that didn’t even cross my mind. i’m out to see things, not to be seen.

there are, like the Stark Varg. problem is, a regular mc can go for an entire day on one tank, and you only need a half-liter pet bottle in reserve to get home. electric mcs have an endurance of two-three hours at most, and they’re a lot heavier than the equivalent gas bike. you don’t want to fall over in the woods and not be able to get yourself up on two wheels again…

it is apparently D-segment, yeah. i have a C-seg car and have found the model 3 to be very similar in size, but maybe that’s just a matter of the height making it look smaller.

i am thinking of buying an offroad motorcycle for exploring the countryside. any tips?

“slightly lower” == 2/3rds, apparently. the model 3’s pack is 250Wh/kg. also, 500km range in what? the only way you could fit an equal-range battery in a contemporary compact vehicle like the model 3 would be if it had almost double the density of Li-ion.

for me sc2k hits differently after reading the city planning theories it’s based on. they’re just… wrong. and the simcity series have always been aware of this and has had to design around that fact up until sc13, where the statistical model was thrown out in favour of an agent-based model.
the parking thing is the most obvious at first glance, but the striking thing for me has always been the theory of crime, which uses a statistical model that’s way out of wack and causes airports to be hotbeds of crime simply because they lower property values and cover a large area.

…which makes it so scary that there’s been at least one mayoral vote that was swung by a game of sim city.

followups of the genre have not fixed this either; cities: skylines is notorious for every citizen being able to pull a car out of their pocket, which is why the vanilla game’s traffic simulation is so difficult to balance. also, since C:S is a “hybrid” of statistics and agents, the stats lie to you. crime rates, the number, are lowered by proximity to a police station, but criminals, the agents, spawn based on whether a police agent can actually catch them. which means you can have a statistical crime rate of near zero because of your police station coverage and still have massive amounts of crimes happening because the cops are all stuck in traffic.

also yeah, as brought up in the article, the most important thing that’s never modelled in these games is time. the time it takes to build something is massively influential on how future developments take shape.
think about your early-game base in factorio; as you advance along the tech tree it inevitably ends up as a huge random ball of belts, pipes, rail, and weird quirks like inserters pulling from chests around corners to avoid a belt that goes underground right there which comes up there because there used to be an assembler there which fed to another belt which has since been removed but we haven’t moved it and…
real-world cities are full of these old quirks that came about because of the resources available at the time. like how many english towns have huge canal networks because that was the easiest way to move massive amounts of goods, or how many cities have earthen embankments running through the center because of medieval walls or old train lines. yet there is none of that in city builders. i had this discussion with anselm, the citybound guy, back in 2014 too. doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten anywhere since then.

i think it’s more about him having gotten used to it when he played a character on a children’s programme. he also has the face for it, which randall does not.

…isn’t this your thread?

i’ve gertainly never met anyone that does. judging from the news, most people don’t seem to care.

if you have cooling and power handled, yes. the threadripper has like 3.5x the tdp.

they do record, so it will be quite obvious which person suddenly starts looking like a star in the footage.

in the comment i replied to you only mention that there’s no benefit, and you replied to me talking about carbon footprint.

we do a lot of things for no benefit. video games, golf, horse racing, grilling… all those have far larger carbon footprints. as someone else said, focus on the actual negatives of generative ai, like the proven cognitive decline and loneliness.

put it this way, i’m no patrick stewart. i did not pull the look off.

i shave my head twice a week, because i have the fantastic luck to have incredibly thick hair, and since 22, mpb.

they list the others in the article.

no, there is no difference. at least if ubuntu studio has hooked apt up to discover; it’s usually mainly used for flatpaks.

“using” water tends to mean that it needs to be processed to be usable again. you “use” water by drinking it, or showering, or boiling pasta too.

idk if that’s the intended takeaway from those numbers.

According to AllAboutAI analysis, global AI processing generates over 260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone, equivalent to 260 transatlantic flights, with 1 billion daily queries consuming 300 MWh of electricity.

according to the faa there are on average 5500 planes in the air every day, and while i couldn’t find an exact number there seem to be between 350 and 1 200 transatlantic flights every day, depending on season.

260 tons is still massive, but let’s not kid ourselves. it’s about equivalent to producing 12 new american-size cars.

the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 ³⁄₃₂ in railway in the world.

…honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as “obscure”.