Nice

Amidala kind of ruins the experience a bit

Yes.

Right now I’m documenting the fault and status of the device. I have heard that Asus sometimes “add” extra damage to the device so that they can claim it’s not covered under the warranty.

There’s no reason this should impact your warranty. But also your ASUS warranty is meaningless anyway. Unless you want your device held for a ransom

I currently have an issue with my device. The SD card reader is faulty. It was not working on Bazzite. I thought maybe it might work on Windows (but chances were low). I installed Window and saw the SD card reader was indeed fried.

Now if I submit my device with Bazzite to the Asus representative, they might say “different OS, we can’t help! hurr durr” and send me back. You can’t argue with these on-field agents. I took the safe way and replicated the problem on Windows.

I heard some technicians replace the MB, apply proper shielding, adjust the fan curves, during the repair process so that the issue does not repeat. I’m hoping for this outcome.

Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

I may have shared the link but even I don’t know how it how it works.

It’s like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it’s a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

Source for bitshifting

PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I’m wrong.

I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

There was/is a movement regarding butthole and ball tanning. I am suspicious that it also started like this.

grandpa loved his bacon, pork

Had he reached 60-70, he would have suffered from gout

He also does not “become a samurai”

Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

but you never see the character on screen again

I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?

I might be terribly incorrect.

But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.

“Given the chance, they would definitely lock lips with the dominant male”

Next post, AI tells user to “get a job”

I was just reading the first paper on TCP Vegas (TCP congestion avoidance protocol) and the tests were done with bandwidths of “over 100 Kbps” over the internet. Feels almost unreal.

Ooooh! Glowing stones. I have to take them.

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It’s a custom ROM (crDroid 11). It might be using Substratum but it’s done in such a seamless manner that I don’t even know.

I tried it long back during Android 9-10 and it was buggy.

Mother-as-a-Service

Custom ROM - crDroid 11

I’m not a Physicist but since they have the same momentum, the marble will have a higher velocity. Let us assume the bowling ball weighs 6000 gm and the marble weighs 20 gm (average weight), the velocity ratio of the marble to bowling ball is 300:1 (300 times faster).

If we assume that both of them are made of the same material, and you throw the bowling ball at 1 m/s, then the marble is launched at nearly Mach 1. I’m pretty sure it will create a neat hole in the bowling ball.

I could be very wrong as well.