No problem. Thanks for the giveaway anyway :)

I’d like Kerbal Space program please.

Your first link is from Hard Drive, which is quite obviously a parodic website, kinda like the Onion but for tech. That being said, Wikia/Fandom is a parasitic growth on the internet that leeches on the free work of countless enthusiasts, and alternative fan-run wikis should be used instead.

*Liberation

Dr Becky is an actual astrophysicist (PhD) and her content is great and based on a thorough analysis of published science. Maybe watch the video first next time ?

That’s how you land on my wishlist !

It works by using the processing power of your device (it can utilize both GPU and CPU) to run scientific calculations when you’re not using it. It can detect if you’re using the device or not and use its processing power accordingly, and you can customize what fraction of your device it can use and when. You can also decide what scientific endeavors (astronomical surveys, protein folding, etc.) are allowed to use your compute power.

That makes BOINC a great way to heat a room in winter provided you’re not annoyed by the eventual fan noises (or if you’re not in the room), since the energy used will also help scientific research at no extra cost for you. This also means that depending on your settings, it can melt a mobile device battery in no time.

Do people really run BOINC on Android ?

There’s no such thing as a backdoor that opens only for the good guys

This proposal is bonkers. Imagine aaaall the nudes that will have to be manually assessed by police (until they outsource it because it’s cheaper), and then you have to believe they won’t keep anything and that there are zero bad apples.

Besides, if the tools are already in place in the apps, it’s only a question of time before the detection system is repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn’t like. Memes about our dear leader? I’m afraid we can’t allow that !

You can’t have a backdoor that works for the good guys only.

Dude’s desperately trying to grow a chin

I’d go with Chants of Sennaar as a direct Steam or GOG gift. Granted, it’s not exactly patient gaming since it came out last year, but I found it had a charming and somehow retro vibe when I tried and enjoyed the demo, and it certainly is an original game concept. I suggest you try it yourself !

Thanks for organizing this giveaway !

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You’re probably right, I have edited my comment to reflect this. source

I think it has to do with atmospheric diffusion of the sunlight. Even if the photons coming straight down at you are blocked by the moon, a lot of them bounce around in the atmosphere and end up reaching your eyes. Kinda like when it’s not complete darkness at sunset even after the sun has gone over the horizon. Also explains why the sky is blue, since “blue photons” are better at bouncing around on the atmosphere molecules. See : diffuse sky radiation

Quoting form the Wikipedia article: Approximately 23% of direct incident radiation of total sunlight is removed from the direct solar beam by scattering into the atmosphere; of this amount (of incident radiation) about two-thirds ultimately reaches the earth as photon diffused skylight radiation.

Edit : probably mostly has to do with your eyes adapting to the luminosity and non linearity of light intensity perception by our eyes. See posts below about Weber-Fechner law of perception.

Edit Edit : This is an intersting read. The TLDR is it mostly has to do with our eyes slowly adapting to the amount of light they receive, and during totality, light bouncing from beyond the umbra comes into play.

In passmark intel does indeed beat AMD (albeit at almost twice the needed power), but it’s not so clear in other benchmarks, see for example : here or here.

Ultimately, it seems Intel 13900K or 14900K would probably give you a slight advantage, maybe about 5%, but that’s only if you can cool it well enough that it doesn’t have to throttle to prevent overheating, which might happen really fast if you want to put it in a case that would allow you to cary it around. The heat these cpus dissipate means that if you intend to run them at full throttle for long periods of time, you probably have to use a 360mm or 420 mm watercooling, or 2x240 mm but then you have to build your own loop. That won’t fit in most SFF cases.

Do Threadrippers beat Intel in single thread ? They are geared for heavily multi threaded applications, not so much single thread. Besides, I’m not sure there are any compact mobos for Threadripper.

Yes the 253W can only be sustained with adequate cooling, and even then, the VRMs might become a limiting factor. If you’re concerned about heat dissipation, don’t go with Intel. They can only match AMD in compute power by throwing ridiculous amounts of Watts at the problem.

For a case that can handle 240mm AIO water-cooling in a small form factor (SFF), you can take a look at the lian-li A4 H2O (~10L), although if you don’t have any use for a large GPU, there probably are smaller enclosures you could use.

This shows that not only is the anti cheat dangerous because of its kernel access, it’s also useless since cheaters are bypassing anyways…

Exactly, the egg floating doesn’t mean that it’s not edible anymore, just that it’s old.