BCsven

@BCsven@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China builds brain-mimicking AI server the size of a mini-fridge, claims 90% power reduction — BI Explorer 1 packs in 1,152 CPU cores and 4.8TB of memory, runs on a household power outlet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The article didn’t seem to mention, but it may be using that new method they came up with where the data is extracted via monitoring the electrical field the memory produces rather than flowing electrons in wires. That supposedly reduced power and sped up processing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Way to give up your rights and fund another insurance scam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The brand we used to buy would put their label there so it was protected from peeling off, Or rubbing against other jugs in transit. Things can have multiple purposes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes they are a bank. Lol. I moved regular accounts to a credit union because I was sick of the bank’s problems. But still have a disability retirement fund with the bank because its a special government account for my child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other criteria like account number, etc. But the voice they ask you specific question live. But I get it. Thats why I have a hardware key for platforms that support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One country was already setting up copyright on your voice so AI can be served takedown notices. Voice are quite unique, its how my bank verifies who I am. If somebody clones my voice via AI it could fool that login system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the video he’s saying the line between center of moon and center of earth has the most tidal force on the water, while the earht spins through that zone. It was not saying that the water starts 100% stationary and land spins through it, just that the height of water will always be high at that line as the earth rotates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an audiophile, this alt-j tune has great bass on a good system. (And when not played from YouTube) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDunSOoXNo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more an article about abuse and neglect, rather than homeschooling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well now that I’m aging, I do have moments of blanking out. I used to be always in “recording” mode of my daily activities, which is probably why I need quiet down time. But lately I’ll take out the recycling, to empty into our condo bins, and when I get back my wife says “where’s the tote?”. And I’m like, " Ah, probably down by the condo bin where I left it". Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She wasn’t initially at that level to comprehend the sun as an object with intense heat and super mass. She saw the sun as a lightbulb inside the earth dome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😀 I haven’t IQ tested her. As a note I’m what she considers a smart engineery computer guy, but she can beat me at almost every game of Scrabble (like 400 vs 250). She can beat me at Tetris every time. She has played this 1010! android game for 3 years straight and not died once. Which is incredible to me. So she has reasoning skills and planning, and some abstract shape solving ability that is very tuned.

  But she has zero science background, grew up Catholic, where god did everything, so she never thought critically about the humans on a planet situation.

  But she doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to things outside of her realm. So maybe it is an attention issue not an intelligence issue. i.e. she saw this red car go by and said thats nice and a bit different looking. I said yeah it’s our neighbours down the street She said I’ve never noticed it, how do you know its the same car? So I said: it’s had the front emblem taken off and re painted. Suspension is lowered, there is a performance parts logo on driver rear quarter window, it has smooth rims without a lot of cutouts, and a black subtle wing added on the tail. When she asked how I knew all that I said because we see it everyday on our evening walk together. For her she’s walked by it 100s of times without remembering it ever being parked on our street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I had to explain it as if it were a kids class. We didn’t get into deep theory , constants, equations type stuff. Just overall concepts.

  Saying earth surface was round and each country gets different day and night sequences etc, she immediate went to why aren’t Australians dangling off if they are at the bottom. So we had to go over center of gravity and gravity itself.

  Which led to the Sun and moon being outside the earth. And I had to talk about the immense distances and speed of light concepts. (Since she thought she could get to the sun in about 45 minutes)

  Then the questions came about why, if the earth rotates for day and night, aren’t people flying off. So I had to go over gravity and inertial laws. Referencing something she knew like being in a car and dropping something, it drops relative to you and doesn’t fly back at 100km/h ( inertial frame of reference stuff).

  She was obviously skeptical still, especially about stars being distant suns.

  And then she came to the conclusion of: how did we get here, if we are tiny spec in the universe on a planet. So we touched on evolution theory.

  We eventually got her kids solar system books, and watched some good documentaries on netlix about these subjects and the one about the stages the earth has gone through.

  She eventually understood the concepts, but still though we were trying to trick her. Until she went skydiving and realized “the air is 3D” ( her words ). All along she saw the sky as a background 2d backdrop on the INSIDE of the snow globe earth.

  I don’t know how she missed this concept most of her life, I guess her circle just didn’t include people that talked about science stuff, and she took her cues from what she could see…flat ground, sky seems far away, sun is tiny but looks like it hits the mountains and water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the true flatearthers deny what they are hearing and dig in deeper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.

  It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I’m like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn’t feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.

  I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.

  She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.

  Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I’d destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Android] How is Florisboard not popular?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the short thumb being the issue, I buy the smaller phone screens on purpose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Android] How is Florisboard not popular?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most common letter E is too far right to be useful as single hand Tyler (LH)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like bookmarks because I can categorize them into drop down menus that make sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that use-case: Sounds like bookmarks need a feature upgrade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t get it, some people have 100s, dude that is what bookmarks are for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its order of operations, to get rid of brackets do the internal, then the 5 tells you there was 5 sets of the amount in brackets. Rather than 2+5 first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Android already had WiFi Direct, this change just brings Apple and Android into the same sharing room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 Its a great workbook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and me taking a man pill doesn’t stop the lady getting pregnant if some other guys didn’t bother to take it. It does make sense for the woman to protect herself from douchebags

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the natural hand postion though when you move the phone to your ear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a brand-new lenovo workstation with an nVidia RTX card. Works great. Vulcan calculates the shader cache on first run of a game that takes a minute to run through, but after that the game runs great. I’m on tumbleweed, the only issue I had past week was kernel moved ahead but the nvidia driver wasn’t ready right away. Just meant booting the old kernel in the boot menu till that all syncs up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 did that to us. My work workstation and my wife’s laptop suffered with W10, so I searched alternate OS and found Linux. Luckily our CAD software had a Linux version and I got productivity back.

  My wife’s 2010 laptop on w10 was not usable. Its super fast with Linux. Faster than my work issued brand-new Lenovo laptop with W11. The only performance problem would be rendering video or other hardcore tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As somebody that has worked from home everyday since 2009, nothing beats in person collaboration. Not saying you need to be in the office everyday, but to truly collaborate and get input and open discussions an actual meet session is better.

  You can see who is not onboard by body language, you can see who isn’t paying attention and will miss key details, you get free conversation where a random comment provides a solution to something that wasn’t on the agenda. And I say it as somebody that is 150% more productive at home.

  Even in our own company employees often work siloed on collaborative projects, in person forces a discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fucking French⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha. Looks like besides the 25 round mag, a 30 round is available. As is single shot mode.