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  1. Comment on Nvidia announces liquid cooling system that promises to reduce electricity consumption and cut water use by up to 100% in ~tech

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    Sounds like it wouldn't only lower water usage, but also noise pollution.

    Sounds like it wouldn't only lower water usage, but also noise pollution.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on SpaceX stock tumbles 23% from its high as average investor sees gains wiped out in ~finance

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    I mean, I feel bad for people who have entered the stock market out of desperation because the ordinary economy won't lead to them having a sustainable life. There's a severe lack of knowledge...

    I mean, I feel bad for people who have entered the stock market out of desperation because the ordinary economy won't lead to them having a sustainable life.

    There's a severe lack of knowledge around investing. If you know where to look, it's clear that investing in an IPO generally isn't good on the short or mid term. And any financial reports for $SPCX should've raised red flags.

    And then there's the large group of people who likely don't even know whether their 401k is involved or not.

    People buying the IPO should know better, but I don't think this situation is very funny either.

    I've heard some online day traders say that the real winners amongst them were the people buying another stock (private equity firms owning $SPCX) in anticipation of people buying the IPO. Who'd just sell the moment the company went public.

    25 votes

  3. Comment on Does generative AI have a natural limit without a major innovation? in ~comp

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    Have the diminishing returns since GPT 3 not been clearly visible?

    As I see it, surely the bottleneck will soon become the data they are trained on?

    Have the diminishing returns since GPT 3 not been clearly visible?

    9 votes

  4. Comment on Bricks & Minifigs corporate stole a man's $200,000 Lego collection and told him to get bent in ~hobbies

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    There's now a Coffeezilla video on the situation. Whilst it's clearly not about 100,000$ worth of legos. BAM leadership decided to dig themselves a few more holes regarding rumors of a U-Haul...

    There's now a Coffeezilla video on the situation.

    Whilst it's clearly not about 100,000$ worth of legos. BAM leadership decided to dig themselves a few more holes regarding rumors of a U-Haul truck, and inventory records.

  5. Comment on Bricks & Minifigs corporate stole a man's $200,000 Lego collection and told him to get bent in ~hobbies

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    I'm surprised that's enough considering the image still features Joshua Johnson with an evil smile and the quote "I stole a family's life savings."

    I'm surprised that's enough considering the image still features Joshua Johnson with an evil smile and the quote "I stole a family's life savings."

    1 vote

  6. Comment on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math in ~science

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    I wouldn't really call him an 'evangelist' for that. It's pretty tame.

    I wouldn't really call him an 'evangelist' for that. It's pretty tame.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame will be shipping this summer in ~games

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    I was afraid too, but now I'm worried I'll regret buying it if the price adjustment is anything like what they did to the Steam Deck

    I was worried they'd have to cancel their 2026 plans, because of RAMageddon

    I was afraid too, but now I'm worried I'll regret buying it if the price adjustment is anything like what they did to the Steam Deck

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Which Substacks do you subscribe to/follow? in ~tech

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    Only Computer, Enhance! from Casey Muratori

    Only Computer, Enhance! from Casey Muratori

  9. Comment on Who’s buying SpaceX and Anthropic? in ~finance

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    They wouldn't be burning cash if they didn't merge with xAI. Elon is sacrificing his most publicly liked company for a quick cash injection into an unprofitable AI business.

    They wouldn't be burning cash if they didn't merge with xAI. Elon is sacrificing his most publicly liked company for a quick cash injection into an unprofitable AI business.

    17 votes

  10. Comment on Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing in ~tech

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    Spare is awful, it's condescending. It implies you're doing someone a favor whilst you're the one opting out. I think a "let's agree to disagree" would be a way more fun mechanic, requiring both...

    Spare is awful, it's condescending.

    It implies you're doing someone a favor whilst you're the one opting out.

    I think a "let's agree to disagree" would be a way more fun mechanic, requiring both sides to agree to indefinitely mute each other. If all else fails, block them. :P

    recognize that there's someone who you have nothing against [...] you understand that the only possible communication between you and them would be toxic

    Those two conditions seem mutually exclusive to me.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Motorola's Smart Feed injected affiliate links into their device's Amazon app, Motorola corrects "unintended" behavior in ~tech

  12. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    They should probably just not release the other products in 2026.

    They should probably just not release the other products in 2026.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on TSA announces TSA Gold+ in ~transport

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    It's always the same AI slop CSS stylesheet

    It's always the same AI slop CSS stylesheet

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Bun has been rewritten in Rust in ~comp

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    What happens outside the zig compiler project does not matter whatsoever. I don't recall it being all that big (maybe we're thinking of different PRs.) I do remember looking at it, and — whether...

    It's pretty clear that they abandoned Zig because of the Zig project's scepticism about vibe coded slop.

    What happens outside the zig compiler project does not matter whatsoever.

    This whole saga started when they submitted a giant AI-coded PR to Zig.

    I don't recall it being all that big (maybe we're thinking of different PRs.) I do remember looking at it, and — whether AI or not — it just didn't seem to align with the core team's direction / approach to improving compiler performance.

    I think that tweet was posted in bad faith, I don't think it would have been merged to begin with.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Minecraft: Java Edition finally adds free peer-to-peer multiplayer and friends list in ~games

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    Lol who would willingly enshittify java edition?!

    Lol who would willingly enshittify java edition?!

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Minecraft: Java Edition finally adds free peer-to-peer multiplayer and friends list in ~games

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    This is actually quite nice, I assume it doesn't matter if the client is modded or not. In which case, I bet people will even somehow backport the system into older versions. This still exists?...

    This is actually quite nice, I assume it doesn't matter if the client is modded or not. In which case, I bet people will even somehow backport the system into older versions.

    use some external service like Hamachi

    This still exists? edit: Yep it does

    10 votes

  17. Comment on The boy that cried Mythos in ~comp

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    OpenAI, and more recently Anthropic have both embraced fearmongering as a large part of their marketing strategy. The ends do not justify the means.

    OpenAI, and more recently Anthropic have both embraced fearmongering as a large part of their marketing strategy.

    The ends do not justify the means.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on The Ploopy Bean - an external four-button trackpoint in ~tech

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    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    The Bean is designed so that the button surface has a great finish, a stylish texture that feels great.

    It doesn't look very special to me, it's clearly just the texture of a flat pei sheet?

    4 votes

  19. Comment on How computationally expensive is filtering and ignoring? in ~tildes

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    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    It's there for a reason, and I think it's silly to concern oneself with something like that.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp

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    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    Ah, it was actually just a typo, but now I know that's called an en dash!

    4 votes