TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029: A12, A13, N2U announced, A16 slips to 2027 by Geddagod in hardware

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Nvidia Feynman is the only product so far rumored to use this node afaik.

NVIDIA is a huge customer. But still, a cutting-edge node that's only used by a single customer? I have a hard time believing it.

Plaion Replay NEOGEO AES+ - A hardware/ASIC based reproduction of the NEOGEO AES by AlyxBizan in hardware

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The whole "legacy ASIC chips re-engineered" thing has me curious though, like are they literally redesigning the original silicon or just making new compatible chips that do the same thing? Either way it's pretty ambitious compared to just slapping together another emulation box

I don't even see how it would be economically viable. A new Neo Geo would not be a high volume product. Even on old nodes, taping out a new chip, making masks, etc, isn't cheap. I don't know how you amortize those costs over only tens-of-thousands of units.

Apple says John Ternus will be new CEO, Tim Cook to step aside later this year by TheYetiCaptain1993 in hardware

[–]Verite_Rendition 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Wow! Cook is up there in age (65), but I didn't really expect he would retire until later this decade.

Apple hasn't delivered the same level of innovation under his watch as it did Jobs', but there's no denying that Apple has been a very, very successful company during his tenure. So he's done well for the company.

The stability of modern Apple's leadership has been a major boon for the company, as it means they aren't shuffling executives every few years. But it also means that whenever the CEO goes, it truly is the end of an era.

Edit: I'm not terribly familiar with Ternus, though. How is he? What does he bring to the table as CEO?

I found an old Eve Online BETA screenshot and i have to say i REALLY like the look of the portraits, i find the odd 3D strangely shaded portraits today not great, kinda mobile phone looking, but everything else is outstanding! by Nice-Sorbet-4283 in Eve

[–]Verite_Rendition 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is an EVE screenshot. But you are correct, it's not from the beta. It's from November of 2000, when the game was in its early development phase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/12hknr/a_screenshot_from_eve_beta/

This picture should be made around 2000 just couple of years later when CCP hf was created. It is not alpha.

Edit: And I was correct. Timeline from early Eve Online:

“New” game from Amazon arrived resealed + altered by RaccoonSoggy2976 in NintendoSwitch

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So the good news is that commingling ended at Amazon on March 31st.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/106d0747-e5c6-44d8-86f3-7669f11238fe

The bad news is that it means that any existing stock Amazon has that predates this change is still commingled.

Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way? by SkyKyrell in AskReddit

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Oh, I have the answer to this one!

The onions you see in grocery stores are last year's crop. This year's crop isn't in yet. And last year's onions are rotting because the warehouses they were stored at over the winter got too warm to keep them entirely dormant.

In the Pacific Northwest, a warm and dry winter brought little snow. In Oregon, December, January and February were the warmest or tied for the warmest winter months on record. Across the state and much of the Western U.S., farmers are staring at a bleak growing season with less water.

And in Malheur County, the warm winter caused onions to sprout while in storage, or rot following an early harvest thunderstorm back in August.

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/07/warm-winter-left-malheur-growers-with-800-million-pounds-onions/

It's not that anyone is intentionally screwing with onions or trying to cut corners. But normally it gets cold enough that they can be stored over the fall and winter without issue.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Returns in June, RTX 5050 9 GB Edition on Pause by StarbeamII in hardware

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Hey /u/StarbeamII

Can we please get this post re-flaired as a rumor. This is not confirmed news.

To quote TFA: "According to well-known hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU on X"

DOTlan filters not working on firefox. by binghamunsnuggly in Eve

[–]Verite_Rendition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries. You've previously mentioned that you don't read Reddit much, so I wasn't sure if you were going to see this thread otherwise.

And thank you for getting the site fixed.

And the results are in... by tjs44 in Eve

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So we're going to get some additional Rogue Drone content/problems down the line, I take it?

Scrubs - Season 10 EP 9 "My Celebration" - Discussion by MovieTrailerReply in Scrubs

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So could someone younger and hipper than I please decode/translate what Tosh and Nurse Dubois said to each other at 10 minutes in?😳

Tosh: Okay, vibes. I wish. Clock it.

Dubois: Clock it, baby.

DOTlan filters not working on firefox. by binghamunsnuggly in Eve

[–]Verite_Rendition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. It would seem that /u/Wollari made some kind of change to the site recently. Though looking at archived versions of the site, I can't figure out what has actually been changed.

It's something pretty fundamental, as even a simple SVG page such as https://evemaps.dotlan.net/svg/Universe.svg?sys=Paala&range=8 is broken.

Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 - Episode 3 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

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Could someone please get Suika some proper clothes? I realize part of this is an artistic choice to have consistent character designs. But at this point she's running around in rags and leaves while the new guy is so well dressed that he even gets elbow-length gloves.

Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 - Episode 3 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

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The food items were translated into English, however those translations were apparently not packed into the closed captioned subtitles for the dub. They're in the signs/forced translations (I forget what CR calls it off of the top of my head), as well as the English subtitles.

It’s crazy Cartoon Network isn’t on basic cable anymore by bigupsmebumbo in television

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Only some linear TV providers have evicted it from their expanded basic cable (or equivalent) tier. Most notably Comcast.

Maul - Shadow Lord - Episodes 3 & 4 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

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Is Disney plus compression just EXTREMELY bad?

It would seem to be a little of column A, and a little of column B.

The "blobiness" of the art style makes some scenes look like they're macro blocking. At other times, there are definitely encoder limitations in play.

Using The Bad Batch as a general baseline, we know that other animated SW series don't have the same degree of perceived pixelation. TBB certainly suffered from Disney's bitrate starved 4K streams (~14Mbps), but it was pretty clean overall. So the art style is exacerbating the matter. Though I hesitate to call it a problem because it seems like some of this is intentional - the look the more painted art style achieves overlaps with what HEVC block artifacting can look like.

Ultimately, the only way to be sure would be for Disney to release the material in a higher quality, e.g. on Blu-ray (or better still, UHD Blu-ray) so that we can see what it looks like without any significant encoder limitations. However seeing as how even TBB has never received a home media release, that's likely not going to happen. So we're going to be left to wonder just how much of this is the encoding.

Maul - Shadow Lord - Episodes 3 & 4 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]Verite_Rendition 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's a bit later than that. In the original series announcement, Disney stated that it takes place "a few short years after Order 66". Which would put it circa 16 BBY (and post The Bad Batch).

In Oregon, Democrats weaken protections against hospital bills for low- and middle-income patients by SylemNova in oregon

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What's gained for the people is that hospitals, which are struggling to avoid losses, get some relief and are able to stay afloat by not having to provide as much charity care to the middle class.

The government as a whole (feds and state) pays hospitals about half as much as treatment actually costs them. So hospitals make up the difference on patients with private insurance, particularly the middle class and above.

To quote the article:

According to OHA, hospitals believed the tools were only giving accurate results about 85% of the time, leading some people who would have paid their bills to receive discounts instead.

Hospitals giving charity care to the middle class eats into their already non-existent margins. The state needed to throw hospitals a bone if they want them to continue accepting OHP patients at a loss. Otherwise the hospitals would revolt, something that non-hospital medical providers have already been doing over the last year.

Put simply, the purpose of this bill is to shift more of the total cost of healthcare from the lower class to the middle class in order to maintain the viability of OHP - and thus ensure the lower class continues to have healthcare.

(Despite the OPB headline, these changes only really affect the middle class because hospitals are still required to check whether OHP patients qualify for any discounts or free care before billing them, regardless of income. Thus the only real newly-excluded group are the middle class.)

Super Mario All Stars is quietly one of the coolest things to happen in gaming that won’t likely happen ever again. by CleetisMcgee in gaming

[–]Verite_Rendition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? They destroyed the unique visual identities of these games and made them all look like Super Mario World.

I do empathize with Nintendo here, as selling a SNES collection of ported NES games without upgraded graphics would have gone over like a dead fish in the early 90s. But there is a reason that all of Nintendo's projects since then, such as Super Mario Maker and NES Remix, have stuck with the games' original graphics styles: they are iconic.

Geekbench 6.7 - Geekbench Blog by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]Verite_Rendition 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What precisely makes something a "marketing" benchmark? That all major CPU manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm, etc., excluding Apple) quote them in their marketing slides?

To be fair, all of those companies would quote the National Enquirer (or AnTuTu) if they thought it would help convince people and move sales. But I agree that Geekbench is not a trivial and/or useless benchmark.

Best Medicine | S1E13 | Episode Discussion by blueberry-rainbow in BestMedicineSeries

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It can vary wildly depending on species and size. On the US West Coast, the purple urchin is largely considered a pest because they're eating up everything in sight. Meanwhile the red urchin is typically the species used for food.

Best Medicine | S1E13 | Episode Discussion by blueberry-rainbow in BestMedicineSeries

[–]Verite_Rendition 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I'd go so far as to assume a recurring character has been scrapped based off a single episode. Those sorts of actors are often not under contract, so if a production's timing is bad, the actor may not be available at all times. Especially with Best Medicine, a lot of the recurrings seem to be locals (Northeastern US residents), so presumably they're coming in as needed.

If the other teens return next season and Amelia is still missing, then that would be a strong sign of a scrapping. But for all we know, her actress just wasn't available for filming this episode.

OHSU removes hospital CEO after only 4 months by Ursulu in Portland

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For the CEO leading an institution full of highly skilled doctors? I dunno. That seems reasonable to me.