We are going to have that now in a couple of months regardless. So it won't matter if Taiwan's manufacturing base gets disrupted, the hardware will have already effectively stopped.

You should elaborate your snarky rebuttal more.

--reasoning_effort: xhigh

I thought about it more. He's right though so I'm not sure what the extra thinking was meant to do...

I wonder in an alternate timeline, if Cyrix had worked with Carmack to get a patch for Cyrix, how the outcomes would have changed.

Cyrix was physically incapable of pipelining FPU instructions. Without Pentium Quake would have had to wait two more years for commodification of CPUs delivering similar floating point performance.

https://thandor.net/benchmark/33

Quake needed March 1994 Pentium 90-100 to deliver ~smooth 25fps. Cyrix released similarly performing 6x86MX PR200 in May 1997, AMD K5-PR166 January 1997. Quake was unfeasible till ~1998 at the earliest to be able to sell playable game.

Over 90% of my managers got into their positions by either stabbing someone in the back, or walking across their dead body.

That's how hierarchies work. It's an circumstantial constraint. Some people just keep trying to make hierarchies permanent for whatever reason.

Thanks for the nerd snipe! I just found the Citroen e-C3, for a couple thousand more than the Spring. Both look fine. They should just be station wagons, but this is our timeline.

Thank you for your service. I mean it.

I can't believe they made an account for that comment. Like each action carries the same weight. Renewables, esp solar are super low maintenance. When you buy panels, barring some manufacturing defect, you buy them for the life of the project, not the panel.

Solar lasts so long, it is a one time purchase.

Clearly the US needs to start bombing ships that switch to the yuan.

Yes, it seems like the next logical move would be for the US to blockade the strait. Ironic.

On the low end, we will still synthesize what we need from whatever feed stock is available. Lots of pure industrial intermediate chemicals are synthesized out of natural gas.

Oil will not be viable for transportation and heating very soon due to market pressure alone.

The West is doing everything it can to limit solar from China. Which is idiotic, we should be trading anything and everything for those low cost panels from China.