Hype cycles never last forever, but that doesn't mean all the value has been tapped by any means. The fact that modern GPUs can solve ridiculously complex high dimensional functions is a superpower in every possible field of research.

Also, I did a top-down pixel measurement, where I could see the distance to Tau Ceti as well as the orbit of Neptune. The radius of Neptune's orbit was 32px, while the distance to Tau Ceti was 1152px, for a ratio of 36, when in reality, Tau Ceti is 11.9 ly away, while Neptune has an orbit radius of 30 AU, which means Tau Ceti is around 25,000 Neptune orbits away, so the planet orbit scale is too big (or distance to other stars too small) by a factor of ~694 (25000/36)

Edit: Since this was top-down, the vertical displacement didn't factor into the distance, which also contributed to Tau Ceti appearing too close on screen, so the error is slightly better than that, maybe a factor of 600.

Edit 2: Tau Ceti is rendered at 3.652 pc × 3 world units/pc = 10.956 world units

Neptune’s orbit radius is rendered as 30.05 AU × 0.0065 world units/AU = 0.195325 world units

The rendered ratio is 10.956 / 0.195325 = 56.09 Neptune-orbit radii

The real ratio should be 25,067.5 Neptune-orbit radii

The scale error = 25,067.5 / 56.09 = 446.9×

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...

If the RPI came with any recent mid-tier Snapdragon SOC, it might be interesting. Or if someone made a Linux distro that supports all devices on one of the Snapdragon X Elite laptops, that would be interesting.

Instead, it's more like the equivalent of a cheap desktop with integrated GPU from 20 years ago, on a single board, with decent linux support, and GPIO. So it's either a linux learning toy, or an integrated component within another product, and not much in between.

Besides the overall expansion, some of the wispy cloudy features seem to have changed more qualitatively, some of the curves have shifted shapes and positions in ways more complex than simple expansion, due to magnetic effects.

I'm not sure what IC they use, but it uses a two-line text display and can switch between Lipo, LiFE, NiMH, NiCD, Pb, and a few other modes, and some of them allow adjustable cutoff voltage, max charge time, etc. That's just a cheap 80W model but there are 200W+ chargers that use the same interface.

There are also 18650 cell chargers that can also take NiMH AA/AAA and charge them at high currents, like this: https://www.amazon.com/NITECORE-UMS4-Intelligent-LumenTac-Or...

I also found the "it's almost always dudes" line a bit strange, because I've seen plenty of women doing marketing for startups running on hype.

I spent most of Covid in VRChat and met my current live-in gf, so the metaverse was real for me too.

I also made decent money selling crypto, so that part was real for me too.

And AI coding, for as dumb as even the best models are, still enabled me to create things that I wanted to, but wouldn't have had time or gotten nearly as far without.

I dunno if the author realizes, but all the things they mentioned did materialize in one way or another, just not exactly how the hype described it.

Maybe if they could let go of some of the cynicism, they could find something to be optimistic about. Nothing ever goes exactly as planned, but that doesn't mean nothing is good.