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vGPU··on Normal Operating Sounds
Heat pumps can provide an “efficiency” of some 300-400%+. The “trick” is that they use electricity to move heat instead of creating heat, which is why heat pumps stop working well under a certain temperature.

They kinda work like a reverse refrigerator. A fridge takes heat out from the inside and moves it to the outside. A heat pump does the opposite.

vGPU··on Kepler, Nvidia's Strong Start on 28 nm
Create? Perhaps lack of IP/talent. The exynos chips have been lagging a bit behind last I checked. However, they are adding capacity to their fabs for AI chips, so it’s possible they may be planning one in the future.

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20231121VL206/samsung-electr...

vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
> there is an ongoing investigation over nonconsensual sterilization procedures being performed by the government three years ago

Where do you see the word systemic?

And once again, your question could be easily answered with Google. Seeing as how you’re the one that came in sprouting completely incorrect information that would have been easily avoided had you just bothered to skim the Wikipedia article on the topic, which would also have answered this particular question, I humbly request that you DYOR.

vGPU··on Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble
In theory price v demand. Prices would increase until demand was reduced to the point that there was enough seed for everyone willing to pay the price.

It also depends whether you’re trading future that settle for cash (you buy for 5k and they give you 20k cold hard cash) or whether they’re actually going to send a semi truck to your farm, in which case they should have been holding enough collateral for such an incident.

Realistically, I believe most futures are cash settled and you’d probably be better off pocketing the extra 15k and spending 5k on planting a different crop this year.

vGPU··on All design and engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now open source
>whatever we have, you have

Must have lost the rest in a big fire or something. Drowned in a canoeing accident.

vGPU··on The story of titanium
Sure but the f15 didn’t start production until almost a decade later.
vGPU··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Well, here would be the ones I’m interested in: the 3 minute rant would be perfect right now as I finish processing shitty family. The general chat with topics includes several that I personally am interested in, including photography and mental health. The offer to pair program with me to help me with a programming problem? Amazing. Though I’d feel too guilty about using that one personally when the vast majority of my coding problems can be solved by Google and sometimes screaming into a pillow.

All in all, if I was looking for an employee, seeing this page would put that person at the top of the list for me because it gives off all the right vibes - team player, interested in helping others, well rounded, etc.

vGPU··on Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble
The idea is to buffer changes in price. Started with crops originally iirc. Say I know I need 1 ton of seed for planting. It normally costs $5,000/ton. I am concerned that the rat epidemic might cause a seed shortage. It does. 1 ton of seed next year is worth $20,000. Because I purchased the future of 1 ton of seed for $5,000, I am not affected by this.

Made up numbers obviously, as I know someone is just waiting to “well akshually” me.

vGPU··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Hey, I just wanted to say that your “say hi” page is an insanely cool idea and I might take you up on that offer at some point :).
vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
No, I’m not. Nor am I in any of the other high paying states you might name.
vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
> Of the 7,600 women who were sterilized by the state between the years of 1933 and 1973, about 5,000 were African American.

Stop lying. You come in with a false faith argument and can’t be bothered to research elementary facts.

vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
As a nurse I make $100/hr.

Try again.

vGPU··on The curious case of the abominable shower
It would appear that the source is “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House”, which appears to be the type of sensationalist tell-all that would grace the average tabloid next to the latest story about how prince harry has embarrassed himself this time.

I wouldn’t put much stock in it.

vGPU··on The curious case of the abominable shower
> Back at the White House, Johnson would howl through the halls, “If I can move ten thousand troops in a day, the plumbers can certainly fix the bathroom the way I want it!”

Considering the fact that this is essentially true, I find it extremely dubious that it took them 5 years to solve the problem. Surely just making a carbon copy of his shower at home wouldn’t take more than a month or two.

vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
> health care is a notoriously low paid profession

Where is that, exactly? Because it certainly isn’t in the US.

vGPU··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
Considering the United States forcefully sterilized some 70,000 people, and that there is an ongoing investigation over nonconsensual sterilization procedures being performed by the government three years ago, your handwaving over “conspiracy theorists” is pointless.

After all, it isn’t like the government has a long history of eugenics, forcefully drugging people for weeks at a time with combinations of LSD, barbiturates, and other fun stuff, right?

Our government would never do that.

vGPU··on Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They're Rich
If a Honda civic is worth a million dollars, are you rich? Or has inflation simply eroded your buying power?
vGPU··on LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs
Because I don’t appreciate it when a model has blatant democrat/anti-republican bias, for example. The fact that chatGPT, Bard, etc are heavily and purposefully biased on certain topics is well documented[1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-politics-of-ai-chatgp...

vGPU··on A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees
They run very slim profit margins, regulators could fine them more than they could afford to pay.
vGPU··on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair
I’ve tried it and TB-500 personally for persistent tendinitis, can’t say either helped.
vGPU··on The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS attack since last weekend
I see a lot of anger about krita getting a stable diffusion plugin, a choice quote here:

> Oh yes let's encourage people to download an app made by artists, for artists, not learn how to draw, and instead use a program that steals from artists, while using an art app.

Presumably the same issue is going on with blender? The Reddit thread on the site being down is mostly comments on “lol autodesk/adobe/etc must hate how good blender 4.0 is”.

vGPU··on Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
Even my iPad has horrible background drain. My iPhone is the only device I have that I can calmly leave at 15% when I go to bed and know my alarm will still work in the morning.
vGPU··on Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They're Rich
Except they aren’t. They’ve just managed to keep up with the (real) rate of inflation. You’re not rich if your pay went from $7/hr to $10/hr but gas went from $3 to $4. You’re still in the same situation, if not a bit worse off.
vGPU··on A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees
This will hurt Google and may destroy Spotify. If they’re the only ones that get the 0/4% deal and the other services like tidal are paying full price that’s a blatant anti-competitive agreement.
vGPU··on Apple plans to equip MacBooks with in-house cellular modems
Telemetry. With how evasive they are, likely quite invasive.
vGPU··on Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
See: Crimea. Israel. Etc.
vGPU··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
I have personally noticed this many times. I’d blink and wonder if it was just my eyes going bad but nope, soon as I select HD quality manually I can read text again.
vGPU··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3);

The actual code. They went and actually hardcoded a 5 second delay.

vGPU··on Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
Get used to it, my friend. There’s a reason the TI phenomenon is growing, and it isn’t just baseless paranoia.
vGPU··on Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
Well….

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2675415775

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