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Comment Too bad Kaveri wasn't ready yet. (Score 1) 338

Too bad Kaveri wasn't available when the APUs for the consoles were designed, so they had to use Puma cores which, from a performance point of view, are quite underwhelming.

No, I'm not considering Kaveri a race car, but in comparison to Puma it has a lot more CPU horsepower.

Comment That's only a matter of size. (Score 1) 315

but the problem with fusion is getting more energy than is put in...

That's just a matter of size. Fusion power release rises as a function of plasma volume, heat losses rise as a function of plasma surface, so just make it big enough.

.. and keeping that reaction sustained indefinitely.

A year or so would be nice, but shorter periods might be useful, too.

Comment Re:Why not just shoot them and be done with it? (Score 1) 142

You notice you wrote "presumed", right?

If you presume another vessel to be sufficiently hostile to unleash a swarm of robot boats armed with, among other things,

".50-caliber machine gun and a microwave direct energy weapon or heat ray."

on it, then you might as well give it a warning shot and, if it doesn't react, shoot it with a real gun.

Comment I stand corrected. (Score 1) 942

The problem is that flour is compressibleâ"so measuring it by weight is inherently more accurate.

I asked the resident baked goods engineer at home, and she does indeed use the more correct version shown in the link.

Scooping ingredients directly from the container only works with fairly incompressible things like (white) or salt.

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