shawabawa3's comments

On: Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GP...

[shawabawa3]

"a frame is a frame" - of course it isn't that makes no sense. The point of high frame rate is to have more frames that render the game state accurately for more subdivisions

Otherwise you could just duplicate every frame 100 times and run at 10k fps

Or hell just generate a million black frames every second, a frames a frame right

On: Uncut Currency

[shawabawa3]

That's not really them not being made equal, that's just people being ignorant of them

you have the same problem spending $2 bills in the US

On: Uncut Currency

[shawabawa3]

they only sell them as a novelty, and as a novelty they can charge a premium

[lolinder → shawabawa3]

Right, I think that's the actual answer.

On: Uncut Currency

[shawabawa3]

I'm in the UK which has £1 and £2 coins and the smallest note is £5

I'd much rather have £1/£2 notes instead

On: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and ...

[shawabawa3]

It's not n of 8. The article doesn't mention cohort size (year 8 is what 7th grade is called in the UK)

Found another source that said n was 26

On: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

[shawabawa3]

Coinbase was founded in 2013 and hit $1B in revenue in 2019 iirc

On: Willow, Our Quantum Chip

[shawabawa3]

The amount of cubits required for a practical application of shors algorithm to break modern encryption is known and it's around 2500 qubits

Willow has 100

On: Willow, Our Quantum Chip

[shawabawa3]

Quantum computing can perform certain calculations much faster than classical computing in the same way classical computing can perform certain calculations much faster than an abacus

On: The cochlear implant question

[shawabawa3]

Hi, I have an 8 week old deaf daughter in the UK and id love to talk to you about your experience getting the cochlear implant, particularly how you were able to get it so early

If you're happy to could you get in touch via my email in bio? Thanks

[2dvisio → shawabawa3]

Sure. Thanks for having contacted me.

On: A new JSON data type for ClickHouse

[shawabawa3]

I had success loading data with vector.dev

[jacobsenscott → shawabawa3]

This is what we do - works well.