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QuaternionsRock

@ QuaternionsRock @lemmy.world

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  • me🦊irl

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  • Because Microsoft cares so much about an 18.6K-member community called “linuxmemes” on a small federated Reddit alternative known for being filled with die-hard Linux fans and furries?

  • Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

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  • I do not want to see what your desktop looks like lol

  • 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

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  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • You’re not wrong, but it took a while to figure out how to eliminate proof-of-work entirely. The only reason I’m not giving a year is I’m not sure who was first.

    Aside from that, integrated economic regulation isn’t a particularly “flashy” area of research, nor is it lucrative, so naturally it will progress more slowly. That doesn’t mean anything about the possibility or practicality of it, though.

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • On, yeah, no argument from me there. I thought you meant those things aren’t feasible, not that they aren’t the primary use case.

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • But the issue of laissez-faire capitalism persists, and crypto, in my opinion, is poorly equipped to deal with it

    I mean, proof-of-stake protocols didn’t exist until 2012, and that was a hybrid protocol. Exclusively proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies weren’t available until long after that IIRC. There’s a lot we still don’t know about what blockchains are capable of, and it’s entirely possible that we figure out how to regulate them effectively.

    But you point still stands;

    And that is why it shouldn't suddenly become the main means for payments.

    I agree wholeheartedly.

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • …did you respond to the wrong comment? Cryptocurrency is available from wherever you are - that’s more of a core feature than wishful thinking.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • That’s not what I got from the article. (Link for anyone who wants to check it out.)

    My interpretation was that decreasing solar/wind electricity prices slows the adoption of renewables, as it becomes increasingly unlikely that you will fully recoup your initial investment over the lifetime of the panel/turbine.

    In my mind, this will likely lead to either (a) renewable energy being (nearly) free to use and exclusively state-funded, or (b) state-regulated price fixing of renewable energy.

  • France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans

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  • Wait up, I just checked and you’re technically right - PTFE is definitely a PFAS. Dunno if it’s dangerous or frequently breaks down into dangerous PFAS, but FWIW I’ve long suspected that nonstick pans can’t be good for you. I’ve never seen a nonstick pan that doesn’t have a single scratch in anyone’s kitchen before.

    You could probably stand to improve the clarity of your arguments though haha

    People like you fucking disgust me. Either you're willfully ignorant or maliciously so. Both are equally pathetic.

    Not gonna get very far talking to people like that. Lucky for you I empathize with your intentions,

  • France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans

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  • You haven’t shown the half-life of PTFE lol

  • New language

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  • It still boggles my mind that C# is as good as it is given where it comes from. Java really fucked up with type erasure and never fully recovered imo.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Yeah, I know it’s probably not the right word for this context, but downloading an app and creating an account is factually a huge barrier for entry, because people are lazy.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • I think it’s because texting became essentially free in North America long before it did in Europe. That, combined with the fact that it came preinstalled on EVERY phone (Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Palm, you name it), gave it enough inertia to stay dominant decades later.

  • AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

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  • No fucking shit it’s an anthropomorphization, nothing that can be hosted on GitHub has true human qualities…

    The point is that everyone knows what it means within that context of AI, and using other terminology would only serve to obfuscate your message such that the average person couldn’t understand it as easily.

    Non-living things also don’t have “behavior” (“the way in which someone conducts oneself or behaves”, but—hey look! People started anthropomorphizing things so much that it got added to the dictionary! (“the way in which something functions or operates”.)

    It may not be ideal, and convince some people that LLMs are more human-like than they really are, but the one thing you haven’t done is suggest an alternative that would convey its meaning as effectively to the masses.

  • Threatening me with a good time

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  • What did I miss?

  • New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software

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  • FPGA

    Awww, I thought this was an ASIC. Slapping an FPGA on a PCIe card is decidedly less cool. Still, props for creating a usable GPU circuit description, that must have been a nightmare.

  • AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

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  • Me trying to insert a flash drive at night

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  • E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN

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  • Why are people so afraid of fixing things?

    There’s a lot of answers to that question.

    Device/tool repair is typically not taught in schools, and from my perspective seems far less likely to be taught at home than it was in previous generations.

    Most people have substantially less free time than in previous decades. Sure, some things only take 10-30 minutes to repair, but learning how to make the repair is often a significant time investment.

    Devices and tools are intentionally designed to be less reparable, if only to cut costs (e.g. using glue instead of screws). Less obvious repairs take more time to learn.

    Lastly, a lot of people never learned how to do any of this; they just took their broken stuff down to a VCR repair. Repair shops nearly don’t exist anymore, and the ones that do charge a substantial sum to repair modern devices. It’s often more financially prudent to buy a new laptop than it is to replace the screen of a four-year-old one, for example.