A 5060 with 8gb will have Intel wringing their hands with glee. Whatever performance gains the ($300-350) 5060 GPU has (and I don’t doubt they’ll be notable) will be choked off by an 8gb framebuffer. They might do a 16gb clamshell like they did with the 4060ti but like you said, where does that leave the 12gb 70 card?

If “Learning from history” counts as education, I wouldn’t call it an uneducated guess.

If only Google had a working search engine before AI

Malware is free too

Ukraine will be giving them to Russia for free. With express delivery too.

Necessary jobs are mostly farming, mining, manufacturing, and customer service.

And elder care, which is set to be a real growth industry

Reminds me of a joke told by an old Polish priest from his time in the Soviet Union.

A party official is sent to a village that hadn’t been meeting it’s quota.
He meets with the mayor and tells him "Trucks are coming tomorrow. The central committee has decreed you will fill them with your potato stockpile.
“As you say Comrade” says the mayor, “our potato stockpile is stacked high enough to reach God.”
“God?” Retorts the official incredulously “There is no god in the Soviet Union!”
The mayor shrugs “There are no potatoes either”

Who axed?

Some will some won’t. The contrarians will never budge, the “I’m not anti-science, I just don’t trust evidence I didn’t gather myself” ones should. I suspect most flat-earthers are the former.

Floating action button

I’m not sure the corporate lockdown will allow that, but I’ll look into it thanks.

My desktop isn’t a problem, but the Dell laptop issued by my employer is a pain. It can take over an hour to load the models I work on, so I only shut down over the weekend and sleep it weeknights. Every time some BS, probably hidden behind admin credentials by IBM will wake it up within 20 minutes. Luckily I’ve discovered pulling the power and leaving it in battery keeps it asleep.

Would hate to be the member of the cabin crew who has to clamber down the gear to fit the chains during final.

When I had my house reinsulated last year I took the opportunity to run cables from every room to a small closet, and then a run from that closet to the router. Had some… experience, learning how to wire in the sockets, and right now only my office is connected with a bit of patch instead of the switch I’ll eventually need to get the other rooms live, but it’s so much more reliable than it was with WiFi or poweline. Not to mention that those technologies only just kept up with the 36Mb VDSL I’ve been stuck on for the last 10 years. Having ethernet means I’ll actually be able to get the most out of the 500Mb FttP I’m getting next month.

Or dads who refuse to change infants in their care because “peedo”

Unauthorized persons discover this one weird trick. Fat controllers hate them!

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

I don’t know why, the big fan is on

My preferred edit: https://i.imgur.com/esShz7N.jpeg

Fair point, but this is one of those “if a jobs worth doing, it’s worth doing badly” situations where just waving a towel at it still helps prevent stuff getting out of hand.

Of course this is easiest with induction because you don’t need to wait for stuff to cool at all