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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • So I’ll try to explain what I can

    • Scissor icon - used to cut part of the image. Also killed the bad guy in this case
    • Bad guy had the copy/paste icons so he just created new versions/clones of himself
    • Bad guy also has the “lasso” icon. This is used to select a random area of the image (the dashed lines creating circles, you can then do different things to just the area selected
    • Checkerboard patterns indicate the “canvas” or what the image sits on. So almost null space
    • Though the slice guy killed a clone, the bad guy caught him in part of a selection and basically moved his legs out from him (when you make a selection, you can do anything you want with it, including moving it somewhere else)
    • Generative fill takes a selected area and kind of repeats it (similar to copy/paste)
    • bad guy keeps selecting different sections of space to kill the people
    • wizard uses a feature called magic wand which usually selects an area of similar colors. The tolerance is how similar it is (great for trying to select the outline of a person on a backdrop for example, it’d be a pain to to it by hand, but if they were in front of a green screen it would select all green colors that are touching, by increasing the tolerance you say “green and anything that’s close to it too”)
    • once he’s selected that massively large area, he proceeds to delete it and everyone/everything in it.

  • On the surface I understand, but as you dig deeper the logistics don’t make a lot of since with the “indiscriminate” part. Let’s say you had two warring factions of almost equal power. How would the snap know to take an equal amount so that there isn’t a massive power shift which could lead to a much more negative outcome. What if there was a single, very influencial person that got snapped. Things like that. His goal was to alieviate suffering but there are so many better ways he could have approached it. It’s possible I’d need to dive into the backstory more to determine what made him choose that specific action.








  • They tried Windows on Itanium and on Alpha. I think the biggest issue is even though the OS could be recompiled, most apps are not compiled at install in order to take advantage of the underlying platform. You saw a similar issue with the original Surface being ARM only. Sure the OS was there but people couldn’t run the Windows apps they were used to and Microsoft got held responsible rather than the developers.

    Alternatively you’d have to put an x86 emulation layer which would slow apps down and people would again ask “why?”










  • Once upon a time Audi had solar panels on the roofs of their car and it could only generate enough power to run the cabin fan to try to cool the car down while you were parked.

    To give you an idea of the sheer amount of power that an EV requires to move its bulk, look at the sizes of their batteries vs home battery packs. An EV has battery packs of around 100kWH and that can get you a few hundred miles range at most. Now compare that to the requirements of a home battery. The average use for an entire home is about 30kWH per day, and most home batteries only recommend 10-15kWH.

    Looking at that you start to see the massive difference in power usage required. To charge a small home battery like that you usually need multiple panels (10+). They just don’t have the space and power generation to offset the sheer amount of power EVs require.