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- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 6 days ago:
Almost every language does this. It isn’t colonialism, it’s connivence and practicality. Some sounds don’t exist or are awkward, so a different name is used instead.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
Can we not have the lying bots teaching people how to run a nuclear plant?
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 1 week ago:
Thank you. <3
- Comment on Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks 1 week ago:
Would someone smarter than me explain the article a bit? I’m getting lost on what things like a ‘contained IP address’ is.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 1 week ago:
All I did for that one was search “Threadripper” and look at the pictures for ones with 4x x16 slots that were not hella expensive.
There are technically filters for that, but, I don’t trust people to list their things correctly.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 1 week ago:
Yeah, forgot to mention Threadripper as well for lots of PCIe lanes. Here is one that has 4 x16 slots. And, note, I am not endorsing that specific listing. I did very minimal research on that listing, just using it as an example.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 1 week ago:
Most GPUs don’t need a full x16 slot to run at full speed. There are motherboards out there which will give you 3 or 4 slots of x8 electrical (x16 physical). I would look into those.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t fix things that aren’t broken. There are plenty of broken things to actually work on.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
Got my family’s outdoor railing re-attached to the brickwork today. I had put it off for awhile since drilling into brick sounds like a ton of work. Turns out the right tool for the job, a hammer drill, makes it quite straightforward. :)
Spring really helps with motivation, already got a few items off the list this season!
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
The good news is it looks like it is only the 13" systems being paused for now. And they likely can get them going again once they figure out the new tariff reqs and get the new prices integrated on the website.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 2 weeks ago:
Even in that scenario it will complicate the setup. Now your Roku will also have to also power your TV? No, any sane setup will have a separate power cable for the TV.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 2 weeks ago:
I would say, put a reasonable effort into finding the owner. If the owner cannot be found, it’s finders keepers.
Key thing about trying to find owners of lost things: You cannot just say ‘is this your $200’. You need to do something more like, ‘I’m trying to find the owner of some lost money’ and if they claim it is theirs, ask them how much it was. This way you filter out grifters.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 2 weeks ago:
HL1 is a bit clunky but still great.
Try out Black Mesa. It’s a proper remake of HL1, not just a reskin. They did a damn good job, including a very large build out of the Xen levels, making it into a proper portion of the game, rather than what existed in HL1 which felt a bit rushed.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 2 weeks ago:
Half life 2 is so damn good. One of my most replayed games.
And full points to Black Mesa for actually improving the game, not just reskinning it. 10/10
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I could see that. It does have quite a bit of such things.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 2 weeks ago:
Doom 2016 (Dropped this, sadly. Gunplay and parkour was AWESOME, but the whole devil worship thing really turned me off).
Off topic, but this game is the exact opposite of devil worship. The primary gameplay is to go to Hell and kill demons.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 2 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a futuristic FPS that feels very similar to GTA. I personally like the integration between uploading viruses to enemies while you shoot at them.
You can get it on sale for half price. And the Phantom Liberty DLC is worth getting bundled with it.
- Comment on Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely anything to avoid the metric system! If we, as Americans, has to measure in quotation marks, we damn sure will!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer 3 weeks ago:
You bastard!
- Comment on Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of 3 weeks ago:
My first thought was: why have I never heard of this? The answer seems to be: 2" x 3" photo paper costs $0.41/ea.
Mail-order professional photo prints are quite a bit cheaper than that. So, the main thing this contends with is other instant photo creation methods. Which are pretty niche ever since digital cameras became good.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Making sure they run well with Wine is probably what many game devs are dong who specifically want to support Linux. Right now the vast majority of games run out of the box on Wine, so there probably isn’t much a dev has to do if they want to make sure it runs great.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Why would you give up games to move to Linux? Been enjoying Cyberpunk and Guild Wars lately, and many games before that the last year.
Check out Proton DB. Gives reports on how well things run. Anything Gold or higher is going to be a non-concern to play.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
It was because developers historically were familiar with Windows and would just default to making a Windows product. You want a POS interface? Your developer is probably going to hand you a .exe and not a .deb. Then your next move is to tell the hardware division to put that .exe into production systems, at which it is too late for the hardware division to argue you just chose the more expensive option without thinking.
This is changing, particularly as many platforms make it trivial to compile for different OSes.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
In addition to what the other guy said, Mint is also more focused on desktop. A bunch of apps are pre-installed that one would expect on a desktop OS. Additionally, the default Mint UI, Cinnamon, feels very familiar to a Windows user. It has a start menu, task bar, tray, etc.
Debian is in the same family, and is more oriented for servers. It is super minimal out of the box, which is perfect when you want it to sit in the other room and perform specific tasks. However, you can install all the same programs, even the Cinnamon UI on Debian.
Really the difference is the out of box experience, but they are otherwise pretty similar.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Framework laptops can come with optionally no OS if you choose, and I can attest to their build quality being quite good.
I know there are some brands that will have Linux pre-installed, but I don’t know enough about them to comment.
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 3 weeks ago:
Writing code is easier than understanding and reviewing another’s code. There is good reason code reviewers aren’t the interns and new hires.
My question others is, why would you want to turn into a code reviewer for AI code? It’s a shitload harder. And if the goal is anything but a weekend project, you damn well better be understanding and reviewing it critically, otherwise one is shitting up the code base and forcing others to clean up your mess.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
ASRock is my go-to now. Funnily enough they slit off of ASUS a while ago. One continually got better, and the other worse.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 3 weeks ago:
The amount of damage a newbie programmer without a tight leash can do to a code base/product is immense. Once something is out in production, that is something you have to deal with forever. That temporary fix they push is going to be still used in a decade and if you break it, now you have to explain to the customer why the thing that’s been working for them for years is now broken and what you plan to do to remedy the situation.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 3 weeks ago:
Am I correct in understanding that the card will run at PCIe gen 3 X1 if I do this?
Correct. The situation you described in the original post would result in Gen 3 x1 speeds.
The interface will always default to the fastest standard that both sides can support. If one is gen 2 and the other is gen 4, gen 2 is the highest that can be supported. If one side is x8 and the other is x4, x4 is the highest that can be supported. In this specific case, if you put a Gen 2 x8 in a Gen 4 x1 slot, you will get a Gen 2 x1 link.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 3 weeks ago:
File a small slit in the end of the slot so the card fits into it, but runs past the back. The card will run at Gen 3 x1 speed, but otherwise work properly.
Many motherboards even come with the end of the PCIe slots open for this exact purpose.