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  • Penicillin isn’t just growing some mold, it was selected for out of literally tens of thousands of strains of mold that were sent in from around the globe to find one that wouldn’t kill the patient. You would, at a minimum, need: microscope optics, glassblowing equipment to perform extractions and purifications, a source of solvents (ether will only go so far), assaying equipment (even old school stuff needs indicators), and enough industrial progress to make and machine steel to be able to scale any of it up.

    Just finding the correct strain of mold to begin to produce any form of antibiotics would need a pretty insane amount of hardware to make what we would consider a rudimentary lab in modern times, let alone isolating it in a way that’s safe for human consumption.





  • It’s a 28cu RDNA3 core running up to 110w. It’s not a mystery how fast it will be, AMD already has silicon out with those exact specs: the RX 7600M. It’s going to run as fast as a current midrange gaming laptop, or about on par with a desktop 6600xt with faster memory and a 6 core ryzen. For some reason there isn’t a comparable rdna3 core out for desktop, but that kinda makes sense as you only start to see the benefit of the extra wattage a pcie card gives you with the 40cu+ cores.

    That is to say, it will run 4K like shit unless it’s a decade old game or everything is set to low with FSR cranked all the way up.



  • A car without a clutch could also just be a funny car. They don’t really have a clutch, it’s more a bullseye looking thing that drops in stages. Basically if you try to dump 3000+ horses into first gear metal tends to explode, so you dump multiple stages that just roast until you get speed. You still have gears, but it’s less of a clutch and more of a time delay friction welding system attached to the crankshaft.





  • Incredibly, and not at all subtle. It’s also of fairly limited effectiveness in most scenarios, wireless signals are generally a lot more complex than what a simple jammer will cover. On top of the difficulty in transmitting a reasonably large amount of radio power in any useful frequency, you have to also jam side frequencies to avoid fail over and certain noise mitigation techniques.

    Honestly it’s not even just that it’s massively illegal, it’s just so wildly impractical. Like, what would you accomplish? Radio waves fall off pretty quickly in strength, so your jammer is going to have a limited range, and if it doesn’t you just knock out flight communications and emergency response while cellular hops to one of the other hundreds of frequencies and like 10 modulation protocols until something works, and it’s going to be insanely difficult to jam all of those at once.

    Just jamming 700mhz would involve an antenna array that would be bigger than a person and using the old “moar power” approach sees wattage requirements shoot into megawatt ranges pretty quick.