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From memory the cards that stood out were

Nvidia 6xxx series, which was the first card to support SLI. I remember my gaming pc in college with 6x series card, and being able to get another card and use and SLI bridge that increased performance in some games.

Nvidia GeForce 900 series, which had the Titan with 12gb, first card iirc to able to support larger resolution gaming.

Nvidia RXT series which started with 20xx i think, first card to come with 24gb of ram.

And then the modern 4xxx series which used to fry power cables.


This is definitely out of the blue in terms of the person behind it. Its a cool concept as well (basically compressing meaning using language only).

That being said, can't help but wonder if stuff like this is better done with auto-encoders. The implementation in dialect.py seems very "narrative" oriented, probably not that good for things like coding.


Good. This needs to happen in US as well. Gas needs to go towards $20+ a gallon.

This is the kind of "pain" that makes people start paying attention to who they vote for and not vote just on vibes.


It would be nice if the people hit hardest by this weren’t the poorest.

The poor people that vote Democrat are in a large part also responsible for what is going on.

If you rewind time back to the election in 2024, in the year leading up to it, if you were to treat conservatives like the pieces of shit that they are in social settings, the vast majority of people including the poorer people that vote Democrat, would think you are an insane leftist.

And even today, with all the shit going on, its really quite unclear to me that anyone who supports Trump isn't treated with absolute disdain, if not violence. There are still people who are conservatives that think what Trump is doing is right, that still mingle with liberals in social groups, and everyone is just supposed to respect each other.

Somehow, there is a disconnect in peoples heads, where saying bigoted, racist, hateful shit is not ok, but voting for someone who does and makes policy around those ideas is supposed to be respected as a "political opinion", and we are supposed to focus on unity on people who want to actively make our lives worse.

Without the general public shift where conservatives are seen as absolute evil, nothing is going to change. Even in the best case scenario where Dems take the house and then the presidency, nothing is going to really change, we will just vote another conservative down the line, and now, they have a playbook of what went right and what went wrong during Trumps term, so they can rob the country even more and get away with it.

So the best anyone can hope for is for everyone to get whiplash from reality hitting them so hard in the face that they start paying attention.


As someone from Europe, to me the democrats don’t seem to particularly care about poor people either. They apparently do a slightly better job than the republicans, but that’s not a very high bar.

Also from outside the US, and the Democrats, the party itself that is not its supporters, are a bunch of human no-ops voted for by people who have no other choice than to vote for them because the alternative would be to vote for Trump. I read some stats somewhere saying that 80% of Democrat voters opposed the genocide in Gaza while the Democrat leadership were quite OK with it. This is a party that's completely out of touch with its own supporters, run as a sinecure for the leadership and little else.

If, on the day of Trump's inauguration, you'd replaced the entire Democrat leadership with a string puppet, would anyone have noticed the difference?


Firstly, the Democrats have done way more to actually help the poor people. Just under Bidens term, expansion of the child tax credit has been a huge help, and the infrastructure bill creates a whole lot of jobs.

Secondly, just know that your "centrist" position mask no longer works to hide your right wing views. You aren't fooling anyone when you compare democrats to a literal pedophiles and say both are bad. Luckily though, the EU isn't a bunch of pussies, and people like you can get arrested for lying and spreading misinformation.


I usually vote for left-of-center parties in my country and find your comment needlessly aggressive.

The problem is that there is a good amount of people who claim that they are on the left, but ideologically on the right, just like with all the people who did not vote for Kamala because of her stances on Israel. They basically want someone who is just like Trump that would carry out their version of ideal governance without giving a fuck if it destroys the country.

So its not about left vs right anymore, its about sanity vs insanity. You are either for returning to some level of normalcy, and understand that no matter what the Dems faults are, their worst policies or people are way way better than anything that the right has to offer, and criticizing them at this point on any of that is just pointless.


> Secondly, just know that your "centrist" position mask no longer works to hide your right wing views.

Not the person you are replying to, but as someone who is most definetly not right, or centre, I find the democrats very half hearted.

I don't think that you voting for the better of the two makes you right wing (you are limited by the options you have, and by the reality of the impact of your vote), but I do hope the next Democrat administration has the courage to just dictate through executive orders to give Medicade for all, etc, since they have the cover of the current adminstrations trying to create rules to make it all legal.


> I find the democrats very half hearted.

I really don't know if this is just a symptom of non understanding how bad the situation is. Just for reference, even at the best possible outcome of elections, your life is going to get dramatically harder over the next 10 years because of all the shit Trump did. Jobs are gonna disappear, your house value is going to go down, everything will be more expensive, and your options abroad will be MUCH more limited. No amount of policy is going to fix the seeded distrust that the world has against US, and thats not going to change anytime soon.

If we ever return to some normalcy, then we can have a discussion about the faults with Dems.

Because right now, this rhetoric is akin to being on a sinking ship, and your options are either to be torn apart by sharks in the water, or be on a lifeboat, and you are saying the lifeboat sucks because it doesn't have a sun shade.


And then read the second sentence...

I agreed that voting Dem at this point is the only sensible option, but that doesn't mean you can't be disappointed.


poorest need to be hit the hardest as historically they vote for wrong people who ensure they stay poorest

Its funny to read these comments where people think that focus is something that they can attain.

Your secret weapon isnt the laptop. Your secret weapon is a combination of a) actually giving a fuck about what you are doing, and b) the vibe of the workspace that makes you enjoy doing what you are doing.

Focus comes from a reinforcement loop of happy hormones that come from doing what you are doing. You can't focus on things that you don't enjoy doing.


>but if you get a DisplayLink dongle it works perfectly.

LOL

Im currently typing this on a work issued Macbook thats about 2 years old at this point, and 40% of the time, when I plug in a cable, it decides it wants to turn on and turn off hdmi output in rapid succession.


I always use DisplayPort over USB-C DP-Alt (or Thunderbolt on some displays) and I literally never have a problem across various LG, Dell and Apple Studio Displays.

MacBook Pro M1 Pro or MacBook Pro M5

Sounds like something is really broken in your setup?

On the other hand, sleeping/waking Thunderbolt displays on my ThinkPad with Linux regularly leads to kernel panics, across several kernel versions.


M1 non-Pro could only support one external screen through TB, and I think it carried on through at least M2 Air. It would also frequently get my Dell screen into a weird hung state after suspending and attempting to reconnect, frequently requiring a power cycle of the screen (not even connecting a Linux laptop back to it got it fixed). At some point, it seems to have gotten fixed and I am not seeing it anymore.

Linux, however, has worked great ever since I got the USB-C DP Alt-mode screen back around 8 years ago with my Thinkpad X1 Carbons over the years. I do have trouble getting a stable 8K at 60Hz through it with Iris Xe (gen13), but that does not work with Macs either.

Linux did have issues with using different scaling factors on multiple connected screens, but I only ever used one monitor so it never bothered me.

On top of that, it still does support subpixel rendering, and you can even tune pixel layout (RGB, BGR...) for VA and OLED panels, so text never looks crappy or janky as it can on Macs with low DPI screens (eg. large 4k screens of 40"+, but noticeable even on 32" 4k).


Recent thinkpads are a bit of shit-tier laptops, and linux doesn’t help much (it’s not linux’s fault).

for personal use I gave up after almost twenty years of thinkpad+linux and got a MacBook neo. So far it’s been great, much much better than my shit-tier ryzen-based x13g1 with 8c/16t and 32gb RAM. (Edit: it’s also more reliable when driving my 34” 1440p external display).


I had used Linux since mid-1990s and gave it up for Apple Silicon. Not fighting my hardware/software has been great despite the diminution of Apple’s software stack.

DisplayPort over DP Alt Mode != DisplayLink. DisplayLink is a way to send compressed video streams over a normal USB connection.

Yes, I never said so. I was suggesting to use DP-Alt mode instead (if they have a MacBook without HDMI, even if they had, I'd still prefer DP-Alt).

Display over USB-C is very janky (as in very much depends on hardware in the display or the docking station that you use).

The only saving grace was that the Macbook has external HDMI which works flawlessly, just like it has been for the past decade on any laptop. But not all models of Macs have had external HDMI. My last one did not, and it was a piece of crap, that ended up also swelling the battery somehow.


Even before vide coding this problem existed.

The truth is, only small companies build good stuff. Once a company becomes big enough, the main product that it originally started on is the only good thing that is worth buying from them - all new ventures are bound to be shit, because you are never going to convince people to break out of status quo work patterns that work for the rest of the company.

The only exception to this has been Google, which seems to isolate the individual sectors a lot more and let them have more autonomy, with less focus on revenue.


Remember when DOGE tried to cut out the inefficiencies and failed miserably? The "inefficiencies" and "bloated budgets" are there for a reason.

If Elon ran this project "without bloat", there is probably a 70% chance that the vehicle would have exploded, much in the way of his Starship and early Falcon vehicles.


But that explosion would have cost one tenth the cost a single SLS launch and the next one would go a little further. And eventually you would be flying the most reliable rocket in history more frequently than any other rocket for one tenth the cost of the competition.

This works for getting things to LEO. This doesn't scale well as the distance increases. You can't keep launching shit to the moon, crashing it over and over, until you get it right.

They can absolutely be solved by science and engineering, people just need to stop being so fucking afraid to break the rules to do whats right.

What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.

Solving inequality starts with everyone gets the same upbringing. Imagine designing a boarding school where kids get placed at an early age, and get all the support that they need to basically learn how to have control of the environment around them, while also how to interact with other humans to act as a force multiplier in accomplishing bigger things).

You could do this right now with a lot less money then it seems, the problem is that you have to break ethical grounds - for example, you have to have police or support staff that forcibly take kids from their homes if the parents resist this sort of education for their kids. If you don't do this, then you essentially are back to square one.


Stopping the world's resources from being controlled and directed by a tiny fraction of its population isn't the plot of Harrison Bergeron

It would be great if everyone felt and was in a major way in control of their life. Equal before the law and not much law. The people who want to create "equality" by preventing people from accumulating wealth also want to accumulate power in the state. A tiny fraction of people will also be running a socialist state.

Aristocrats are going to aristocrat, as they say.


What if I say I don't want to accumulate power in either of those places?

Would like to see such a system in action. Have any examples? Most go horribly wrong.

Early United States was pretty good but having a western frontier with "free" land was probably the enabling factor that no longer exists.


You are obviously very invested in the fact that someone who is going against the grain of the obviously bad, overly buerocratic government agency MUST be correct (otherwise, in the case you actually gave a fuck about the truth, you would be researching statements from NASA and comparing the reports)

If that is so, put your money where you mouth is and place a bet on polymarket. If you are too scared to do so, then admit it to yourself, and understand that you don't believe this shit anyway.

Because you being a cuck for a contrarian for the sole reason that he is going against the grain is basically the same as Joe Rogan being anti-vaxx because its trendy and cool to think government=bad.


> place a bet on polymarket

Aww, it would make me sad if people were betting on astronauts dying.


Fill in the blank:

"Maciej says modeling a different entry approach on computers is no substitute for a bona fide re-entry testing a new design, but that's incorrect because _____."


Maciej says modeling a different entry approach on computers is no substitute for a bona fide re-entry testing a new design, but that has no correlation to whether NASA engineers did due diligence on reviewing the design and determining if its safe, because he does not know the explicit technical discussions, reviews, or other analysis that went on behind the scenes, or more generally, hasn't analyzed the evidence counter to this claim.

The most clear cut indicator of intelligence is the ability to present both sides of the coin, and even more so state the conditions which make either side true or false.


I don't think "you're being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian" pairs particularly well with "if you're so convinced then just bet on in bro" as an argument.

I never said he was being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. I said he was being contrarian because its trendy. There is a difference between hating big government because of facts, and hating big government because its trendy.

> place a bet on polymarket

Isn't that a platform for insider trading? Not sure it qualifies here.


Not only but also.

Anyone can write an article when the hindsight is 20-20. You can make all sorts of justifications about what happened.

Much different than predicting future.


The in the article I linked has a lot of other qualifications. Someone wrote a comment complaining about my misscharacterization, but deleted it before I could say sorry. Sorry for the joke!

If you have 2 or 3 spare hours, it's worth reading.

The guy got a lot of first hand information about the Challenger disaster. He analyzed not only what went wrong, that is in the 20-20 category, but also what could have gone wrong, that is in the speculation category.

But if you read that report after the Columbia disaster, it's almost a premonition. He didn't identify the exact problem that caused the explosion, but the decisions that made that posible were quite similar.


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