JohnEdwa

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It’s the Gabecube.

Yes, that video is 14 years old.

Hardware usually first reduces in price because manufacturers start with a need to quickly recover the large R&D costs using a high profit margin, and at some point they break even and can start bringing the price down. And often manufacturing just does get cheaper as time goes on too. Game consoles are kinda special, as they are often sold at a loss from the start because they expect sales in games to eventuslly cover it all, so their pricing usually slowly trends down in hopes it attracts new owners that will then buy a bunch of games.

Valve doesn’t do that with the Deck (they want the hardware division to be entirely self-sufficient), but they also set the margim to be really low right from the start to be competitive, so they had to increase the price to match current manufacturing costs or each Deck would lose the hardware division a lot of money.

I’ve been thinking of buying a slingshot and some paintballs. For another, completely irrelevant purpose though, obviously.

Though the Index did use an intricate OLED screen and it had the lighthouses and finger tracking controllers (they have 87 different sensors per controller). Without the AIpocalypse, the Frame was originally supposed to be the cheaper of the two.

2026 prices though, who knows. Painful, like any tech hardware, that’s for sure.

An alternative way to look at it is that we should focus on the solutions that actually make sense. Carbon capture is like plastic recycling, the solution to it isn’t to try to recycle harder, it’s to reduce the use of plastics so we don’t have anything to recycle.
Also, do you know what the majority of the captured Co2 is currently used? To extract oil.

In theory. Nobody actually manufactures it yet in any quantity, and it will take a long time to be able to replace even a measurable fraction of the 30 billion tons the world uses annually.

Australia isn’t exactly going to be running out of space for forests any time soon. They are going to run out of forests if they keep it up though, cutting roughly 55 million tonnes of co2 worth of trees annually.

Kinda doubt it makes much sense to be building 22 000 carbon capture plants a year just to break even, instead of replanting the trees.

Making a cubic metre of concrete creates almost half a ton of Co2, so it will take years if not decades for the plant to even make up being built. A tree starts capturing immediately and keeps doing so for decades all by itself.

The actual source quote they butchered was “the Australian Government has set a target to reduce emissions to 62-70% below 2005 levels by 2035.”

It’s also the amount of Co2 captured by roughly 10000 trees in a year - with apparently around 1.2 million being planted in Australia each day. I’m no expert, but I do think trees are a slightly cheaper and simpler solution for creating stuff with captured carbon.
Aka wood.

is it so much more expensive than manufacturing a HMD 2660, which does more or less the same things and retails for approx. $100?

Yes, extremely so.

HMD will manufacture millions of them with partners they have been using for a decade, they will each skim a few dollars to cover costs and profit and still do fine.
Commodore will manufacture a fraction of that volume using parts way more expensive as they buy less of them, and they still have to cover r&d and tooling costs from that lower volume.

That is why kickstarters (and pre-orders) are so damn useful, as that allows you to get a start at covering those costs before you even manufacture anything.

I’m not saying she should have a Russian accent while speaking English - she is a spy, that would be stupid - but that Scarlet Johansson is pretty rubbish at speaking Russian, which her character should be perfectly fluent in as that’s her native language.

Though rarely it has to. Someone speaking multiple entirely different languages usually can’t pronounce them all like a native speaker no matter how good they are, so small issues are perfectly acceptable.

It only really becomes a problem when movies try to convince us that it’s supposed to be their native language, e.g Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.

Yes, even when the sensor fails.
If the feedback from the thermistor is either nonsense or doesn’t change as expected even when the heater is on/off for a certain time, that should trigger a thermal runaway error and halt the printer. That’s basic decade plus old Marlin code.

I’ve had two broken thermistors in my Ender 3. First one reported negative temperatures when it disconnected, so the printer immediately halted with a min temp error. The second reported something like 150C, which was in the acceptable range, except when it tried to heat it up and nothing changed for like 15 seconds, which triggered a halt.
Again, decade old marlin code. Not rocket surgery.

I though we fixed thermal runaway firmware issues like a decade ago for good…

Have we really gone from commenting based on intelligently reading the article, to reading only the title, to commenting just based on the generic stock image thumbnail?

Enough for Nano Dimensions to sell them for 42 million to stratasys even though they paid 116 million for it just last year.

Witcher 2 Nordic Edition back in 2011. My Steam account is 21 years old :)

They allow devs to sell on other platforms and provide them steam keys for free, bypassing that commission.

Oooh, this sounds fantastic. I’ve tried the game twice and while I loved the characters and the setting, RTwP combat just really isn’t enjoyable for me.