I think he’s right, but also wrong.

Gaming is going to become smaller. Lower specs required, tighter experiences. Not because people subscribe to a GPU somewhere.

If things were reversed, and Siberia and Canadian shield for once ideal places for civilizations, I suspect that they would still be heavily populated today in spite of the weather.

You do have to remember that the climate has changed a lot since civilization was born. The epic of Gilgamesh talks about the great cedar forests of Syria. Northern Europe was a giant chunk of ice. And once a place has ontological inertia, there’s only been a few times in history where that changes, such as the bronze age collapse.

“I’m thinking of investing in this crypto scam, should I do it?”

Micheal Dorn: “you should not. Crypto scammers are without honor.”

“Everything was fine. There was punch and pie.”

Small appliances rectify AC into DC before using it and therefore what you end up with is a DC supply that can support multiple input voltages and frequencies.

By contrast, larger appliances typically use the AC directly. A motor is designed to be able to connect directly to local AC power, and the voltage is quite important and so is the frequency, because a change from 50 hertz to 60 hertz will make a motor go much faster and a change from 60 hertz to 50 hertz will make a motor go much slower, and resistive loads such as furnace elements which are designed to be able to be connected directly to mains power our engineered with a specific resistance.

For motors changing frequencies, the way you would end up having to retrofit such devices is to rectify the DC signal and then reconstruct it as the proper voltage and frequency using pulse with modulation. That’s going to be a fairly expensive thing compared to just connecting some wires across mains. Even changing voltage is using a transformer means that you’re going to need transformer capable of potentially converting multiple kilowatts of power, and that’s not an inexpensive touch either.

Buddy of mine wanted to go work for Ubisoft Montreal. Took a computer programming course.

I recommended that he should be making video games right now as he wants to make video games because there’s going to be thousands of other people who want that job and a lot of them will have made games and he never has.

He’s now learning how to be a carpenter. Probably the better bet.

I think you got that backwards. The reason that the jerk from that episode hadn’t had his way with her yet was that doing so would cause the slave crest to be damaged.

I recently heard about an effort to grab some of the verbal stories from Africa and write them down, and that seems like a perfect treasure trove.

Not to mention, not all of those myths turn out to be entirely mythic. We found the minoans and what is likely ancient troy by listening to the stories and looking where they told us to look.

This guy is amazing. He does work that’s so entertaining but really helps you learn more about the crazy things he’s doing.

Honestly, the fact that works from thousands of years ago survive and have spread around the world is incomprehensible in terms of what would have to happen over time, particularly prior to the printing press.

The human race really is amazing.

I believe this is the answer. If you can turn off the TV but you can’t turn it back on then you’re probably just using the wrong code.

These things are not like normal businesses. You end up with something so irrationally large that it would be immoral to let a single person make any decisions, which makes no sense for a creative endeavor.

And the giant money incinerator!

I mean… I’m not American…

If this was about guns, they would ban hardware stores. It’s just about controlling everything so they can parcel it back out to friends.

Hey, that ain’t your 256MB of RAM.

Context: history memes are often posted without context and so people don’t get a chance to immediately learn the history behind the meme.

The problem, as I often say, is that just because something demos well and it’s easier to buy something doesn’t mean it’s going to be good in production. If you have a solar farm but you need to build a coal plant large enough to power the island anyway because you don’t have dispatchable power, then you end up with Australia, California, or Ontario, where “the cheapest power” causes electricity costs to rise. Meanwhile, In places like Norway, Quebec, and iceland, those renewables actually drove down electricity costs because the marginal cost of energy is very low and you don’t need to double up your infrastructure even if it’s expensive and difficult to build up-front.