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xcv123··on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine
Yes we already have power cables but they do not generate power. The issue is clean power generation capacity.
xcv123··on Intel lost the Sony Playstation business to AMD
The GPU is "AI hardware", and current PS5 already has it.
xcv123··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
C did not write itself.

We now have a tool that writes code and solves problems autonomously. It's not comparable.

xcv123··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
"It certainly doesn't explain anything" is some irrational hyperbolic bullshit. You're talking nonsense. Of course it explains something. Listen to people who actually worked at Boeing. One of the dudes who worked there just replied in this thread. This is not a stupid internet meme. This is reality. I recommend you watch the documentary: "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing".
xcv123··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
The McDonnell Douglas takeover is where the shift started. Profit became the priority above quality. Straightforward. Explains most of it.
xcv123··on The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
> It is absolutely possible to serve recommendations in a content agnostic way based on other user behavior.

Yes but the quality and accuracy of that system would be inferior, with a long delay until it gathers enough collaborative filtering information to be useful.

xcv123··on The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
I don't like Google but this is not a Big Brother scenario. The videos are hosted on their own servers and are publicly available. They are not snooping on your private videos on your personal hard drive. How could they provide this service without analyzing the content of the videos? The cost of hiring humans to review and classify all of the content uploaded every day is prohibitive.
xcv123··on NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
I've used ChatGPT extensively and this stuff is extremely obvious after you have read literally thousands of ChatGPT responses. Immediately recognized it and called him out. Boilerplate AI template response. ChatGPT has a very distinctive way of answering questions.
xcv123··on NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
Very obvious ChatGPT style and structure. Here's another one of his comments copy/pasted from ChatGPT. Many others have called him out on this. He is a pathological liar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41274200 and then his later reply in the same thread, also written by ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277573

xcv123··on NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
Did you copy and paste this from ChatGPT?

Edit: Low IQ downvoters are too stupid to recognise obvious ChatGPT replies. I checked his comment history and found that he uses ChatGPT here regularly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41274200

xcv123··on Renderings Created with Only a Pencil
The computing definition of the term came centuries after it was commonly used to describe what you are seeing in the article. "An artistic depiction of something."
xcv123··on The effect of CRTs on pixel art
It does square with it. The analogy is in music production. Professional music studios use high end expensive studio monitors with flat frequency response. It's a reference point. From this reference point they can optimize the mix to sound good on other speakers that don't accurately represent the frequency range.
xcv123··on AI crawlers need to be more respectful
> 73TB is a fair amount to have on a cloud

From the article:

"This was a bug in their crawler that was causing it to download the same files over and over again."

xcv123··on Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]
This news is about a manufacturing issue.
xcv123··on Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]
Qualcomm makes CPUs. That's what is relevant here.
xcv123··on Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]
You can reduce that list of Intel competitors to TSMC and Samsung.

AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm are TSMC customers.

xcv123··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Also lack of visibility. The two pilots couldn't see each other through the fog.
xcv123··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
It must be security tags on the lift which restrict entry to authorised staff.
xcv123··on Panic at the Job Market
The quotes indicate the subjectivity and lack of transparency in how "culture" and "EQ" are evaluated.
xcv123··on Panic at the Job Market
That's already the starting point. People who really understand the business, and developers who work with them. The point is that the developer also needs to understand the business well enough. You cannot separate that from coding if you want good results. A good technical business analyst that sits in between the business and the developers can really help, but that is no substitute for the developer having good knowledge of the business and what it is actually trying to accomplish.

Sometimes the business only has a high level goal in mind and it is up to the developer to invent a solution, keeping in mind how the end user will interact with the system in their day to day work, and foresee potential issues in how the changes would impact other systems and business rules and so on. The developer has low level visibility of systems that are not readily apparent to business people. It is necessary for us developers to hide some of that complexity from the business. Some backends are very complex webs of business rules.

The developer needs to have some bigger understanding of it all, otherwise they are reduced to a code monkey who implements spoon-fed acceptance criteria from Jira tickets, makes stupid mistakes that break other functionality and systems, and won't recognize various issues that were not apparent to the business person who originally wrote the AC's. Basically we need developers to collaborate with the business to design and develop solutions properly.

xcv123··on The VR Winter Continues
You can buy a full motion simulator. That's how they solved the problem for pilot training. Starting at $71,900 for a full motion plane simulator.

https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/fmx

https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/topic/simulato...

xcv123··on The VR Winter Continues
That's right. The cause of motion sickness is when vestibular input (sense of physical movement) does not match visual input. If I am standing and moving naturally in a VR world I can stay there for hours without feeling nauseous. FPS or flight sims cause VR sickness.

VR sickness is the inverse of car sickness.

- VR FPS game: Visually moving while physically static.

- Car passenger in back seat: Physically moving while visually static (car interior).

xcv123··on The VR Winter Continues
I'm not the one who is downvoting you. I got rid of my Quest 3 because of VR sickness. Aside from causing severe sickness that took a couple of days to pass, it was too heavy and uncomfortable to wear.
xcv123··on The VR Winter Continues
Standing and moving is too much effort for consuming content. Meta needs to invent some kind of electric wheelchair with direct neural injection, paralysing the consumer from the neck down. The human race will achieve its final sentient blob form.
xcv123··on The VR Winter Continues
That's basically a 3D movie. Doesn't count as VR.
xcv123··on How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
LOL. Imagine being so miserable and desperate that you rob your grandmothers grave for a few dollars.
xcv123··on How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
That sounds miserable and desperate. A couple of dollars worth of scrap shavings. What will you do with that? Just let them have it.
xcv123··on Intel's lunar lake laptops won't let you upgrade your RAM. Here's why thats fine
From the article:

"In fact, Intel’s future hardware will offer upgradeable RAM. Jim Johnson, Senior Vice President at Intel, explicitly said about user-upgradeable RAM: “We will offer those options in the future.” He also said that the “next turn of the roadmaps will offer more traditional options.”"

xcv123··on Ed Stone, scientist and salesman for the Voyager mission, has died
It was not a swipe. You are hallucinating a swipe that does not exist. I won't be replying to any more of this nonsense. If you see a comment you don't like then just flag it and downvote it. You're not a moderator here and even if you were, you're not good at the job. You are polluting the thread with noise.

Not everyone pays attention to the NASA probe launch schedule. So what? It's not a swipe. As I said, I wasn't paying attention to that for years.

xcv123··on Ed Stone, scientist and salesman for the Voyager mission, has died
No I have been paying attention to those rules. I did not violate any of the rules. Ironically you are breaking the rules by polluting the thread with irrelevant noise and false accusations.
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