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Comment Re:Heat and Power (Score 1) 86

Because, honestly, this is a lot lower than the figure my intuition was telling me.

That 1m^2 is probably more complex than your intuition is telling you. Firstly it's an ideal figure assuming the entire radiator is the same temperature, that already creates additional requirements for moving heat from A to B, you can't simply slap a heatsink on a CPU. Secondly that radiator needs to radiate away, which means it can't be folded facing itself. 1m^2 wouldn't be much for a heatsink that works predominantly convectively, but it is already non trivial to design for a purely radiative cooling scenario.

Comment Re:Scott Manley (Score 1) 42

Also, power generators will want to run at a fixed RPM to produce fixed-frequency A.C. output ... aircraft engines need to be able to ramp speed up and down quickly to respond to changing demand.

That's not actually an issue for power generation, it's an issue of aircraft inefficiency. There's nothing fundamentally different for the turbine design, instead the gearing is simply set so that the turbine runs at peak efficiency at the frequency of the synchronous generator. Also turbines need to startup and shutdown too.

Comment Re:Most social media is regurgiation (Score 1) 43

That is true only if the social context remains the same. When people debate the benefits of Marxism that is unlikely to generate anything new or meaningful that hasn't been said before. That said when we're discussing a problem of today, caused today, then a conversation had by the previous generation will not be relevant and simply indexing old information will either not give you any result, or worse, give you a wrong one.

Imagine asking AI why your EV isn't running smoothly and getting instructions on how to rebuild its carburettor.

Comment Re:Oh no! Reddit's WOKE SLOP website gets no views (Score 1) 43

Probably modded down because reddit is a place where you can make whatever the fuck you want. Want to make a woke central subreddit? Go for it. Want a subreddit dedicated to masturbating to pictures of Trump? Go for it. Claiming it is "woke" is just the same at saying "I'm a moron who can't see the trees because Fox News planted a forest in the way.

By saying the OP is 100% accurate you are saying you too have no capability of thinking for yourself, either through affiliation or whatever affliction affected the OP. Good scheeple you are.

Comment Re:This is proof of who the real customer is (Score 0) 26

Your post is silly. The cameras were always a means to an end, to get money. That one city didn't want to participate is irrelevant in their cross country network. The value is in the coverage, not the locality. Saying "I have cameras in New York" is profitable when you are talking to police in Philadelphia as well.

No doubt they have other customers as well, but to split them into "real" and "non-real" is just silly.

Comment Re:You don't have a choice (Score 1) 173

RAM is a small part of the cost of a good PC.

Errr when did you last look at building a PC? 2022? Right now RAM a 32GB stick of average preforming DDR5 costs more than an entire budget computer did a few years ago. The only reason RAM doesn't represent 50% of the cost of the entire computer is that your GPU also has RAM, and your storage also has memory (which suffers the same problem as RAM right now). A 64GB kit of cheap-arse Kingston RAM costs more than my entire previous computer did.

It used to be a case of spending in order for expense:
1. GPU, 2. CPU, 3. Motherboard, 4. RAM, 5. Storage
Now its:
1. RAM, 2. GPU, 3. Storage, 4. CPU, 5. RAM

Comment Re:You don't have a choice (Score 1) 173

Plenty of new fabs are being built.
I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

If this happens it'll be because of an AI bubble bursting, not because of new fabs. Currently there is very little investment in new fabs. Plenty just means that each company is throwing a token coin at the problem. Oh and literally 100% of those new productions are dedicated to HBM so won't have any impact in the slightest on DRAM prices.

Comment Re:You don't have a choice (Score 1) 173

Nope. I bought my last two PCs and maxed them out to last at least a decade right before all of the price gouging.

So you've got a bunch of underperforming obsolete equipment which is approaching end of useful life from an electronics wear out perspective and may let you down at a moment's notice? Got it.

I'm with you. I also have an old PC, but I'd like to continue to have a PC going forward, and as it stands I'm starting to see symptoms of memory controller failure hoping that this thing lasts a little longer and that prices will return to normal.

Comment Re:Slop? (Score 1) 107

but if you want the most powerful machine in the fanciest case, Apple has absolutely nothing for you.

Luxury != power. But sure let's pretend Apple doesn't partner with infamous luxury brand Hermès currently for their products, or that they sold a $17000 gold Apple watch. Let's forget that the Mac Pro had a $50000 model that came with 1.5TB of RAM. It's just another run of the mill company innit....

Porsche only sells luxury products

Horseshit. Porsche does not sell luxury products, they sell high end products. If you don't buy a racing car Porsche is middling at best without any luxury features other than a vroom vroom noise. Again, Luxury != power. You want a German luxury car brand look to Mercedes-Maybach (not to be confused with the rest of Mercedes). That's where you find competitors to companies like Rolls-Royce.

I'm sad for you that you've not experienced luxury to the point where you can't even identify what it is.

Comment Re:Slop? (Score 1) 107

but Apple is not making "slop."

I don't understand how copying competitors suddenly equates to slop. Apple has a LONG history of copying competitor designs, just like other companies have a LONG history of copying apple designs. The actual truly unique and innovative products are few and far between.

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