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- Comment on Trying to repair an SA610 Pioneer amp 4 hours ago:
How do you know it’s shorted? Does the protection relay click?
If you can find the service manual you could try looking at various checkpoints in the circuit to see where the voltages go wrong.
You might try Audiokarma, they’ve got a very deep knowledge pool for this stuff.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
I’d suspect the low “density” of context makes it prone to hallucinations. You need to load in 3000 lines to express what Python does in 3, so there’s a lot of chances to guess the next token wtong.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a quick way to say that the emperor still has no clothes.
We’re boiling the oceans to train the models, and these are well-publicised failure modes. If they haven’t fixed it, it seems to suggest they CAN’T fix it with the tools and architecture they have. So what other problems is it whiffing on that aren’t trivially checkable?
If marketing boxed in the product and said “it does these ten things well”, we might be willing to forgive limitations when we leave its wheelhouse. Nobody kvetches that Microsoft Word is an awful IDE, after all. But that would require a retreat from a public that’s been promised Lt. Cmdr. Data in your pocket, and investors that have priced it as such.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 weeks ago:
The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.
- Comment on Political Views 2 weeks ago:
How about pseudoscorpions? One landed on my arm a few weeks ago (probably fell out of the AC ducts) and it was charmingly silly proportioned for a tiny little thing waving pincers.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
The 487 was just a full 486DX with a pin that told the motherboard to deactivate the soldered-on 486SX.
- Comment on heaven 3 weeks ago:
I know that Grok went Nazi but Gemini going fundie wasn’t on my bingo card.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 4 weeks ago:
And the reanimated corpses of lawyers will rise if that squid looks too much like Minnie Mouse.
- Comment on Why abc, xyz, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
I believe the IJK convention comes from an early programming language where those variables defaulted to a decimal type so thry were sane choices for loop counters.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire 5 weeks ago:
I never got why Asus is so beloved. The RoG branding is cringe even by motherboard branding standards, and the one Asus board I had (a M3A78) had a surprise showstopper incompatibility (hard crashes with a specific PCI-e card that worked fine on a LGA775 board and a Gigabyte 790X board) that their support refused to take responsibility for.
It’s like they’re still coasting on the goodwill from when they did a dual-Celeron board.
- Comment on THIS describes too many people today 1 month ago:
Let me stop at the Sunoco and pick up eught gallons of CHIN.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 month ago:
Even if they were trying to use this sort of rule with wholesome intentions, I’m not sure how targeting groups by name instead of deed makes sense. It’s like doing a healthy diet by giving up Coca-Cola by name even though Pepsi and RC have the same nutritional profile and availability. Enjoy the Whack-a-mole game!
Taken to its logical conclusion, someone should start a pro-Palestinian squad and call it the Reform Party.
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
Is it pronounced like the blood thinner/rat poison?
- Comment on yeey 1 month ago:
Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.
If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.
I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
You see low voltage ones for things like memory backup on hi-fi gear. I have some 3F/5v capacitors in an old Technics tiner.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 2 months ago:
Have you tried Johnson’s Spray Crab?
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 months ago:
What the hell is with the “Thank you for your attention to this matter?”
You’re shitposting to a global media audience, not politely asking Facilities to restock the vending machine with Snickers bars.
Are you just in full Business Guy Autocomplete mode? A Bigly Language Model?
- Comment on What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi? 3 months ago:
Try RiscOS for a glimpse of a world most of us missed.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 3 months ago:
I’d say it’s a bad thing because it’s the wrong threat model as a default.
More home users are in scenarios like “I spilled a can of Diet Sprite into my laptop, can someone yank the SSD and recover my cat pictures” than “Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat”. Encryption makes the first scenario a lot harder to easily recover from, and people with explicit high security needs should opt into it or have organization-managed configs.
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 4 months ago:
The Global Foundries split was probably a way to get AMD out of the hyper-capital-intensive fab business. And without a tier-1 customer, Global had less reason to pursue smaller nodes.
Intel has that national-champion thing to keep it afloat. I can imagine there are defence contracts that will never go to a “TSMC Arizona Division” and they’ll pay whatever it takes to keep that going.
- Comment on Don't worry 4 months ago:
Once an egg sac hatched at our communal postbox and it was magical, all these tiny yellow spot sprite things bumbling around and setting off. Put a good narrator on and people would have watched for hours.
- Comment on I can't believe it 4 months ago:
I think it’s more the £50 notes. Much like using a USD100 note in the States, it’s a bit big for most daily purchases.
I ended up dumping most of mine on a couple expensive souvenirs in shops expensive enough that they’d deal with it or breaking them in banks.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
It’s easier just to price in the fee than having to shut down or retool a project.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
The problem with attribution is the difficulty of 1000% accurate compliance.
If you grab 100 lines of code from a repository, or five paragraphs from a story, there’s probably a claim there. If you grab a single word, there’s probably not. But in the middle, there’s a paralysis of uncertainty-- is n lines similar enough to create liability? Can you remember where you saw what reliably? You end up with a bias towards “over-attribution” and it becomes difficult to pare it back. Does everything need a full Git-style commit history? Are we forever stuck keeping a credit on a project because it’s difficult to prove you’ve fully scrubbed their contributions?
Focus on how we pay artists (ideally lush grants) and forget about credit. Maybe establish a culture where it’s voluntary and acceptable-- that people feel that they’re allowed to cite their raw materials, and reuse doesn’t make the work lesser-- but don’t try to use the courts to force people to try to remember and track where they saw something when they just want to create, or it creates a hostile environment.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Hey, the broken clock’s right!
IP law always had a built-in scale pronlem. Without a registration-required copyright model, and probably some sort of mandatory licensing rate system, the sheer logistics of finding and arranging rights made a lot of business models inpractical. (For example, why aren’t modern bookstores just print-on-demand kiosks, or streaming services have All The Content? In large part because it would cost thousands to track down owners and negotiate terms for $1.87 in royalties multiplied by every item in the catalog.)
This was ignorable for a long time, or even a commercial advantage for firms with access to large, pre-negotiated catalogs. The AI boom created a surprise market of non-incumbents who need to get access to a lot of IP in a streamlined manner.
If we open the door for bulk IP clearance to grant the AI bubble a stro ger legal footing, it can also allow other, potentially more interesting business ideas to slip through.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 4 months ago:
Who are the skeletons fighting? Do we need to do well intentioned symbolic support gestures on social media?
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 5 months ago:
The Atari XL seriea computers cut a nice space between retro and futuristic.
They’re much sleeker looking than their 400/800 predecessors, as well as the Apple II and the breadbin VIC 20/64/C16. Only the 64C and Plus/4 really look similarly minaturized and not-in-need-of-a-big-wristrest-for-comfortable-typing.
The use of metal and smoked plastic trim gives it a premium appearance. The 1200XL even hides the cartridge slot on the side to avoid anyone nistaking it for a mere console…
- Comment on Oddware: Cadet PC Radio AM/FM tuner card with RDS 5 months ago:
You could get a SDR dongle. The cheap ones probably won’t fo AM well, but they make excellent FM tuners, as well as aircraft, 2-metre and 70cm ham bands with a pretty basic antenna.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 months ago:
Our new defacto president is the avatar of bubble economics.
Even the other oligarchs, thry made something at dramatic scale to justify their wealth. Microsoft did sell a lot of software. Facebook got 176 billion people on board to blast adverts at. They’re trillion dollar firms that do correspondingly large run rates.
Tesla is still a minor player in its space, and SpaceX is inherently a narrow business. Even PayPal, where the horrors all came from, isn’t a major value add, it’s a thin mask atop the clunkiness of American payment rails that should have been replaced by something like FedNow by 2003.
But he’s taken these tiny fundamentals and convinced Wall Street to puff more air into them than a fresh bag of Lay’s.
