Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K

This, but unironically

As relevant now as it was 10 years ago

Yeah, this sounds a lot like that high temp superconductor from a year or so ago

When do we start needing active coolers for our drives?

You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.

Definitely vaporwave. Something about the chill beats and the 90s tech advertising aesthetic really does it for me

Nah, they’ll just brand it as “Next Gen AI” or “True AI” or something. Kind of like how antivirus became “Endpoint Detection and Response”

“I prefer jovial” would’ve become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

“We’re not liberal or conservative, we’re a secret third thing!(conservative)”

I have played through many Sierra games, although I was always more partial to the LucasArts adventure games. I feel like they had better writing, and the idea that there was no failure state meant that you didn’t end up in unwinnable situations.

I didn’t know about the staff situation there though, that’s super interesting. I just assumed that they had a small number of teams working on each title that each worked under the Williams’

I used to play a ton of games throughout my teenage years but fell off in my 20s. Now in my late 30s I still keep up with gaming news and discussion, but I rarely actually play through games anymore. I go through maybe one a year.

You’re right that the discussion has changed, and that’s due to a number of factors. Mostly, new games are pretty configurable and will run on pretty much any modern hardware. Long gone are the days where you simply couldn’t play something unless you ponied up for a Voodoo 2. Add to that, that PC hardware is a lot more standard now. Gaming enthusiasts dont need to learn a bunch of competing hardware standards to keep up anymore.

And the other side is that with the introduction of microtransactions, keeping an eye on how companies are trying to monetize games is important. AAA games these days have Hollywood movie budgets and if they’re not profitable, then hundreds of people are out of a job. Looking back, it’s pretty amazing what 10-15 people could accomplish with a fraction of the budget and time that modern developers get(indie games notwithstanding)

I don’t have a million dollars so I cant afford Dijon ketchup :(

It was a tragic day when I grew up and could no longer see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Fox blasts farmers new henhouse restrictions as ‘misguided’ - predator praises old, laid back attitude to security

Im especially fond of PearsAndGrayWitch

Tetris Attack and all of the other Panel de Pon-likes. They are exactly what I want from a versus puzzle game

Unfortunately, the tech won’t work for a high-power device like a smartphone. Last I read, these produce energy on the milliwatt scale.

They’ll be incredibly useful for things like weather sensors and the like.

This is generally bad advice without some caveats.

It should be more like “learn when you should ask for help with something”. Which is to say, when you get into a jam, don’t immediately find someone to try and get you out of it. Do your own research into the problem first, then ask for help if you hit a block. Also, when someone helps you, try to understand everything they did so that you wont need to ask for help the next time it happens.

You’d think, but its easier to just charge an extra 20% and then blame China while pocketing the extra 3%.

We wont start mining for rare earth metals until they simply refuse to sell to us.