vrighter
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- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 6 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
enshittification
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
whether you factor backwards compatibility or not is irrelevant. Those are still ps4 games. There are comparatively quite few ps5 games
- Comment on 1 month ago:
high powered infrared leds at full blast? Just spitballing here
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
scuba don’t breathe pure oxygen. That’s poisonous
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
never heard of a little thing called oxygen toxicity
- Comment on Apple steps up war of words with European regulators 1 month ago:
no, we don’t. Android is becoming the same thing. So intervention is needed
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
only premium subscribers could pick individual tracks previously
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
patent nand and nor! You’ll get much more out of it
- Comment on gaming console 1 month ago:
if you turn 360 and walk, you’d still be going towards it
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
the ps5 is the console I used the least. And I bought the ps3 in the middle of the ps4’s generation.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 months ago:
PowerPenis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 months ago:
there are barely any. I can’t name a single one offhand. Open weights means absolutely nothing about the actual source of those weights.
