Saudi Arabia is absolutely bad. I’d go so far as to call them the EA of Countries.

“Beat China” at what?

Cloudflare is in an interesting space. They are a service provider (ddos protection, scalable edge caching, SSL termination, etc) that allows the highly centralized internet to function. However they aren’t a gatekeeper at all. You only need cloudflare if you are in the top 5% of internet websites by volume. So when cloudflare has a problem, Lemmy isn’t affected, but Reddit is. My blog isn’t affected, but someone like https://blog.ipspace.net/ is affected.

My personal browsing habbits meant I didn’t even realize there was a cloudflare problem until I read an article about it on Lemmy. Anyway, just a tangent, but as a network engineer I’m sure i’ll be interested in the RCA.

An Ex-post facto EULA. Because whatever dumbshit Microsoft acquisition EULA that bootlickers like you want to point to in order to justify censorship 100% didn’t exist beforehand. But beside all that if I’m running it on my computer, your EULA doesn’t matter anymore at all.

Analog computing is a lot different fundamentally then digital. While the transistor is the fundamental building block of a modern CPU, the Operational Amplifier, or Op-Amp is the building block of an analog computer.

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html

As for the pros and cons of each, I’m sure a whole disseration could be written on the topic, but I’d say “real-time” applications would benefit from analog computers. Think feedback loops.

I fully support millions of people not having to work anymore. Obviously we must implement GMI, Universal Healthcare, and employee a giant army of federal workers to run the hospitals, and staff to expand all of our other federal institutions.

I guess 4chan-uk llc better watch out.

From my perspective more damage has been wrought to British culture by the Disneyification of Winnie-the-Pooh (big fan of EH Shephard here) than by 4Chan.

This is definitely a more important point then the existence of websites.

I’m thinking very new AAA releases like GTA6, Buldurs Gate 3, Hollow Knight, as well as minor developers that may not have linux releases. Though I acknowledge the difficulty of creating a linux version is getting smaller.

I only use windows for gaming. If Windows somehow fucks it up so much that I can play the majority of games in Linux on Steam, then I no longer have a use for them. I don’t use windows for work, and all of my normal computer use cases Linux is fully capable of, I’ll basically be forced over to Ubunutu or something, with a cracked Win11 VM for new games that don’t have linux releases.

I suppose linux graphic drivers and performance are still an issue, but that will surely only get better, especially as the windows desktop segment of GPU sales dries up.

It would have been garbage. Either they would have had to severely restrict the player in absurd ways to make sure that no one played the game “wrong,” and then posted edgy youtubes about it. Or they would have had to narrow the scope and strip so much context that it would be basically impossible to tell it was supposed to be the American civil war, other then seeing some union flag props around.

Great piece and I don’t really have anything to add. But I’m glad that there exists people who recognize the problem with AI is the capitalist system it exist within, not the tool itself.

Sounds like this group is more of a social media vibe group, rather then a group interested in real undermining of Zionism. Maybe stop being pawns for slacktivists with rich parents and try joining the PLO instead?

The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make ore money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is “50 years” and a trillion dollars away?

There is a huge difference between embedding spyware into the silicon or cpu package of a semiconductor manufacturer or integrator and tracking a shipment of chips from a manufacturer. The first is extremely rare and basically tin-foil hat territory, the second is extremely common and any company that orders a large number of chips from a manufacturer will have GPS tracking of their shipments. Of course US Customs would use a similiar method to ensure that embargo’s and treaties mandating those embargo’s are being followed.

Doesn’t horizontally scale. But sure if you want to have half your company only reachable through a firewall cluster and you don’t ever expect to exceed 100Gb, and never need to perform maintenance on that cluster, sure it’ll work.

Hey guys, I deployed our servers on 10.0.0.0/14 and didnt’ bother with ipv6. Oh no! The company that we just acquired also deployed their servers on 10.0.0.0/14, so all of your assumption in your dumb-ass contrived scenario are invalidated.

ipv6 adoption only matters for public reach. Right now if you want a website accessible by 75% of the world, it has to be an ipv4 endpoint. Though that is changing. Here is a blog post by someone from akamai in 2018 talking about the rapid adoption of ipv6. https://www.akamai.com/blog/performance/six-years-since-world-ipv6-launch

Basically if you aren’t deploying a service as native ipv6, you’ve already fucked up.

If Google had built nucler power plants 10-years ago, there would be zero emissions. If California had done it instead there would also be zero-emissions, if the federal government had built nuclear power plants we’d also be at zero emissions. If all anti-nuclear people had killed themselves in 1979 we’d be net negative with emissions.

Practically unlimited demand is fine if the source doesn’t use fossil fuels to begin with, so I don’t see how this is an “AI” problem. It is, of course, a capitalism problem though.

Yes both Soviet and American rocket scientists have known since the 1960’s such a defense system was impossible. Multiple idealized field tests basically proved it, but it’s a lot of money for defense contractors and their share holders so they will continue to come up with unenforceable contracts with guaranteed payouts, and then give kickbacks to the people who can get those contracts approved.

You really don’t need to be a billionaire to afford crazy internet speeds (if you want them). You can get a 100G port from pretty much any ISP for ~$8k/mo, or even cheaper if you are willing to have a bandwidth cap. Then assuming you really want it, you’d have to pay to get the fiber laid to your home, which can be a few hundred thousand dollars depending on how far away you are. Of course this is ridiculous for home internet, but it is within reach for people that are way poorer then billionaires.

Sure, but they are radiation sources and beyond microwaves, “nuclear” material exists in several consumer products, so that isn’t really a reason we haven’t had consumer nuclear batteries.

You mean like Microwaves? Or Smoke detectors? Granite countertops etc. Or watches, and Energy Efficient CFLs?

On here I’d 100% agree, though if some member here got into some kind of discord drama that you weren’t apart of, why would you choose a side? You’ll have incomplete information, and no doubt one of them will claim they were harassed while leaving out some important details.

the sane response is to go “wow that is awful. the gaming community does indeed contain some terrible people, i am glad to be one of the good ones and will distance myself from this behavior”

I’d say the saner response is none at all. This seems like a pretty niche community issue somewhere on the internet involving at most <100 people. I doubt anyone here is closer then 3 degrees of separation from anyone involved. Why would you expect any of the outsiders here to “take a stand,” based on incomplete information?

It’s done intentionally. If you want a wired mouse, you can buy one of thousands of wired mice and use those. If you want a wireless mouse, it doesn’t need to and shouldn’t be plugged in while you are using it.

Game not selling well? Find a tweet from a nobody talking about your shitty game being “woke.” Sensationalize it, position yourself as a bastion fighting against the hordes, imply that only by purchasing the failing game can the average liberal “fight back.”

Profit.

As unnecessary consumption is one of the roots of suffering in our world, yea. I don’t like sales culture. You don’t need any “good deals” in your life, it’s not going to make you happy. And your Pavlovian response to a fictitious holiday is the theme of the article.

I’d hardly call them “orders.”

Hmm…

I will shop for deals on both days

Yea…that’s the point.

Only sheeple shop on Black Friday. An astute and correct observation.

Note the author doesn’t use the word sheeple, but “black-friday” and “cyber-monday” he argues are top-down orders to the masses to consume, and he is absolutely correct.

The idea of “posthuman cyborgs” is so fanciful, that I don’t think you are connected enough to reality to even make an accurate judgement on “the possible.”

We have the technology TODAY, RIGHT NOW to go to mars and make it back. There is no over-arching reason to do such a thing, but there are also no significant technological barriers preventing us from doing it. Human Cyborgs are 100% impossible today, and there are a myriad number of things preventing that kind of development. For example, we cannot today, keep a brain alive for any significant time, outside of it’s existing organic support body. Individual neurons? Sure, but a system of neurons at any comparable complexity as even a simple mouse brain? Nope. On the other-hand we have actually kept people alive in space for over a year, and we only need around 2years to get to mars and back. We also have the capability to send things to mars and bring them back, so combining those two things, and there ya go.

Mars L1 Lagrange point is only 2.2million km

This is false. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Lagrangian+points+of+mars L1 is 137Million Miles from the sun. Though it is only 650,000 miles from Mars, which is probably where you are getting your 2.2million Km from.

This is cool. Reading the article I’m not sure if 1-2 Tesla is sufficient for the shield, or if you would actually need a lot more. But either way I feel like when we get to the point that we are seriously colonizing Mars in such a capacity that we need to worry about the magnetosphere, that putting a powerful magnet at the L1 point wouldn’t really be that big a deal.

The video kind of proves my point. It was janky, he fired <20bullets, and it jammed several times during the demo. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool as hell, but yea not very practical for anything and certainly not durable enough to be a viable alternative to CNC/Milling.

Probably the same number that used 3d-printed guns.

This is basically how today’s 3d printed guns work, but even still the gun isn’t good for more then a few magazines afaik. So it’s interesting as a way to create a gun that isn’t serialized and the ATF can’t trace, but it’s not durable, and it still requires a good deal of precision engineering/cost, so its not feasible to print a truck-load and sell them for cheap.

I love technological non-solutions to social problems. They are the only thing the work better then passing more laws that say you can’t murder people with guns.

Man, you guys just don’t understand that race is not an actual idea

“you guys” i’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that racists don’t actually exist on lemmy. Leftist understand that “race” was a construct used to divide people based on criteria that aren’t threatening to the status quo. In the US, race exist to make sure that people don’t question the capitalists. In China is exist to make sure people don’t question whatever the inherent power structure that existed at the time “ethnic racism” was defined.
The point is it doesn’t matter. The purpose of the division was the same and the practical division was equally spurious.

There’s a pretty clear delineation from racism and ethnic prejudice. One is a classification system used to loosely categorize people by general region and skin tone. The other is actually based on ethnic groups, and tends to actually be based on historical context.

Ok but seems like a distinction without a difference. Neither racism, nor ethnic racism, have anything to do with video games.

A useful website to help contextualize how much power this is. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48

Current US demand as of 20:30CST is ~560,000 Megawatt Hours. This facility can provide 8500megawatt hours over 100hours, or 85Megawatts/hr or about .015% of US electricity demand in an hour. At a cost of around ~$150million, that means to have enough storage for 10% of US demand, you would need ~670 of these facilities, or about $100 Billion.

Not too bad tbh. But of course this facility has a storage capacity of zero until it actually get’s built (if it gets built).

Then they better figure out how to block it, I’m not going to assist the nanny-state.