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- Comment on Rule (repost) 4 days ago:
Yeah.
I have even seen them. Those machinely metal bones with multiple hinge and pivot joints hold the flimsy duralumin wings together while providing much needed actuation, using hydraulics. - Comment on Rule (repost) 4 days ago:
Wings without a structural element are pretty useless for flying.
Even mosquito wings have structural elements, enabling them to not only flap, but also rotate.For a human wing to work, it would require extremely strong structural elements to sustain the loads required to lift the human.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Yeah.
Although I usually tend to send a link directly to the post (which is relevant to what is being discussed), the things around that might change their impression. And considering that their is more political stuff than plain tech stuff, almost everywhere on the internet rn, that kind of a result is expected. - Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Honestly, it is not fun being flattered in a way that makes me try to give them an answer that they will ignore.
Imagine a C++ compiler with a mind reading you ignoring the return value of a
[[nodiscard]]function. - Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Ah well, I am not good at that.
The best I have gotten people to say is how I “know so much” about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren’t really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me. - Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I advertised Lemmy to my friends a few times and they have now stopped replying to my messages :P
- Comment on Losing_weight_IRL 1 week ago:
I’m guessing “Grip 6” is a particular brand, but I have used buckles with grip action (on normal leather (or were they some fake leather? dunno but not nylon) belts without holes) quite a bit and I liked them.
Making your own holes in a holed belt might cause a greater structural weakness than it can handle, depending upon how tight you like it.
I recently got a knitted-ish belt (this is probably nylon or similar stuff) and you can insert the anchor at ~5mm intervals (thickness of the rope used to knit it) and that seems like a good idea too.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 week ago:
When you’re talking about the PCIe peripheral, you’re talking about a separate dedicated graphics card or something else?
Yes, similar to what a PCIe Graphics Card does.
A PCIe slot is the slot in a desktop motherboard that lets you fit various things like networking (ethernet, Wi-Fi and even RTC specialised stuff) cards, sound cards, graphics cards, SATA/SAS adapters, USB adapters and all other kinds of stuff.I guess the main point of NPUs are that they are tiny and built in
GPUs are also available built-in. Some of them are even tiny.
Go 11-12 years back in time and you’ll see video processing units embedded into the Motherboard, instead of in the CPU package.
Eventually some people will want more powerful NPUs with better suited RAM for neural workloads (GPUs have their own type of RAM too), not care about the NPU in the CPU package and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it. Others will not require an NPU and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it.So, much better to have NPUs be made separately in different tiers, similar to what is done with GPUs rn.
And even external (PCIe) Graphics Cards can be thin and light instead of being a fat package. It’s usually just the (i) extra I/O ports and (ii) the cooling fins+fans that make them fat.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 week ago:
I guess an NPU is better of being a PCIe peripheral then?
And it can then have their specialised RAM too. - Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
I’d rather use, “cooked alive”, instead of “executed”.
Would be more accurate and help understand what the act entails. - Comment on We Have a Very Loving Relationship 1 week ago:
I was expecting it to be about GUI programs just waiting for an input.
Because when it hangs, it’s most probably either doing something long, or something that got elongated due to external factors, which ended up being programmed into the GUI thread. - Comment on We Have a Very Loving Relationship 1 week ago:
If your goal is to enchant the cable with
fireball, then you are on the correct path. - Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 1 week ago:
Oof sorry.
I realise now that how high I wear my trousers was actually everyone’s business and wearing it high enough that it didn’t hinder movement was actually humiliating you and is morally wrong.
And indeed, the pen in my school bag was your business, so was me trying to go out to study when you didn’t let me sleep and it was my bad to have respected the teachers instead of calling them names.
And of course, burning a smoky firecracker through the door of my 3x4 room was definitely not harassment, neither was banging my door and running away at random times, for a whole year and I was overreacting.Thanks for educating me.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 2 weeks ago:
There is another way to take this.
People should do what they want, even when they want to create fake morals that they themselves don’t believe in and then use them to gang up and harass others minding their own business.
- Comment on It was a blast 2 weeks ago:
What’s costlier than increasing RAM?
Getting a GPU with higher RAM.I’d say, we need to optimise for VRAM usage much more.
- Comment on It was a blast 2 weeks ago:
When I got my 64GB kit 3.2GHz, I was considering saving up for a 128GB 3.6GHz one.
I should have just bought the 128, then and there. - Comment on Owies 2 weeks ago:
Even if someone spat spit, I won’t want to stand in front of them.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t there already regulations for casinos and the like?
Might as well apply the same to these. Then all lootbox games will become adult only. - Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 3 weeks ago:
Us of course. With the small ‘s’.
- Comment on "I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class" Key Visual 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking that the faces looked more uncanny than pretty.
But considering how many different art styles I have seen, I’ll probably get used to this too. - Comment on Body text 3 weeks ago:
So I saw a post where the body text said, “Title”.
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- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense, considering DDR4 has only gone up 2x.
Though now I need to but the motherboard sooner than later, lest there be no good stock by the time I get to it. - Comment on If it's your job to complain but you get burnt out on complaining, what would you do? 3 weeks ago:
So, you’d take a break?
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
You can also mix diced onions with corn kernels, and spray some lemon an black pepper on top and it would be good to eat.
Although I find raw onion to be too strong to eat in such proportions. - Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a privacy problem.
It is a stalking problem.We’re using the wrong words.
If we end up getting privacy in public, the police will then use it to stop people from filming them in public. That is the long-term goal of setting this in motion.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 3 weeks ago:
Might as well use it to track ICE
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that the “non entitled to privacy” part was not about getting organisationally stalked, but that if someone were to randomly take a picture outside and post it somewhere, then you don’t get to make them take down photos.
Also, if you are creating a scene in public, other get to film you as they get to see you.This is not a problem about privacy in public. This is a problem of:
- organisational stalking
- misrepresentation of actions
- shirking accountability and responsibility
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
Add a compile flag!
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, kinda weir on that one.
It is surprising how people can be unreasonable when they are given the ability to.