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    The HWBOT drama aside, a nice feature of the Nvidia ECC implementation is that it shows if any errors were detected and corrected. Surely useful for the purpose of super-stable RAM OC, where errors are not always straightforward to directly observe, and thus their occurrence might not be immediately obvious. Very nice of Nvidia to include this option in their high-end consumer offerings, but on the general pricing/availability front the Linus Principle is alive and well: (Sorry I thought the slo-mo variant is kind of cool lol)
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    Amiga OS

    Etern4l replied to Eban's topic in General Discussion

    Sorry for necroing, couldn't help but add .02.
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    A good listen, thanks. "Nothing against Quickbooks, a very nice tool, but not for a multi-billion dollar company" Wow once again. I didn't realize his parents are actually legal scholars... I mean given how close they have been to the whole thing, they are basically complicit. Apparently they were in the court during the initial extradition/bail hearing making scenes such as lauging out loud. Very nice, super-scholarly behaviour.
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    Interestingly, Texas is large enough to have subclimates. I was in the DFW area, and generally cold winter spells (and hail) are more common in the northern part of the state. But, yeah, with hail in Houston we would definitely have a problem :)
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    Free speech when it suits, and treats people like dirt apparently. Well, unfortunately for Chief Twit, lawyers are just waiting for these kind of opportunities:
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    The CFTC claims that Bankman-Fried, his parents, and his employees at FTX and Alameda used customers' funds for personal benefit: luxury real estate, private jets, personal loans, and political donations. The customer funds were also used for a Super Bowl commercial starring Larry David and the sponsorship of FTX Arena in Miami. These advertisements, which the CFTC says were paid for by customers’ funds, said that FTX was “the safest and easiest way to buy and sell crypto.” Wow. Perhaps the idea here was to lay some groundwork for a plausible insanity defence should things unravel down the line? Nah, he just went all in as countless failed gamblers before him who lost everything by doubling down to chase the losses.
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    CFTC joined the party. CFTC Sues Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda for Law Violations "At Bankman-Fried's direction, FTX executives created features in the underlying code for FTX that allowed Alameda to maintain an essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX," Meanwhile the contagion seems to be spreading as Binance is seeing major outflows after temporarily pausing USDC redemptions... Oh dear.
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    TBH the fact that they hired him kind of reflects poorly on AMD. What has he achieved in those 3 years? Guess may have helped get more AMD-powered laptops to the market? Best case scenario probably.
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    Well, not necessarily cheaper, but at least safer than drag racing ;)
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    Looks safe! The cars I observed struggling were all moms in sedans. I thought ADA Lovelace is also very efficient? Seems that Frank is grasping at staws while winging it as usual.
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    OK, at least the pretence of the notion of "safety" on Twitter has been abandoned. Restricting access to prevent minors from exposure to the hardcore content would be a logical next step.
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    Popped in for me as well, might have been a timezone thing.
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    SEC has been at war with crypto so it's no surprise they pounced. Interesting to see some p..ans acting "surprised". Hope the strategy of defending the indefensible works out for them. Ignorantia juris non excusat. On the other hand, while it's good to see some enforcement action on this, I believe not a single person was convicted in the aftermath the 2008 Gigacrisis, not even Dick Fuld.
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    Yes, the British media has a penchant for coming up with colourful names for weather conditions that slightly deviate from the expected mild state. Last winter (or two ago) it was "The Beast From The East"! -5C and a couple of inches of snow lol As I recall, it's even funnier in Texas. - 1C and a bit of ice on the roads and everything grinds to a halt. I literally saw cars spinning around on crossroads - nobody uses winter tyres.
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    A serious operation.
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    Well, we could of course blame the various industries for not adapting to the situation, for example, by using fewer chips - although in my mind it would make only a bit more sense than blaming the gamers for their excessive FPS expectations. The fact remains that semiconductor prices are still elevated, there are supply shortages etc. and all of this continues to hit end users from various angles, unfortunately. The long-term solution is to build more semiconductor plants, as per the recent effort in Arizona, but in the short term we just have to bear the pain.
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    To clarify, the platforms' pursuit of revenue at all costs results in them providing the super-wealthy advertisers with ultimate weapons of mass mind control. Worth reposting I guess, as the man behind the successful Ob., and later Tr. campaigns provides a reasonable overview of the basic principles behind the techniques: The above content is 6 years old, we can rest completely assured that the techniques are far more sophisticated now. It's also worth noting that there are no specific checks on or legal framework around the platforms themselves potentially deploying these tools for their own goals that go beyond simple revenue-seeking. Personal data protection laws in the US are lax. There is another video where he takes questions from the audience. Someone asked how they acquire the data, and the answer was "in the US it's not a problem, just a question of cost - more tricky in other jurisdictions". Lastly, if I may suggest, it would be extremely naive to believe that Musk, a man who says one thing ("Oh dear, AI will wipe us all out"), and pursues a direction contrary to the warning: invests heavily in AI, will make Twitter any more benign a platform.
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    Don't forget the effects of strong demand from the Data Centres, as well as the overall ongoing semiconductor shortage situation. https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/latest-numbers-automotive-microchip-shortage-75
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    Not sure, what you mean - qualitatively, the statements are often not far off the pre-WWII propaganda. Of course, limited physical violence is involved, but that was largely the case in the 1920s as well. Ye's latest outburst would be one example, and even Musk fixed that.
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    There are some edge cases, but by and large if you want to learn about anti-woke topics you willl be well served. Other more hardcore topics will still be banned, but it's hard to argue that's unreasonable after the atrocities of WWII.
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    Paradoxically, the problem with these platforms is they are designed to serve you (almost) exactly the content you would love to see. You will rarely be provided with alternative viewpoints. The idea is to reinforce your entrenched views and push you into one of the extremes, where are you are predictable and thus easy to control. Divide and conquer. If you are into right-wing content, you will receive so much of it you will be constantly shivering with excitement and coming back for more. The only way a person with some agency left can defend themselves (short of geting completely off the grid lol), is to take sufficient measures to prevent tracking and targretting. Tip: Privacy mode is insufficient.
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    Just to point out: it's just a random guy talking - at no point do you get any original source information from this. The second video seems a bit better, at least some plausibly looking pieces of source info, although obviously would take a considerable amount of time to verify.
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    Great content, just one remark: those professional cards run at lower power and are meant to be packed 2 slots apart, so they can't really be judged using the same guidelines as typical gaming cards.
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    By the same token we could denounce the dollar and equities because Madoff defrauded people while being involved with those, or because Tesla, the US stock denominated in dollars, lost $500B of value, or because the Great Depression and the associated stock market collapse had happened. Most of the time what melts down is centralised entities the existence of which goes against the very idea of crypto.
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