Frodo Baggpants!

Can I get one of them invites?

Time to start Rule 34’ing a Blooper with a Bullet Bill on principle.

It’s a series where a dragon kidnaps a princess, and a plumber from New York must save her. To do so, he must gather mushrooms by hitting bricks while jumping with his fist, jump on turtles to make them hide in their shell, and dodge fire breathing plants.

In the most recent 2d incarnation, the fire breathing plants will sing at you.

The people who made this were on a lot of drugs.

If it’s a community being built out along solarpunk lines, then there’s likely other infrastructure that has to be laid in the ground, like power and water. That being the case, you should be able to wire up most dwellings and not have to deal with the issues around wireless networking.

Then there’s external connections from that community to others. It shouldn’t be difficult to get 1Gbps within a community, but it’s going to be far, far less between communities. The idea of a CDN helps here, but in a mutual aid way where everyone pitches in to cache content locally.

I’m currently getting through to the site, but if you’re seeing that, it might be DNS. I recently switched providers and not everything might have propagated yet.

Activision and Electronics Arts were both started by people who wanted to put game developers first. Gathering of Developers, as well, which was eventually absorbed into Take Two.

It’s not something that seems to last in this industry.

Possibly also good for some cheap cars or e-bikes, as well. Save lithium for the use cases that really need it.

Thank you. I try to keep that same message out there. Yeah, headlines make outlandish claims all the time, but they’re all based on something, and every single one you heard in the last 20 years have added up to a revolution.

If you have something from the Nvidia rtx20xx generation or newer, I’m not sure how much advantage there is to upgrading at all.

Some years ago, we had Thong Cape Scooter Man. The name tells you exactly what you need to know.

Limited, but there might be a few. Generating the best route between two locations might be one.

There’s some stuff at medium sized businesses that would be useful, like how to pack a box most efficiently. Or many boxes in a truck.

Maybe some fast sorting algorithms, or compression? Not sure if there’s algorithmic efficiency to gain, there.

A vertical farm wouldn’t be able to power itself with solar on its own roof. You can’t convert from light to electricity to light again and end up with more light. Possibly it could if you’re converting to specific wavelengths used by the plants, but given the sheer number of layers in even a single floor vertical farm, it’s still unlikely to be able to power itself.

So if solar and wind is the answer, you have to have fields full of those two. But then, why not just grow food in those fields? There might be specific situations that have a good answer to that, like the land isn’t suitable for agriculture, but otherwise, we have to look for solutions other than solar and wind.

Alternatively, if water use is a big deal, then we can seek ways to reduce water use in traditional agriculture.

There’s also questions around the game industry as a whole. I think the recent layoffs at major companies aren’t just another cycle, but systemic. The market no longer bears production of giant games with crazy graphics that cost $70 and have a bunch of DLC and gambling mechanics attached.

Games won’t go away, but they’ll play fine on something like the Steam Deck, Switch 2, or modest gaming PC. What would high end console hardware bring to the table anymore?

Just cache the common questions.

AI models work in a feedback loop. The fact that you’re asking the question becomes part of the response next time. They could cache it, but the model is worse off for it.

Also, they are Google/Microsoft/OpenAI. They will do it because they can and nobody is stopping them.

Alcohol evaporates, but the stuff you were trying to clean off does not.

Say you’re only running off 100 of them and charge $1,000,000. They’ll all be sold. Ferrari perfected this business model long ago.

I’ll have you know that Uranium is green (sometimes).