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helf··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
That’s.. dumb.

I’m the type of person who keeps a lot of car lengths between me and the car ahead like you are /supposed to/ but I’ve also had someone panic stop in from of me and, due to road conditions, I cannot stop in time and have hit them. Not hard. But did all the same.

FSD and similar aren’t magic bullets that would prevent that. People like you who seem to think they are are also part of the problem.

Would a completely automated roadway be fucking awesome for safety and productivity and relaxation? Yes. Is it going to happen anytime soon? Doubtful.

Blows my mind how many people are totally willing to risk their own safety and everyone else’s using known buggy as fuck software. On the road. At 70mph. In a 2 ton vehicle.

… but it hasn’t been an issue for you! You say. Ok.

But I also watch dumb asses lane hop with barely enough room to pass likes it’s a video game and then act surprised when they wreck. So I guess I’m giving people too much credit.

helf··on A step forward in understanding Fragile X syndrome, a cause of autism
Almost every person I have met who whines about Asperger’s no longer being a valid diagnosis seem to be but hurt because, for awhile, Asperger’s = “omg super genius” in the popular mind.

Get over it. He was literally a nazi. It wasn’t even a great descriptor for a wide range of traits.

I would normally have been diagnosed with it. Now I’m just “Autistic” with ADHD and low support needs.

Clinging to the verbiage is like all the dipshits in my home state listing MLK day as “MLK Day/Genera Lee’s Birthday”. It serves no purpose and just makes people roll their eyes and tune you out.

helf··on How the Fed “Went Broke”
This is why punctuation is always important.

Also, Oxford Comma or GTFO :)

helf··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
Until your car decides to randomly slam on its brakes and cause a pile up.
helf··on What if mass storage were free? (1980)
This enrages me every time I see it. It's even worse with old broadcast TV, Especially daily serials/soaps. Shit is probably gone forever because the tapes were immediately wiped and reused. >:(

I know a lot of it stemmed from space and budget constraints but the complete lack of forward thinking everyone seems to have drives me bonkers.

I'm glad the Internet Archive exists. This current digital only future is terrifyingly ephemeral.

I really wish someone would give the Archive a massive, multi-billion endowment to guarantee it surviving for decades of operation with no forthcoming income.

helf··on Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
It's disgusting. These garbage humans thrive because other people are living vicariously through their awfulness.
helf··on AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
It wouldn’t really. I only used that because the parent poster was making it sound like total power draws with the cores all pegged out. And if they are actually doing work and not just running full bore through a whole lot of NOPs then that would be a sorta average of power on each core.

But as the other commenter said, the actual per core usage will vary /wildly/ even under high load. You would half to run something fairly specialized such as prime95, which can run entirely from cache, to get more accurate per core wattage values under same load maximum load.

As it stands, my i9-13900K seems to have an idle “package” draw of around 10-12w and can peak at 360w under prime95 load. And that’s stock. I can make it ramp way past 360W with very little effort.

But under “normal” desktop usage it happily sits well under 100w.

So… shrugs. I would like to know more on this parent’s setup instead of “My server with literally 40% of the core count uses 1/6 of the power!”

But we may not be so lucky.

helf··on Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
I honestly believe a huge chunk of people /wish/ they could be like those sacks of crap. But for whatever reason something is “holding them back” from their peak assholeness.
helf··on AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
Not to mention the fact that "pushing up to 700W underload" is.. absolutely nothing since that means, ignoring everything else and just assuming CPU drawing that, the cores are only using 7w PER CORE.

And this AMD system is using apparently a peak of 3.75w per core? really?

helf··on AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
Right? That is why I want to know more details instead of this vague garbage.
helf··on AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
While I don't doubt the AMD server with less than half the core count draws a lot less power, I would /like/ to know more details. Like what model/SKU servers? What are the actual model chips? How are they configured? blahblah

Going "I got X and Y and with no further information X is so much better than Y!" online gets so fucking old.

And I am genuinely curious. Not just being antagonistic. I am looking at some newer servers soon and have been debating Intel or AMD and I like seeing actual reallife results people have had.

helf··on Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Still blows my mind that there are /still/ Musk fanbois. He is your stereotypical billionaire narcissist man-child.

I guess there are a lot of dudes who really wish they could act that way and not get bitch slapped for it.

Ok, I guess I know why there are tons of personality cult worshippers of dipshits like Musk. Envy. lol.

So gross.

helf··on Ford halts production, shipments of F-150 Lightning over possible battery issue
The charging other EVs cracks me up.

I’m still no where near being able to have a 100% EV only existence but something like that would be really nice as a secondary. dreams

Thanks for the response.

helf··on Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars
Wow. Sorry for all the typos. I was juggling two kids when I typed that and apparently I am blind to autocorrect and autocomplete fails when my attention is so divided :)
helf··on Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars
Wait wait wait. You expected Tesla to have pre-emptively done something to avoid negative PR? When have they ever done that?
helf··on Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars
I love when people point to metrics on barely used "used" cars.

The average for used car is no where fucking enar $29k. That is complete and utter batshit lunacy unless your idea of "used" is "5 yers old or newer" or something insane like that.

I can still go buy a clunker for $1000 tomorrow.

I do often run into people who think 100k miles is "super high mileage" and couldn't change a tire if a gun was held to their head. So I guess I can see those people being utterly out of the $2k clunker market.

...

helf··on Ford halts production, shipments of F-150 Lightning over possible battery issue
How are you liking it? I got to look at one recently and really really liked it. Lot more than I expected. Unfortunately I need to make about 3x what I currently do to ever be able to justify buying something like it for my use cases lol.
helf··on Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode
Wow really? I used it for damn near a decade.
helf··on 27 Genetic Variants Linked to ADHD
As annoying as ADHD /can/ be. I am glad I have it. I do take meds to help “control it” but I also happily forgo them when I don’t need to crunch time focus on something.

There’s a lot of pros to it and most of the negatives that people run into are because the NTs have designed this world for a few certain “ types” of people and personalities and make everything else hard as fuck because it’s “wrong”.

Annoys the piss out of me.

Anyways, haven’t actually read the article yet. Just wanted to put that out there lol

helf··on Mastodon.lol will shut down on May 9, 2023
So.. these random mastodon servers are islands and if they shut down you have to migrate your shit? Tbh I’ve barely paid any attention to mastodon but crap like this just makes me have less interest in it. Yay decentralization! …
helf··on I changed my mind about nuclear waste
the fearmongering and all around nuclear is deeply ingrained in the public consciousness. It will be hard to kill it. Sadly. There are all sorts of designs that are awesome but havent been put to wide use because its insanely expensive to even get permits for a nuclear plant (if it is even possible) not to mention the insane costs to actual build one. Economies of scale never took hold due to a couple of incidents (of OLD designs and OLD installations for the most part) being flung everywhere. And then you'd have prominent scientists, even, getting vocal about being against nuclear. For whatever fucking reason.

Irks the hell out of me.

helf··on Windows 11 is collecting more user data than you know
Watching misinformation through misunderstanding and misconception start and then propagate through the internet in real time is both fascinating and terrifying.
helf··on Apple co-founder Wozniak ABOUT Tesla ‘They robbed my family of so much money’
Laserdisc was the bomb. And I miss mine.
helf··on Apple co-founder Wozniak ABOUT Tesla ‘They robbed my family of so much money’
looks at all the crypto and then LLM hype

Nah.

helf··on Apple co-founder Wozniak ABOUT Tesla ‘They robbed my family of so much money’
He should be done with Musk forever.
helf··on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
Just a side note: I have two carts and one of them rarely follows where I am pointing. The other one aways does. And he seems to recognize a good 100 words.

You’ll get massively varying levels of “intelligence” from most anything it seems

helf··on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
It’s hard to watch it happen over and over again. I think it’s because they /want/ something to be a certain way regardless of reality.

There is no realm in which a LLMs have spontaneously gained theory of mind.

I don’t understand why people are so eager to jump to conclusions on these things lately.

helf··on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
Wait, you mean virtual reality isn’t like the cartoon Reboot!?
helf··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
And?

If you are in the Apple ecosystem, get an iPhone.

If you are pleased with Android and not in Apple's ecosystem, then get something like the Samsung.

Who the hell cares about this crap?

helf··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
I think because people want to natural language ask questions to a virtual butler (Jeeves) and get an answer back in digestible natural language form.

I… don’t really get it either.

But I’m also a cranky person who can’t stand every damn thing being a video whether it makes sense for the content or not, etc.

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