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The 9800X3D iGPU is definitely handy in some situations, but I tried using it with a 4K wayland desktop for a little while and the performance is really not good enough just for th…

I didn’t mean to suggest that GLP-1s don’t count as assistance. Informing people that they can avoid pregnancy and STDs if they’d just stop fucking each other doesn’t work at scale…

Practically speaking, any person could starve themself (short of death) and lose weight. In almost all cases there is no magic to storing more energy than you need.

I think it'd be more accurate to say that informing people that they should change their behavior doesn't work. A person changing their behavior can escape obesity. The reality is …

We shouldn't want them to have self awareness, we shouldn't be seeking to make self-aware actual slaves. We want machines with perception and knowledge, and that are capable of rea…

I do some work in laboratory automation and it was quick to refuse the first thing I asked it to do. There wasn't anything spicy in the request, just basic liquid-handling protocol…

It's difficult to overstate how horrible the performance is.

A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to…

Tesla does collect LIDAR data (people have seen them doing it, it's just not on all of the cars) and they do generate depth maps from sensor data, but from the examples I've seen i…

The answer is not in the article. The question is: why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car? How are rented or company cars even relevant, since th…

Seems like some kind of weird quirk that the government doesn't already have this information readily available. Why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased t…

You can't buy it at all, yet. Also, with the way these kinds of things have gone in the past: - It's not certain that you'll ever be able to buy it. - If you can buy it, it'll prob…

I don't think it's a huge stretch to consider supporting circumcision of children as being a call to violence against children, though. Just because it's being done for religious r…

Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it…

Adaptive headlights have only been approved for use in the US for ~3 years. They were sold in cars in the US before that, but the adaptive function was disabled.

A version that is just plainly nerdy (and more comfortable) might not be a bad idea; maybe call it the developer version or something to avoid any association with fashion or luxur…

Doesn’t that make the wrist accessory the important part? The chunky glasses look like they’re still too early, not enough tech.

No, L5 is a car that can drive itself anywhere in any conditions.

It's not an exact quote, but it was on The Charlie Kirk Show, on July 13th 2023. The video is still available, it's around 53:45 in.

It turns out, at least so far, we can still choose violence.

The objective was clearly dismantling institutions, not saving money.

How much would it cost them to catch it, though? Not just in money, but time. How do you know it doesn't make sense?

Tesla's "Acceleration Boost" is $2000...

You can tell gpt to write a program to count the n's in 'banana', and then run the program to find the answer, and it can do that.

Windows 2000 in a JS VM is available: https://bellard.org/jslinux/