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Just let it go.

Don't try to resurrect the horse from the greasy spot on the ground where it was formerly beaten to death.

It's all a cancerous detriment to society.

If you wanna talk to people online... Discord, irc, forums.

Let social media die... Let the trash fire burn itself out instead of lighting new dumpsters on fire in hopes of it being the next big thing.

That sort of thing (social media) is bad, and we (human beings) just need to let them go away.

It's all a hives of propagandists, "influencers", shit posting and lonely people seeking external validation shouting into the void.

100% this.

i know people have things to do and money to make, doing things purely for shits and giggles is good for the soul, and should be considered nearly as important as sleep or taking time off.

you can learn new stuff, not even meaning to, and even if you don't it's still something you're doing for fun.

as with the printing press, cotton gin, etc.

new tools means the barrier to entry is lower.

i wanna say it was BOHF or maybe a thinkgeek shirt - something to the effect of STFU before i replace you with a (very short) shell script.

Asking Chat GPT to write code, and it spitting out valid, working code scared some people.

Having code that compiles/runs and answers the question asked isn't the job of a programmer.

if chat GPT can handle integration hell, the last 10% of the job that sucks up 90% of the time, the polish, sanding of rough edges and greasing of the wheels to make things flow, all the weird customer requests and magical woo woo buzzwords into a functioning product - then yeah people are fucked.

But for now, its just "neat"

seems iffy, might be useful alongside traditional cooling.

1. high frequency stuff to drive this thing might make noise an issue. 2. wouldn't it have to be integrated into the chip your cooling to optimize the effectiveness? 3. the wording leads me to believe their "performance" is cooling to noise ratio and not just cooling.

IDGAF about noise as long as it doesn't sound like in a server closet, i just want to keep things under 90c with a margin for hot days, crapped out a/c.

this is just a solid state fan. cool for sure, potentially very useful (industrial/embedded will probably love it), but marketing needs to calm down.

> fanless cooling solutions which tends to degrade after a few years.

Thermal expansion/contraction between cooler and chip itself "pumps" out the thermal paste which over time degrades cooling performance. If the system is running 24/7 its probably not as noticeable because you don't get the frequent heating/cooling you'd see on a device that gets power cycled often.

Nothing a repaste job wont fix.

No. I'm good.

Rss reader grabs stuff off remote server for local reading. Hosting a tool to grab hosted content is just... Inefficient overthinking of a tool made to make things simpler

If you wanna sync across multiple devices or something, have a checkpoint file or something and throw it on dropbox,one drive, Google drive, owncloud.

The future is duct-tape, bubble gum, paranoia and "it work on my machine"

Honestly, because everyone wants to print their own money. Every chain, sub network, and token has their own unique hypothetical target use case that they're hoping for people to bite into.

Debugging the code for a self modifying ai sounds like detangling a schizophrenic rats nest (like ai post catastrophic fuckup autopsy), but I think a blockchain as a train of thought and sort of a git commit log for the things it "learned" and state info for why it was learned, and actions or decisions would cite rules/"facts" learned from previous commits, something like that could actually make it doable by human beings.

As for cryptocurrency itself, it might be a good idea, but as is with anything involving human beings, greed might make it a wash.

No. No. No. No.

We're already fucked because nobody trusts shit because every study gets turned over within a few years because some company with a financial interest in the outcome wanted to use it as a cudgel to beat their competitors over the heat with.

Lets hand that to fringe nutbags,HoA with too many nosy neighbors and bored people looking to stir up shit for giggles.

People who are into science will decide whether or not they want to put in the work to persue it.

Turning into a crowdfunded anything on the internet is going to turn it into a get rich quick scheme for con artists.

Usually trying to get to work.

A distributed fault tolerant power grid based on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind would benefit from a network of battery storage systems.

for example around 6pm EST the sun goes down on the east coast, however in on the west coast there's another 2 hours of daylight- in the early evening the surplus power from the west coast would handle the demand spike as people on the east coast come in for the evening and start turning on the lights. The reverse would be true in the morning, the east coast could preload the system for a couple of hours as peoples coffee makers and office computers fire up in the morning on the west coast.

Storing the energy instead of burning it off over long haul cable runs could also potentially make the grid more efficient, with the batteries acting as capacitors and smoothing demand spikes and voltage transients - making it somewhat more reliable as well.

Its really not a bad idea, but is gonna require a lot of manufacturing, testing, and getting agreements in different states with different laws and regulations.

the engineering and work are gonna be rough, but i'd guess the paperwork is where the bulk of your time winds up going.

Selecton bias to scare up some last minute votes

How is it ethical?

Pretty good metaphor for the nepotic, incestuous, in group/outgroup shady dealings that crop up in business and politics

Can seems like a sane person. I'd appreciate having more people like them on the internet.

People realize endless growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources and are tired of working for peanuts pretending like it is.

i always played as the burnt corpse, but the sausage people add to the wackiness. time to reinstall gmod

Moderating content, while mundane is valid and valuable experience, not only in the technology aspects but in the human skills that you'd find in any sort of consumer relations focused career.

Hopefully people would choose wisely and at least try to have some feel of a community before deciding to take on moderation duties

Twitter is the platformiest platform to have a platform on in all of platformdom.

Everyone knows, words have meaning, words are valuable, especially on the internet.

If you want to make an impact on the world, the best way to do it is to have a platform and use it to do good things.

The things you do in life aren't important, it's what you talk about on Twitter.com that matters.

It demonstrates the people you associate with and the things you care about so much that you bother to write about them on the internet. People can get a deep and comprehensive understanding of who a person is by just browsing their twitter posts. That way people can pool their social capitol and raise awareness by changing their profile pictures so everyone knows what they're for and what they're against. They can retweet impactful and super important information and news to make sure that people without access to newspaper, television, radio or the internet and even the most antisocial subterranean shutins can stay informed.

Advertisers have flocked to twitter, not because they want to advertise and guage public opinion but because they want people to know they're committed to bettering the world for everyone, and agreeing with the consensus when some trending topic comes up is much more effort intensive and taxing than less effective things like donating to charity.

It really shows they're in it for the long haul and willing to put in the time and hard work to support their customers.

The sun shines at least 5% less bright now that electric car fraudulent space Hitler runs twitter.

Embrace the fragmentation.

The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances.

Plenty of networking opportunities as well.

There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances it'll be a lot harder for trolls to summon concentrated attacks.

Communities will be smaller and higher quality while still being able to co-mingle via federation.

Unfortunately that stuff may also apply to more nefarious communities online and they may benefit by hiding amongst all of the other federated instances.

He spent a lot of money to fix Twitter..he should have probably had a game plan going in.

At least the bots help steer the conversation and provide useful PR services for the advertisers.

this could easily just be some racist who heard a billboard top 40 song, I'm assuming names/examples of the obscene, misogynistic music that'll come up in court right?

Some older people get really worked up over contemporary music.

A distraction from what?

China still has lockdowns and COVID is still all over the map in the US.

Aside from a few exceptions, most of the world seems to have suffered multiple failures in various areas in handling a pandemic.

The article could have been shortened to "dd is old and I don't like the syntax, so you should stop using it"

Its about 8 years old, but a t460 with the beefier removable battery will easily hit 8 hours doing office work and browsing. You can squeak 12 out of it if you turn turbo boost off on the CPU.

Different capacity batteries, different thermal designs (cooler, thermal mass, fans), different drivers (can be tuned to prefer performance/battery), different firmware, different hardware (vrm components, power stages, etc)

The "specs" for Intel in particular are really just guidelines. The turbo boost feature of the cpu is supposed to be limited to a limited number of cores for a limited amount of time.

Motherboard manufacturers can and do ship board with bioses configured to turbo boost the max frequency on all cores simultaneously and will try to do as long as it can until it starts thermally throttling.

For desktops with a much bigger power and thermal budget it basically just makes the motherboard look potentially better than competitors in lazy benchmarks.

But in laptops.. bigger battery is kind of the bottom line.

Disabling turbo boost via power management policies can make a surprising difference in battery life and thermals as well (personally I've seen ~20c cooler under load 50c vs 70c)

Software choices can help as well. Proper gpu accelerated video decode in a web browser in linux is still spotty.

Oems tune their hardware for different use cases, its not just marketing.

In some cases they have to make tradeoffs. I recall Acer in particular releasing one of the new gaming laptops that underperformed compared to similar laptops with the same CPU/GPU config. It came down to getting the price they wanted and the beefier cooler design it should have was what got sacrificed.

Chip shortage and recession sucks. laptops were finally getting to the holy grail territory. Reasonably sized, acceptable gaming performance (play pretty much anything as long as you make some reasonable compromises in settings) and sub $1000.

Edit- screen type and refresh rate can make a big difference. AMOLED I think is the one that displaying a black screen draws significantly less power than a white one as black pixels are just off, whereas the others there's still a backlight behind the pixel.

clickbait title. Interpreted languages are less cycle efficient than compiled languages? I'm sure the world is vastly safer having the shadow of that galaxy brained individual to hide in, and their wise proclamations to guide us.

financially unpersoning anyone capable of wrongthink might be a bit bad for national currencies, especially billionaires, and especially during a recession. before someone comes asking for sources (are we actually in a recession?) find a grocery receipt from a year ago, then go buy that shit today.

Push a billionaire with a lot of reach to cryptocurrency when there's a trade war and possibly a world war brewing, brilliant move!

this sort of pre-emptive PR crap by financial institutions and payment processors is going to backfire.

Kanye is having an episode, so it might not be this go around but this sort of thing is going to wind up getting regulated hard.

to some people a watch is a fashion item, i acknowledge that to them my opinion is 100% invalid

I see a watch as a tool. aside from the date and time that any watch should provide reminders, the current temperature/weather, media controls for my phone, something to let me know my phone is blowing up when i've got it muted or it isn't in my pocket, and maybe a calculator is really about all a smart watch should do.

open and extensible enough to be able to roll your own tools or maybe hack together something like a remote garage door opener or a remote for a tv or pc would be nice, or a data logger of some sort (steps,temperature, location, barametric pressure, altitude,etc) but there are probably items that could get the same job done, just as easily, possibly better.

Heart rate/glucose monitoring may be helpful for some people with medical issues or an interest in their personal fitness/health, gps could be handy for hikers or certain careers..

but to be honest, the vast majority most of the features of "smartwatches" are solutions looking for a problem and manufacturers have proven over and over they have no clue. a watch that has to be charged daily is almost pointless. a bright multicolor screen and enough processing power to play hd video on a 1-3" inch screen is pointless and a waste of battery.

advertisers, marketplaces, etc are a bit too much. you probably could get a few accidental ad clicks on a scientific calculator but if you need money that bad you're doing something wrong or trying to save up to be able to move planets with a spoon.

"smart watch" utility/design peaked somewhere between the pebble and the amazfit bip.

war is probably coming.

hope for the best, plan for the worst.