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- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 49 minutes ago:
The house of Saud has a lot of money in renewables already for example. But they make even more money if we buy all their oil first, so that’s what they want us to do.
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 58 minutes ago:
Yeah, having fabs in the US as well as other countries could pay off yuuugely. If potential fab customers are truly afraid of Intel copying their designs - Intel could enter an agreement with say Qualcomm that it won’t design any ARM CPUs for X years. Surely there’s a market for US made SoCs once you can assemble the logic board of a smartphone in the US, and a smartphone from parts. You’d still import some parts but shift production to the US for what’s possible - but you need to start with the end product and work your way down because otherwise you’re shipping components back to China for final assembly. And the more expensive the components you can produce in the US, the less you’re affected by tariffs.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 hours ago:
Floorp is a nice one to use and deserves a mention.
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 10 hours ago:
Yeah for a long time there Intel was way ahead of the fabless AMD. Back then people were saying it was a mistake for AMD to split the fab business.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 day ago:
Because these comments or their sentiment are usually in the style of Arrested Development
- Comment on I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan 1 day ago:
That… Actually looks delicious. I’m going to give it a try.
- Comment on He has risen 1 day ago:
I feel like she’s got as much right to be in this image as the other dudes
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 2 days ago:
So is slapping all your major trade partners with tariffs, but look what happened.
I’m not saying it’s a certainty, but it’s now a possibility that must be considered whereas previously it would’ve been unthinkable.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 2 days ago:
The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated.
Normally, yes. But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the orange oaf ignore it and then try to muscle other countries into still respecting it when American diplomats are on the line.
Hell, I’m hoping that won’t happen. But personally, I’d be a bit skittish about traveling to the US right now as a diplomat. I’d also be very skittish about traveling to the US as a non-diplomat.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 days ago:
If the fascists here take over, it’ll be the local ones tbh. But don’t worry, I’m already running a personal trade surplus with the USA. Trump would hate me.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 days ago:
Friend, I live at least 7 timezones away from you. I appreciate you burning shit down, but the people who voted the orange fascist into power are your friends and family, not me.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 days ago:
For the first time, I saw a car with Uber stickers in my country. Wanted to peel them off, but I also don’t wanna get in a fight over it. Pretty sure it’ll mostly be used by foreigners because the local alternative has several years of advantage and is also a multinational now.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 3 days ago:
… What makes you think the US in its current state gives a single fuck about any convention, much less one named after the capital of another country? They’re exploring ways to circumvent their own constitution so they could send dissidents to CECOT for “terrorism” even if they’re citizens.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
I mean the image generators can be cool and LLMs are great for bouncing ideas off them at 4 AM when everyone else is sleeping. But I can’t imagine paying for AI, don’t want it integrated into most products, or put a lot of effort into hosting a low parameter model that performs way worse than ChatGPT without a paid plan. So you’re exactly right, it’s not being sold to me in a way that I would want to pay for it, or invest in hardware resources to host better models.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
Precisely.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 3 days ago:
Hardened and encrypted devices don’t matter for shit when you’re forced to unlock them. Not having direct access to confidential data like you proposed is much better. But better but even have a way of accessing it that could be detected.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
What price point are you trying to hit?
With regards to AI?. None tbh.
With this super fast storage I have other cool ideas but I don’t think I can get enough bandwidth to saturate it.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 4 days ago:
AI AI AI AI
Yawn
- Comment on Oh Best Buy, if only it were that simple. 4 days ago:
That is certainly a valid point. Personally I’m pasty white, male and have no tattoos, so I’d be safe, but still feel iffy. Which is sad because I kinda want to visit a lot of places in the US.
- Comment on Oh Best Buy, if only it were that simple. 4 days ago:
Trump is actively working on changing that. Look at the value of the usd lol
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 5 days ago:
Only way this would matter is if they were forced to sell or spin off Instagram and Whatsapp.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 days ago:
You’ve found the most important trick then. The convincing yourself that you’re having fun not getting exercise part.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 5 days ago:
“Invited someone to Gmail” was enough for me, didn’t need to see hte date lol
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 5 days ago:
Right, that’s my point though. With my '84 Chevy Monte Carlo SS, I could drop a new engine in (started with a 305, ended with a 400 short block), do a high-flow dual carb intake, get a couple Edelbrock carbs, buy some headers, straight pipes and a glasspack muffler, and get a ton more power. (And also much, much worse fuel economy.)
Right. But with a lot of modern cars, you don’t need to drop in a new engine at all, and for a lot of people changing fuel trim tables is easier than getting carb jets juuuuuust right. Not to mention there are premade stage1 remaps for stock engines that should “mostly” work. There are engines out there that will give you around a 30% without a single mod, though generally not on those premade remaps, as those try to err on the safe side. Stock intake, stock exhaust, stock everything. Just a remap. Oftentimes, they give you BETTER fuel economy because of the improved torque curve. Though the increased effect of the fun pedal often cancels this out.
I’d say you can get into modding with less knowledge and skill nowadays, because as long as you have the hardware, you can get someone to remap your car remotely so you don’t even need to be able to drive it to a shop after doing whatever mods you want to do to it. True, if you want to do everything by yourself, then it’s harder.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 6 days ago:
My original account is 18 for sure, maybe 20. Have a second one now but even that is over 10 already.
- Comment on I dont know where to put this, no 6 days ago:
This seems close but there’s still some videos where you have to click on an archive link like the Kimchi slap because of copyright.
- Comment on I dont know where to put this, no 6 days ago:
I think you can still find versions of the playlist. Some videos would be missing thiough
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 6 days ago:
It’s significantly harder to build hot rods or street racing cars now than the way you could in the 80s and earlier.
Unless you know how to remap a car and have a car with plenty of power reserve.
Anything turbocharged can be remapped for more power unless you’re at the limit of either the turbo, or the fuelling - and when you get there, many have options for more fuel and air. Diesels in particular are magic because you take a car that does ridiculous economy figures stock, and you double its power figures just to show people you can.
E.g Bobby Singh got 600 hp out of his diesel Audi wagon. These come stock with 240ish horsepower (176 kW or 239 PS I believe). He’s done engine internals upgrades to this one, but on other peoples’ cars he usually does bolt-on mods and gets about 400hp-500hp depending on what mods someone is willing to shell out for. Minus the upgraded internals, you could do this at home if you wanted to.
On the gasoline side, BMW has the B58 where you can get 500-600 hp with bolt-on mods and if you build it like people used to build hot rods, 1500 hp is doable. It’s considered the new 2JZ because Toyota itself put it in the Supra instead of building their own successor to the 2JZ. The 2JZ itself was a supercar killer when built properly.
On the Japanese side, I’m not sure if they’re doing anything fun new and new today, but they’ve all historically had at least one or two ridiculously tunable engines and Nissan will still sell you the very tunable GT-R.
Yes, some of those tunable newer engines come in pretty expensive cars, but there are still plenty of 4 bangers you can mod easily too. And it’s not like the hot rodders typically used small engines in the past. It was usually big ass V8s that you couldn’t even buy in most of the world because they used too much fuel lol
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 6 days ago:
It’s got to be either Russia or the US.
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 1 week ago:
That agency apparently creates new safety regulations but doesn’t do oversight. I think that’s up to the courts? Someone correct me if I’m wrong.