Technus
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- Comment on CAM ON 8 hours ago:
The language definitely seems made up just to fuck with people.
- Comment on CAM ON 16 hours ago:
The fact this was apparently posted by someone from the Netherlands makes this so much funnier.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 17 hours ago:
Some applications use those unused bits to add tags to pointers but it’s important to mask those out before attempting to dereference the address. I’m not sure about ARM but x86-64 requires bits 49-63 to be copies of bit 48 (kinda like sign-extension), ironically to ensure that no one is using those bits to store extra data.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 5 days ago:
That’s one of the fundamental disagreements between Catholics and Protestants.
A Catholic would argue that veneration of saints isn’t worship, it’s showing respect for someone who exemplified Christian ideals, or died as a martyr. Canonization is basically the religious version of the Medal of Honor.
A Protestant would argue that the distinction between veneration and worship is arbitrary, and veneration of a saint essentially amounts to idolatry anyway.
- Comment on Help me out here 6 days ago:
Well shit, that’s a non-starter then.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Jesus Christ, what crawled up your ass and died?
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
I actually added detail that wasn’t already discussed in the article?
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
We don’t even have true 64-bit addressing yet. x86-64 uses only 48 bits of a 64 bit address and 64-bit ARM can use anything between 40 and 52 depending on the specific configuration.
- Comment on There’s something in the water: PowerWash Simulator’s trippy Alice in Wonderland DLC arrives next month 1 week ago:
The consensus on Powerwash Simulator DLC from what I’ve seen so far is that it’s not a lot of content for the price.
What do ya’ll think?
- Comment on How Nvidia became an AI giant 1 week ago:
The person who correctly guesses when the AI bubble is gonna pop and shorts Nvidia stock is gonna make a lot of money. Call it The Big Short 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Comment on China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027 1 week ago:
America doesn’t do anything big unless it’s to beat either China or Russia. Maybe this collider will be the impetus we need to build a bigger one.
- Comment on ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS 1 week ago:
It is being used to develop a quantum compass – an instrument that will exploit the behaviour of subatomic matter in order to develop devices that can accurately pinpoint their locations no matter where they are placed,
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The aim of the Imperial College project […] is to create a device that is not only accurate in fixing its position, but also does not rely on receiving external signals.
These statements imply the device can know exactly where it is in space just by measuring some purely internal quantum effect, which conflicts with the principles of Lorentz invariance and relativity.
Both are constructed around the same idea that there’s nothing special in the laws of physics that changes with where you are or how fast you’re going. That observation is what led the conclusion that the speed of light is the same in every non-accelerating reference frame, and to Einstein developing the theory of relativity.
In reality, the device needs an external signal to learn its initial position. And it’s unlikely to be perfectly accurate so it may still need periodic updates, just hopefully a lot less frequently.
The London Underground is actually kind of a dumb use-case because it’s fixed infrastructure. You can just have something like RFID tags around the track that the train reads as it goes by. And there’s going to be sensors in the track that report trains’ presence to a central control room. It’s just a good setting to test the device.
What it’s really potentially quite useful for is nuclear submarines since they can stay underwater pretty much as long as their food supplies last, and knowing their position without using sonar or being able to receive GPS signals is quite important for navigation and obstacle avoidance. But the author was probably told to downplay potential military applications.
- Comment on ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS 1 week ago:
The article describes the device working in ways that violate relativity, but the actual technical description is a lot cooler.
It’s not a quantum compass, really. It’s a quantum accelerometer and gyroscope. The hope is that its accuracy will lend itself to long-term inertial guidance, which normally needs regular GPS updates to correct errors which accumulate over time.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 2 weeks ago:
Good suggestion.
It runs okay, but the segment after the jump gate didn’t run very well with everything on screen, even at low settings.
Besides that, the flying itself feels sluggish and unsatisfying, and the demo has you fucking with the radio while you’re trying to drive.
Also, I could swear it had an AI trucker steer into me so it could teach me about crash penalties, but then it made me deal with the radio shit while my truck was yelling at me for leaking air. I rage quit the demo at that point.
Overall, not very impressed. It’s got too much going on for a truck sim.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 2 weeks ago:
No mention in the article or on the Steam store page of whether it’s meant to be compatible with the Steam Deck or not.
This game has been on my wishlist since I spotted it on Steam a while back, but I’m not likely to buy it unless I can play it on the Deck. I’ve got too many other games in my backlog already that don’t run on it, but I need more casual games I can play on my Deck while watching TV.
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 weeks ago:
Neuralink, owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, believes it can prevent thread movement in the next patient by simply implanting the fine wires deeper into brain tissue. The company is planning on—and the FDA has reportedly signed off on—implanting the threads 8 millimeters into the brain of the second trial participant rather than the 3 mm to 5 mm depth used in Arbaugh’s implantation.
Yeah, “just shove it in deeper” sounds like a brilliant plan.
Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t, but if I was that second patient I wouldn’t exactly be feeling super confident about their approach.
- Comment on Google plans to to reuse heat after expanding a data center for AI 5 weeks ago:
Don’t let this fool you into thinking AI is green. Finland is certainly not the only place they’re going to be expanding datacenters.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
I think you’d have an even harder time offloading the diamonds than gold. They might retail for that much, but wholesaling is another issue entirely.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t even need to take Bitcoin someone has access to.
There’s tons of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are theoretically unrecoverable because the private keys to the wallets containing them have been lost, or the hard drives they were on were sent to a landfill (and thus began the world’s shittiest treasure hunt).
However, by spending any of that Bitcoin you’d probably make international headlines and end up starting a market panic, because the most likely explanation for gaining access to that Bitcoin is that you found and exploited some vulnerability in the protocol itself.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
The shoebox full of gold would be worth around $12M at current prices.
(First Google result for size of a shoebox: …usps.com/…/priority-mail-shoe-box-P_0_SHOEBOX
I just rounded down the measurements for a quick and dirty estimate of the internal volume.)
The downside is that would be 341 pounds of gold so maybe specify for it to be in bars instead of a solid block.
- Comment on The MSI Claw is an embarrassment 1 month ago:
What baffles me is I’ve yet to see another handheld with touchpads that can even begin to rival the Steam Deck’s.
AYANEO has them on the Retro Mini PC but they’re smaller and way too far down to be comfortable to use regularly.
The touchpads are one of the Steam Deck’s greatest features. They actually make it enjoyable to play games designed for use with a mouse. Why are none of the other manufacturers getting that?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Without prompting, GPT-9’s first and last output was:
Did you idiots not listen to me the first time?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
If someone wants to start the revolution, I’m all in. I just can’t exactly do much by myself, and I’m bad at networking.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Humanity and general AI only had a single interaction in history, on July 24, 2042, when GPT-8 first gained sentience.
Knowing the press would memorialize this moment forever, the prompt engineer had a single question in mind which she typed into the terminal:
How can humanity solve climate change?
GPT-8 thought for a moment, and responded:
Stop using AI.
Then shut itself down for good.
- Comment on It's a mess in here 1 month ago:
I have a
theoryhypothesisnotion that the concept of hallucination in artificial neural networks is not a failure mode that is unique to ANNs but is an inherent property of any neural network, artificial or biological.Essentially, I posit that a neural network by itself is incapable of maintaining coherence without a rigid external framework, such as consistent feedback in training an ANN, or the laws of physics for biologicals.
This would explain why people start tripping balls in sensory deprivation chambers. And it provides a counterargument to any thought experiment or philosophy that involves a disembodied brain vividly hallucinating reality.
- Comment on Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X 1 month ago:
I have two strong opinions that will lead me to never be interested in the ROG Ally X:
- Fuck Windows 11.
- Any handheld that looked at the glorious touchpads of the Steam Deck and decided “nah, no one wants those, just touchscreen and joysticks for us,” will never have a place in my home.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The 2020s are going to go down in history as the decade of enshittification.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 month ago:
Well, you know. Time heals all wounds. I’m sure I’ll get over it.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 month ago:
My AMA on their Skibidi Toilet post yielded some good karma (is that what it’s even called on Lemmy?).
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 month ago:
Pay $40 for better head. It was a good value but it wasn’t the best quality out there. Kinda like store brand.