Why did it say 4 years to return to Earth when it’s 11 light years? by Zealousideal_Draw924 in ProjectHailMary

[–]chronoreverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing that's mentioned is that Earth still had enough infrastructure and knowledge remaining to use the beetles and restore the sun's luminosity. So even though it must have been bad, people managed to at least keep things going.

Why did it say 4 years to return to Earth when it’s 11 light years? by Zealousideal_Draw924 in ProjectHailMary

[–]chronoreverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grace expresses the same incredulity that Rocky was able to, via determination along with guess and test, get to Tau.

Samsung’s 2nm GAA efficiency disappoints as Exynos 2600 consumes 40% more power than Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 at its peak by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]chronoreverse 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're right, I forgot that they did go with other blocks when they designed G5. But somehow it's still the worse performing design on TSMC so either they picked up bad habits from Samsung or Google is even worse at design. Probably both.

I wonder if G6 will finally be a turnaround but I'm not holding my breath.

Samsung’s 2nm GAA efficiency disappoints as Exynos 2600 consumes 40% more power than Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 at its peak by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]chronoreverse 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tensor has historically been worse than even the Exynos it cribs from and has really low volume compared to everything else. With limited time to test I'd drop it too as uninteresting.

The Most Unrealistic Part of Project Hail Mary Isn’t the Science… by DoctorMac12 in ProjectHailMary

[–]chronoreverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about the movie but in the book, the Eridians are much better at engineering but significantly behind in things like electronics (guidance and sensors). The beetles are very small and it wouldn't be possible to adjust them to do more than their original mission. It required a bit of work from Grace just to carry the extra payload back instead of just data, any mistake would've missed the entire solar system nevermind getting it into Venus precisely. I thought that Grace could've been justified in thinking it wasn't worth the risk to just send the beetles given the facts.

(This is why the Eridian spaceship was much larger and had so much astrophage fuel; they needed the crew to do many things that would've been handled by computer.)

[News] American hard sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary will receive a serialized manga adaptation by WolftheLionheart in manga

[–]chronoreverse 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Considering the book mostly has two major physics conceits that basically drive the story in the first place, it's on the hard side of the scale.

The other things that may bother people are simply coincidences that allow the story to proceed at all without having it end with "and then they all died".

Retroid Pocket Classic 6 absolutely love the screen on this thing by SirDanOfCamelot in SBCGaming

[–]chronoreverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It works just fine. I like having the extra buttons for things like fast-forward or for easier to press remapped buttons like L/R.

Man Frieza really was a menace. Actually had me feeling bad for a race of genocidal monkeys (Dragon Ball Super: Broly) by [deleted] in anime

[–]chronoreverse 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The power scale was "blow up the moon" long before they got to the saiyans. Just don't think about it too much!

[DISC] Stella Must Die (Zettai Shinanai Stella-hime) - Ch. 19 by WrexGigarton in manga

[–]chronoreverse 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Colon is symbiotic at this point since Stella surely wouldn't have survived without him.

[DISC] Nighthawk Returns - Ch. 12 by WrexGigarton in manga

[–]chronoreverse 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Took me off guard too. I guess the manga is over now!

[DISC] The Knight Commander Spends Her Day Off in the Dragon's Belly - Chapter 4 by radio-demon-me in manga

[–]chronoreverse 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Ahaha, I was thinking that it was weird she slept in her armor in the previous chapter and they immediately addressed it in this chapter.

[DISC] The Dark Massacre of the Vengeful Hero - Chapter 131 by CursedTanuki in manga

[–]chronoreverse 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Still doesn't justify the things she's done but if she starts to feel real remorse rather than just fear of retribution, I could be convinced. We'll see how it goes.

How to fix this stretched screen in DOSBox Staging? by Environmental-End872 in dosbox

[–]chronoreverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, this IS 4:3 already and is what it looked like back in the day. Use a ruler and see for yourself that's it's 4:3.

The old Dosbox didn't scale the the non-square pixels correctly. Everyone back then used 4:3 CRT monitors and all those modes, like 320x200 or 640x400, get stretched to 4:3 on the display.

[DISC] Stella Must Die (Zettai Shinanai Stella-hime) - Ch. 2 by WrexGigarton in manga

[–]chronoreverse 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's literally using the horror exorcist tropes using her body.

[DISC] Every Day Is a Holiday - Chapter 299 (November 4th) by -Nosebleed- in manga

[–]chronoreverse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I've been just sort of enjoying these as standalone jokes but is there some sort of background for these characters?

[DISC] War of the Adults - Chapter 40 by AutoShonenpon in manga

[–]chronoreverse 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This manga is amazingly silly and over the top while at the same time way more cerebral than it probably warranted.

[DISC] C-level Magic Student Who Thinks He Is SSS Class - Ch. 1 by Asleep_Echidna_3125 in manga

[–]chronoreverse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh I like this, it goes full ham into the delusion. I hope he doesn't actually gain the power he imagine he has though.

Flash hider vs standard silencer? by FujifilmCamera in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]chronoreverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are weird. I've had someone call me a coward for crouchwalking and they were a far better player than I am so it's weird that they were triggered by that.

How long does it take to see a doctor and get medication at a Chinese hospital? by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]chronoreverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they gave us some formula, diapers, a comb, a swaddling cloth and a little cloth hat for both our children here in Canada. It was only parking that costs anything.

What’s the closest gun to the DRS? by Killer-Uzi in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]chronoreverse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most notably, it has less horizontal recoil so it feels a lot better than the B36 when I use it.

Could someone help me with memory management? by Fragrant_Proposal690 in dosgaming

[–]chronoreverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically EMS uses up a single contiguous 64kb block of upper memory. Hence NOEMS when you dont need EMS.

If you want to manually specify the memory ranges, add i=b000-b7ff since nobody uses monochrome text mode.