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Cipater··on Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point
I have a cheap laptop with 8 GB of RAM and an integrated graphics card yet loading the website doesn't even register on my CPU usage.

You have a problem with your setup.

Cipater··on China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan
The word "affordable" means "not expensive".
Cipater··on Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)
>Many of them are recruited from other sports based on strength, speed, and agility.

This is not true at all. F1 pit crews are mechanics who have worked with cars in other motorsport racing series/feeder series and worked their way up to an F1 team.

Cipater··on Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in Phoenix?
Another commenter has pointed out that the claim about Dallas' water supply is untrue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36737353

Cipater··on When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?
Thank you.
Cipater··on The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots
"falling into" implies that the despots are taking them or obtaining them by accident.

These are being sold directly to these despots with the approval of the Israeli government.

Cipater··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
What SpaceX are doing in Texas is the literal definition of engineering.

What on earth do you think engineering is if building a first of its kind rocket and launching it to see how it works doesn't qualify?

Cipater··on SpaceX's First Starship Launch Tomorrow
You're commenting on a post about the booster's first test flight.
Cipater··on World's largest banknote printer says printing money isn't profitable anymore
From the article.

>The company now expects its full-year adjusted operating profit for the 2024 fiscal year to be around low-20 million, or $25 million, half of its previous unadjusted estimates of 40.1 million, according to Refinitv data seen by Insider.

>"The challenge at the moment is that there simply isn't quite the demand there to be where we want to be, which is disappointing," Clive Vacher, the CEO of De La Rue, told Reuters on Wednesday.

It's still profitable, just not as profitable as it used to be.

Cipater··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
It takes three seconds to cold start Word for me on an old (2015), underpowered (core i5, 8GB RAM, low end SSD) HP laptop.
Cipater··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Why didn't they catch it in this case?
Cipater··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
People like me? (I'm black)
Cipater··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
There's a lot of interesting stuff on there but I can't use the forum because I'm black and they're very earnest about telling me how subhuman I am even when it doesn't make any contextual sense to do so.
Cipater··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Why do 4chan users go out of their way to be so offensive in their posts?
Cipater··on Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
What are you basing this assertion on?
Cipater··on Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)
I am looking for a podcast application that allows me to customize the voice pitch to eliminate vocal fry. Although many outstanding podcasts are American, it appears that most of them are presented by hosts who use this particular register. I've attempted to ignore or get used to it, but it remains an issue for me.

Additionally, I struggle with hosts who have a habit of ending every sentence with an upward inflection, which I find quite annoying.

Cipater··on What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
It's strange, isn't it?

Everyone is so quick to say how unimpressed they are by the thing meanwhile I'm sitting here amazed that it understands what I say to it every single time.

I can speak to it like I would speak to a colleague, or a friend, or a child and it parses my meaning without fail. This is the one feature that keeps me coming back to it.

Cipater··on War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
Is this legitimate?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/VRFB-battery-energy-s...

Cipater··on Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace
>You may be thinking “what?” but we spotted an interesting opportunity to enable upgrades on another popular consumer electronics product: the Steam Deck.

and

>We’re continuing to search for ways to help you with hard-to-find upgrades for other products, so let us know if there is anything we should focus on!

From the article.

Cipater··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
Citation needed.

Yes, Blackrock and Coinbase have partnered up to provide crypto trading access to Blackrock clients but how are they attempting a coup on the US dollar?

Cipater··on Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately
This can't be right. Any place I can read about this?
Cipater··on Concordia students set to launch most powerful rocket developed by civilians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1
Cipater··on ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
>There's a popular youtuber named Joel Haver who films videos, then uses an AI tool to convert them into animations, so they can be magically put into a space or fantasy setting.

Hang on, AI tool? Joel Haver converts every frame manually. His method is the literal opposite of using an AI tool. It's incredibly painstaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo

Cipater··on ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon
You're typing out 300 queries to ChatGPT every day?!
Cipater··on Caroline Ellison Plea Hearing Transcript (12/19/2022) [pdf]
Started out making investments/bets with loan money thinking they would make it back with profit since they're oh so smart. Bets fail, they pour more money into it on hail Mary shots, they lose that too. Lenders want their money back so they use customer funds to pay them back because they have access to it and loans have to be paid back.

Meanwhile they've also been enriching themselves personally, living large in the Bahamas and what not.

Boils down to 2 things.

1. They were unscrupulous from day 1 and implemented a system with no restrictions or checks on their ability to move money around. In addition, they were comfortable with straight up lying to customers and lenders about the

2. They believed their own hype.

Cipater··on The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
I'm reading his comments in this thread with increasing incredulity.

An intelligent man lacking empathy and the ability to put themselves in someone else's shoes.

Cipater··on TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips
> I just don't know what is left to achieve really.

Just use your imagination a little bit.

Unless you think your current workflow and the tasks you use your machines for are the pinnacle of what an individual will ever be able to accomplish?

Currently there are so many things that are so computationally intensive that they can only be processed on server farms that only the Googles and Amazons of the world can afford.

Cipater··on What happens when babies are left to cry it out?
What counts as a heavy duty sport for a 2 year old?
Cipater··on Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
>No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable

What a thing to say.

Cipater··on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
Musk became Chairman of Tesla and largest shareholder in February 2004. He oversaw Roadster production.

The first Roadster was delivered in February 2008. To Elon, by the way.

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