GenosseFlosse
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- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 2 weeks ago:
Fun for the whole family?
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
“Please enter your name, birthday, race and arier pass number to continue!”
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 3 weeks ago:
People needed beer because the water was not always safe to drink. The alcohol in beer kills parasites and bacteria that might make you sick. Even kids drank light beer in medieval times for this reason.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 4 weeks ago:
If they would use lidar you would get speed and distance from surrounding objects, which seems like valuable data for a moving object. With cameras you get a 2d picture that can only guestimate distance with a multiple cameras and software.
- Comment on Questions about DAS 4 weeks ago:
Where does the coffee come out?
- Comment on 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me' 4 weeks ago:
Bro, do you really want to ruin tech bros because they would suddenly have to PAY for the data they use? Mark and Jeff would have to sell some of their yachts and Private jets to afford paying fair prices for AI data!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Running a business sounds like something an Excel table could do so much better…
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 5 weeks ago:
Lemmings for Amiga had a 2player split screen mode. Goal is to guide the most lemmings (yours and the other players) into your exit.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
The Australian mobile network was CB radio until 2015.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
I don’t need to travel back in time to do that.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
Buy out Elons worthless PayPal shares with 50 million in valuable pets.com and webvan shares. They can only go up at this point!
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
Which American companies actually manufacture displays, ram, CPUs, batteries etc. for cellphones in America?
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
The preferred term is “vibe coding” nowadays!
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.
It will be a bog standard white label china phone with android, a custom wallpaper and maybe some cover/protector like you can get on temu. It’s not like they develop their own hardware configuration, apps or phone os.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 month ago:
AI stands for “actually indians”?
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 2 months ago:
Then what’s the point? If I deliver some code that gets right maybe 4/10 then my boss would tell me to get fucked and never deployed. Yet when companies slap an “AI” sticker on the same bad results it its somehow worth billions and the next hot thing.
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 2 months ago:
It’s absolutely not, because AI will just make up stuff, even if the email is just gibberish. I get assigned jira tasks where the manager tirs hist 8 word notes into a whole paragraph, except ai does not kow the context, problem or the product he is talking about and just generates some buzzword filler text that is 80% wrong.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
Now, one place it’s more of a problem is in things like transformer windings. There are kilometers of wiring in any of them, so the higher resistance of aluminum is a problem.
Is it? As far as I know you can use a larger diameter wire to get the same resistance as copper, if your device has enough space for bigger coils.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
In a lot of cases you can also use Aluminum instead of copper. You need thicker wires and it’s less flexible, but it’s doable and cheaper. Some old electric motors from the eastern block used aluminium coils for that matter, because copper was much more expensive there.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 2 months ago:
East Germany
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 2 months ago:
Remember the slaves with 12+ holidays a years, 20+ holidays, free healthcare, free education, free child care and price controls for rent and food and no billionaires?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 months ago:
Yes, but if you have it as a Windows program it’s easier to configure on a screen with mouse and keyboard, change settings, display help files or give the source code to someone else to make changes or add features.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 months ago:
In highrises with lots of stops and users, it uses some more advanced software to schedule the optimal stops, or distribute the load between multiple lifts. A similar concept exists for HDD controllers, where the read write arm must move to different positions to load data stored on different plates.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 months ago:
This task is not that complicated. You have a list of timestamps with the seconds and the number of interactions for that second. All you need to do is to find the seconds with the most interactions. On a 1h video this would be only 3600 calculations if currentValue id greater than maxValue. If you store it as a Plain integer array you would need ~14KB of RAM. For comparison, a 1987 homecomputer with a 68000 CPU would do ~7Million calculations per second and have ~512kB of RAM, depending on the options.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 months ago:
Why do you need “AI” for this? That is something that can be done client side on a 30 year old phone without sweat!
- Comment on License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 2 months ago:
Flying cars are both shitty planes with terrible aerodynamics, and shitty cars with terrible dimensions, interior space and handling.
- Comment on Spoon 2 months ago:
Oh, i thought they where used because the would hold pretty much exactly 1g of coke so dealers used them?
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 2 months ago:
It used transistor to Transistor logic or ttl, which means chips are wired together on the board to build the “code” and handle Inputs and Outputs, because affordable CPUs, ram or storage did not exist when the first arcades came out. However with more complex games this became increasingly expensive because each additional chip caused costs for parts, soldering work, warranty, potential failures during operation.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 2 months ago:
Tired that as well, no luck.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 2 months ago:
The problem that i cant find the setting, or it’s in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some “feature” where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.