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TranslateDoggie · 2024-08-02T21:09:15-0400

Fulluphigh said:
.org’s founders, including Gideon, seem to have a history of insanely toxic behavior, including DOSing RHDN. I’m not sure if @Uragan is a member of the same group, or if any of that is even related to the shutdown, or if it invalidates anything Uragan said. But there are many facets to the story, and a whole lot of drama!

Not to get too deep into the subculture weeds in a mainstream comments thread, but I have worked with Gideon Zhi on projects in the past and we were in regular contact for several years, and what you describe is more or less the exact opposite of his personality. I've been out of the scene for quite a while and I don't have any insight into the current personality conflicts or disruptions involved here, but I am quite confident that he was not involved in any DDOS activity, if it even exists.

EternalStudent07 · 2024-08-02T21:08:11-0400

Should have included initial and maintenance costs for those features.

And I wonder if they mentioned "stop over charging for everything" as a feature to add? Like wanting a monthly charge to unlock features already in a car.

DNA_Doc · 2024-08-02T21:08:01-0400

Danathar said:
Already lug around a laptop. This would be smaller

If it's just small size you're looking for, something like a Koosmile P8 (or any one of the equivalents being manufactured in China) is almost the same size as the Pocket 386 (slightly smaller, IIRC) and has a 12th-gen N100, 12GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD, touchscreen and pen support. Also has the great swivel display you used to see on some of the old Sonys (screen swivels 180 degrees, and then lays flat over the keyboard for a tablet experience.)

marsilies · 2024-08-02T21:07:04-0400

BTW, for those that want to read Gideon Zhi's response but can't/won't read it on Twitter, it's also posted here:

RIP RHDN

Hey all, I know I don't post on cohost much, but RHDN imploding is seismic, so, resharing. This is largely copy/pasted from other socials, so it won't contain anything you may not have already seen. Post follows. So by now you've probably seen that romhacking.net is effectively dead. In the...

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Mothringer · 2024-08-02T21:06:44-0400

Marcus Andreus said:
Bill Gates is one of the least bad billionaires, and he still fucking sucks.

The least bad billionaire was probably Yvon Chouinard, but he stopped being a billionaire, helping prove the rule.

It’s the standard billionaire playbook. Spend your whole “working” life doing reprehensible things to other people and then do some reputation washing by giving away a few percent of the profits in highly visible philanthropic endeavors.

Faanchou · 2024-08-02T21:06:38-0400

Kennorris said:
Since SpaceX is private & we have no financial info on how much of their money (Musk’s money) they spent on Dragon, could they have spent additional billions beyond what they got from NASA? Musk has moved money among his companies before and he might have set out to bury old space, cost be damned. But, whatever they spent, they do have a functioning spacecraft, unlike Boeing.

This keeps coming up and the answer doesn't change. While the general public doesn't have that information, NASA does. As the owner of both CRS and CCP, NASA has audited SpaceX financials regarding both Cargo Dragon and Crew Dragon and is satisfied that SpaceX isn't selling the service below cost.

numerobis · 2024-08-02T21:06:37-0400

odikweos said:
Silicon panels have such advantages it's really hard to imagine these displacing them in anything but niche applications. Presumptively safe for the environment, relatively simple to recycle .. those are really big and important advantages for earth-scale deployment. Want more power? Just use more panels. Efficiency isn't the only thing that matters in a world where silicon is already over 20%.

Even a 60% replacement tech that came with any degree of environmental cost, or was hard to recycle would be a bad replacement IMO.

If you can spend the same amount in labour, land rights, and the balance of materials but get 50% more energy, that’s a big deal.

EternalStudent07 · 2024-08-02T21:05:50-0400

This is a broken tool for a broken system.

You're claiming if someone naturally is similar to a famous person... that's fine. But because we can EASILY duplicate aspects people have been monetizing... and they have power... that needs to be punished.

Wonder how many people we could feed, cloth, and house for the effort that goes into trash like this.

swiftdraw · 2024-08-02T21:05:36-0400

1) The klaxon sounded and it’s an emergency! We go live to <insert poster‘s name here>, at the scene! What is happening?
“Y’all better hope that doesn’t make it to the ammo stores. Can’t run fast enough for that shit”

2) When you broke glass on the ‘break-in-case-of-emergency’ box, what did you grab?
The bourbon

3) Have you ever given a standing ovation?
Kinda mandatory at the retirement ceremonies. Some were done earnestly.

4) Do you conform to or break the prime directive?
I break it like I’m going to break the crust to get insert sci-fi mineral here. It’s going to be like Avatar if the humans were competent.

5) Can you accurately pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is a real town name in obviously fictional Wales?
Nope

6) You are traveling more than 300 miles. Your conveyance of choice is: automobile, plane, train, or other?
Space A on a C-17 or C-130

7) What is the latest email in your spam/junk folder?
Something from Photobucket warning me for the 13th in a row that my account is about to be deleted.

8) You click that link and win the prize; do you have to sacrifice?
My will to live. Shame that’s been gone for awhile.

Thank you for your service in the stead of Backstop

RZetopan · 2024-08-02T21:05:22-0400

Veritas super omens said:
What teeth?

Tooth, singular.

rmohns · 2024-08-02T21:04:03-0400

dlux said:
I'm looking at all the electronic shit in this room and half of it has internal power supplies. Number of power-supply failures over the past 20 years: zero.

Ok, true, and I haven’t had an internal power supply fail in years myself either. But when as a manufacturer you ship millions of units a year, a fraction of a percent difference in failure rates has a real fiscal effect. The smart question then becomes: do internal or external power supplies fail more, and which will cost less to warranty replace at volume? I don’t have that answer but now I’m quite curious.

dlux said:
And even if Synology's external power brick fails I'm willing to bet this device has some non-standard plug or voltage so finding a replacement, when the time comes, will likely lead to replacing the entire unit and getting something bigger/better.

I suspect you haven’t bought a Synology product. They use very boring, standard coaxial connectors and very boring standard DC voltages.

Buuuuut don’t let me stop a good rant

Marzipan · 2024-08-02T21:02:01-0400

Wickwick said:
You're slipping. You're only post #5 this week.

Yep

The Rocket Report used to be posted at exactly 7 a.m. EST but that hasn't been true the last two times for some reason...

Unremarkable · 2024-08-02T21:02:00-0400

Dear name of athlete, thank you for inspiring me with your adjective example of dedication to being the best insert sports position. It always makes me positive emotion and I hope that someday aspiration. Signed, child's name.

numerobis · 2024-08-02T21:01:51-0400

Trump turned “deplorables” around into a winning word.

Seems that this time around, Harris has turned “weird” around similarly. They attacked her for being weird but it wasn’t really catching … and now the democrats are coordinating calling the GOP agenda weird, and it is catching extremely well.

(Now what this means for Ukraine we don’t quite know yet, she hasn’t been the face of Ukraine aid.)

Doc12 · 2024-08-02T21:01:44-0400

yababom said:
I'm pretty sure Inigo Montoya would want to challenge that first barbarian... 'Cause I count what appears to be six fingers on his right hand... Also, this Will Smith doesn't seem to know how to hold a fork.

Logan Elevenfingers, AKA the bloody eleven

schnackenpfefferhausen · 2024-08-02T20:59:46-0400

Well, this is interesting.. wonder if Biden wasn’t kept in the loop, or changed his mind after getting blowback..

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/politics/plea-deal-9-11-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-revoked-austin/index.html

Macam · 2024-08-02T20:59:07-0400

NewNinetyNine said:
If you believe that your opponent is a complete idiot, you're liable to loss to an idiot.

The way the EC is set up, it doesn’t matter if your opponent is a complete idiot, a savant, or a pumpkin, you’re liable to lose to them regardless. That’s a separate issue.

EternalStudent07 · 2024-08-02T20:57:50-0400

Cartels? Maybe they need to look up the definition... No, it doesn't matter if that coordination happens in a middleman.

VoiceOfTreason · 2024-08-02T20:57:41-0400

Well first of all, the Google and Apple ads are not so much bad advertising, but more like corporate warning shots being fired across society's bow to prep everyone for the inevitable. The future has come, and it's coming for human creativity.

Secondly, the ad probably did test well because all those dads realized how much more porn they could be watching if they didn't need to spend time helping their daughters write fan letters.

raxx7 · 2024-08-02T20:56:49-0400

GottaSaySomething said:
Either way you're attempting takedowns or evading action. Also your core argument is that both of these should be taken down.

My core argument is that both what?
I suspect you're not really parsing what I'm writing.

GottaSaySomething said:
You put a question mark by the script thing - scripts (or shell scripts) run sequences of commands for you. They're very easy and what separates shells from programming languages is that things difficult in programming languages are stupidly easy in shells and visa versa.

I know what a script is.
I just have no idea what your point about what you're trying to automate or what it would achieve.

RZetopan · 2024-08-02T20:56:30-0400

ranthog said:
A strong reminder of why we have the FDA to regulate the production of medications.

According to the MAGA Morons, regulation stifles innovation. They have a point, since coming up with dangerous drugs is a form of "innovation". /S for the clueless.

bushrat011899 · 2024-08-02T20:56:21-0400

RDaneel623 said:
If I wish to write something to another person why wouldn't I want to use the AI for that purpose if the AI is capable of writing something superior to what I would come up with on my own?

When you come back from a holiday do you show your family your photos, or postcards you bought at the gift shop? Would you hire a narrator to tell them how much fun you had? Heck, why even go on the holiday? Just look at the postcards Stable Diffusion generates for you and have Sora show you the videos!

"Efficiency" and "superiority" are for products sometimes, not every aspect of human existence needs to be perfect. If you don't believe me you clearly haven't had the joy of a 6 year old giving you a drawing before.

wireframed · 2024-08-02T20:56:09-0400

blindbear said:
Number of world leaders have been successfully prosecuted, and were hold accountable. Both South Korea and Taiwan have recent examples of their presidents prosecuted for corruptions. The though that USA's president is unique and need additional immunity is not supposed by evidences.

Indeed. We have sent politicians to jail in my country, for breaking the law. That is healthy and IMO a vital requirement for a democracy. Our leaders must be subject to the same laws everyone else is.

I would like to see a cogent argument why the following are both true:

The president (or really any high-ranking politician) cannot do their job without immunity because they’ll be inundated with lawsuits
The legal system is working as intended

snowman<ca> · 2024-08-02T20:53:39-0400

dv8inpp said:
When I saw the video of Suni Williams as she entered the ISS and she looked so happy , I thought how bad was Starliner on the way up . She was happy she just survived the trip, better to hitch hike back.

It seems hard to be sure it is that. She was assigned to Boeing's team in 2018, so waiting on this for several years; mishaps, cost overruns, and delays probably only bring up questions if would ever fly on it. Given it would take time to retrain for different vehicle and who knows how long it would be till next mission slot after retrained, this might have been her last chance would fly a NASA mission.

graylshaped · 2024-08-02T20:52:42-0400

RDaneel623 said:
I am clearly in a tiny minority here, but I loved the ad. To me, this isn't a dystopia. Rather, this is one of the (many) things I want out of an AI... help me mediate my human interactions. If I wish to write something to another person why wouldn't I want to use the AI for that purpose if the AI is capable of writing something superior to what I would come up with on my own? If a human can do something better, then the human should do it... but if the AI can produce superior results then the AI should do it.

Sure, the girl in the ad could have written the letter herself, or written the letter in collaboration with her dad... but this is a letter to this girl's hero... if you were that girl wouldn't you want to send the most well written letter you could?

Sure! Other opportunities to outsource heartfelt personal statements would be love letters, wedding vows, birthday cards, condolence letters... you know, anything to avoid having to embrace those pesky feelings you would prefer to keep at arms' length.

For the record, thank you for announcing exactly who you are with your choice of a username.

/rollseyes

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