nullsmack

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by nullsmack 1mo ago
Even with AI pressure I'm willing to bet there's no need for prices to be this high. There has to be some price gouging/fixing going on. Same thing for nand and GPUs. Or else they're doing it to try to pressure people no
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by nullsmack 1mo ago
I kinda miss the various electronics hobbyist magazines that used to exist too. They didn't always show you everything, and I think some things had to be acquired via snail mail or bbs.. especially code was usually left out of the maga
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by nullsmack 2mo ago
I had no idea this was still around. It helped me buy a Battlefield 2 "Special Forces" expansion pack back in the day. Well, I could've bought it either way but buying it didn't impact my normal income because I did Mech
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by nullsmack 3mo ago
We need some kind of modern equivalent to the old proposed Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act but which protects people's rights to digital media they buy. These should never be sold and then taken away with no compensation like
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by nullsmack 5mo ago
The Dot Com bubble burst and it didn't materially affect anything. Some of the things that failed then even came back later. Buying stuff online ate retail, sadly enough. Some dumb business plans went away, but the core of the commerci
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by nullsmack 6mo ago
Qwen2.5 is quite old at this point. The new Qwen3.5 series is good, and it has a 27b dense model too. I have to watch it but I've gotten surprising results out of the 4b model even. They're also vision enabled and pretty good at
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by nullsmack 7mo ago
This sucks so much. I exclusively use messenger.com because it gives me a nice big window to view the chats in. Pictures and video work better there too. I don't want a tiny chat in the corner of the main website that I never use.
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by nullsmack 7mo ago
Depends on how long the hose is.
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by nullsmack 10mo ago
People act like AI is going to go away when an "AI bubble" pops. What happened to the web when the dotcom bubble popped?
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by nullsmack 10mo ago
I know one area of computing that has dramatically risen in price in the past 10-15 years or so is GPUs. Cards that fit into midrange today sell for prices that would've been considered ultra-highend just a few gpu generations ago. Tod
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by nullsmack 10mo ago
I've been waiting on something like this for years, I'm surprised it took so long for someone to do it since there's been those gotek floppy drive emulators and things like bluescsi for forever. This seriously just made my da
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by nullsmack 11mo ago
They better watch the price because you can get a 128GB AMD Strix Halo mini pc for ~1700-2000 today, and those will be even cheaper a year from now. If they're trying to be competitive then it really needs to be more in that ballpark t
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by nullsmack 11mo ago
whoa, shoot this directly into my veins
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by nullsmack 1y ago
The mini pcs based on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) are probably pretty competitive with those. Depending on which one you buy it's $1700-2000 for one with 128GB RAM that is shared with the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics. There&
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by nullsmack 1y ago
That gave me a nightmare vision of Doom clones where you pay money to appear as a different sprite and it's inflicted with last man standing type game modes and all kinds of other bad things modern games do.
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by nullsmack 1y ago
I'm lowkey shocked it's not a esp32 or something. I haven't seen a ATTINY used for a long time.
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by nullsmack 1y ago
It uses the slow method where you push the same key until you get the letter you want to show up? Does anybody remember T9? You push the keys for the letters you want and it figures out what you're typing from a dictionary.
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by nullsmack 1y ago
wasn't there an xkcd like this once?
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by nullsmack 1y ago
New storage tech like this never ever comes out.. I remember 300gb or 500gb holographic discs touted 20 years ago.. every other storage tech like that since then has been announced and never made. IBM had a millipede project that used MEMS
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by nullsmack 1y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Real Genius.. where more and more students were leaving tape recorders on their desks to record a lecture and then eventually their professor left one playing a recorded lecture to a room full of tape recorders.
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by nullsmack 1y ago
I've read about this same thing happening with electric dump trucks. There's articles from 2019 about one: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1124478_world-s-largest... There are more articles about it, but
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by nullsmack 1y ago
idk, what did stubbing your toe make you feel. what did it say to you. what did the universe put into it?
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by nullsmack 1y ago
Great, how my trailers per year is that given existing plants. How many will it be if they start building more plants. How many hundreds of thousands of years will that need to be safely stored and guarded before it is safe? How many traile
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by nullsmack 2y ago
I wish they'd make one of these with the Vortex86EX SOM-128-EX inside it. It'd be like a modern Toshiba Libretto 110.
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by nullsmack 2y ago
This is kinda silly. I bet if this guy ever ends up finding his hard drive, it's probably not going to be readable anymore.
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by nullsmack 2y ago
It's so frustrating that some people think it was overblown. It was fixed in time, so the things that really could've happened, didn't.
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by nullsmack 2y ago
Love Shack is objectively the worst song of all time.
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by nullsmack 2y ago
Other/older digital cameras used similar sequences of letters and numbers like DSC_0001 and a few more I can't remember atm. It might be fun to search for those too.
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by nullsmack 2y ago
It's a shame they couldn't have ended the Electoral College error. It's very frustrating knowing how much better things could've turned out if the people who won the popular vote had been able to take office instead of t
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by nullsmack 2y ago
Thankfully there are many options for offline LLMs now

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