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From the wall: 260W idle, ~1200W load (1600W PSU)

Reading this thread I am so frickin glad I built a monster DDR4 workstation back in 2021. It would cost me more to build out that computer today (dual 3090s, 512GB ECC, 3995wx). Ra…

The filibuster is the only thing protecting us right now from the worst of the laws Trump is pushing. Yeah I know it’s not “real” but lots of things about our govt aren’t “real” as…

Other than Dems having a super majority for a few weeks with Obama, when was the last time they were “voted in” at a national level? Biden did a pretty good job cleaning up after T…

Jerome Powell would’ve communicated in a mealy mouthed and confusing way that was meant to appease Trump? I’ve had quite enough of Trump’s “meritocracy”, personally.

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A single, untreated person with TB will infect 1.5 to 4 people if public health interventions don’t happen. Measles sits at 12 to 18 people per infected person. In case anyone was …

They’re talking about evidence-based solutions to the issue, yes. Discipline is probably the wrong word. Expecting teenagers to be disciplined is a fool’s errand.

Probably so, but it was incredibly ill advised of Netflix to admit to this. That’s what I find the most shocking, far more than the firing itself. I cannot fathom how admitting “ye…

Being a billionaire has very little to do with engineering talent.

Trump makes it sound like a fart.

I strongly agree with you here. People are also no-selling the enormous cost of the exploit, which OpenAI conveniently hasn’t released, or at least I can’t find such an accounting.…

This sounds like the standard marketing we get every time a new major model is released: "sure, the public model might not be that scary, but you don't wanna know how crazy smart o…

Speculative demand is still demand.

That can’t be true, I was told they were making us great again. /s

The purpose of wealth taxes is redistributive, not revenue maximization of a spherical cow.

Will individual subscribers have access?

Why not have crippling anxiety? It shortens your lifespan for one.

He only presented that idea to a certain slice of Americans. If you were a Haitian American, you probably ate cats and dogs according to him.

Yeesh. “What shall we do sire, when the peasants learn to read?” vibes

Regulation like this is dangerous for the US because it can kneecap our country, but I don’t think it’ll affect the pace of innovation globally. China isn’t going to slow down just…

You could also launch people from LA to NYC via rockets instead of using airplanes without violating any laws of physics. But we don’t, because we have airplanes already. What prob…

> Normies lost faith in the media partly because they were seen as not really loving America. I would argue they lost faith because the media constantly lies and distorts the truth…

I looked up Gil Amelio’s “infamous” quote and it doesn’t seem incorrect given what Apple was going through at the time. Steve Jobs had just sold 1.5 million shares of Apple stock a…