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FactKnower69··on Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds
If you had clicked through to the article before writing your comment, you would know that the stat being compared is "fatal crash rate per billion miles driven", and that the fatal crash rate for Teslas is 2.0x the national average
FactKnower69··on Maybe Bluesky has "won"
>If "owning" my data means I need to spend time learning a new format and setting up a way to publish that format on a domain I own, and then maintain it into the infinite future, the odds I'm gong to bother are very low.

Good! Higher barrier to entry is exactly why Neocities, Mastodon and [redacted] are so much higher quality than the NPC internet. We need a couple hurdles to keep out the low effort posters.

FactKnower69··on Teens learn a new conspiracy theory every week on social media
Tracking down all the civilians targeted during the Lavon Affair to strongly warn them against conspiratorial thinking and the spread of misinformation
FactKnower69··on IMG_0416
>YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content

What a bizarre and obviously false claim to make for no reason in the middle of the article

FactKnower69··on U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites
>The elites choose that trade policy because it is efficient (specialisation)

Idealist nonsense, offshoring of manufacturing capacity from highly developed countries with large union penetration to countries with lower labor costs and more lax worker protections has literally nothing to do with comparative advantage and everything to do with enabling ever more brutal exploitation of labor and higher profit margins

FactKnower69··on U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites
hilarious that someone downvoted this; I guess it's squarely our fault after all for not exclusively buying from the Made In America computer chips aisle at Best Buy :(
FactKnower69··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
corporate real estate valuations which make up a big part of management's investment portfolios
FactKnower69··on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
1. parent is talking about Unreal Editor, not playing games

2. yes, different pieces of software have different bottlenecks under different configurations... what is the point of a comment like this?

FactKnower69··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
>some things

Any specific examples? I hear this said all the time and it's almost never true.

Movement, for example: many decide to just let clients be fully authoritative over their positions and then act shocked when teleport hacks drop. Just keep track of the player's max move speed server-side, continually validate, and flag if they consistently move faster than is possible according to the server. No one is ever saying you have to validate inputs server-side in lock step with zero client-side prediction whatsoever and enforce 200ms of input lag for all players.

FactKnower69··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
>no, you can't completely solve this server side

This is what every dev who can't be bothered to implement relevancy filters says when their server broadcasts the locations of every hidden player to every other player every tick and wallhacks drop a week later

Exactly what can't be fixed server side? Are you just talking about aimbots and other situations where script kiddies can trivially author bots that generate optimal inputs? Because at a certain point that's more a problem with shitty, boring game design that got stale 20 years ago; if the top of your game's execution ceiling is "can the player click on heads perfectly" you have bigger problems

FactKnower69··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
Community-run and moderated servers easily fixed this issue decades ago. Maybe video games should be fun centers of community again instead of maximally isolating and atomizing skinner boxes designed to make children addicted to endlessly practicing and competing at worthless skills so the sunk cost keeps them buying loot boxes
FactKnower69··on Mistakes from building a model to scalp concert tickets
>fans pretend they won't pay whatever it takes to get in.

Uh, no, I've abandoned multiple carts after seeing the final ticket price with hidden fees is 175% the advertised price. Those shows didn't end up selling out, either, they just left revenue sitting on the table. Entire live entertainment industry would be double digit % larger if the ticketing experience wasn't uniquely dogshit

FactKnower69··on Cheap solar panels are changing the world
But is Janet Yellen still throwing a tantrum and telling anyone who will listen that China is building solar panels too efficiently? https://apnews.com/article/china-yellen-manufacturing-treasu...
FactKnower69··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
>Interest rates are on their way back down btw.

completely wrong, where have you been the past month? 10Y t-notes are actually UP after the fed's hysterical 50 basis point cut lol

FactKnower69··on Strava was used to locate the most powerful people
>Probably not better than the best stuff the military has...

Military tech is always a decade ahead of civilian, that's why the US has easily won every armed conflict they've entered into in the past 50 years

FactKnower69··on New iMac with M4
>low price

???

FactKnower69··on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
>But the newspaper could be biased towards facts, moderate speech and empathy to all parties.

literally zero semantic meaning to be found in this word salad

FactKnower69··on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule
Hahaha, what? The "Free Market" is when the government forcibly breaks up large firms? Incredible
FactKnower69··on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule
Imagine living in a common law country where judges legislate from the bench every day, then going online and complaining about regulatory agencies doing the thing they were created to do
FactKnower69··on Playstation Vita Architecture (Part 1)
not really an opinion, the mura effect is the ubiquitous and well-documented flaw of Vita 1000 OLEDs
FactKnower69··on Tesla Q3 2024 Financial Results [pdf]
>In Q3, we released the 12.5 series of FSD (Supervised) 1 with improved safety and comfort thanks to increased data and training compute, [...] We deployed and are training ahead of schedule on a 29k H100 cluster at Gigafactory Texas – where we expect to have 50k H100 capacity by the end of October.

Literally laughed out loud seeing the phrase "ahead of schedule" in a section about FSD

FactKnower69··on What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?
Americans are immune to propaganda, that's why I love and support the architects of Operation Northwoods and the Lavon Affair :)
FactKnower69··on What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?
We'll miss Bedbug Bret writing whiny op-eds about how people aren't allowed to be mean to him on Twitter and how those tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians deserved to die
FactKnower69··on USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas
at what point in history was the US ever anything approaching "self sufficient"? did I miss the american juche autarky period in history class?
FactKnower69··on New Defense Dept Initiative to Recruit Private Sector Tech Pros for Reserves
Love that they're still calling themselves the Department of "Defense" even after Operation Northwoods leaked
FactKnower69··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
https://media.snopes.com/2023/01/sony-fig-9.png
FactKnower69··on Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
you might start by narrowing it down to the ones that have managed to complete a public works project in the past 20 years
FactKnower69··on Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
Don't forget fixing bread prices!
FactKnower69··on Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
>If you had to fight fires all hours day, night and weekend to keep on top of it, then so what?

Same type of person who is completely incapable of understanding that doing more methodical, higher quality work now saves you the time wasted putting out fires later

FactKnower69··on Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace
hard for investors to get paid for other people's work when the workers own their profits :(
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