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- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 13 hours ago:
What should cure people of it fast are listening to real estate investment podcasts. These people are often dumb as rocks. They copy each others homework, happen to know the right people, and most importantly, have no ethics. You don’t have to be smart to make a fortune in real estate, but you do have to forget about ethics.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 20 hours ago:
Nina Hartley is also culturally relevant, CMV.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
Someday, the industry is going to realize that while transistors might still be getting smaller, they aren’t getting cheaper for it. Which was the original formulation of Moore’s Law; cost of integrated component gets cut in half every x months.
Not just games, but the whole tech industry. Even in so far as faster hardware exists–and it just plain might not in this case–people can’t afford it.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 1 day ago:
OK SPAM is not the issue but my mails will not reach my users at Big Mailer Corps
The article’s answer to this one is handwavey “there are rules that spammers can’t meet, but you can do it just fine”. This is not the whole story by far. This is a more comprehensive overview of why it doesn’t work:
cfenollosa.com/…/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-…
On a dynamic IP connection, you can very easily have had the address flagged already. If the one you have now isn’t flagged, the one you get later might be. Debugging intermittent problems is not fun.
They also like it when your domain has shown good behavior already. I can do that because my domain has existed for over 20 years and I’ve hosted email on it in one form or another for that whole time. A person starting out on their own is not going to be able to do that.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that the big providers are the only option. There are smaller providers, like Fastmail.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 1 day ago:
Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.
- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 2 days ago:
This could use some explanation and layout of the implications.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
I’m one of the Virtual Boy’s only fans. I don’t own a Switch 2 and don’t have plans to. I might just buy the accessory as a display piece.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 4 days ago:
Usually through the text translation on the X-Wing screen. Once on Dagobah, he’s picking up the same context clues in tone that the audience is.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
Making people think they don’t need guns.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 5 days ago:
The shooting spot was about 250 yards away. That’s WWII sniping range, but not particularly far for modern precision rifles. According to Ryan Cleckner (US Army Ranger sniper), precision marksman training in the Army still uses iron sights out to 600 yards. A good setup these days can hit a dinner plate (read: a human head) at 1000 yards, and that’s not even pushing it.
They didn’t have to hit him the neck. They just needed to hit is general head area. They got lucky hitting the artery dead on, but any head hit has a very high probability of death.
There are millions of bench rest shooters with a bolt action rifle who could make that shot.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 5 days ago:
This White House leaks worse than Trump’s asshole. If he died, there’s a better then small chance that staffers would accidentally invite a journalist to their Signal chat about it. It’s just not something they can keep secret.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
No it fucking isn’t. Democrats have ensured that.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
And disarming the working class while fascism runs amuck won’t do a damn thing for them.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Yup, I did. Now what? Am I supposed to feel bad that an asshole died?
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 6 days ago:
Not really. A lot of those locks were breakable by jamming a screw driver in.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 6 days ago:
It’s not like keys were some kind of uber-security, either. In fact, I think their shitty electronic security is actually an improvement.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! 6 days ago:
My conclusion is that the US is getting what it wants out of the importation block regardless of smuggling or “fell of the assembly line”.
Universities (China and the US) want a warranty on that hardware. They can’t get a warranty on smuggled hardware. That’s where you would have researchers building models. The GPUs they have are getting old and they don’t have replacements lined up.
The other place to build models is corporations, who might choose to ignore the warranty issue, but they can’t possibly get enough high end GPUs to actually do that. Not while using mules who can only bring in one or two at a time. Maybe they can find a way to smuggle things en masse, but they’d likely just make themselves a target to US trade authorities.
That leaves Chinese gamers as the only ones who want smuggled GPUs at all. US trade policy doesn’t give a shit about them.
So yes, there’s smuggling, Nvidia certainly knows about it, US trade authorities certainly know about it, but nobody has any reason to care.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! 6 days ago:
I doubt it. Bringing it into the country would be illegal, but even if he brought it home, bringing it out isn’t illegal.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 6 days ago:
Cameras + Drones + AI. Yup, nothing to solve the real crimes.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
I’d also say the way sex is portrayed throughout Cyberpunk 2077 is important to the setting. Sex is everywhere, but none of it is particularly fulfilling. That the PC can find a healthy sexual relationship at all almost seems like a one in a million chance in Night City. Capitalism pushes forms of sexuality that can be monetized. Capitalism can get you laid, but it can’t get you happiness.
(I totally get the criticisms that the game is a mediocre experience. It is, but it’s not without value, either.)
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
Irrelevant. If your CPU is chugging hard, then the VRM is chugging hard. That’s what causes high VRM temps.
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 1 week ago:
AMD is still putting out some AM4 CPUs just because it’s cheap for them to do so. They can run its chiplets off an old node, so no big deal. It’s still a halfway decent budget option, though that may change with DDR4 going out of manufacturing.
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
Your CPU isn’t made of water. Yes, this is safe to do. The manufacture is on the hook for warranties if this goes wrong, and they know it.
The main concern would be lower quality electrolytic capacitors on the motherboard VRM, but they tend not to use low quality caps these days except maybe on budget boards.
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
Like turn off the PSU switch? Computers can draw more than you think when they’re “off”, but the PSU switch should shut out the whole thing.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
I do think this will be the last traditional tech bubble. Not because VCs have learned any better, but because we’re at the limits of monetizing silicon under capitalism. The money will be dumped someplace else.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 week ago:
The “AI” of “pick three words from a list”. This is how we get names like “Raid: Shadow Legends”.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 week ago:
There’s meetings other people need to have and I just need to know broadly what was said. Transcription and summerizing would be great for that
That is, if I could trust its accuracy. Which I don’t.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
If you don’t know what CSAIL is, and why one of the most important groups to modern computing is the MIT Model Railroading Club, then you should step back from having an opinion on this.
Steven Levy’s 1984 book “Hackers” is a good starting point.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Exactly. Quantifying technological growth is incredibly difficult.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
I see this line of thinking as more useful as a thought experiment than as something we should actually do. Yes, we can theoretically map out a human brain and simulate it in extremely high detail. That’s probably both inefficient and unnecessary. What it does do is get us past the idea that it’s impossible to make a computer that can think like a human. Without relying on some kind of supernatural soul, there must be some theoretical way we could do this. We just need to know how without simulating individual atoms.