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If China has managed to do something that scientists genuinely thought was impossible why are there several nuclear fusion research facilities all over the planet? If it’s impossible that seems like a bad use of resources.

I think maybe that scientists thought it was entirely possible, and that’s why they were trying to do it.

When my cat sees a bird he goes low to the ground, because he knows that’s what you’re supposed to do, and then shuffles awkwardly towards them. Usually they fly off and he looks relieved.

It’s impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he’ll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.

I remember trying to set up an Instagram account ages ago and not being able to do it because the app didn’t work on Android. Gave up after that.

I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. Currently basically nothing runs on it, even most Linux kernels don’t support it. I’m sure that will change in the future when CPUs become available.

I don’t think it’s the consumer market because I’ve seen basically nothing with that system architecture. Actually that’s not true I know of one product that uses RISC-V, and that is a development board that you can drop into a Framework laptop chassis. Which is the development purposes only in barely works.

I have not seen anything marketed as just a general device that uses RISC-V chips.

I think it probably depends on what kind of gym you’re going to. I don’t get invited to those kind of gyms.

The one I always got was that evolution was just a theory. Not proven.

Because in their world a theory is just an idea that may or may not be true.

It’s interesting because even my parents who are quite religious think it’s stupid.

There was a short story written by Terry Pratchett as a sort of tie-in for philosophy book. In the story Charles Darwin writes his famous work but it’s still with the view that God exists and evolution is just a method by which God achieves his goals. Anyway the point is made that everybody likes the work because the scientists get to acknowledge that evolution exists, and the church gets to keep God, and all they have to do is throw away a bunch of myths that no one ever really believed anyway.

That’s how I think a lot of the more moderate Christians think about the ark. It’s clearly just a story, trying to claim it actually happened is ridiculous and just make the religion look stupid. But then you get all these creationist types who come along and claim that the Bible is 100% true. I think the church rather despairs of them really.

You get them a lot in gyms for obvious reasons.

Well he’s strategically planning for a war. It’s only slightly mired by the fact that he’s a brainless moron.

He probably thinks you can just pump oil out of the ground and directly into a vehicles fuel tank. Look at that aircraft that Saudi Arabia is giving him, he’s so goddamn pleased with it even though it’s a piece of junk because he thinks that the thing is the goal, in and of itself. He has no idea that processes need to happened to make that end goal.

I’d love to watch him play any kind of game that involves strategy and planning because I’m reasonably confident he’d suck at it.

Yeah the US should have sent a boat then. Frankly it’s poor planning on their part just assuming they can get away with not existing for 300 years.

Inflation is the measure of how much buying power your money is worth. Wage stagnation is wages not keeping up with inflation. They are not the same thing.

Wage stagnation isn’t a result of inflation because inflation happens first. So yeah when working out the equivalent price of a product inflation needs to be taken into account but so does how much money everybody has.

If $1 in 2005 is worth $15 today, but I still only get $6 an hour then it isn’t correct to say that a product that cost $15 today is effectively the same as a product costing $1 in 2005 because it’s not taken into the fact that I don’t get more money.

Also even for people who want they can just get a gaming handheld and then gain access to a bunch of games which rarely cost $80 even when they’re brand new. Buying a Switch 2 just isn’t a financially sensible decision for anyone regardless of how much money you have in your bank account

Yeah that’s the problem there’s nothing really compelling for it. Plus they’ve done their classic Nintendo thing of take a great product and then just add a bunch of gimmicks and claim innovation e.g the mouse mode thing nobody cares about. Also them being tight about the controllers and not putting decent hall effect even though they know they have a problem. It just proves that they don’t actually care about their customer base.

Gee could it possibly be because there’s absolutely nothing compelling about the product? Everything about it is just crap.

It’s overpriced for what it is, pretty much all of its features are gimmicks and do not demonstrably improve on the original, everyone knows their games are overpriced and never reduce in price, and if you breathe on it in the wrong way Nintendo will sue you for 1100 quadrillion dollars. What’s not to love?

Yeah I never understood why anyone would create an account. It’s not like you need one to watch the videos.

It’s not that developers are switching to AI tools it’s that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.

Yeah but what community are you in? After all, everything’s relative.

I’m guessing you haven’t actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet