NaibofTabr

The best time to build a chip fab is 10 years ago. The second best time is right now.

I feel attacked.

Only one caveat: if you see &t=12s or &t=12m34s that’s a timestamp, not tracking.

1. Jazzpunk https://store.steampowered.com/app/250260/Jazzpunk_Directors_Cut/ - Everyone should play Jazzpunk. Watch the trailer, and read no other reviews, just play it.

2. Far: Lone Sails https://store.steampowered.com/app/609320/FAR_Lone_Sails/ - a gorgeous art piece, a good story that develops through the gameplay, worth your time.

3. Void War https://store.steampowered.com/app/2853590/Void_War/ - Void War is FTL crossed with Warhammer 40k, but it’s not just a reskin. If you ever wanted more FTL gameplay, Void War is it.

4. The Red Strings Club https://store.steampowered.com/app/589780/The_Red_Strings_Club/ - a great story with beautifully written characters, everything that digital storytelling should be.

5. Songs of Syx https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/ - this has been eating my brain recently. If you enjoy colony builders like Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress, Songs of Syx is potentially dangerous in that where did the last eight hours go kind of way. It’s still got some rough spots, but the developer is actively working on it.

*Bonus - Fatum Betula https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281270/Fatum_Betula/ - a strange experience, like nothing else that I know of. I also recommend going into this one blind, just watch the developer’s trailer.

Hail corporate.

wink wink nudge nudge

And breakfast cereal is a cold soup.

Therefore breakfast cereal is cold-brew grain tea.

They would angrily argue with the Chinese expat about what China is really like.

In Darknet Diaries Ep 27: Chartbreakers, Jack Rhysider describes how cheap and easy it is to buy your way to the top of the Apple Podcasts rating chart or onto the New York Times bestseller list.

After listening to this, it’s pretty easy to extend the logic to every other rating platform. Paying for review manipulation is basically part of the marketing budget.

…I drive fast
I am alone at midnight
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I’ve got a war in my mind…

Ooh… so Roblox uses Luau internally for user-developed game logic, which means that you could probably get the AI to write you a complete application and execute it within the Roblox environment. This seems ripe for exploitation.

poor Tim Russ

Not Ethernet cable specifically, but on the topic of limitations of wires there’s the classic case of the 500-mile email.

Ah yes, faster spaghetti. Wonderful.

The bubble will pop, but I’m not convinced the hobbyist PC hardware market is going to recover.

Realistically, the consumer market for PC components existed because there was a business market for desktop computers as employee workstations. That’s mostly dead now. Businesses mostly buy laptops or mini PCs for employee workstations, they have less and less need for desktop hardware because most of the computing tasks have moved to SaaS platforms. The consumer PC hardware market isn’t that profitable on its own, it exists on the margins of production for business purchasing, and it’s been coasting on momentum built up in the 2010s.

Processor architectures are changing to support machine learning tasks, GPU production is shifting toward ML-specialization, and everyone in the design field is trying to remove the barriers between the CPU and the RAM, which means shortening the path, which means getting rid of the socket and end-user upgradability in favor of soldered components. With SaaS taking over everything in the business world, we’re trending back toward the mainframe computing model and away from powerful local hardware.

I’m not saying there won’t be a consumer PC market in the future, I’m just saying that it will be different. There won’t be enough demand for common desktop components to keep the custom PC build market alive as it was five years ago.

It’s a sarcasm about corporate spending decisions. The joke is:

Everyone has a test environment. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.

The point being that if management has decided not to spend resources on a test environment, then “production” is in fact test.

I hope the engineers have a paper trail of emails advising against that.

More specifics are needed for a support request. Provide the baseline specifications please.

What OS are you using? What is the make and model of the drive? Is it internal or external? USB? SATA? SAS? NVMe? A PCIe adapter? Is this a desktop, laptop, NAS, server, NUC, Raspberry Pi with an expansion board?

For all we know you’re using a refurbished and relabeled SAS drive plugged into an adapter on an eSATA port on a 10 year old motherboard sitting in a cardboard box.

Are you familiar with SMART? Have you done any diagnostics?

meth?

“A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.”

Yes, like the men running the companies that make this product.