absentbird

absentbird , 5 months ago to technology in Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

If you think about it, a transistor is a bit like a hardware if statement, it’s if statements all the way down.

absentbird , 6 months ago to technology in The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January

What about nickle-metal hydride?

absentbird , 6 months ago to linux_gaming in NVIDIA First To Offer Driver Support For New Vulkan H.265 & H.264 Video Encode Extensions

AMD RADV & ANV are also adding support for the newly released Vulkan Video Extensions… The Open-source drivers already support Vulkan Video decode extensions and will be getting Vulkan video encode extensions too with the latest update.

Great news.

absentbird , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Whats your such opinion

If you think about it, a deli worker is sort of like a meat & cheese barista.

absentbird , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Whats your such opinion

I’ve heard this from a lot of people but I don’t get it. Isn’t money just a way of facilitating transactions?

Like I understand not wanting money for individuals, and I support that, but what’s wrong with using money for international trade?

Like do only people who live in climates with coffee beans get coffee? Or are the coffee growers just left uncompensated? Or do we come up with some other non-currency way to reward their efforts?

absentbird , 7 months ago to lemmyshitpost in subs > dubs

‘but she’s actually 400 years old-’ still gross.

absentbird , 7 months ago to asklemmy in What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?

Yes, Tribes 2 rules!

absentbird , 7 months ago to asklemmy in What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?

Asynchronous turn based game where each person plays a single character. Like Fire Emblem if all the characters were players.

You wouldn’t all need to be playing at the same time, and you could have lots of games going at once. I want that nice slow-burn play by mail feeling for a co-op RPG.

absentbird , 7 months ago to asklemmy in What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?

I feel like I play one of these every time I try a competitive shooter. I am become target, bringer of points.

absentbird , 7 months ago to memes in How did this break rule 1? Did you just not read the 2nd panel?

Not all Isralis are colonists. There were people living there before the borders were drawn who were not forced to leave, those people and their descendants are native Isralis.

absentbird , 8 months ago to memes in Plane goes brrrr

One cruise ship has carbon emissions roughly equivalent to 12,000 cars. Maybe if you’re specifically looking at sulphur oxide pollution, since modern cars emit so little of it. But there’s a lot of other stuff coming out of tailpipes, sulphur oxide is just a single pollutant.

absentbird , 10 months ago to news in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Some people say a man is made outta blood. A code monkey’s made out of Fritos and crud. Fritos and crud and skin and bone. A back that’s weak and a mind that’s strong…

absentbird , 11 months ago to fediverse in Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

True, that was also the makeup of early reddit.