Basically, the way DIMMs are built with edge connectors causes trouble with signal integrity. That limits the maximum speed and is one reason why LPDDR is soldered.

CAMMs replace the edge connector with a grid of contacts like on modern CPUs. That’s easier on the signal, allowing for faster speeds and even LPDDR on modules. Downside: They need to lie flat on the mainboard and thus use more space. Then again, laptop RAM is typically mounted in a flat configuration already so it’s mostly a new challenge on the desktop.

In case you’re wondering why they announced CAMM2 and where CAMM1 went: The original CAMM was a proprietary module from Dell; their spec was refined into the JEDEC-standardized CAMM2.

Sweet. I’ve been waiting for CAMM to gain momentum for a while now. Now all that needs to happen is for it to actually be used by OEMs.

Plenty of systems have something for that, often with a variety of options.

A bookish Exalted character might roll Intelligence + Lore to remember having learned about the weakness to fire before. Or maybe Intelligence + Occult if the weakness is supernatural in nature. A combat-oriented character might roll Wits + War to deduce that fire is needed based on the knowledge of old battle reports involving trolls. Maybe even something involving Survival if they’re familiar with a region trolls can appear in.

A game with a flexible skill system has a lot of room for such things.

“Computer, I use Arch btw.”

The holodeck’s exit arch appears in hopes of keeping the user from debating rolling release Linux distros with Ludwig van Beethoven

It’s also a bunch of scripts that automate the operation of said compiler.

Gentoo is not for people who like to compile software; it’s for people who like to watch as software is compiled.

“I was actually looking for someone in the injection molding business.”

They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.

In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.

It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.

It’s not like that would stop Nintendo. Japanese patent law is much less strict on the concept of prior art. IIRC, you can essentially tack new claims onto old patents and the Japanese patent office will treat the result as if the new claims had been patented by you all along. They did that against Pocketpair already.

Or capitalization. “They added The Thing” already reads different than “they added the thing”.

The live-action version of The Enigma of Amigara Fault is surprisingly adorable.

Aren’t the rebels the bad guys at that point? You know, with the whole gassing thing? The rebellion against the Galactic Empire doesn’t exist, seeing how the Galactic Empire doesn’t even exist yet.

I did that and what I find interesting is that exactly one MEP replied. Well, his assistant did but that still counts. The way the reply was worded even made clear that someone did read my mail specifically.

I’m not a friend of the BSW but I will acknowledge that their MEP Jan-Peter Warnke is in opposition and responsive (via assistant).

But even if the rest of the bunch was silent, do send those mails. Or send paper mail. Or a fax; we’re taking about German MEPs after all. Either way, make your voice heard.

That’s similar to how I do it, except that I also invert most FPSes.

Basically, my mental model is that I move the camera around. In third-person games with a from-behind perspective, the character’s position is usually a fulcrum that the camera pivots around. So if I want to look up I have to pull the camera down. Hence inverted.

For first-person games I’m less consistent with inverting but I usually do. The camera may not pivot around a point ahead of it but in my head it pivots around a point directly at its front. Some games don’t feel like that to me but most do.

That’s also why I insist on inverting my mouse wheel, by the way – my mental model is not that I send up or down commands to the computer, it’s that I push the document up or down with my finger like I would on a smartphone. The mouse wheel is a touchscreen surrogate. Having the document move up when I push it up feels wrong.

I would take a screenshot of the invite and deliver a ten minute lecture on how this meeting is keeping me from actually doing my job.

Second picture is a screenshot of my team’s backlog.

Locations don’t matter; they’ll throw me out of the meeting at the second picture at the latest.

One thing to note is that only some fridges don’t have vents. Ones advertising “no frost” or “low frost” as a feature do have vents that serve to keep the air circulating and remove moisture from the air. They might still follow a different approach from American fridges, though.

The rationale here is that if you don’t give handouts like that to major corporations, they’ll go build their data center somewhere they do get handouts. And then you lose the tax income and jobs they generate.

Of course it sucks that the logic works like that but they do have the ball and the shareholders expect them to take it only to the most profitable location.

I agree. I cannot condone the killing of a person.

However, I can appreciate the irony of someone with his opinions on gun control getting gunned down. Even if I still prefer it hadn’t happened.

Don’t worry; we’ll find an artist so bland that we’ll get zero points even if we’re the only participant. The audience will fall asleep and wake up a week later with no recollection of the event. The victory will be awarded to Sweden on principle.

A good foam pillow under my head, a bit of my blanket between my knees. Sometimes I think about getting one of those knee pillows but so far I haven’t bothered.

I won’t go back to a down-filled pillow. Those will inevitably stop supporting my head during the night.

As opposed to Mr. Assertive on the right, whose invitations aren’t even read until it’s too late.