[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 8 hours ago

Well there hydro power, where we just skip the boiling part and have water turn turbines.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Ok. I'm confused. So which was the final position? It sounds like they retained

The five largest energy supply companies will be nationalised.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Why are even non-contact sports segregated? Tennis? Why?!

This has been tested on multiple occasions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

The only real win in singles was Billie Jean King (then 29yo) over Bobby Riggs (then 55yo). Riggs had recently beaten Margaret Court who was a 17 year number one in the women's game.

Martina Navratilova in 2023 stated that the reason the 55-year-old Riggs lost to the 29-year-old King was simply because of age.[37] Navratilova said Riggs lost "because Bobby was too old," and added, "A 35 year old Bobby would have beaten all of us."[37]

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

You're right. Better use some wind turbines too.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

Only incentives I can think of:

  1. They didn't police it properly for the size of event and it's a pre-emptive defence. "Yes we only sent one constable, but it was only 3 old ladies and a Yorkshire terrier".
  2. They're under orders to downplay the size of protests that can be seen as anti-government.

I know it's a bit tin-foil hat, but I'm starting to suspect the latter. A number of protests appear to have had quite large numbers from footage (which is likely to be cherry picked yes, but should set a minimum number), but small number from the Met.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Amazing how organisers and police have 10:1 difference in the attendance numbers. I know the organisers have reasons to inflate numbers, but not by an order of magnitude.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 167 points 4 weeks ago

...and that would drop the amount of marine fuel needed. Compound interest.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach. You don't need to touch it to become the wire.

For example: in LA right now

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 142 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We do, depending on how you count it.

There's two major widths in a processor. The data register width and the address bus width, but even that is not the whole story. If you go back to a processor like the 68000, the classic 16-bit processor, it has:

  • 32-bit data registers
  • 16- bit ALU
  • 16-bit data bus
  • 32-bit address registers
  • 24-bit address bus

Some people called it a 16/32 bit processor, but really it was the 16-bit ALU that classified it as 16-bits.

If you look at a Zen 4 core it has:

  • 64-bit data registers
  • 512-bit AVX data registers
  • 6 x 64-bit integer ALUs
  • 4 x 256-bit AVX ALUs
  • 2 x 128-bit data bus to DDR5 (dual edge 64-bit)
  • ~40-bits of addressable physical RAM

So, what do you want to call this processor?

64-bit (integer width), 128-bit (physical data bus width), 256-bit (widest ALU) or 512-bit (widest register width)? Do you want to multiply those numbers up by the number of ALUs in a core? ...by the number of cores on a piece of silicon?

Me, I'd say Zen4 was a 256-bit core, but you could argue any of the above numbers.

Basically, it's a measurement that lost all meaning so people stopped using it.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 115 points 2 years ago

If they want to hurt us over it, it means it will hurt them if we do it.

though some bankers and European officials are worried that simply taking the assets would create a dangerous precedent.

Just make a law that it's a 100% tax on assets identified as falling under sanctions related to a aggressive invading nation. Precedent limited.

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