vrighter
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- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
you seem to be confusing an operating system for the user interface. An os can (and regularly does) have more than one interface. In this case steamos ships with two of them. One they designed which is targeted for games. And they also ship plasma as a desktop environment for those who need it. The operating system lies under all that, and you can launch any piece of software from either of the interfaces. (or the terminal, that counts as a 3rd way to interact with the computer, I guess)
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
as amazing as snake was as a toy on phones, it still doesn’t make sense to put a copy of snake in outlook. Or notepad, or paint, or office, or as an always available widget in the task bar
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
because they haven’t? We don’t want any changes to our ability to install software. This would still kill f-droid, and the “flow” they talked about isn’t a system wide setting. You have to do it per app. And you, the owner of the divice who just wants to install something on your device, would have to register. So if too many people install the app, the dev would be forced to register as well.
How is any of that “listening to user feedback”?
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 weeks ago:
yes, but thanks for telling me anyway :)
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 weeks ago:
everything is fucking videos now. You get stuch at a very particular place? Prepare to sift through literally hours of video instead of, for example, just searching for the name of the place you’re in ingame
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 3 weeks ago:
they are widely known to be the smartest creatures on earth, followed by dolphins, and then us
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
speakers are analog devices by nature.
The other two are used for the distortions they introduce, so quite literally lower fidelity. Whether some people like those distortions is irrelevant.
You want high fidelity: lossless digital audio formats.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
what audio tech uses analog for better fidelity?
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 3 weeks ago:
banks have the most obnoxious, yet the stupidest security measures.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
at least two, you can’t stuff a rocket full of just gpus, you need something to actually dock and deliver the payload in space. So you need to launch at least 2 rockets (in a non-reusable configuration, so you need to pay for the whole rocket and the launch) to ship a bunch of gpus that are, at best, only 10% as fast as usual.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
they did think of it. lots of people have. I just mentioned what was required. Rad hardened processors are usually 10 to 20 times slower than what we have on the surface
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
and the infrastructure and robotics to replace them, of course.
Assuming 200 nvidia H100 failures a day (conservativo, reality is worse) that’s an extra ~340kg of weight you’d need to launch per day. Which is an extra 120 tons yearly.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
and forget about running 4nm chips in space. shit has to be radiation hardened, which means bigger process nodes and higher energy cost, and lower speed
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
for starters, at the loads they’re running at, they have literally hundreds of gpu failures a day. How do you propose doing that in space?
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
well any actual engineer who isn’t trying to sell them will readily tell you that a datacenter in space is a very bad idea.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
literal kilometers of panels and radiators. No. It won’t happen
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
yes but they’re not trying to dissipate megawatts usually
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 4 weeks ago:
if we do our test on a manual we’re allowed to drive automatics too. But not the other way round. So i learned on a manual. I now drive an electric without any gears to switch, much less a clutch (but still have a classic mini too)
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 4 weeks ago:
enshittification
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna cry my eyes out when I lose the fat narcissistic orange I have at home.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
not really. It’s faster while writing it sometimes. But if you factor in the time it takes to try reading it a year later you end up with a net loss
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 weeks ago:
but how? isn’t all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
it’s slowing you down. The solution to that is to use it in even more places!
Wtf was up with that conclusion?
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 2 months ago:
whether you factor backwards compatibility or not is irrelevant. Those are still ps4 games. There are comparatively quite few ps5 games
- Comment on 2 months ago:
high powered infrared leds at full blast? Just spitballing here
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 months ago:
scuba don’t breathe pure oxygen. That’s poisonous
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 months ago:
never heard of a little thing called oxygen toxicity
- Comment on Apple steps up war of words with European regulators 2 months ago:
no, we don’t. Android is becoming the same thing. So intervention is needed
