell two years ago that blows the pants off this for only slightly more. 8-core Xeon, Quadro RTX5000 graphics (roughly equivalent to a 3080, iirc), 128GB RAM, 1TB storage, with spots for three additional pci-e m.2 sticks, which I filled with a 1TB, 4TB, and 4TB SSDs, which I run pairwise in raid-0. The total cost, then, was about $6k. Today, I could probably get exactly the same machine for half that. And they're charging $4.3k for half the machine and it's not even a laptop. Fuck that