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  • The SpaceX IPO was hilariously ridiculous. They were saying that in a few years they'll be launching Starships every few hours. Meanwhile they haven't even delivered payload to orbit with them yet... (As they still don't trust it enough I guess)

    Anyone who knows anything at all about spaceflight could tell you that was both stupid and impossible, yet they just get away with it. It's blatantly obvious lying to investors, but I'm sure they'll make up some excuse or pretend they never said that by the time it's 2030 and they're not launching Starships every few hours

  • He was involved in PayPal early on (after a merger iirc) so most of his money was from PayPal stocks. That might have changed over the last few years, but that's how he was so rich before

    Because PayPal is something that people actually use

  • there is an intersection near me (east coast USA) with one lane on one side of 2 yellow lines and 3 lanes on the other side. It's definitely possible. It does have turning arrows, but those would be a bit out of view from this angle I think (they're kinda far back). The picture is still very implausible though because of the very uneven lane widths and the weird crosswalk paint. The closest lane looks like it could only fit half a car.

  • I think this is fake and an AI generated image. The only place I can find this story is on slop YouTube channels (just showing this screenshot), it isn't anywhere else online. The image also isn't anywhere else that the Google image search can find, and this ai detector that seems accurate in my experience finds it suspicious

  • Well, I'd be surprised if they're throwing away the digitized versions, they will want to use them in training all of their future models. If they go bankrupt maybe someone more willing to share will get the data

  • I have never in my life tied and untied shoes every time I put them on, even though all of my shoes have laces. It takes a lot of force, but I slide into tight-ish dress shoes as well. With my hiking boots, I just pull the string over the clips. I have also known how to tie shoes decently quickly for as long as I can remember.

  • I had an asus rtx 3060 for ~4 years and the only problem I am had with it was the RGB sometimes not working because of software issues.

  • It's good to encourage reuse, which is eBay's main thing. I wouldn't have a reason to buy anything new from them however.

  • I got my home server (Lenovo thinkcentre, i7 6700) for $30 minus ram or storage at my local university surplus store a few years ago, and I have no regrets. Added a 256gb sata SSD, 16 gb RAM, 8tb HDD all refurbished for like +$150 when that was still cheap.

  • That one was, but the current one is not

  • They can make it illegal to sell certain types of hardware to consumers that allows you to install your own operating system. Of course, there is still virtualization. You can run Linux in a web browser nowadays (badly, but if there was a reason to improve it I'm sure it would be done)

  • It's clear that several people in charge of the youtube livestream have no idea about how to do that correctly. I think the difference is just effort. Viewership was tiny compared to Apollo 11, as was the hype leading up to it. It's clear that NASA could provide a whole lot better footage if even some random youtuber (Everyday Astronaut) can beat them. So that aspect is, as you said, because as a society we don't really care about the Artemis launch. SpaceX does put a fair amount of effort into their livestreams, and you can easily tell by watching them.

    For the recorded footage, film often has a lot higher dynamic range than digital cameras and usually looks a whole lot better when recording a launch up close.

    Far shots are limited by atmospheric distortion and physical limits from diffraction for a given aperture size. None of that can change.

    IDK anything about the quality of the original live broadcast of Apollo 11, so i don't have anything to compare in that regard

  • Yeah, I rewatched the launch from Everyday Astronaut's livestream and he actually had better footage, he had a tracking camera showing the booster separation

    Outside of the launch part, I think it's mostly because SpaceX has set the standard so high, with tons of high resolution cameras streaming over Starlink even during reentry

  • it's a reference to this xkcd

    edit: as an april fools thing probably

  • No one's stopping you

  • For reference

  • It does seem still very impressive against other top laptop CPUs.

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ryzen-AI-9-HX-PRO-375-vs-Ultra-X9-388H-vs-A18-Pro_19565_20016_18006.247596.0.html

    Although I heard from Jeff Geerling's review that the neo often noticably throttles after a few seconds.

    It also has pretty terrible IO.

    I think the biggest attraction is the build quality, screen, etc. Most cheap laptops seem to cheap out on those a lot in my experience, and Apple did not. If you're not stressing the CPU or GPU, it'll still feel almost as high quality as any other MacBook.

  • I have a 2 core, 2 thread, 4gb RAM 3855u Chromebook that I installed Plasma on, and it's usually pretty responsive.

  • sounds like that's planned but maybe not in yet

  • Sodium ion is generally much more stable.

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  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Does anyone else find it weird that the bottom of a graphics card is always the good looking side?