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  • Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

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  • How is the software-rendered image supposed to show up on the screen if GPU is nonresponsive? Excluding laptops with switchable graphics, the GPU is the one actually connected to the display. If the GPU hangs, how could the CPU continue to update the framebuffer in GPU memory?

  • Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens

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  • Making more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn't have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.

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  • Music genres

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  • Algae Rock!

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  • I think there are definitely some specific cases where it makes sense. For example garbage dumps (and compost facilities as well, I think) produce tons of methane and other unpleasant flammable gases which often get flared off, it seems only reasonable that if you're gonna be burning the gas anyway that you might as well use that heat to spin a turbine instead of just fuelling a uselessly burning flame on a pole.

    In theory biofuel is perfectly carbon-neutral if you're growing all the input biomass yourself, since all the carbon released when the fuel is burned is carbon which was captured during the growth stage. But in practice it's not ideal:

    • There's still plenty of potential sources of emissions, like harvesting and transporting the biomass will likely be burning fossil fuels and also tires and stuff
    • Growing biomass is slow, so from what I understand a lot of it ends up coming from newly cut trees and stuff because it's cheaper than buying tons of land, planting stuff and then waiting years for stuff to grow
    • IMO the main problem: there are other more useful things we could be doing with that land, if you can grow crops for biofuel production you could also just grow food there and put some wind turbines or solar panels or something on one of the many places on earth not suitable for agriculture to provide the energy

    If the biofuel is being produced from like agricultural byproducts (e.g. the stalks of harvested crops) I don't think there's really a problem, but AFAIK most of that stuff gets used for compost or gets left on fields to put nutrients back in the soil (and because it's cheaper and easier to leave it than having to collect it again).

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • I've got an old HP laptop which I've been running a Jenkins server on for years. The fan died back in like 2018, and I just kept putting off buying a replacement, so it has been running with no fan for 7 years now. Remarkably it still works fine, although a but slower than it used to thanks to thermal throttling :P

  • What's the funniest YouTube video you can think of?

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  • Gotta learn it

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  • I don't know about the others, but Arduino is literally just C++ with some macros/library functions.

  • Remember: the SUX 3141 Ti is 60% slower than the SUX 3141 Xt. because it's 5 years older and has no components in common.

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  • how about my geforce 9500 for your vega 64?

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  • needs more jpeg

  • What would you do to stop a transition to a dictatorship and why?

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  • You can also be arbitrarily deemed "unfit for service" and forced to pay a pretty expensive compensation fee for the next several years, even if you would have preferred to have done the months of military or year of civil service instead.

  • Pale Blue Dot

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  • "If everyone could see it"

    Proceeds to show an alternate future where having seen it is apparently a status symbol, which implies that not everyone is able to see it

    I guess the artist just wanted to make a "haha rich people bad" joke, but surely there are other ways to make the same joke without completely ignoring the hypothetical scenario you described literally one panel before?

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • this is 4chan

  • What non-Steam games do you play?

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  • You need a Microsoft account to sign in to the launcher, download the game and play online, but if you already have the game installed you can launch it and play singleplayer without an internet connection.

  • The C++ experience

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  • The longer I look at this the more uncertain I am whether or not this is AI.

    The fingers look weirdly long, but all of the text is actually written and oriented correctly, but the shading across the surface of all the cards seems to change brightness randomly, ...

  • So beautiful

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  • You don't have to dig up the roads to fix buried power lines any more than you have to tear up your walls to replace power lines in your house: you install a conduit (basically a pipe) under the road once and if the cable somehow gets damaged and needs to be replaced you can just run new cable through the existing conduit by simply pushing it in on one end and pulling from the other.

    Transformers and other non-cable equipment are typically housed aboveground in little boxes or built in to the house, so they're actually easier to maintain than if they were installed aboveground on a pole since you don't need a cherrypicker to access it.

    Obviously in a less wealthy small town with existing overhead infrastructure it doesn't make much sense to move it all underground "just because", but if you're already trenching under the road to install water/sewage/gas mains, it won't cost much extra to throw down an additional one or two smaller conduits for running power cables or telephone/cable/fiber lines.

  • Google why?

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  • Only if the old software happens to have drivers compatible with the new hardware, which it almost certainly doesn't.

  • What subscription services do you actually pay for and get value from?

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  • JetBrains IDEs.

  • What's the best Schoolhouse Rock song?

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  • Conjunction Junction (What's your Function)