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by qball 2y ago
>Seems odd to exclude PHEVs. Not if this is just in service of an overarching goal of banning cars entirely.
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by qball 2y ago
>The state can't mandate that they don't censor their models. Sure they can; all they need to do is refuse to do business with companies that don't offer uncensored models to their general public or withhold industry devel
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by qball 2y ago
Because DDR4 is electrically different and memory controllers are all on-die. Intel could get away with doing that pre-Nehalem because the memory was connected via the northbridge and not directly (which is what AMD was doing at the time; t
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by qball 2y ago
> LGA1155: Major change to integrated GPU, also fixed the weird pin assignment of LGA1156 which made board layout a major pain. Of course, the P67 chipset was trivially electrically compatible with LGA1156 CPUs; Asrock's P67 Transfo
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by qball 2y ago
Actually building them, of course, is another matter entirely.
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by qball 2y ago
>They can’t be made in a factory All nuclear power plants made since around 1980s or so have been made in factories. The US (and other nations) use them all the time for their submarines- defense concerns correctly override environmenta
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by qball 2y ago
>I don't know why we couldn't have gotten by with smaller, less powerful engines. CAFE standards made cheap light trucks illegal; to a point, they also make cheap small cars illegal (ignoring the absurd collision standards- 200
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by qball 2y ago
>The used car market has been pretty strange for the past few years. American automakers no longer make compact cars. Actually, they don't make full-size cars either (with the sole exception of the Ford Mustang). Once you understan
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by qball 2y ago
>Just a housekeeping note: it seems a lot of the arguments in this thread have entrenched into parents rights vs child’s rights. No, it's "parent's rights" vs. "concern troll's" rights. Blessing arbitra
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by qball 2y ago
>No doubt they have their eyes set on regulatory capture too Sam Altman has already made the rounds to argue for exactly this. Fucking crook. >It's pretty blatantly obvious that all of the hand-wringing over AI safety was an exc
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by qball 2y ago
>Of course all of their programmers were "Software Engineers" but none had actual engineering certification. There's one more reason: "software engineer" is categorized as engineering as far as the TN visa/N
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by qball 2y ago
Size matters; I like the extra real estate for my mouse hand more than I need the numpad. Allows me to take a better posture and I'm no longer banging my mouse into the keyboard from time to time. If the "tenkey" cluster was
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by qball 2y ago
Oh, don't worry; university professors do this too. Most of those courses are not calculus, it's just advanced algebra, and we do those trying for success in them a disservice with the dishonesty.
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by qball 2y ago
3090, trivially. No reason to go 4090 as it's no more capable, and the 5090 is probably not going to have more than 24GB on it either simply because nVidia wants to maintain their margins through market segregation (and adding more VRA
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by qball 2y ago
I already live in this world. That is why I don't want my models censored; they're already spewing that toxicity. (It's just your brand of toxicity, so naturally, you don't think it's a problem.)
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by qball 3y ago
>and would have preferred the less boring alternative Work pays a wage and you're actually doing something objectively useful. That money can be used to make the time you're not at work much better. School [for the people who
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by qball 3y ago
>What are the advantages compared to GPT? It actually does what you tell it, and won't try to silently change your prompt to conform to a specific flavor of Californian hysterics, which is what OpenAI's products do. Also, since
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by qball 3y ago
It was only ever worth 21K to begin with and the real trick was convincing you otherwise. See, cars have been in a bubble for the last 8 years because a negative real interest rate drove the existence of $70K SUVs/trucks and $40K cars
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by qball 3y ago
>It's somewhat disappointing that the move to EV's hasn't heralded an era of small, cheap city cars. The reason why this hasn't happened is because small, cheap city cars are the absolute worst-case for electrificatio
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by qball 3y ago
>causing people to associate the efficiency gain with the architecture even though a lot of it is the silicon process. They also cause people to associate higher performance with the architecture, when high-performance ARM is something m
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by qball 3y ago
>I don't understand these policies Easy- it's because electric cars as a class of product aren't there yet (every company with significant EV production capacity is busy producing late-alpha-quality products except for Tes
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by qball 3y ago
The first to third-gen i5s and i7s, for being about as fast as several generations down the line (it wouldn't be until 2017 when AMD would release the first Ryzen processors that Intel would start to clock their processors at their ful
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by qball 3y ago
>the whole 25 thing seems to be just mainly be something like a meme It comes from the same place "scientific" racism did. It's an excuse to not even bother trying because "muh hormones". Adult initiation ritual
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by qball 3y ago
Eric Holder? Like, "Operation Fast and Furious" Eric Holder, who got a bunch of American citizens killed by guns he explicitly oversaw making sure they got into the hands of the Mexican cartels and got held in contempt of Congres
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by qball 3y ago
>because they are not going to get clients complaining that the chip is now too expensive Or rather, that the only clients who will are end-users and not the phone manufacturers (not that those chips aren't dirt cheap for Apple, s
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by qball 3y ago
No, it's just a showcase of how absolutely incompetent Qualcomm is at CPU design- they're as bad at CPU design as Intel is at shrinking their node sizes. It's akin to AMD's inferior CPUs from 2007-2017, except with deskt
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by qball 3y ago
>The Third Barbary War seems to be upon us. No- you need to go further back before you see the big picture. Much as in the ancient world (which the modern world order consists of in large part), this is a Romans vs. Parthians vs. Chines
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by qball 3y ago
>It’s funny how poor people are always the victims in these schemes. Working as intended.
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by qball 3y ago
>especially given Nvidia and AMD seem to dish out RAM like its the most precious substance in the universe. Well, it's only really nVidia. And the reason it's only nVidia doing this is because they don't want to self-cann
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by qball 3y ago
Small physical size, also a headphone jack. The more recent SE models are iPhone 8 bodies with upgraded internals (being an iPhone 11 and 13 inside, respectively) and Apple no longer offers a Mini version of their newer phones (not that the

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