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I'll be honest, as someone who enjoys industrial food science, I felt a small pang of disappointment when I realized this was about integrated circuits.

In an economy where someone staying home to care for children or elderly parents can easily save $40-60k, I'd believe it. Homemakers aren't doing nothing, they're just not represen…

Sure, it's tautological post-hoc rationalized corporate Darwinism, but it's also kind of a clever motivator if you don't think to deeply about it. In practice, it stabilizes corpor…

Foundational knowledge can be pretty far upstream of functional knowledge. Whether you can't describe the analog circuits that correspond to the opcodes of the major mobile archite…

Abilt models typically perform worse than their bases at the same tasks, so while I'd use one to evaluate content knowledge, I'd probably ultimately stick to one from a family I co…

That's strike one from the Bowlero family.

It's not new, and entire disciplines exist because of these dependent structures. It doesn't do to unseat and discredit the connected and well regarded, but you might enjoy some mi…

Race theory was always pseudoscience to imply the generalized differences between people who looked differently were genetic and thus inherent traits. It's an extension of a much o…

There is no platform to discuss labor in the United States at the national level. Just like there was no meaningful way to discuss individual data rights and privacy, or anything e…

Yeah, unfortunately. Effluent and wastewater companies have been getting greedy. If one suddenly 100x's your cost, you're fucked until you build onsite treatment or find a way to s…

As an example, when my ex was trying to price ultrasounds on a breast lump as self pay before choosing where to go, the billing departments refused to quote her without the billing…

There are apps that can limit the charge %, or using something like Tasker to cycle a smart plug. Android 16 also has native limiting under Settings > Battery > Battery Health > Ch…

I've got a 4090 and 3090 in a node that peaks at 600W. If you're not power limiting in nvidia-smi, start.

First come first serve, and multiple show dates if you're optimizing for sales. There are lots of platforms for ticket sales and venue management. That's how they run high school a…

You're focusing on the barest sliver of the pie. They and their ideas are entering politics, the clergy, influencing regulation and policy at national and international levels. Suc…

Console games today are routinely >50GB, and more frequently >100GB for the most popular titles. On common residential plans, it can take upwards of an hour before installation eve…

Can't hear Fidonet without recommending BBS: The Documentary (2005) youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE

They're last recorded snapshots, not live feeds.

Plex has become a platform, and I imagine a certain number of their customers are revenue generating providers. Emby still offers lifetime for $119 with a 30 device limit, but I'm …

I played games online over dial-up, a few asynchronously via email, in the 1990s. Until the modern era, if some sort of direct TCP/IP connection wasn't built in, then an add-on usu…

There are quite a few, now, and more coming out regularly to surprisingly little fanfare. Tencent's Hunyuan3D ( https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan ) is a single/multi view photogra…

E=MC^2+AI

Variations might be better for underwater or surface impact detection, but for now, congrats to them on the reinvention the 1950s Zenith ultrasonic remote. https://www.guinnessworl…

When CNN was sold to Time Warner, we lost the last voice in cable news from outside of New York.

Not that many years ago, Facebook tried to broker a deal to provide free internet to India if all of their web traffic and communications would happen within the Facebook ecosystem…