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No, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is very much a strong state (aka player) game with basically zero agency from workers as long as they get fed.

Not to say it isn't a great game, it has managed to steal a great deal of my time. With the caveat that its very unpolished and clearly straining under a load bearing amount of duct tape

If you figure out how to make cheap vacuum cables you will probably become very rich.

But otherwise chains of microwave links does get much closer to c in applications where you want absolute lowest latency (or much more commonly, when digging a fiber line is too expensive)

I don't actually think latency would be that much worse.

Of course, it depends on the altitude of the satellite but speed of light in a fiber optic is only ~2/3rds of speed of light in a vacuum so you can afford some detour

A submarine cable is a bundle of hundreds of strands, so you need quite a few satellites to replace one cable.

Alas, those classes was wound down a decade ago to save money, that is I mean be more inclusive.

What does a bunker cost?

Surely it isn't cheap, but given the price of the hardware, does it add substantially to the total cost of a datacenter?

A gas pump is somewhere on the order of ~30MW. Even if you account for the greater efficiency of EVs we're still an order of magnitude away from equivalent charging speed.

If you know how to accomplish it using the interface, yes

My grandmother keeps a little notebook with detailed instruction on how to do things such as sending a message on facebook or pay a bill using netbank.

For a lot of things, the choice isn't going to be doing it herself or giving orders to the computer. Its going to be not doing it or giving orders to the computer.

Even if it will look very inefficient to people such as you or me

Most jet planes do carry a starter with them (in the tail usually) so the fact the SR-71 doesn't suggests the tradeoffs wasn't worth it

There would also be a block of memory mapped hardware registers also needing address space that you have to poke to make the GPU actually do GPU things, instead of just being an expensive way to add extra memory to a system, no?

And if my experience from embedded development is in any way transferable, they're probably fairly spread out and probably takes a fairly big chunk of address space too.

And if Trump had just faded into obscurity after 2021 we probably wouldn't see this kind of realignment, but the fact he got reelected makes it look much less like a fluke and more like an USA that's increasingly unreliable on the international stage

While I do believe its a bubble, that seems like a silly viewpoint that presumes infinite risk tolerance.

The one in my oven.

It's not about lights, it's about electricity always being available. And well, always having power available (for domestic, but also for expensive production facilities that looses money while idle) using renewables is a lot more expensive than generating most of your power with renewables

A lot of CPUs does not execute instructions directly, but instead translate them into a second set of "uOps"

This allows it to split complex instructions into multiple operations instead of having dedicated hardware for it.

High performance cores can also do the opposite trick of "fusing" two instructions into a single uOp: The usual example is compare-and-branch

To be competitive with ARM and x86 they need a talented design team creating fast and wide cores on a modern node. (which I expect to take a decade at least)

For the vast majority of non-number-crunching code any theoretical difference between instruction sets vanishes in the noise of core design.