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If China has managed to do something that scientists genuinely thought was impossible why are there several nuclear fusion research facilities all over the planet? If it’s impossible that seems like a bad use of resources.

I think maybe that scientists thought it was entirely possible, and that’s why they were trying to do it.

I remember trying to set up an Instagram account ages ago and not being able to do it because the app didn’t work on Android. Gave up after that.

I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. Currently basically nothing runs on it, even most Linux kernels don’t support it. I’m sure that will change in the future when CPUs become available.

I don’t think it’s the consumer market because I’ve seen basically nothing with that system architecture. Actually that’s not true I know of one product that uses RISC-V, and that is a development board that you can drop into a Framework laptop chassis. Which is the development purposes only in barely works.

I have not seen anything marketed as just a general device that uses RISC-V chips.

Inflation is the measure of how much buying power your money is worth. Wage stagnation is wages not keeping up with inflation. They are not the same thing.

Wage stagnation isn’t a result of inflation because inflation happens first. So yeah when working out the equivalent price of a product inflation needs to be taken into account but so does how much money everybody has.

If $1 in 2005 is worth $15 today, but I still only get $6 an hour then it isn’t correct to say that a product that cost $15 today is effectively the same as a product costing $1 in 2005 because it’s not taken into the fact that I don’t get more money.

Also even for people who want they can just get a gaming handheld and then gain access to a bunch of games which rarely cost $80 even when they’re brand new. Buying a Switch 2 just isn’t a financially sensible decision for anyone regardless of how much money you have in your bank account

Yeah that’s the problem there’s nothing really compelling for it. Plus they’ve done their classic Nintendo thing of take a great product and then just add a bunch of gimmicks and claim innovation e.g the mouse mode thing nobody cares about. Also them being tight about the controllers and not putting decent hall effect even though they know they have a problem. It just proves that they don’t actually care about their customer base.

Gee could it possibly be because there’s absolutely nothing compelling about the product? Everything about it is just crap.

It’s overpriced for what it is, pretty much all of its features are gimmicks and do not demonstrably improve on the original, everyone knows their games are overpriced and never reduce in price, and if you breathe on it in the wrong way Nintendo will sue you for 1100 quadrillion dollars. What’s not to love?

Yeah I never understood why anyone would create an account. It’s not like you need one to watch the videos.

It’s not that developers are switching to AI tools it’s that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.

What’s with this sudden tendency to pad screenshots of tweets out for about 400 miles of unnecessary white space.

A lot of Europe is actually further north than Toronto. I don’t think a lot of Americans realise that because they’re used to looking at the traditional world map which is quite distorted.

Give it is pitch black outside, extremely cold, and there nothing to do I think I’d prefer to stay inside where it’s warm, and I have cats.

I also don’t have to stay in a 6 ft square concrete room with the constantly humming fluorescent light. I think that’s what makes the difference.

Yeah my company is going through this at the moment. I’m super duper hoping I get fired because I’ve worked for the company long enough that I’ll get an a bit over a year worth of severance. That’s just about long enough for them to realise that they actually need us and then they can rehire us back at a higher rate. As per established process.

It’s going to be excellent.

No I don’t. I’m sure C suite executive think that’s the case, but every time they’ve tried it they’ve always had to back pedal and hire the human staff back.

Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.

It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.

Don’t worry you won’t be able to it’s never getting released.

I’m guessing you haven’t actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet

I can’t remember the name of the film but there is one film released relatively recently that’s just a series of photographs. Set to music.

It’s literally slower than one frame per second.

It’s interesting you say that because jazz bars aren’t exactly a roaring success anymore. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that jazz was considered counterculture, and people like that aspect of it. These days no one really cares about jazz and no one’s trying to ban it. And it’s interesting that now it’s less popular.

Maybe it wasn’t actually ever good?