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- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 4 days ago:
The scale seems to fit, but what the hell is going on with those tick labels?
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 4 days ago:
I mean killing people is literally what they do, right? So the comment above is not very surprising
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 days ago:
Yes, that was my point!
- Comment on Thoughts?? 5 days ago:
the world of number crunching
Weird, I’ve never heard of excel being used on HPC systems
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 days ago:
I don’t see the relevance of her day job here?
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 5 days ago:
Isn’t that their business anyway?
- Comment on It hurts y'all 1 week ago:
Never skip back day
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen so many of these, I forgot what the guy actually looks like
- Comment on In heat 2 weeks ago:
Is that something that only happens to women?
- Comment on Enjoy the small things. The beautiful view 4 weeks ago:
o7
- Comment on money. the answer is money. 5 weeks ago:
Let me know if you find out lol
- Comment on Take a shot of vitamin M and keep fighting, Soldier! 5 weeks ago:
I played the first Stalker game for the first time recently, and if you save while undetected, then get detected and load your save, you’ll still be detected. Almost drove me mad.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 month ago:
This thing sounds like it would eat more power within a month than its hardware is worth. This is fine for a proof of concept, but not much more.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
That’s not how probabilities work. The market share in the US is P(has iPhone | resident of US), but we’re looking for P(resident of US | has iPhone), which according to Bayes’ law is equal to the market share in the US (see above) times P(resident of US) [aka US pop. / world pop.] divided by P(has iPhone) [aka global market share]. So essentially, while the market share in the US may be twice as high as the global average, the US has fewer than half of all people in the world - making it more likely that the person is not from the US than that they are.
- Comment on Steps To Navigate Discord 1 month ago:
Chronically online MFs when they realize some words have actual meanings
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 month ago:
You mean A Guy Instead?
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
Where does the iPhone -> US connection come from?
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 1 month ago:
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 1 month ago:
What printer do you have? If it has a (micro) USB port, you can most likely set up OctoPi on a raspberry pi, connect the Pi to your printer and print over the network.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 month ago:
An index is something like S&P 500 - a (weighted) collection of different stock. Instead of buying a single stock, you could replicate this index, by splitting your money across all of its stocks. That way your risk is somewhat reduced, as the failure of a single company will not wipe out your entire investment. But that would be a lot of effort, as you’d constantly have to buy and sell stocks to match the index. For that, there are index funds. These are just big funds with a lot of money, which they spread over many stocks to replicate an index. You, in turn, can then buy shares of that index fund. These are typically traded at an exchange as well, hence the name exchange traded fund (ETF). Investing in the right ETF allows you to invest into the economy as a whole, and reduces risk from individual stocks.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 month ago:
Keep th money you need short-term for your business. Put the rest in index funds. With 100k lying around like that, you lose a few thousand dollars per year to inflation.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 1 month ago:
When I woke up this morning, I didn’t anticipate I’d be spending 15 minutes reading about how horses walk, but it was well worth that time!
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 month ago:
Having that much money as a paypal balance and not at least in a bank account or invested is insane
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 month ago:
+1 for Jellyfin!
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 month ago:
Around here, people usually have to replace the wiring in such old houses, since they tend to only have two wires (i.e. no PE). But the Schuko sockets themselves are most likely fine.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
Can relate, Wall-E is easily my favorite Pixar movie
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 month ago:
I think the typical limit is around 3600W, with 16A at 230V
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 month ago:
I have never heard of someone having to replace their wall outlets due to wear and tear
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 month ago:
100MB/s are frustrating for a NAS. SSDs have been common for a decade, and the old spinning rust storage in my NAS is still faster than the network can handle?
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 1 month ago:
That’s true, but nothing does. Once someone receives a message, you have no control over what they do with it (regardless of communication channel, encryption, etc.). I read the comment above more like “instead of jumping through hoops to get around the spyware in your operating system, use an operating system that does not come with built-in spyware instead”.