BrightCandle

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[–] BrightCandle 4 points 1 week ago

The problem is the information asymmetry, there is always another person for a fraudulent company to exploit due to a dysfunctionally expensive court system. Its why we need market level regulations and public institutions that recover peoples money and fine the organisations for their breaches. This sort of thing works a lot better in the EU than in the US due to the sales laws, the ability to return within 2 weeks, default warranty on goods out to 12 months and expectations of goods to be as advertised forced onto the retailers. They work, they need more enforcement from regulatory bodies but retailers do follow them for the most part and quickly change tune when you go to take legal action when they don't because courts know these laws inside and out.

[–] BrightCandle 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

When fake news as a concept appeared a bit over a decade ago it was all about the traditional media and the lies and narratives they formed in their articles. That same media tried to spin it as about the satire sites like newstrump and most recently their entire spin has been about social media being the cause. I think social media has caught more because its clear to see that some users are spreading a lot of misinformation and you can see others falling into the trap but really what legitimises it all is what the media does and does not platform.

[–] BrightCandle 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

They have to stop thinking that getting rid of Roddenberry's rules is the way forward, the only way its going to feel like Star Trek is that they accept the positive optimistic version of the future where there is a stronger moral basis to human action. You can do a lot within those rules but you can't do this type of movie and there are enough generic space movies like this and its just not Star Trek.

[–] BrightCandle 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sure is some bad framing. Nvidia is charging too much to squeeze out the AIBs or they all just want too much profit for their part in this. Either way its not that the MSRP is charity(!) its just high prices.

[–] BrightCandle 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

[–] BrightCandle 9 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think they would bother doing that much work at the core of the operating system. They are too busy playing with the UI and cloud integrations they don't care about the algorithms the kernel runs on and they have a better driver situation currently anyway. I don't see the route to this.

[–] BrightCandle 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have been working my way through Star Trek Voyager, Season 3.

[–] BrightCandle 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The two trailers put out on the Star Trek Youtube channel definitely didn't calm my concerns about this movie!

There is no need, nor is it Star Trek, to have a dark evil underbelly that does all the real work. The true beauty of Star Trek is it makes us reflect on how far away we are from a utopian future version of society. Its an optimistic picture of the future, its the essence of what Star Trek is about.

[–] BrightCandle 5 points 1 month ago

The UK wastes most of its graduate talent, much of it ends up in jobs other than what the degree is directly in. Despite quite a lot of great Computer Science and Engineering universities most of the reasonable paid jobs have historically been in finance. As inequality gets worse and worse the Uk is becoming a county of serfs and lords once again with a poor populace and very rich owners. Its what people keep voting for so its what they want but it confuses me everytime people vote to be lorded over.

[–] BrightCandle 19 points 1 month ago

What I don't understand is why Intel was willing to lie so extensively. They knew they were going to get found out in a matter of months and that would do enormous damage to their brand. After the failures of 13th and 14th gen processors they weren't likely to be believed anyway. It makes no sense.

[–] BrightCandle 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem is we have done nothing about making businesses responsible for the mess they create, from CO2 to pollution. The public always ends up with the bill while private owners walk away rich. We have been doing it this way now for so long that we are genuinely going to destroy our habitat with climate change and no one is going to stop it happening.

 

It looks the majority of makers aren't going to pass Intel's extended warranty on. That is a real problem given they have now knowingly sold a faulty product by design.

 

The first of very many legal cases that will pop up across the globe all because Intel wont do the right thing and recall these faulty processors.

 

This is a great look at a number of games over time from launch to months after launch benchmarking the patch releases as well as drivers. The end conclusion is the day 1 drivers that Nvidia/AMD/Intel produce are worth having and they improve performance and fix bugs but later drivers don't show as helping and the performance changes after that point are attributable to the game updates.

What is wild is Baldur's Gate loosing a tonne of performance in a patch and has never recover its prior performance and it can't utilise the GPU at all well now but there are other games showing not just increases but degradation of performance as well.

 

This used to be a lot easier, Youtube had an export function to OPML and you could just import it.

Its quite useful being able to follow all your Youtube channels with your RSS reader if you want to pick which you want to watch then also Metube and the browser plug-in makes it a right click and select to send it for download.

 

Task Manager of prototype Intel CPU shows Core and Logical processor count are the same at 8.

This is still a relatively low end chip if its just 8 cores and a 13500 has 6 + 8 = 14 total so this is maybe a laptop processor. Hyperthreading probably doesn't make sense anymore.

 

Florida’s Miami-Dade County hired a chief heat officer, Jane Gilbert—the first position of its kind in the world.

 

I don't know if people are aware of the fact that you can see the wholesale price of energy but there are is a website that tracks it.

https://energy-stats.uk/wholesale-energy-pricing/

This clearly shows that wholesale energy prices this year have been lower than they were in 2021. Yet the price of electricity charged to people is much higher now than it was then.

 

I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don't appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

 

Odds are many missed this one season show (a sort of mini series) looking at the progression of climate change and how it will impact peoples lives. Its a sci-fi show of sorts but also a science reality based on known consequences. It is not prematurely ended it is a coherent series telling a story which builds to a proper end with no intention to make it multiple seasons.

I thought it was well done and worth a watch, its on Apple TV+.

 

I was looking today on AliExpress and found the Sodium Ion batteries are starting to appear. 18650s and other cylinder batteries as well as pouches. They are cheap, this would give 220AH and 49.7V nominal or 10.5KWh batteries for £1400. A LiPho of similar capacity would be 2.5x that.

The have some details of the voltage curve which looks quite extreme along with what sounds like great >1C charge and discharge and 1C sustained and 6000 cycles. These are looking really good for home solar systems.

 

Turns out all the creamers are kind of bad!

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