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render brick installed, and now putting it through several games (all at 4k). still havent found one that drops the fps below my refresh of 144hz. except doom eternal, ended up dropping down as low as 120 hz. i played starcraft 2, which i got to run like a slide show, granted using a mod with unlimited unit cap, i had 1k supply and spammed carriers. i think sc is cpu bound with that many units on the field. 170 in mwo (though i didnt turn everything on, to stay competitive). maybe i will do some scorn and stray, as those are the newest games i got and maybe il see if i can turn on rt shaders in minecraft. im not sure how to make ksp spam my gpu, i always find its cpu bound and never really does anything to the gpu. i was mining with my 2070 super while playing and didnt notice so much as a hiccup.

have you ever tried embedded development? socs and microcontrollers and the like. very few resources to work with, requiring very low level (or at least close to the metal) programming. i tried playing with fpgas but they broke my brain. i also didn't know what to do with it, they are usually used for integrating larger systems, but it was hard to find an exciting application for them as a hobbyist and just seemed like a solution looking for a problem well outside of my capabilities. i suppose you could also get into ai dev, that's currently cutting edge and could very well turn into a lucrative career. so get in on it early. there is also quantum programming if you want to be on an even more cutting edge.

on the way out i was handed a shopping list and i jarred my knee on the way up, so i just took a cab home. i haven't installed it yet, i was really tired and went to bed as soon as i got home. after 5 hours of sleep i decided to take care of internet things first and will be installing it in a couple hours. also after holding the card in my hand and realizing its one of the smaller ones, i will hence forth call video cards "render bricks". the thought that a component of this mass is held on by 2 tiny screws on a flimsy bracket and a pcie slot certainly gives me confidence in its structural integrity. i really want the forward bracket to become standard issue, or better yet a 4 point hard mounting system. im honestly even willing to use mortar at this point.

we seem to have a really good track record for stretching the mission on these things. but if every mission ends in "er... not enough power" and provides scientific value to the last. it seems you could get more science/$ through longer duration missions and more robust rovers. everyone though sending helicopters to mars was stupid, until they did it and it turned out to be a resounding success. launch a rover (for collecting samples), base station (with science lab), swarms of micro bots for recon and no fewer than 2 helicopters for recon and dust removal and ferrying samples back to the base station for analysis. i think it could work if you could get it all to fit in one launch (potentially cheaper launches in the very near future).

black holes and neutron stars? and were expected to colonize this system? bakes dealing with a simple blight seem a lot easier.

ive always postulated that it would be better off in the long term to use hydrolox launch vehicles, big ones, potentially big reusable ones. you have a fusion or fission plant powering the electrolysis to crack sea water, you load your rocket, it burns to water, falls back to earth and you have a totally renewable fuel cycle. launch cadence need only be limited to rocket turnaround and the number of power stations you have to make fuel. so that kind of makes sense, at least until you see what the rangers can do. that is land and take off on multiple planets without refueling. im seeing a lot of that in movies these days. whispering actors in one scene and super loud effects or music in the next. i mean its fine in the theater but i wish they would normalize it for the dvd release so i don't have to ride the remote to both parse the dialog and not wake the neighbors at 3am.

i admit the plot was a little bit contrived. i feel like they could have solved their food shortage by growing it hydroponically under environmentally controlled conditions. they could have solved their problems without leaving the planet. i also have problems with taking the same soil the same air and the same seed stock, stick it in a concrete centrifuge and get it into space off screen with gravity magic. how do you make that work and not a terrestrial biosphere. and their space ships were op, wonder why they hadnt bothered colonizing mars or the moon. still it was worth watching.

perhaps we need to send a helicopter with every probe that has the capability to hover over the panels to clear them. you can place known point targets on perimeter of the panels for position tracking. id like to see more helicopters on future mars probes because that has worked out so well thus far.

i have to go get a $900 graphics card from the post office. but the ground is really icy. i have a horrific premonition of falling on my buttocks and dropping the thing and dashing any hope of a new graphics card this decade.

i had to watch the first one as soon as i heard of its existence. it was incredibly ambitious. in the end it turned out to be worth watching, even if some of the characters were laughable.

^ not sure if bug or feature. sometimes something lazy works out in the long term. that said every now and again a master builder will come up with something impressive that nobody else is doing.

fitment is what it ultimately came down to (and why i didnt get the xtx instead). none of the 40xx cards were anywhere near fitting in this machine. and from the last generation xx60 line, the gpus were using the same size coolers as the higher end cards and i figured they would continue that trend. so no point waiting for those. what really sold me is a ltt video about the 4070 ti that showed a 7900xt for comparison, which prompted me to check its dimensions for fitment, there is even space left over for the power connector so no needing to get a separate u-adapter. i also am not a fan of nvidia's new power connector, i dispise the arbitrary changing of connector standards and their pigtail will no doubt cause additional fitment issues. the new card will probibly out perform my 2070 super in the ray tracing department. i dont think ray tracing is ready for prime time just yet, even though its been available for a few generations. it was a nice novelty that lasted me all but 10 minutes, and i will probibly to continue to not use it. this is the most ive ever spent on a video card, and the first time i gone red (other than laptop gpus, but that was over a decade ago).

yea them things are good. but not the factory made ones for some reason. i feel like they skimp on the butter.

i was looking to see if any of the 4070ti cards will fit in my ncase m1. apparently they dont, but i did find a 7900xt that does and for roughly the same price. i might wait a week and see if amd drops their prices in response to the new gpu becoming available soon. i didnt want to spend over $700. good idea? bad idea? wait more? are my 2070 super's days numbered? abandon technology, go to the woods and eat squirrels for a living? honestly im leaning toward the latter. screw it i bought the damn thing, im done playing maybe video card with the whole damn industry, il upgrade again in 5-10 years when they get their heads out of their collective keisters. anything i need to know about migrating from nvidia to amd?

in an effort to purge the house of unused holiday foodstuffs, i made rice crispies treats. idk who thought we needed four bags of marshmallows.

how does one couple their ship to the thing (without giving it an early snack of course)?

i dont, i use png.

no, i live on the other side of the state, down the panhandle. but i can see canada. i suppose you could see russia from nome, but ive never been up there. palin lives in wasilla which is about an hour out of anchorage, and the only thing they can see is my sister's bad driving. spotting russia from wasilla is like being able to see la from vegas. you can see mt denali from anchorage but its like 8 hours away by car. after that drive you will never want to see another tree ever again.

honestly im not sure, alaska covers 4 timezones. and the dateline does that weird zigzag thing between alaska and russia. but as far as i know all of alaska falls under alaska time, which is an hour after pacific and an hour before hawaii time. alaska does technically have islands further west than hawaii. the aleutian chain for example. the diomede islands, where one is alaskan and the other is russian with like 2 and a half miles between them, and where the dateline does its meandering. you could technically time travel with a kayak. go back or forward in time a day most of the year, new years you can time travel a year if you are brave enough to be in those waters in december/january.

and i wish mine would stop losing iq points.

winamp has received its first new update since 2013. debating whether or not to update. i mean if it aint broke...etc. also concerned that some youngins got ahold it, corrupted it with modern ui standards and plan on turning it into yet another free to play application with ads, etc (i heard nft-audio and that killed it for me). maybe on a nukable installation for testing is in order (perhaps my win11 machine when i inevitably switch it for linux). ive been using it since i started using mp3s in the mid 90s pre-napster ftp era. try as i might i cannot think of a piece of software i have used for as long. id considered replacing it with fubar if the software ever stopped working, but it never did.

mom had to watch it for legacy reasons, but it reminded me how much i dislike modern mainstream music. so i put gwar's 'sick of you' on to celebrate the now deactivated tv set. its not even midnight yet.

i think for the purpose of running old games over the modern internet, especially over ipv6, you are better off running a direct vpn tunnel (run it server side). you can run ipv4 inside and whatever outside. a game from the 90s isnt going to be able to handle ipv6.

i wonder how many of those clients are using older routers. or improperly configured routers. its possible thats happening on the developer side. but i suspect the client side routers are more to blame (not all are managed by people who know what they are doing). its also possible you need to use an ipv6 dns address. most of the network issues i have are dns related.

should work fine provided your router can handle both. ipv4 is more than adequate for your private network, and they will sometimes encounter ipv6 sites. so i figure the default on most routers is to support both. ipv4 addresses are highly coveted though, so its becoming harder and harder for companies to secure those. which is the whole reason ipv6 exists. ipv4 should actually work better because its a more mature standard.