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- Comment on Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. 1 week ago:
I can’t wait for hardware companies to let go of their designers prematurely in the pursuit of AI everything only for there to be a bug in a major board and no one available to troubleshoot thereby stranding customers with a broken board, no revision on the horizon, and no recourse.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 1 week ago:
Here’s a video from the gig. I think it would have been more clear they were targeting anti-zionism if they had used that combined symbol on the flag and just stuck with swastikas over the eyes. In context it does seem like they’re being critical of Israel here while using symbolism pulled from the Israeli flag though.
If only there was something Israel could do to stop the comparisons of Israelis to genocidal Nazis.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 1 week ago:
News’ job is to report facts. If one person says it’s raining and another says it’s not the journalist should go outside and check, not just report “he said, she said” bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Who cares.
Republicans
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And that’s how you get the Zootopia abortion fan-comic.
- Comment on Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet? 2 weeks ago:
Charlie Kirk had about a nanosecond to think about the effects of gun control on his life before he no longer had a life, but he died how he lived–lying about trans people.
Then VPOTUS shamed his own wife nationally for not being Christian and he started making public moves toward (now widowed) Mrs. Kirk.
- Comment on Every picture is just a gif with the same frame repeated over and over. 3 weeks ago:
No.
Maybe try “all static images are single frame animations.”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I think this geared toward the crowd that plays games, but doesn’t have the latest and greatest hardware nor likes to tinker. This will be an upgrade for a lot of people and the ability to just set it up and play your already existing backlog with ease is the main selling point over power.
It’s an awesome device which will help drive the Linux gaming ecosystem forward, but it’s not for me personally as it doesn’t hold a candle to my PC.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about “more.” It would still make sense, but Nancy’s head game was not an all together foreign concept.
I’m guessing this picture was chosen for the “Game recognize Game” meme more because it’s easier to find than a photo of Trump with Monica.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 weeks ago:
Putin can talk to Trump about it when Trump gets a little too out of line.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 weeks ago:
Mark is Jeffrey Epstein’s brother. This is an email from Mark to Jeffrey about Trump blowing someone called “Bubba.” One of the nicknames Bill Clinton used was “Bubba.”
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 weeks ago:
- Donald Trump (Blue suit; sitting US President)
- Nancy Reagon (Pink dress; former US First Lady)
It is alleged that in her day Nancy enjoyed giving head. Nacent revelations allege that Donald sucked off “Bubba” (presumably Bill Clinton, former US president) and that Putin has pics.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 5 weeks ago:
Here’s the product page if you want to learn about it.
It’s a computer with an accessible OS that you can do whatever you want to it which happens to be optimised for gaming, but can also stream.
- Comment on GDP 1 month ago:
Her phone as material as the foundation of speculation for Nvidia.
- Comment on Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good. 1 month ago:
If exactly one of the bad options will come to pass anyway though, and you get to influence which one, why wouldn’t you opt for less bad?
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 months ago:
Would
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 2 months ago:
The people in charge dislike Antifa because people who align under that label oppose those in power.
I hesitate to use the argument “‘Antifa’ means ‘anti-fascist’ therefore if you don’t like Antifa you are necessarily fascist”–not because I don’t believe it’s true, but because I believe it’s more correlation. The “National Socialist” party was not as its name purports, nor do many of the “Protect the children” laws actually do what they say on the tin; therefore a deeper inspection on acts, means, motives, and results is warranted over a mere “literal definition of the name.”
- Comment on soda 2 months ago:
“Shoes” - Yum!
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 months ago:
Disney allegedly lost 1.7 million customers after suspending Jimmy Kimmel. He was very quickly reinstated.
It’s not that boycotts don’t work, it’s more that they require a critical mass to work and that can be hard to achieve.
- Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing. 2 months ago:
I learned in bible school that the reason we have 3 segments on our fingers is that with the palm they align perfectly with the panels on a banana. This is evidence of the perfect creator–the Christian God, and why humans can only hold bananas.
This is an actual thing an apologist said. He later backpedaled, but not before it became a trope to teach in Christian schools as evidence against evolution.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
I don’t know if I’d classify any gun death as “worth it” in the manner of necessary to secure the “right” to bear arms. “Welcome” on the other hand…
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if you’re involved in activism at all, but I heard some advice from an old Food Not Bombs head. Don’t trust the person that is always available, always has a car, or is down for anything. This is especially true if they are new or always wear bland or name brand clothing.
I guess more generally, don’t trust people that seem like they really want to be trusted.
Regarding surveillance online, yeah, there’s absolutely no privacy anywhere and there’s nothing you can do, so just be boring.
- Comment on Say it slowly 2 months ago:
I 👏 never 👏 said 👏 he 👏 licked 👏 my 👏 asshole.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
He died as he lived, dismissing gun violence and lying about trans people. 😔
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 months ago:
He also used an AI video to hide his location.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 3 months ago:
I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.
I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.
That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 3 months ago:
A 15cm (6 inch) deep hole 30m (100 feet) from the trail or water.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 months ago:
On a “respond to an individual query” level, yeah it’s not that much. But prior to response the data center had to be constructed, the entire web had to be scraped, the models trained, the servers continually ran regardless of load. There’s also way too many “hidden” queries across the web in general from companies trying to summarize every email or product.
All of that adds to the energy costs. This equivocation is meant to make people feel less bad about the energy impact of using AI, when so much of the cost is in building AI.
Furthermore, that’s the median value–the one that falls right in the middle of the quantity of queries. There’s a limit to how much less energy a query to the left of the median can use; there’s a significantly higher runway to the right of the median for excess energy use. This also only accounted for text queries; images and video generation efforts are gonna use a lot more.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 months ago:
There are zero downsides when mentally associating an energy hog with “1 second of use time of the device that is routinely used for minutes at a time.”
