QBertReynolds

@QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Horsepower was originally used to describe the work that a horse could do over the course of an hour. Specifically, the number of times an hour a horse could turn a mill wheel at a brewery. These are estimates of peak power, not sustained power, so I would say that it’s accurate that horses can produce significantly more than one horsepower in short bursts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems pretty easy to explain. LLMs are statistical models. Republican politicians are statistically more likely to be sexual predators. If you ask it if some random Republican politician is a rapist, it’s going to give you a statistically plausible answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No such thing when you’re watching live events, and I (and apparently most everyone else) can’t tell the difference between 4K and 1080 at a reasonable distance anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My desktop monitor is a 54" 4K TV that I sit about 3’ from. It’s somewhat difficult for me to pick out individual pixels even when I lean in. My living room TV is 70" 4K, but I sit 15’ away from it. There’s no way I could tell the difference in 4K and 1080 from pixel density alone. I can however tell the difference between 4K and 1080 streams because of how shitty low bitrates look. 4K streams crush all of the dark colors and leave you with these nasty banding effects that I don’t see as often on lower resolution streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Collective Shout logo looks like a butthole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-profit organizations still exist within the capitalist system. Just because they don’t pay out dividends to shareholders doesn’t mean they can’t be exploitative. If a non-profit makes a lot of money, the people who run it just increase their own salaries. Happens all the time. And yes, non-profits exploit labor all the time. Local arts councils are an easy example of this. Run an art show where the venue and food are donated. They take a fee at the door, ask for donations throughout, and require a cut of any art sold. If there’s a bar, they get a cut of that too. The artists who enabled the show to even exist did all their labor for free in exchange for exposure and maybe selling something. They see none of the take though. Sounds pretty capitalist to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can pull the form 990 for any non-profit in the US pretty easily. Here’s Mozilla’s: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/…/200097189

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No argument there. It’s also why it’s done in ARM, 8080, SM83, z80, 6502, and basically every other assembly language. It’s only not done in RISC-V because you can fold 0 into any instruction as an operand, therefore eliminating the need to clear a register before an instruction.

  So why correct the person with a more narrow claim that makes it seem like xor being faster than loading zero is a rarity in CPU architectures? If I said “birds can fly”, and your response was “eagles can fly. Ftfy. Not all birds can fly”, it would be both true and utterly unhelpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never made that claim, nor did the person you corrected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot more architectures than just x86 that are capable of XORing a register with itself (ie. ARM and RISC-V), and if you took OP to mean the accumulation register specifically, pretty much all CPUs going back as far as I can think have had that functionality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have no idea how much more the trade war will escalate between the purchase and the item getting imported. If their laptops take several months to ship and their margins are lower than the increase in tariffs after the sale was made, then they lose money on the sale.