Bloody vikings!

Even if a small ship rotates fast that would ‘t work. If you have a small diameter then there would a huge difference between the perceived ‘gravity’ at your head vs at your feet.

Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).

They just proposed it, so sounds like they aren’t the ones who get to make the final decision.

I suspect they’re going to end up calling it ‘trump crater’ or something equally heinous.

No constant traffic near your house (cleaner air, safer streets).

Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes. We also have a system of road types that actually makes sense and that keeps traffic out of housed areas as much as possible.

Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.

I live in northern Europe, summer days are long. We don’t get actual night for several months (best we get is astronomical twilight for a few hours). DST makes no sense here.

That’s not an issue at all during summer. Do you really need sunlight until 22:00 at night? Right now you basically cannot be outdoors during summer nights because it’s too hot in the direct sunlight. By the time it cools down enough to be outdoors it’s already time for bed.

The best parts of summer nights are when the sun goes down and the world finally cools down enough to be outdoors. We should move the clock an hour back in summer to get more of that. Call it Moonlight Saving Time.

Is there any benefit to DST? I can’t think of anything.

No. Brainstorming is when you’re with a group and everyone is throwing out ideas unfiltered.

Rubber duck debugging is when you are trying to solve an issue by describing your problem to another person (or a rubber duck) and through the act of describing the problem you gain a better understanding of the issue and often this causes you to get a ‘eureka moment’ where the solution is suddenly clear to you.

The “first warm day of spring and all the terraces on the old market square are packed but you managed to snag a table” beer.

Why do children have to ruin everything?

LOL, What do I know right. I only have a degree in computer engineering and 20 years of experience as a software engineer. It’s not like I write GPU code for a living…. oh wait, I do.

See my other post. A PC is a general purpose machine designed to be modular, this comes at a pretty significant cost in performance. Everything in technology is a trade-off, nothing comes for free.

A PS5 may use the same x86 architecture but the system architecture is not the same as a generic PC. It’s not that a PS5 punches above its weight, it’s actually the other way around: PC’s perform relatively poorly considering their specs. For example: the ability to replace the GPU comes at a massive cost in performance. PCs make up for this somewhat with sheer brute force. A purpose-built machine will always be more efficient.

The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic.

It’s not magic, it’s engineering. Games specifically designed for the PS5 can pretty much load instantly. It’s not just the SSDs raw bandwidth. The SSD controller plays a huge role. It can decompress data as it’s loading from the SSD, effectively acting as a bandwidth multiplier. It also communicates directly with the GPU cache.

Remember that PCs are held back by their modular architecture. To allow for an interchangeable GPU it needs to be on a PCIe card with its own separate VRAM. This all comes at a huge performance penalty. Data needs to be copied over the slow PCIe bus to the VRAM before it can be accessed by the GPU. On a PS5 with its unified memory architecture everything is immediately usable once it hits the system RAM. This is a massive advantage when streaming assets.

The big difference is latency. Not how much data it can load per second, but the time between starting a load and the data actually being available. Sony spent a lot of effort in getting this as short as possible throwing a lot of purpose-designed hardware at it. Something you can’t do in a PC because it’s a general purpose machine.

Another huge factor is that every PS5 has the same minimum performance level. The fact that you have a super fast SSD is meaningless because the game has to be designed to work with the crappiest spinning rust HDD that meets the minimum system requirements. So while a PS5 may not be as fast as the best PC that can run the game, it is much faster than the crappiest PC that can run the game, so the developers can optimize for a much faster machine than they can when they have to take into account that crappy low-end PC that has to be able to run it.

Because you can’t reduce a human to a single scalar.

I was always under the impression that these were here specifically because loading screens broke immersion and were just as disruptive.

This is especially infuriating when you’re playing on a PS5 where there shouldn’t be a need for a loading screen but the game is cross platform and they need to design them into the levels because PC and PS4 need them.

It’s a bullshit preference that makes no sense.

Also can’t help being autistic, I was born that way.

When I had a Celsius thermostat it didn’t have that level of control. Would’ve been great to keep the house more comfortable.

This is again not really an issue with the thermostat. Back in the day they were analog so in theory they had infinite precision. Early digital ones didn’t have that level of precision because there was no point to it. The heating system itself simply wasn’t that precise. The temperature would swing quite a bit around the set temperature. The heating would be either on or off, so it would heat to a bit above the set temp, then cool down to a bit below it, etc. It would have been the same for Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Modern central heating uses a modulating heater, so it will only heat the radiators a little when the temperature difference to the set temperature is small, resulting in a more constant and thus more comfortable temperature. It’s even better with in-floor heating where the concrete slab of the flooring acts as a huge thermal buffer. Due to this more precise thermostats make sense (but only up to a point, because who can tell the difference between 20.0ºC and 20.1ºC)

In regards to weather, it’s generally accurate where I’m at.

Accurate how? If they predict a temperature of 18ºC, it will be around that temperature for a short time in the middle of the day, but outside temperatures aren’t constant. It’s coldest just before dawn and hottest in the afternoon. Between those two extremes the temperature rises and falls over the day. What is the point in saying it will be 18.4ºC instead of just saying 18º? There is no need for that level of precision. Even outside the temperature change over the day, the temperature also changes significantly depending on location. If I’m in an area with lots of trees and shade the temperature will be much lower than if I’m on an asphalt street. So even as you walk around the temperature will vary a lot.