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nomorewords··on So you think you could be an electrician?
I don't think it's just slightly worse off
nomorewords··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Without having done any research at this point I would assume it's mostly the amortized cost of hardware - GPUs, memory etc
nomorewords··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
The normal non-tech-savvy person already does this. They simply don't know that their ram is upgradeable or something else breaks first, before having to touch ram.
nomorewords··on Let's make quality the norm again
That wouldn't be the price of the raw materials if it were livelihood either
nomorewords··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
This sounds like it might have something to do with taxes? In Bulgaria all sports stores carry Nikes and the lower end ones are like 60 euros. Offbrand design replicas are like 40 or 50, no way you get such a deal f, especially for natural materials
nomorewords··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
Does it dry up that much? I have an ikea smart thermometer that's in the flow of the AC and I haven't seen humidity drop below 40% even in summer
nomorewords··on Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
This was very interesting, but the ending was a bit abrupt. I was under the impression that there was something more that I was missing under the subscribe banner.

But to the point of the article - are there cases in which manually moving objects around to compact them in a specific area is done with golang? I don't use golang that much, and I'm sure that there are very strong arguments for not compacting the heap post-GC, but I've always wondered how it avoids crashing in the 0.0001% of cases in which heap is defragmented in such a way that there's no way to allocate a new large object

nomorewords··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
In china's case it wasn't internal but external
nomorewords··on Richard Scolyer Has Died
50% after 50 doesn't sound like an old person's disease
nomorewords··on Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
When the damage is already done?
nomorewords··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
So like Publix company earnings? You have to beat by a little so you're not just flat but beat by too much and you look incompetent/suspicious
nomorewords··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Wouldn't the layoffs be when the price changes are announced then? Isn't going all in on current credit prices mean that you use as many parallel work streams as possible?
nomorewords··on Inventing Cyrillic (2024)
Didn't Romania use Cyrillic at a point in time?
nomorewords··on US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?
nomorewords··on The Gemini app is now on Mac
It's about app-ifying the desktop. Instead of opening a browser, then remembering that you have a bookmark and clicking it or googling the site you are looking for, the idea is to have a step less and just click something on your desktop or taskbar (like on a mobile device)
nomorewords··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
How is it an indication? I think people on here don't realize that most of the people don't think things through as much as (software) engineers
nomorewords··on The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
Even doubly so because that's how most people have solved a similar problem, so that the LLM suggests that
nomorewords··on Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure
Why have voter registration?
nomorewords··on New high of 45% in US identify as political independents
At least in Bulgaria, 60% of people don't vote. Granted that we aren't that socially active as a country, I think that any amount of parties wouldn't bring much difference. Until the system starts working again, as in convicting criminals, preventing policymakers from benefiting from "timely" investments and overall bringing the wealth gap down, I don't think that you'd be able to reach all of the people
nomorewords··on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
I wonder if this is how daydreaming helps, especially as a kid. I think that being taught not to dream as much as an adult and being in the moment kind of removes this random focus in our brains
nomorewords··on Notion releases offline mode
Have you tried affine?
nomorewords··on The 4-chan Go programmer
gottem
nomorewords··on Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
Sure, but the rest of the stuff (in what I consider salad base - tomatoes, cucumbers, maybe peppers?) is really small so it doesn't matter. A greek salad has cheese, yeah, that's a high calorie input but you don't eat much of it
nomorewords··on Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
Eh, when you say a salad in Europe, there's a 90-95% chance that its only dressing is olive oil (and not much of it, just for the texture) and not heavy stuff like ranch or french dressing.
nomorewords··on Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
Well it's not just the sugars. Processed food gets a lot of preservatives (some natural, some made in a lab) which make the food last longer and "look better". In Bulgaria (I think this is an EU directive though) you can see the preservatives on the nutrition info and they all have an ID (E###). Typically the more Es that something has, the more processed it has been and is seen as less healthy.
nomorewords··on Reddit Strike Has Started
I don't think Reddit is doing anything based on that day's data. I suspect that they will wait for a month before starting to rely on the data for any long-term prospects.
nomorewords··on Jobless claims dip to 3-week low of 191,000 – labor market still strong
I guess this is expected when rates are going up? People will want to be on a job to avoid defaulting on a loan/mortgage. Is it good that the current job market allows for such low figures? My initial thought is that people currently will put up with a lot more bullshit so that they make sure that the next due payment can be paid. Some unionization efforts might suffer from this IMO
nomorewords··on First Impressions of Bluesky's Brand New iOS App
I don't think anyone inherently wants censorship. It comes down to it when popularity rises and certain standards are expected of it. Would I mind if I had a 8 year old and he saw "fuck" on a website/social media? No I wouldn't but some people decided that we should have a specific linguistic moral code, so the capitalists try to walk the path of least resistance on this topic (just complying)
nomorewords··on China Filed More Chip Patents Than US in 2022
Isn't it trained on years old data? Also, isn't the threshold for correctness like 90%? Imagine being the US government and basing your strategy on something that's 90% correct. That's (for a government agency) an amazingly big chance for either under/over shooting the enemy strategy
nomorewords··on Jobs that require heavy lifting boost male fertility, testosterone, and estrogen
I've always wondered if this is the reason why still a lot of people hold the belief that "blue collar jobs are real jobs". Could it be that it's a subconscious biological trait that (over-)rewards physical activity? Even further, it feels like such beliefs are held by men much more often. Which would suggest that, subconsciously, we might know what will increase our chances of successfully producing offspring(speaking in strictly evolutionary terms).

I also find it fascinating how nature evolved us that way. Imagine 30-50k years ago, the better hunter you are (which would be tied to running longer distances) the better chance of producing offspring. I wonder how 10k years of our current lives will make humans' bodies evolve

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