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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
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Comment on Hold on to your hardware in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentNow I understand why all the ECC RAM I buy usually comes in generic packaging! Thanks.Now I understand why all the ECC RAM I buy usually comes in generic packaging! Thanks.
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Comment on Hold on to your hardware in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentI guess maybe things have changed since then, but at the end of 2023 I bought this Samsung RAM kit from Newegg...I guess maybe things have changed since then, but at the end of 2023 I bought this Samsung RAM kit from Newegg
https://www.newegg.com/samsung-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/1X5-000A-001B3?tpk=1&item=1X5-000A-001B3
Or maybe this was some kind of grey market sale, even though it was sold and shipped by Newegg themselves?
In any case thanks for the clarification on what Micron's announcement means.
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Comment on Hold on to your hardware in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentWell I've also got Samsung- and Hynix-branded RAM, though I can't recall if I've ever seen Micron-branded RAM. So you're saying that Micron will keep selling RAM to consumers, just not under the...Well I've also got Samsung- and Hynix-branded RAM, though I can't recall if I've ever seen Micron-branded RAM.
So you're saying that Micron will keep selling RAM to consumers, just not under the Crucial line?
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Comment on Hold on to your hardware in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentI have SSDs that are branded Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Are you saying that Micron is going to stop selling the more consumer-targeted Crucial-branded products, but that they will keep selling...I have SSDs that are branded Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Are you saying that Micron is going to stop selling the more consumer-targeted Crucial-branded products, but that they will keep selling the more prosumer/SMB Micron-branded products to consumers?
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Comment on Ponderings on unicode support on the site, re: punycode, tags, etc in ~tildes
cutmetal LinkI don't have much to add except that I wonder how often you would get collisions? Like, how often is the transliteration already taken by another real source?I don't have much to add except that I wonder how often you would get collisions? Like, how often is the transliteration already taken by another real source?
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Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's tariffs in ~society
cutmetal Link ParentGood lord https://www.newsweek.com/howard-lutnick-sons-may-make-money-supreme-court-ruling-tariffs-11558345 -
Comment on AI is coming for culture in ~tech
cutmetal Linkhttps://ghostarchive.org/archive/UB3tc Edit: damn, the article content loads for a second and then the paywall pops up. It's probably something you could get around in devtools but I'm on mobile atm.https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UB3tc
Edit: damn, the article content loads for a second and then the paywall pops up. It's probably something you could get around in devtools but I'm on mobile atm.
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Comment on Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say in ~society
cutmetal Link Parent???I still vividly remember his phone call with the agent who poisoned him where he pretended to be the guy's higher up and was grilling him about why he fucked up the assassination, and getting the guy to explain exactly how he carried out the poisoning (the whole toxin in the underwear thing).
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Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $38 billion on warehouse conversions in ~society
cutmetal Link ParentYou can. They'll probably use a concrete saw or jackhammer to break a channel where the water and sewer pipes need to go, lay them, and then concrete back over the top.You can. They'll probably use a concrete saw or jackhammer to break a channel where the water and sewer pipes need to go, lay them, and then concrete back over the top.
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Comment on Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved in ~space
cutmetal Link ParentThe idea is that if you put solar panels in space, they produce consistent power all the time, no dealing with night time, cloudiness etc. Plus the atmosphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy so...The idea is that if you put solar panels in space, they produce consistent power all the time, no dealing with night time, cloudiness etc. Plus the atmosphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy so if the panels are in space you don't have to deal with that.
That said it costs like $10,000/kg to put things in space (maybe less these days) so the world in which it makes economic sense to build space data centers looks a lot different than the world we live in now.
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
cutmetal Link ParentNope, it's weirder than that. Keep scrolling, the Solomon guy running this place was associated with another guy who's been in prison since 2023 for operating a similar illegal bio lab, I remember...Nope, it's weirder than that. Keep scrolling, the Solomon guy running this place was associated with another guy who's been in prison since 2023 for operating a similar illegal bio lab, I remember that other case. Weird shit!
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Comment on Sleeping Giant – Mobilizer Of Evil (2025) in ~music
cutmetal LinkI scrolled deep into tildes and was shocked to see that a tiny band I love had released new music and I wasn't aware! But, wrong Sleeping Giant 🙃...I scrolled deep into tildes and was shocked to see that a tiny band I love had released new music and I wasn't aware!
But, wrong Sleeping Giant 🙃
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Comment on How well can you predict the state of the world in 2041? in ~life
cutmetal Link ParentA haiku by chocobeanOh, it's you! Ping me
In sixteen years, and also
CongratulationsA haiku by chocobean
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 19 in ~society
cutmetal Linkhttps://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-weapon-maduro-drug-strikes-c052fd24a350a04a458f501b4b536e62 Sounds like the Maduro kidnapping was a disaster in yet another way - now the US has revealed...Sounds like the Maduro kidnapping was a disaster in yet another way - now the US has revealed the existence of these secret weapons systems and shown their use in combat. Hopefully the legit adversaries don't get the full picture of what these can do and how to counter them due to their use in Caracas.
Also if anyone comes across good links going into detail or speculation about these weapons systems please post them :)
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Comment on The Dark Tower Wizard in Glass, is the second half better? in ~books
cutmetal LinkWhen I first got into the Dark Tower books, I was an angsty teenager and it was the first half of the aughts. At that point it was still a few years away from Wolves of the Calla being published....When I first got into the Dark Tower books, I was an angsty teenager and it was the first half of the aughts. At that point it was still a few years away from Wolves of the Calla being published. Wizard and Glass was my favorite of the first four, but I was deeply in love with my first girlfriend, so that plus my teenage angst may have made the doomed romance plot resonate with me. Don't know how I'd feel about it today.
As others have said and iirc, the story of Wizard and Glass is basically unconnected to the rest of it, if it's making you so mad you should definitely skip past that part and read a synopsis elsewhere.
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Comment on Razzie Awards nominations: ‘Snow White,’ Ice Cube-starring ‘War of the Worlds’ lead with six nods each in ~movies
cutmetal Link ParentIf you aren't already familiar, Honest Trailers is usually excellent for a deep draught of snark, and they really went to town on War of the Worlds: https://youtu.be/SLahR0K8Fss?si=3LGDuK3LQigNpc7cIf you aren't already familiar, Honest Trailers is usually excellent for a deep draught of snark, and they really went to town on War of the Worlds: https://youtu.be/SLahR0K8Fss?si=3LGDuK3LQigNpc7c
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Comment on The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentMaybe I'm not jacked in enough to know what you're referring to, but the linked article seemed like a scholarly presentation of empirical research to me, not FUD. They used a bunch of open-weight...They use FOMO, FUD, and dubious claims
Maybe I'm not jacked in enough to know what you're referring to, but the linked article seemed like a scholarly presentation of empirical research to me, not FUD.
all they do is post more "research" that always proves how amazing their LLMs are.
They used a bunch of open-weight models to draw conclusions about LLMs in general.
These things exist in the world. Like them or not, we should try to understand them. I was fascinated by the piece.
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Comment on Doppi, the nicest player for your music files in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentThat's actually sort of a neat idea. Imagine something to that effect baked into the license itself: "In the event of $maintainer's death, incapacitation, or dereliction of duty, this source code...has said they will open source foobar2000 if it gets to the point that they can no longer maintain it
That's actually sort of a neat idea. Imagine something to that effect baked into the license itself: "In the event of $maintainer's death, incapacitation, or dereliction of duty, this source code is to be relicensed and made available under a [MIT|BSD|GPL] license, fulling replacing the terms of this license in perpetuity."
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Comment on AI friends too cheap to meter in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentThat first line in particular jumped out at me too. The piece on the whole was thoughtful and well-written, but that line didn't really seem to fit with the rest of the argument to me. To me it...That first line in particular jumped out at me too. The piece on the whole was thoughtful and well-written, but that line didn't really seem to fit with the rest of the argument to me. To me it felt like that line resonated with the writer, and they couldn't resist including it. In creative writing, writers are encouraged to "kill their darlings," meaning if something feels really clever it may just be too clever. Guessing this line was a darling that the writer couldn't kill.
I get turned off by how they sensationalize things. And I seem to recall a conversation on Tildes in the last few months were some folks had some criticisms of them, but I can't remember beyond that.