AlpacaChariot
@AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.
Great book if you haven’t read it!
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Yeah we have that meaning too :D
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Makes a great lightweight dutch oven as well (especially when hard anodised). Non stick, doesn’t rust, still distributes and holds heat really well, and about 1/3 of the weight.
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 4 months ago:
Redreader uses the official API, they have an exception from paying (for now) because they have accessibility features that most apps including the official one lack.
- Comment on epidemiology 6 months ago:
The TV show Fortitude has a similar plotline. Would recommend!
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 7 months ago:
Aren’t they implementing manifest v3 for addons soon, which will cripple adblockers on chrome?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Same, deliberately avoided Nvidia and I’ve had zero issues
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- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
Breasts are often measured in cups
- Comment on Rough days 7 months ago:
I like to chat people up and get their number then disappoint them by sending a deluge of maymays
- Comment on Rough days 7 months ago:
Like memes?
- Comment on Britain developing new, sovereign nuclear warhead 7 months ago:
It’s really an agreement to work towards disarmament, not to just unilaterally disarm regardless of what everyone else is doing.
Article VI: Each party “undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control”.
I can’t see how for example Russia could be disarmed under strict and effective international control in the current climate.
We’re not increasing the number of our warheads in service, just replacing old ones with a new design.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 8 months ago:
The one thing AI LLMs seem to be actually quite good at is generating lots of quite ‘real’/‘genuine’ sounding comments and replies, so it really could be bots. It probably doesn’t actually take that much effort either in relative terms, if you decide you want to AstroTurf an online space.
It’s a shame because it could basically kill discussion on the internet as we know it. It’s mad to think it, but in a few years we could be telling younger generations of a time when we wrote words to each other online and it was reasonable to assume that we were talking to a real person…
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 8 months ago:
Are they real though, or bots? It’s increasingly difficult to tell these days.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 8 months ago:
The 5800X3D has the same core architecture as the 5800X but it runs at 11% lower base and 4% lower boost clocks. The lower clocks are in exchange for an extra 64MB of cache (96MB up from 32MB) and around 40% more money. For most real-world tasks performance is comparable to the 5800X. Cache sensitive scenarios such as low res. canned game benchmarks with a 3090-Ti ($2,000 USD) benefit at the cost of everything else. Be wary of sponsored reviews with cherry picked games that showcase the wins, conveniently ignore frame drops and gloss over the losses. Also watch out for AMD’s army of Neanderthal social media accounts on reddit, forums and youtube, they will be singing their own praises as usual. Instead of focusing on real-world performance, AMD’s marketers aim to dupe consumers with bankrolled headlines. The same tactics were used with the Radeon 5000 series GPUs. Zen 4 needs to bring substantial IPC improvements for all workloads, rather than overpriced “3D” marketing gimmicks. New PC builders have little reason to look further than the $260 12600K which, at a fraction of the price, offers better all round performance in gaming, desktop and workstation applications. Users with an existing AM4 build should wait just a few more months for better performance at lower prices with Raptor Lake or even Zen 4. The marketers selling expensive “3D” upgrades today will quickly move onto Zen 4 (3D) leaving unfortunate buyers stuck on an overpriced, 6 year old, dead-end, platform. [Mar '22 CPUPro]
Jesus
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
Will it though? Seems like the kind of task that requires a huge amount of effort, way beyond the kind of capacity you get from casual contributions in peoples’ spare time…might be difficult to maintain feature parity and implement new standards without a full time team on it.
- Comment on Ehat are the legal implications of this? 9 months ago:
Free in the UK
- Comment on Help me remember a "back-to-back chaise longue" from TV or film 10 months ago:
Huh, TIL!
I’ve never seen/heard anyone call it a chaise lounge in the UK. Or maybe I’ve seen it written like that and just assumed it was autocorrect.
- Comment on Help me remember a "back-to-back chaise longue" from TV or film 10 months ago:
I think it was a joke? Difficult to tell on the internet!
- Comment on Oh no… 10 months ago:
You didn’t love BJ before?
- Comment on Post Office under criminal investigation for potential fraud over Horizon scandal 10 months ago:
This story is mad, if I recall correctly they knew the software was faulty but covered it up and instead ruined the lives of all these employees.
- Comment on GTA: Real life 10 months ago:
It goes on for so long
- Comment on 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still 10 months ago:
That’s a decent price, might have to go for one of those instead… Thanks for the information!
- Comment on 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still 10 months ago:
Is there any issue with buying a card that was previously used for mining?
When you say RX 6600 do you mean that one specifically or the range including 6600XT etc? I don’t have a good handle on what the real world differences between the variants are.
- Comment on 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still 10 months ago:
What’s everyone’s recommendation for a cheap AMD GPU to use with Linux? I was looking recently at a Radeon RX 580, I know there are much better cards out there but the prices are about double (£350-400 instead of £180). I’d mostly be using it to play games like the remastered Rome Total War.
- Comment on Putin to stand for fifth term as Russian president 11 months ago:
And a rope
- Comment on ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks 11 months ago:
Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?
- Comment on Beans 11 months ago:
Those beans don’t look the right colour to be British, ours are in a kind of tomato sauce.
Maybe America? Americans are pretty degenerate and I can see them going for “sweet brown sugar sauce” so it checks out…
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
I’m not american but aren’t wings usually precooked? Or is it not like that?
If you turn up to a chippy or fried chicken place juat before closing time in the UK they sometimes give you extra food they would otherwise have to bin at the end of the night. I get why it’s annoying if you’d have to cook something fresh though.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
This is brave
