Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Can't believe I haven't seen this one yet 2 days ago:
I too would betray NVIDIA for her.
Or for the price of a nice dinner.
Actually waking up on the wrong side of the bed would be enough to make me willing to betray NVIDIA.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Maybe it’s meant relative to other CEOs rather than the general population.
- Comment on handy 3 days ago:
That wouldn’t explain why some fail in hours when there are tons of connections being opened and close (like with torrenting) whilst other with only twice or four times the memory will last for months, which is far more that two or four times as long.
I think it’s mainly memory leaks exactly because in my experience the failure rate seems proportional to Free Memory and frequency of memory allocation (hence hitting much more cheaper low memory routers in usage situations were a ton of small memory allocations are being allocated, that routers with a bit more memory or in normal usage situations) rather than proportional to Total memory in-use even when statically allocated.
Not to say that the problem you describe doesn’t happen, just that it doesn’t really explain the distribution in frequency of failures depending on router memory and usage.
- Comment on NYC got me feeling like a kid in a candy store 3 days ago:
I do miss that side of things from when I lived in Amsterdam, London and Berlin.
- Comment on handy 3 days ago:
Judging by my experience, router software probably has memory leaks so it eventually runs out of available memory and stops working properly.
This is more so if you’re using it for something that open and closes a ton of connections, such as torrenting. In fact maybe 1 or 2 decades ago when those things had less memory the low and mid end quality routers couldn’t handle torrenting directly (so, were the router had to route each new connection, not behind a VPN were its the VPN-server that does it) without dying in a few hours.
- Comment on Dwarven Ladies 4 days ago:
The Medieval Fantasy version of sex dolls.
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 1 week ago:
My point is that it’s a horrible approximation, especially for things like “growth” stocks and during market bubbles.
Further, companies buying other companies don’t purchase them for the “value” of that company, they purchase them for the amount of money that those who own that company want to part with their share of the company. This is all over the place and even for the same person value widely at different points in time - people can and do (it’s just good business sense) demand as much money for their stocks as they can get away with meaning that the amount paid is not necessarily the amount the company is worth.
As for your response to my 3rd point, I don’t think I’ve explained it correctly - my point is that the “value” of a company is often in things which aren’t easily quantified in money (or gold, or whatever currency token), something especially bad in “growth” “tech” stocks because there’s a double problem that to find a monetary expression of the value of the company you need to find a money value of “intellectual property” (which Tech companies are generally heavy on, much more so than capital assets which are far easier to value) which is notoriously hard and all over the place and, worse, find a money value for future market prospects and profitability (because they’re “growth” stocks, so their value is not on today’s market share and revenues for their products and services) which is even more full of la-la-land wishful thinking pulled-out-of-somebody’s ass valuations than intellectual property.
So my 3rd point isn’t about that it’s somehow wrong to translate the value of a company into monetary units, it’s that said conversion is another source of error with an error amount which can vary a lot between companies and be massive in some cases.
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 1 week ago:
There are two massive mathematical assumptions to determine the “value” of the stock market:
- The price of a stock of a company times the number of stocks of that company is the value of that company
- The price of all stocks of a company is equal to the price for which a stock of the company was last traded (so, a simple linear extrapolation)
It seems clear to me that one or both of those are in fact wrong and do not represent reality.
- Comment on CONTROL Resonant released on GOG 2 weeks ago:
Sixty … fucking … Euros!
I’ll wait 10 years for the price to go down or buy THREE nice highly replayable indie title with great gameplay and less glitzy graphics for 20 instead.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
I think that both celebrating “working hard” (so, long hours rather than the efficiency of working smart) and having the concept of “shopping theraphy”, are pretty good indications that the entire culture is twisted towards maximizing things that aren’t aren’t good for most people.
It’s a lot deeper and well entrenched than merelly Politics.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Strategically, the best option other nations have to solve the American Problem is to prepare to weather the storm and let the country collapse by itself.
Historically what’s going on now with the US is a pretty straightforward “fall of the Empire” scenario (the biggest Empires invariably fall from internal problems as the generations that created the Empire are replaced by generations which know nothing more than wealth extraction) and interfering with that is a great way to be targetted by the falling empire’s elites and suffer the side-effects of that empire’s death throes.
Looking from the outside, even if Trump is stopped, the problem will at best be delayed since the other party of the Power Duopoly that controls America is also deeply corrupt and done their part in the decay of that country for the last couple of decades (by weakening unions, deregulating Finance, unconditionally saving big companies, having Financial and Economic policies which reward Rentierism above Work, and so on) - Trump is not the malaise that’s killing America, he’s a symptom of that malaise and removing him will not solve the problem, will not stop another one like him to take over in the future and will not alter the trendof decay, only the speed of it.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, in America control is done with Circus & Bread, with the “Circus” being not just Entertainment (which includes “Faux News”) but also hyper-consumerism, whilst the control via “Bread” being with things like Private Healtcare and Student Loans.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
More like “mob-controlled gambling den” than store.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
What crossing his legs?
He’s fidgeting.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
From his body language (look at his feet) and speech patterns it sure feels like he’s just lying his ass off.
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 1 month ago:
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 1 month ago:
Turns out he was high on life.
- Comment on There's one right choice 1 month ago:
Don’t look.
If you look the train wave collapses.
- Comment on Bleep bloop 1 month ago:
Most self-checkouts I’ve seen or used aren’t even for people buying more than one bag of groceries, since often the software can’t handle it or the bagging space is ridiculously small so it ends up a lot slower for you to bag your stuff in the self-checkout. Sometimes they’re not even the best option for when you have just one bag of groceries.
Self-checkouts are faster that going through a normal till when you have a handfull of purchases and there’s a line at the normal till because the time saved from not waiting in line exceeds the time loss from an amateur (you) doing the scanning and it not being possible to bag in parallel with scanning (which is how normal tills operate in all the countries I lived in - you do the bagging whilst the person at the till does the scanning so both activities happen in parallel) and even then that’s only if you’re not buying alcoholic drinks and the software doesn’t do something stupid and you have to wait from somebody to come over to clear it.
Only exception are the scan-as-you-pick systems and the ones where everything has an RFID tag and the checkout scans an entire bag at once, but in my experience almost not retailers have such systems and instead have the cheaper crapiest self-checkouts imaginable, probably because they don’t give a shit about your time and convenience and only have self-checkouts to save money on manpower not to make the lives of their customers better (certainly that would explain why they usually after adding self-checkouts reduce the manpower on the other tills, making things slower for people buying more than a handful of groceries no matter which checkout mechanism they chose).
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 month ago:
Well, shoving adverts in front of gamers under the flimsiest of excuses will definitelly turn around the trend of game companies going bankrupts when Microsoft purchases them …
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 1 month ago:
I wasn’t aware the US had a Duty Tax for some things that was a fixed minimum price.
Until now, all I had ever seen and learned about Duty Tax and Tariffs is that they’re a percentage on top of total price of a product delivered at the border (so basically factory price + shipping to border costs).
Then again I’m in Europe and only ever imported stuff in bulk here for a small business I had years ago.
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 1 month ago:
That very much depends on the country you’re in: @boonhet@sopuli.xyz found then at €0.13/watt sold to consumers in Estonia, which is an EU country which has 0% VAT on solar panels whilst the EU itself has 0% Duty Tax (aka tariffs) so there is not tax at all on them and their price is just factory price in China + shipping costs (probably by ship, which isn’t actually that much when shipping full container loads of them) + profit margin for importers and sellers.
Even in the US, given that Duty Tax if applied to Purchase Price + Shipping Costs To US Border, if the purchase price of the panels goes down, the price in the US after Duty Tax will go down, though it’s ultimatelly bound by Shipping Costs To US Border (which aren’t actually all that much if shipping full container loads of them from Shenzheng by boat). The point being that the Duty Tax for solar panels would have to be many 100s or percent for them to never be lower than $0.35/watt.
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 1 month ago:
I checked around in Alibaba and for bulk orders directly from a big manufacturer (with EXW terms, meaning pick-up at the factory, so no shipping and no taxes included) it was actually less that $0.12/watt, quite a bit less if enough units were ordered.
Such consumer price in Estonia kinda dovetails with the indicative prices per watt that I’ve seen in Alibaba being less than $0.12/watt, as even though Estonia has 0% VAT on solar panels and the EU has no Duty Tax on them so there’s no tax paid, what’s left that’s on top of the factory price (so the shipping costs + a little margin for the seller) still requires the panels to be less than $0.12 at the factory to end up sold to consumers in Estonia for €0.13
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 2 months ago:
“Somebody else will pay the salaries of our customers”.
As far as I can tell the individual actors extracting more from a system that its capable to support if everybody does the same (the kind of situation Game Theory calls a Tragedy Of The Commons) always think in one of 3 ways:
- They simply don’t think about systemic consequences at all, be it simply that they don’t have the kind of intelligence for it or the purposefully don’t dig down into it because they don’t want to think about consequences.
- They expect the “system” (i.e. somebody else, maybe everybody else) will make up for it so it’s fine if they take more from it than the put back in, as illustrated in my first paragraph.
- They’re aware of what the commulative impact of their actions can or even will have in the future, but they think they themselves and their families will be alright and screw everybody else - essentially that if they can get ahead enough they can ride the wave whilst it crashes.
The same kind of thinking also applies to Ponzi Schemes (like the current AI bubble) - Ignorance (willful or due to lack of knowledge/intelligence), The Many Will Make Up For The Over-Extraction Of The Few and/or I Myself Will Be Alright.
And you know what?
Those people have very good reasons to believe in the second one (that I illustrated at the start) - you look at Neoliberal Capitalism so far that’s what’s been happening as Money acummulates in fewer hands and sin ce with regulations neutralized and Corruption through the roof, those holding most of the wealth can do whatever the fuck they want so they are increasingly pillaging wealth from the rest, and the “system” - i.e. everybody else - just gets poorer and instead of Revolutions and Guillotines for the rich all we see is passive acceptance so the rest so have been making up for the depredations of the few for decades.
And if they’s CEOs they also have very good reasons to believe the third - just look at corporate governance in the last decades, with getting those jobs being far more abour Cronyism than Merit and incompetence being de facto rewards with golden parachutes a even failing upwards.
Given the experience of CEOs for at least the last 3 or 4 decades, it’s pretty rational for them to believe that their depredations wont destroy the Whole enough to come back to them and even if they do, they themselves personally will be alright.
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 2 months ago:
Whilst fear seems to be used to induce hate in many (just listen to the fables of “the need to protect ourselves” coming from the politicians there), I’m pretty sure others just directly hate without the need to be led there through fear.
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 2 months ago:
I think you misspelled the word “hate”.
- Comment on Subtitles 2 months ago:
So substance is the position that MAGAs adopt towards Trump.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 months ago:
Generally good open world games have a lot more emergent content - situations that emerge from the interaction of agents and simple mechanics (in the style of how simple rules create complex outcomes in the “Game of Life”) - the whilst good linear games have highly curated scenarios which were created by level designers directly.
For an example of the former, imagine you’re running around the Game World looking for a special kind of plant to create a potion that you need. You come across a battle between bears and a bandit group. When they die their drops are free for the taking and both groups are too high level for you to take on your own. None of this was setup to happen when you crossed some trigger line, it literally just happened because those the entities in those groups are part of enemy “factions” and the patrol route of one group (a route which might itself be procedural rather than fixed) passed near enough the position of the encampment of the other.
Think kind of thing randomly happen is just not something you get in linear games which are generally just set-pieces and even the ability to pull on group of high level enemies to another group has to be designed in (mainly by making the restricted game area big enough for it in that section and placing the groups in the right places).
Emergent content is also why Multiplayer can be a lot of fun, though in this case the “agent” whose interactions can give rise to all sorts of situations are other players.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 2 months ago:
You can literally have TWO right-wing parties entirely in agreement with right-wing policies on those things which have the most impact in the lives of pretty much everybody out there whilst playacting politics with culture wars so that one of the claims to be “leftwing”.
If you’re American (and nowadays, also from most countries in Europe), this description probably sounds very familiar …
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 2 months ago:
It’s exactly the point of culture wars to distract people away from the complete total crash in the quality of life for the many due to the bipartisan total agreement in shoving as much money into the hands of the wealthy no mater what the consequences for the rest.
You see it all around the World - the more the “center” “mainstream” “pragmatic” parties agree on managing their country for the good of a few and screw the rest, the more they loudly and exaggeratedly (with the subtlety of 5 year-olds doing putting on a play) “fight” around things like trans-sexuality which are morally solved by the simple logic of “it’s not of my business what others do with their bodies”.
You saw this shit first in the US because that country is the one more advanced in the whole thing of the Money Elites owning the Political Elites and thus them Pillaging the Wealth Of the Many (after all, the US has being doing the whole Pillaging Of The Wealth Of The Powerless for literally decades, just mainly abroad in places like the Middle East and South America, so politicians there have a lot of practice and are pretty much a self-select bunch of Psychopaths and Sociopaths, plus the Press there has long morphed in exactly the same direction becoming little more than Propaganda).
