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[WP] A new season of River Monsters
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Just like businesses get their own representatives, right?
...and burns people's homes down due to lack of safety features.
...and children choke to death from easily removable small parts.
...and people get electrocuted because of a lack of warning label telling them not to use it in the bath.
Careful! Ghost in the shell!
Mongo is appalled!
Free shipping to send him away? I'll pay that subscription 👍
RVA23 is a big deal because it allows the big players (e.g. Google, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more) to avoid vendor lock-in for their super duper ultra wicked mega tuned-to-fuck-and-back specialty software (not just AI stuff). Basically, they can tune their software to a generic platform to the nth degree and then switch chips later if they want without having to re-work that level of tuning.
The other big reason why RISC-V is a big deal right now is energy efficiency. 40% of a data center's operating cost is cooling. By using right-sized RISC-V chips in their servers they can save a ton of money on cooling. Compare that to say, Intel Xeon where the chips will be wasting energy on zillions of unused extensions and sub-architecture stuff (thank Transmeta for that). Every little unused part of a huge, power hungry chip like a Xeon eats power and generates heat.
Don't forget that vector extensions are also mandatory in RVA23. That's just as big a deal as the virtualization stuff because AI (which heavily relies on vector math) is now the status quo for data center computing.
My prediction is that AI workload enhancements will become a necessary feature in desktops and laptops soon too. But not because of anything Microsoft integrates into their OS and Office suites (e.g. Copilot). It'll be because of Internet search and gaming.
Using an AI to search the Internet is such a vastly superior experience, there's no way anyone is going to want to go back once they've tried it out. Also, in order for it to work well it needs to run queries on the user's behalf locally. Not in Google or Microsoft's cloud.
There's no way end users are going to pay for an inferior product that only serves search results from a single company (e.g. Microsoft's solution—if they ever make one—will for sure use Bing and it would never bother to search multiple engines simultaneously).
I play Beat Saber every day. Been doing this for over three years now and I've actually become the #1 player:
https://beatleader.com/ranking/1?sortBy=playCount
(In play count, hehe)
I burn about 650-750 calories over the course of an hour. I don't take breaks between maps and I have never paused.
When I first started playing I could barely make it through 5-minute, 6 ⭐ maps. Now I can play 20-minute, 9 ⭐ maps and just keep playing until the battery on my headset runs out.
I haven't been this healthy or fit since I was in high school (I'm 47).
You want political toilet paper?
Some day, a lucky archeologist will unearth the one true archive from an innocent-looking tarball.
Vegan Linux users can compile their own protein from source.
Their purity level is so high that they can kill -9 anyone wearing a leather belt with just a glance.
Did you change the ink during this process? I've found things inside printers before.
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Bought new fire extinguishers
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The fire extinguisher in my garage is almost 20 years old now and the pressure gauge is right at the edge of the red zone. That means it's time to order a new one!
Decided to get two because it seems like a good idea to have one out by the grill (and they're a better deal that way) 👍
Very excited because this means I get to ~~play~~ teach the kids how to properly use a fire extinguisher with the old one! Been a while since we used the fire pit out back...
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I took out the pool filter and gave it a good cleaning today
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Pool pump has been a bit weak lately: The stream of water pouring out of the hot tub "waterfall" into the main pool had become more like a trickle. This usually indicates a significant clog or that the pool filter needs cleaning.
Considering I haven't cleaned the filter in almost a year I figured that was likely the problem. It wasn't 😮💨
Turns out that there's something stuck in the intake at the bottom of the pool which means I have to dive deep with a screwdriver in the super cold water and carefully clear out whatever is in there. Probably a plastic bag or similar.
Note: Never attempt such a thing while the pump is on! In fact, lock it down with some tape and maybe a warning label that says not to turn it on while you're doing your difficult work.
Been a long time since I had to hold my breath under water. I wonder if I can still reach 2 minutes? 🤔 Probably not with this water temperature 🤣
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I just watched the final episode of If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student and I had to write something about it... When I first read the description of this anime I thought it looked stupid, "Another low effort anime." But of course I watched it anyway (because I run out of episodes fast on Sundays, haha) and it turned out fantastic!
The description is accurate but severely understates the concept: It's not a comedy but more akin to sci-fi or isekai with a, "what if?" scenario. What would it be like if your dead wife suddenly appears in the form of a little kid, saying she reincarnated? It does a pretty good job of going into the emotions and real-world problems (Japanese 🤣) people would run into in such a situation.
For example, what about the mother of the little girl‽ Wouldn't she be like, "WTF‽" Ummm... Yeah she would! And the show explores that aspect of the concept as well as the family of the deceased.
I highly recommend this anime. It'd probably be a great show to watch with your partner too. Also, make sure to have some tissues handy to soak up the tears!
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For those who live outside the US this is how their elections work
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Electoral College elects The President. No other type of election works like that.
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We do already have poop emoji gas.