carpelbridgesyndrome

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's in a name⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but why does UW have them in its classrooms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since people aren’t reading the article and the headline is misleading. The law requires:

  • The OS ask the user their date of birth on account creation (kinda like the Steam date of birth prompts)
  • The OS provide an API that returns which of four age brackets the user fits in
  • Companies notified by the OS that the user is under age may be liable

  It was explicitly written by the authors not to mandate ID or facial recognition checks. You can lie about your date of birth. This basically creates a standard set of parental controls for parents configuring kids devices.

  I think that this might actually help with the whole discord facial recognition issue in places other than the UK by allowing them to offload the issue to parents setting up devices rather than collecting kids biometrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The headline is misleading. They are only required to ask how old you are and are not required to verify you aren’t lying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it. Those AI computers are built in a really weird way and have a lot of hardware that isn’t really useful outside an AI/HPC context. Some stuff like the weird card to card network topology can be reconfigured but the rest of it can’t easily be. The servers are rather agressively designed around keeping as many GPUs fed as possible making them kinda weird for other jobs. Those datacenter cards are missing enough video hardware (for example texture units) to make gaming hard and I’m not sure there’s that much consumer demand for linear algebra accelerators. If they can’t find more HPC jobs they may go under. Movie studios could have interesting opportunities here but they are still primarily using CPUs in all their software IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve seen wave but the image posterization makes it hard to tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly a lot of this is chiplet interposer mounted HBM and not UDIMMs. The HBM cannot be removed from the products it’s installed from so unless you want an H100 ir won’t be off much use. The remainder is mainly server RDIMMs and LRDIMMs. UDIMMs for desktops are in short supply because they cut manufacturing to make other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could swear I saw some company doing this in a tech publication like 5-10 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh. I’m not seeing evidence that was in any way pointed at people. In the aftermath of the Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s strategic bombers it became quite apparent that leaving your air force out unprotected in your own country is a shortcut to losing a lot of it at once. The US Air Force has the same problem the Russian VKS had: lots of expensive planes out in the open scattered over a massive country that anyone can get drones or explosives into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did as well which is a polite way of saying I blew all my RAM savings on the how overpriced GPUs were at the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because not everything is a bug. People frequently want help and having a searchable place for past discussions it is helpful. Also this was in response to people complaining about forums and implying what came after is better so misuse is very much relevant here. Every modding community and a lot of other dev groups use discord for everything and it is from experience a trainwreck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable”

  I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally the 5th thing in the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Control 2 should hopefully be fine as the CEO is new and it is scheduled for the first half of the year (They told investors 2026H2 and no one would lie to investors /s). Not so sure about anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder if their CEO finally stopped responding to hacker news threads or if he’s still in there getting dunked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  John Stuart is in there for entirely nonsensical reasons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jitsi is owned by a Campbell, California based firm called 8x8. Source: I worked for them during the acquisition.

  Though admittedly avoiding US origin open source is unlikely to be possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One compressed to the point where I couldn’t see hand sized objects. The great glories of social media cost savings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the videos are to grainy for me to tell what happened to his gun. What is clear is he had a phone in one hand and the other was empty when he was first attacked. That and that they proceeded to shoot him six times when he was aready slumped unmoving bleeding out on the ground.

  Though given the New York Times is saying he was shot after the gun was taken without any particular weasle words I’m inclined to think they shot him without provocation.

  Kristy Noem could descalate things a lot if she stopped trasparently lying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The four types of groceries: common groceries, rare groceries, epic groceries, legendary groceries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the HDMI forum is ass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem. Open source software doesn’t work with the NDA. Nvidia does it with an embedded processor and closed firmware, Intel does it with an embedded Displayport to HDMI converter, AMD does it in the driver. Steam uses AMD chips and open source drivers so they can’t get it to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PS5 memory is soldered to the board

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fabs take like 5 years to spin up. No one is going to set up another without some kind of guarantee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent $160 on 64gb its now $625

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some games anticheat supports Linux. VAC, EAC, GameGuard, and BattlEye either run under Linux by default or can be configured to do so, by the game dev, with a toggle. A number: Destiny 2, Fortnight, etc. break it intentionally even though the client could run without modification. Battlefield 6 breaks because it checks the Windows measured boot API.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3167: Car Size⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We regulated the safety of the driver with little regard for pedestrians. The solution is regulating what your car does to others in a crash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨android⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A/B partitions are an improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s stupider than I thought reading the headline. That car started driving down the fing tracks