GTA VI is the big release this year (though I personally don’t care about it) and IMO it doesn’t look better than Cyberpunk 2077 from nearly 7 years ago. Okay, the faces look better, but the world? Hell no. I just got Pragmata and it in no way pushes the envelope of what XSX/PS5 can do. Hell, the 360/PS3 era games are still peak, IMO. I don’t need PS6 or Helix.
It doesn't look any better, no. But you have to remember the latest games are going to be completely un-optimized code "enhanced" with lots of AI slop, so you're going to need much better hardware to run it, despite it having about the same level of graphics.
That's just it, though -- we really don't know. We don't have a single consistent theory that can describe both quantum and relativistic effects at the same time, so in situations where both are relevant and important, we're at a bit of a loss.
Impressively bad snake identification, really. Two of the most distinctive and different-looking snakes in the world, with one of the primary differences currently on full and prominent display ... and OP just confused them.
You still age, you can still feel pain and suffer. And sooner or later, you will. For all eternity, while quantum immortality keeps you just barely alive enough to observe your own plight.
Hm... Is it technically possible -- however fantastically, ludicrously unlikely -- that quantum teleportation could transport you from inside to outside the event horizon of a black hole?
It's all about precision of measurement, after all. You can never know exactly where a given particle is, including the particles that make up your body. However you try to measure the location of one, there's always a slight chance that it's actually somewhere else. This chance drops off dramatically through distance, but it theoretically never drops off to absolutely zero no matter how far away you look. But does the event horizon of a black hole interrupt this, creating a hard boundary in where a particle's location may or may not be observed?
Honestly, I doubt this is answerable without a completed theory of quantum gravity, which has so far been beyond the reach of science. This is just one more instance where quantum theory and relativity theory disagree on what can/would happen, and until the two theories are reconciled, we can never really know what would happen in situations where they conflict like this.
But is any of that even necessary? You don't instantly die when you cross the event horizon. You can still carry on observing things as you fall deeper into the black hole. When push actually comes to shove for quantum immortality is when you come up against one of the black hole's several ways of killing you. (Which one occurs first will depend on the black hole's mass and maybe also which interpretation of the physics is correct. In some interpretations of physics, it might even depend on which frame of reference you're considering it from -- an outside observer might disagree with the unlucky test subject about which happened first.)
Fall all the way until you're crushed into the singularity at the center?
Spaghettification due to extreme tidal forces pulling your lower half harder than your upper half?
Radiation damage due to time dilation effects blueshifting all the incoming energy from outside the black hole into deadly-powerful and concentrated x-ray radiation?
Radiation/heat damage from crossing through a shell of energetic photons orbiting at about the level of the event horizon?
Quantum immortality would have to find a (statistically unlikely, but still technically possible) way for you to avoid all of these causes of death and keep you just barely alive enough to observe things. Radiation is the easiest -- just need to randomly divert enough of those radiation particles around you or tunnel them through you without touching, and you're safe from that. Not sure how quantum effects could protect you from the other two, though ... we might be getting back into the quantum gravity problem.
The more you look into it, the more blatant it becomes.
Her crime? She went into a polling location and asked if she was allowed to vote, because she wasn't sure. After reviewing her case, the poll worker wasn't sure either and told her to cast a provisional ballot. She followed the poll worker's instructions exactly ... and then Texas tried to send her to prison for 5 years for that, because it turns out the poll worker was wrong.
Enjoy it while you can. Quantum immortality is a horror story in the long run. You can still suffer, you can still prefer to die rather than living as whatever shriveled husk you've eventually inevitably been reduced to, but in quantum immortality, you can never die -- you must stay and remain capable of observing whatever new horrors are coming your way.
Honestly, all the electrical safety/grounding concerns are completely solved if you just screw the power supply directly to the metal of the desk. The power supply is already grounded, and metal-on-metal contact with the desk will mean that everything else is also safely grounded. It's the same way the metal parts of a normal PC case are grounded.
Having the main PC case in a moving drawer greatly complicates all of the wiring connections. Could make it easy to work on ... unless it's one of those connections that has gone wrong (and it probably will be), in which case it's a nightmare.
My suggestion: Completely remove the two drawers above the bottom left, and fix the bottom drawer in place permanently. That way, all the wiring connections don't have to move at all. PC components can be installed and maintained by reaching in from above, through the gap left by removing the top two drawers. It also gives you a lot more room to think about cooling solutions -- I would do that by drilling/cutting out vent patterns in the back wall of the desk and then mounting fans/liquid coolers to that, exhausting heat out the back. Ah, but then what do you do about the big, unsightly hole that's left after removing the top two drawers? You fashion a hinged door using the face plates of the two removed drawers as the front fascia of it -- so when it's closed, it looks completely normal.
A couple other minor suggestions:
1: Consider adding the power/reset switches and status LEDs into your 3D-printed desktop connection module. You'll need to put them (or at least the power button) somewhere, and if you design it with that in mind, they could be integrated nice and seamlessly.
2: Mounting everything in the bottom drawer could be made much simpler and easier if you just buy an 'open air PC case' and attach that to the bottom drawer. Something like this:
There are a bunch of them out there on the market if you look, and they would greatly simplify the install ... if there's room for that in your budget. Or, for a similar but more DIY solution, you could just take a normal PC case and an angle grinder and cut away everything you don't need, leaving a similar result with just the motherboard tray, PCIe card supports, mounting brackets for drives and power supply, etc. In some cases, the motherboard tray (with card supports) is already a removable piece, which would get you halfway there easily.
There are so many exceptions to the 4th amendment that it's basically meaningless.
Burner phone, but take a few tasteful nudes on it first.
But if you gain a new one, then maybe it's a fair trade...
It doesn't look any better, no. But you have to remember the latest games are going to be completely un-optimized code "enhanced" with lots of AI slop, so you're going to need much better hardware to run it, despite it having about the same level of graphics.
That's just it, though -- we really don't know. We don't have a single consistent theory that can describe both quantum and relativistic effects at the same time, so in situations where both are relevant and important, we're at a bit of a loss.
Impressively bad snake identification, really. Two of the most distinctive and different-looking snakes in the world, with one of the primary differences currently on full and prominent display ... and OP just confused them.
Oh how excited you must have been when you copied the shortcut onto your computer's desktop and saw that it transferred over just fine.
And then how disappointed once you tried clicking on that shortcut...
Sucks for you most of all.
You still age, you can still feel pain and suffer. And sooner or later, you will. For all eternity, while quantum immortality keeps you just barely alive enough to observe your own plight.
Hm... Is it technically possible -- however fantastically, ludicrously unlikely -- that quantum teleportation could transport you from inside to outside the event horizon of a black hole?
It's all about precision of measurement, after all. You can never know exactly where a given particle is, including the particles that make up your body. However you try to measure the location of one, there's always a slight chance that it's actually somewhere else. This chance drops off dramatically through distance, but it theoretically never drops off to absolutely zero no matter how far away you look. But does the event horizon of a black hole interrupt this, creating a hard boundary in where a particle's location may or may not be observed?
Honestly, I doubt this is answerable without a completed theory of quantum gravity, which has so far been beyond the reach of science. This is just one more instance where quantum theory and relativity theory disagree on what can/would happen, and until the two theories are reconciled, we can never really know what would happen in situations where they conflict like this.
But is any of that even necessary? You don't instantly die when you cross the event horizon. You can still carry on observing things as you fall deeper into the black hole. When push actually comes to shove for quantum immortality is when you come up against one of the black hole's several ways of killing you. (Which one occurs first will depend on the black hole's mass and maybe also which interpretation of the physics is correct. In some interpretations of physics, it might even depend on which frame of reference you're considering it from -- an outside observer might disagree with the unlucky test subject about which happened first.)
Fall all the way until you're crushed into the singularity at the center?
Spaghettification due to extreme tidal forces pulling your lower half harder than your upper half?
Radiation damage due to time dilation effects blueshifting all the incoming energy from outside the black hole into deadly-powerful and concentrated x-ray radiation?
Radiation/heat damage from crossing through a shell of energetic photons orbiting at about the level of the event horizon?
Quantum immortality would have to find a (statistically unlikely, but still technically possible) way for you to avoid all of these causes of death and keep you just barely alive enough to observe things. Radiation is the easiest -- just need to randomly divert enough of those radiation particles around you or tunnel them through you without touching, and you're safe from that. Not sure how quantum effects could protect you from the other two, though ... we might be getting back into the quantum gravity problem.
Anybody want to take bets on whether it happens before or after the midterms?
(I'm betting on after -- because then I'll have cause to celebrate no matter which way it turns out.)
Hey, finally one I recognize!
And then he did go on to join the interdimensional FBI.
I didn't cut you off bro.
My parents made that decision, while I screamed in pain.
Did you pull this off something used?
Typically when sold new, they have much longer leads, which makes soldering easier, and then you trim off the extra lead length you don't need.
With the leads this short, it would be very challenging even for an expert to solder this without heat damaging the capacitor.
The more you look into it, the more blatant it becomes.
Her crime? She went into a polling location and asked if she was allowed to vote, because she wasn't sure. After reviewing her case, the poll worker wasn't sure either and told her to cast a provisional ballot. She followed the poll worker's instructions exactly ... and then Texas tried to send her to prison for 5 years for that, because it turns out the poll worker was wrong.
But in the fediverse, you can just block the repost bots. Do it. It becomes so much better.
Enjoy it while you can. Quantum immortality is a horror story in the long run. You can still suffer, you can still prefer to die rather than living as whatever shriveled husk you've eventually inevitably been reduced to, but in quantum immortality, you can never die -- you must stay and remain capable of observing whatever new horrors are coming your way.
Honestly, all the electrical safety/grounding concerns are completely solved if you just screw the power supply directly to the metal of the desk. The power supply is already grounded, and metal-on-metal contact with the desk will mean that everything else is also safely grounded. It's the same way the metal parts of a normal PC case are grounded.
Having the main PC case in a moving drawer greatly complicates all of the wiring connections. Could make it easy to work on ... unless it's one of those connections that has gone wrong (and it probably will be), in which case it's a nightmare.
My suggestion: Completely remove the two drawers above the bottom left, and fix the bottom drawer in place permanently. That way, all the wiring connections don't have to move at all. PC components can be installed and maintained by reaching in from above, through the gap left by removing the top two drawers. It also gives you a lot more room to think about cooling solutions -- I would do that by drilling/cutting out vent patterns in the back wall of the desk and then mounting fans/liquid coolers to that, exhausting heat out the back. Ah, but then what do you do about the big, unsightly hole that's left after removing the top two drawers? You fashion a hinged door using the face plates of the two removed drawers as the front fascia of it -- so when it's closed, it looks completely normal.
A couple other minor suggestions:
1: Consider adding the power/reset switches and status LEDs into your 3D-printed desktop connection module. You'll need to put them (or at least the power button) somewhere, and if you design it with that in mind, they could be integrated nice and seamlessly.
2: Mounting everything in the bottom drawer could be made much simpler and easier if you just buy an 'open air PC case' and attach that to the bottom drawer. Something like this:
There are a bunch of them out there on the market if you look, and they would greatly simplify the install ... if there's room for that in your budget. Or, for a similar but more DIY solution, you could just take a normal PC case and an angle grinder and cut away everything you don't need, leaving a similar result with just the motherboard tray, PCIe card supports, mounting brackets for drives and power supply, etc. In some cases, the motherboard tray (with card supports) is already a removable piece, which would get you halfway there easily.
If potential Republican voters instead choose to stay at home and not vote, that's also good.