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BorgDrone

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  • What scientific fact blows your mind the most?

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  • It’s so absurdly big. Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is estimated to have between 100 and 400 billion stars in it. For a long time we thought our galaxy was all there was, it wasn’t until 1925 when Edwin Hubble was able to prove that M31 was not a nebula or cluster of stars in our galaxy, but in fact an entirely different galaxy altogether that we realized there are more galaxies out there.

    Look at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field picture

    This was a taken by pointing the Hubble Space Telescope at a basically empty bit of space 2.4 by 2.4 arcminutes in size (for comparison, the moon has an apparent size of about 30 arcminutes, or half a degree). So an absolutely tiny part of the sky. It contains about 10.000 galaxies.

    The observable universe is estimated to have between 200 billion and 2 trillion galaxies in it, with on average about 100 billion stars per galaxy. It’s absolutely mind blowing.

  • Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

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  • So? It’s not like they are a secret. What are any potential hackers going to to with my bank account numbers? Send me money?

  • Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

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  • They aren’t allowed to just do that. Being allowed to directly withdraw money from customers accounts who authorized it is a privilege, one that banks can withdraw if they find a company abuses it.

  • Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

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  • Dafuq. Glad that’s not a thing here.

  • Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

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  • Why would you not want automatic payment?

  • WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔

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  • The power of not employing minimum-wage 16 year olds who don’t give a shit.

  • Very good advice (Art by RiniDisc)

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  • Windows doesn’t run Xcode. macOS does run Office.

  • Seagate Sets New Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Teases Upcoming 60TB Model

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  • These are enterprise drives, they aren’t going to contain anything pirated. They are probably going to one of those cloud providers you don’t want to upload your data to.

  • Seagate Sets New Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Teases Upcoming 60TB Model

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  • I'd want to be able to lose two drives in an array before I lose all my shit. So RAID 6 for me.

    Repeat after me: RAID is not a backup solution, RAID is a high-availability solution.

    The point of RAID is not to safeguard your data, you need proper backups for that (3-2-1 rule of backups: 3 copies of the data on 2 different storage media, with 1 copy off-site). RAID will not protect your data from deletion from user error, malware, OS bugs, or anything like that.

    The point of RAID is so everyone can keep working if there is a hardware failure. It’s there to prevent downtime.

  • By executive order, everyone is now female 🎉

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  • You don't define the norm with characteristics of edge cases.

    Exactly. So what are you made of, hydrogen or helium?

  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

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  • Something I’ve never done, or wanted to do, in my life.

  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

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  • If it's wafer thin it isn't going to fit the battery I want it to fit.

    Personally I don’t care about the size of the battery, I care about how long it lasts. There have been rumors that Apple is working on improved battery tech. Their SoCs are also crazy efficient and super fast.

    What I expect to happen is that they will equip the iPhone Air with this next-gen battery tech (probably not a massive improvement, but something like 10-20% more energy in the same volume would already be a big win), combined with a throttled down SoC with fewer cores (still plenty fast for anyone but the most demanding users), that will allow them to reduce power usage by a lot. Add to that the already excellent power-management in iOS, maybe tweaked a little more aggressively, and they’ll have a phone that’s super thin and lasts all day.

    People will hold this phone for 3 seconds and be sold.

  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

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  • A wafer thin iPhone won’t be shit though. It will be slick as shit. Sure, there will probably be compromises and it won’t be suitable for the most demanding users, but most people aren’t that demanding of their phone. As long as it manages to get through one day it’ll be good enough.

    Don’t underestimate how important the size, weight, build quality and design is to the user experience. I have a 13” M4 iPad Pro which is also crazy thin yet feels absolutely solid and that makes it look and feel like a magical piece of technology. It has a huge impact on how it feels and that is ultimately what matters to people. Not the specs or the benchmarks, but how it feels to use it.

  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

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  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

    Our polls show that, if anything, you want thicker phones.

    Yeah, some poll on a site for tech nerds is not really representative of the general public. Thick phones with huge batteries exist and they sell like shit, it’s a super niche market.

    Expect these thin phones to sell like hotcakes.

  • Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’

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  • The problem with the democrats is that they are too honest and don’t play dirty.

    They should have lied and told the public what they wanted to hear with no intention of actually honoring their promises, just like the republicans.

  • Steam has the best UI

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  • There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!

  • Using Mac M2 Ultra 192GB to Self-Host LLMs?

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  • Which is how fast?

  • Using Mac M2 Ultra 192GB to Self-Host LLMs?

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  • And what is the memory bandwidth on these APUs?

  • Using Mac M2 Ultra 192GB to Self-Host LLMs?

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  • you'd definitely be able to do it cheaper with PC hardware.

    You can get a GPU with 192GB VRAM for less than a Mac? Sign me up please.