I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
That’s a phase change triggered by a seed crystal (generated from a physical shock from the ‘clicker’) where the transition from liquid to solid phases returns the latent heat that was previously added to turn it from solid to liquid.
There is no phase change in this material, it remains a solid and changes temperature depending on how much pressure is applied to it.
Our monkey-brain has put millions of years of evolution into a vision system designed to pick up 3d cues from our environment so we can use our fine motor skills to manipulate small objects. It’s a fantastic piece of wetware that uses shading and colours to pick up 3d hints about the objects we deal with daily and - once you’re a few years old - it’s completely automatic and requires no effort to use.
And then we remove all the 3D cues and skeuomorphic hints from our computer systems so that now the previously subconscious “monkey-click-button” process is now a foreground task where cognitive energy is burned up to identify the correct UI element to manipulate.
I should be able to shift the mouse pointer and click a UI element out of the corner of my eye. I shouldn’t be required to look at and then parse a ‘flat’ UI to determine if this element is a button or just a panel with text. GUI elements should map to recognisable physical objects wherever possible, and where they are more abstract (eg wifi icons) they should be clearly distinguishable from others in the icon set. You’re burning up cognitive energy needlessly otherwise, and that’s why I dislike the monochromatic new age UI/icon sets.
“If these trends continue… Eyyyyy!”
How
the FUCK
can a single datacentre cost
TWENTY SEVEN BILLION
dollars?
In litres and MJ because SI units make it easy:
Approximately 34 megajoules per litre for petrol/gasoline.
50 litres filling up in 4 minutes = 1.25 litres/second pumping rate. lol don’t do calculations before coffee, let’s just say you’ve got a hi-flow pump doing 1l/sec.
1 litre/second x 34MJ per litre = 34 MJ/second.
1 watt = 1 joule per second, so:
An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.
I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.
It’s not a sign of AI, but when every second post manages to slip the “not x, not y, just z” phrase into their wording, you get pretty over it, pretty quickly.
Ditto for posts that worm in the phrase “just physics”. No, it’s not “just physics”. Physics is complicated, and I wish AI slop would stop handwaving away a decent explanation with that phrase.
Perhaps they’re talking about junction temperatures, but even then specialist components can only do 175 degrees C briefly.
Friends:
hisses though teeth
“That’s good, buddy, good for you!”
Why
Monoculture isn’t great.
Having and maintaining other options is good for if/when things go bad.
Try Mint Mate, the desktop environment is lighter than Cinnamon. When I was running systems from that era, Mate was much speedier than KDE / Gnome 3.
After that it’s just looking at what’s running after boot up and deciding whether you need it or not. As long as it’s not hogging precious RAM/CPU don’t worry about disabling it.
Bet it isn’t more than 15 minutes before pieces of metal come out.
That’s just a materials engineering problem at that point.
And does it really matter if your mach 6 hypersonic missile only has a 1500km range before its engine blows up? Still rather handy to have a few around.
This was done 20 years ago with magnetic loop antennas for mining, there is nothing particularly revolutionary here.
You mean
LI
Not shown: user staring at a screen that is blank except for those two characters
That’s a good price for demons, I’d get a few.
Well, antennas are pretty simple physical devices so a close visual inspection is the next step, looking for damage to insulators and spacers, etc
Eggbeater antennas also usually have a bit of phasing coax that by necessity sits out in the weather between the connections to the two elements, probably best to eyeball that too.
Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we’ve heard from you. We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of…
Not introducing, RE - introducing, just like how you could before. Alllllll the way back to Windows95, UNTIL YOU MESSED WITH IT.
Basically the whole post is “blah blah blah we screwed around with things so much blah blah blah we messed up file explorer blah blah blah we’re working at putting some minor things back and walking back forced updates a little and cramming AI into everything because that’s what we really want to do.”
I have MX Linux on a 14 year old Dell Laptop.
Works great because it’s got a lightweight desktop, and it has a tool (a GUI tool even!) that seamlessly merges the last available Nvidia 340 drivers for my GPU into the latest kernel. Parked at the desktop with no desktop apps running, it uses about 800MB of ram, leaving 15 GB left for whatever I need to run. Which I have found is plenty for my use case, I’ve never seen swap in use.
The MX tools are good, like everyone else has been saying here. They take away a lot of the fiddly business associated with the average “sysadmin” things that an end user needs to do.