I didn’t say profitable. I said more profitable. As in losing less money.

Every video card that’s plugged into an AI data center starts losing money the second it’s powered on. It might actually be more profitable to mine crypto.

residential streets don’t go that high.

Not with that attitude.

You probably need map data to know if you’re on a highway (when lane keeping is allowed) or on surface streets.

It will probably cache relevant maps when heading into a low service area.

Just a guess. I don’t drive a Rivian.

But then it won’t be women’s underwear. It’ll be my underwear.

I think the real difference is nobody looks cool using VR/AR and how do you market a device that you can’t see when you use it?

I used to work in VR and it was impressive how many people turned down demos. Everyone thinks they know what the experience will be like or are afraid of looking stupid swatting at phantoms.

I had this bad when I first got into embedded design. I built a Nixie tube clock with a Parallax SX chip in raw assembly.

Running at 4MHz, I had to give it a nop loop where it spun for 4 million iterations just to increment the clock for a second. It lived a whole life between seconds and it would do this thanklessly tedious work forever.

Or how about airbag sensors or seatbelt pretensioners that check sensors thousands of times a second for years in the off chance that they detect a crash and save the life of a person who they will never comprehend for the 100ms duration of a crash just to get scrapped with the rest of the vehicle.

At one point I wanted to write a short story based on this concept. A story of unrequited love between a person and a machine that they don’t even know about.

Or in spec when the spec is very broad.

See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.

What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.

Or in spec when the spec is very broad.

See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.

What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.

My first gaming PC I built in 2004 is still the fastest computer that has ever been.

On the flip side, I couldn’t get Linux native Jackbox to run because the devs failed to update it to support something (Wayland maybe, IDK was troubleshooting mid Xmas party).

Ended up installing the Windows version in Proton.

Roger Moore was 57 in his last film. She’s only 4 years older than that.

“Guess it was your time of the month”

Yeah, but usually you have to construct a joke with a punchline. Jokes usually involve subverting expectations. This character says they use AI for everything and then they do that.

Ok, so what’s the joke then?

I feel like the punchline of these comics is increasingly just protagonist slays a strawman.

Like the punch line here is “ChatGPT users use AI to form their opinion,” which makes the first two panels just the protagonist making someone they don’t like look stupid.

That’s fair. Forgot about the delay on the App Store. Still I’d say the pipeline of Wii gamer to iPhone gamer is pretty small. Maybe more on the developer side than customer.

Phones put gaming consoles in everyone’s hand and made non gamers into casual gamers.

since the Wii

I mean the iPhone came out a year later…