Yikes! Best of luck.

Oh boy! How new is your kernel? If you’re on older than probably 6.11, the Strix driver might not be implemented in it yet.

The 6800XT has sold above its MSRP its entire lifecycle, and has been really hard to find the last year or so. When I’ve seen it recently, its been $700-900. Unfortunately, it really is just that good.

Yeah, kobo does too. I assumed it was a proprietary flavor which was pretty locked down, is that not the case?

I vaguely remember there being a FOSS OS you can put on Kobos, can you also do that on Boox?

What issues do people have? I’ve never had/seen these issues.

I mean they do have a point: the framework that the game is targeting is DX11, so if it looks bad it is (broadly) because of an issue in translating DX11 instructions to Vulkan…

Level1 has looked at the B580 on Linux specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0o6505JAc

I think most of the issues with games not working should be the same between windows and Linux driver versions, and HardwareUnboxed has done some pretty exhaustive testing recently on the “maturity” of the drivers by testing a couple hundred games for obvious driver problems.

Hypersonic heating is really weird. We only have data going to about mach 17 (the HTV-2 was the fastest solidly atmospheric vehicle I found) but as we go from subsonic, to supersonic, to hypersonic regimes air becomes pretty much incompressible, and forms a really solid shockwave in front of a fast-moving object. Air is a pretty good thermal insulator, so for very fast, blunt objects they actually heat much slower than you might expect.

Tl;Dr it absolutely vaporized, but it likely lasted longer than you might expect.

Doesn’t exist. Some metals can form organometallic complexes (with CO, CN, methyl groups), in which case you get for instance “organic mercury” compounds. Iron can also do that, but that’s not what theyre talking about here.

What they mean is “biogenic” iron. The snail precipitates dissolved iron and sulfur in the water to form its shell out of iron sulfide. Its a different physical structure, but chemically similar to iron pyrite (fools gold).

There are two “halves” but they’re nowhere near symmetric. The two parts nested inside one another in (a) are the “halves”.

The SI base unit is actually the kilogram (despite naming), a metric tonne is actually a megagram lol.

Anyhow, if the prefix-less naming matched the base unit, 10 kg would be a “decagram”. As it is, it’s 10,000× the base of the naming system, and there’s no prefix on factors of 10 above 1000, so sadly there’s no way to name it neatly.

Edit: actually it looks the like the Greek for 10,000 is “myriad”, so it would be a myrigram. Dope!

One thing that no one ever talks about with this is the massive air resistance on it going Mach 164 through the atmosphere would incur (albeit for a very brief period)…I bet that would knock 25-50 kmph off it easily.

Pandoc does allow you to make “github styled” PDFs and HTML from markdown, can confirm! It doesn’t have any of the widgets, but the text formatting looks the same.

A nice write-up!

You’re allowed to like gimmicks!

What makes them a gimmick IMO is that they’re sold as “this will change your life and the way you work”, but really it’s just that a subset of the audience for the gimmickless product thinks they’re kinda neat.

It is how it’s generally taught in schools, which is unfortunate.

Nope. RNA is chemically different: different sugar in the backbone, and there are wayyyy more than 4 RNA bases (like 12 iirc)

Something called a “lesion” around a base mismatch, basically a bubble in the strand pairing. It can introduce kinks in the helix, and generally is the result of mutation in one strand.

I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.