JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But 8GB on iOS is like having at least 32GB on Android don't you know!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So not as cheap as the (inflation adjusted) PS2 ($550) or PS4 ($540), but cheaper than the $780 of the PS3. PS1 was close at $620.
Also games back in 1995 were around $50, which is $103 today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's the fine.
The original issue was not taking down illegal content in X even though there was a court order and a fine to do so, and withdrawing their legal representation from the country when they were expected to legally represent the company (i.e take responsibility for X breaking the law). Brazil requires companies to have that in order to operate, so X got blocked, and now the fine has been taken for their assets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And at rather ridiculously fast paces, as demonstrated by comparing the different versions of Midjourney
The difference in being able to generate realistic humans is even more striking.

The question is where do the current LLMs fit in that kind of a timeline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hanasaari shut down last year and Salmisaari is going to be closed by april next year, after that Helsinki will have no coal or pellet power plants left.

Electricity generation isn't the main problem, but that those plants were responsible for a huge majority of central heating in Helsinki (iirc they were designed on purpose to be so inefficient they generated 2/3rds of their output as heat for that use). That's why they are building wacky solutions like huge underground lakes and stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just use the bus, it comes twice in the morning so you are either an hour early or hour late from work, and leaves half an hour before your day ends and then once more at midnight.
Convenient!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, yes, when you are the legal representative for a company, that is what might happen when the company breaks the local laws and refuses to comply with court orders. That's kinda the whole point.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

It is when the law says that for a company to operate in Brazil it has to have an appointed legal representative, and you close down your offices and refuse to re-appoint one when the judge demands you to.
Musk entered a "No pants no service" restaurant, took his pants off, was told to put them back on and refused, and is now surprised he gets no service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

E-paper is the category for any display that looks kinda like paper. E-ink is a specific technology (by a specific company, yes,) that uses blobs suspended in oil in small capsules that are controlled by magnetic fields.

Pebble uses a Sharp memory LCD, which as the name suggests, is a liquid crystal display. If you categorize pebbles as a "eink watches", then a gameboy is one low-power memory chip away from being an eink handheld gaming console, the display tech is otherwise identical - a transflective lcd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Which one do you prefer?
And don't say Pebble, that's an e-paper (sharp memoryLCD), not an eink. I personally haven't really encountered any actual eink watches that would seem any good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would assume the small amount of training data written that way doesn't contain that many professional research papers, corporate emails or calm poetry, but would consist mostly of social media posts and comments which have a rather heavy bias towards aggressive and negative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are. GTX 590 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.

If you want low TDP, the RX 6400 is twice as powerful as the 590 while having a TDP of 53W.

It's the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power, and that's kinda like complaining a Bugatti Veyron gets terrible highway MPG figures.

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