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@ Ragdoll_X @lemmy.world

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  • Alternative YT forks?

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  • Is it working normally for you? Today the videos just stopped loading properly for me and now it just shows an error no matter how many times I retry to play a video.

    Edit: Downloaded the new version on their website and now it works 👍

  • Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential 'revenge' by Trump

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  • Well according to the supreme court he could just order Seal Team Six to kill Trump as long as he called it an "official act".

    But Dark Brandon never came...

  • Job application portal has started asking for my approval to let an AI review resume. Is it a mistake to opt out?

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  • I'd allow it, but then put some hidden white text in my resume to manipulate the AI into giving me a higher score.

  • It's unnatural

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  • "A woman can dream, mom!"

  • Elon Musk pledges "war" over H-1B visa program, calls opponents racists

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  • He might even pen some irritated tweets!

  • Metaverse hype fizzles out as Korean tech giants pull plug

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  • Cope. The idea always sucked and made no sense. (Also I just hate Zuck and hope he gets Luigi'd 🙏)

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  • Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if RFK Jr. Came out in favor of murder hornets

  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • I mean it's fine for me, but if it's broken for others I'll just use this one then.

  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • For those who are curious, that's the IEEE 754 representation of the number 300.

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    Ragdoll X @lemmy.world

    I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

  • Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM

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  • Knowing Nvidia's exorbitant pricing, I think I'll keep Intel's Arc B580 in my wishlist.

  • Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM

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  • You might just want to use Kaggle tbh

  • Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve

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  • Didn't some country already try this and fail miserably?

    Edit: Oh yeah, El Salvador invested $150M in bitcoin only for it to lose half its value lol

    Edit 2: lmao at the replies. For those of you who haven't read the Wikipedia article on this, here's the gist of it:

    • Salvadorian president Bukele forces businesses to accept BTC as legal tender, sets aside $150M in cash to back up his BTC plans, and offers $30 to anyone who signs up to a government-backed digital BTC wallet. Most Salvadorians never used it, and most who did just spend their $30 and leave. Less than 0.0001% of financial transactions use this BTC digital wallet, and most Salvadorians disapprove of Bukele's decisions, with >70% having little or no confidence in BTC, and 9/10 not even understanding what it is.
    • Bukele announces a "Bitcoin City", which leads to El Salvador's overseas bonds to fall by 30%.
    • In 2022, because of the BTC crash, the Salvadoran national reserves lost $22M.
    • By 2022 only 20% of businesses were actually using BTC, and only 3% thought it was actually valuable. By that point El Salvador's BTC had lost half of its value, and Bukele responded to its volatility by "buying the dip" like a maniac, with many economists predicting the country would likely default on its debt. And in usual right-wing fashion he cut public spending to make up for his incompetence, including water infrastructure and public services in some municipalities.
    • Finally, after all of this bullshit, in March 2024 El Salvador's BTC holdings stood at a 50% profit. Now that it's valued at >$100K their profit is higher, though by how much I'm not sure. Bukele still hasn't sold the BTC for some reason.

    If you look at all of this and genuinely think that the recent (and undoubtedly temporary) increase in the value of Bitcoin makes this whole thing a "Big Chungus W win for Bitcoin" or whatever, I strongly urge you to stay away from crypto and any casinos for your own sake. I assure you that there are plethora of better ways to spend the time of government employees and taxpayer money, and you deserve better than whatever faux-utopia crypto bros have sold to you. Actually investing in the country's infrastructure and economy, or even something like Norway's sovereign wealth fund, are much better ways to improve the economy without some long-term gamble that causes citizens to suffer.

  • Seasons

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    OP do you live in Antarctica

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What name that's common today do you think will be considered an "old person name" in the future?

  • Russian TV host gleefully claims Trump's Cabinet will 'dismantle' America, report says

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  • Really it's going to depend on the specific product and where/how it's produced, but of course as with anywhere else a lot of our stuff is imported from other countries, so since the Brazilian Real lost a lot of its value relative to other currencies in the past few years things have gotten a lot more expensive.

    This is obviously not an exact or thorough comparison, but just to give you an idea: The minimum and median wages are, respectively (assuming the usual 40h/week of work):

    U.S. - $1.160 | $4.949

    Brazil - R$1.412 ($231,86) | R$3.123 ($512,82)

    I could be completely wrong but the cheapest USB-3 phone charger I saw on Amazon was $5, so 0.43% of the minimum wage and 0.1% of the median wage, while in Brazil's main online shop (Mercado Livre) the cheapest one I saw was R$32, or 2.3% of the minimum wage and 1% of the median wage, which seems about right considering the dollar is about R$6 right now.

    A new Nintendo Switch Lite costs $200, while here in Brazil the cheapest one I could find was R$1400, so almost the entirety of our minimum wage.

    Point is, most things, and especially electronics, are expensive as heck nowadays.

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  • Well, he ain't wrong.

    I feel bad for Americans, but a selfish part of me kind of hopes that the dollar crashes so that electronics become cheaper here in Brazil.

  • Mechanical Batteries: The Future of Energy Storage? | FD Engineering

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  • They did test those block towers to see if they were resistant to earthquakes, and they were still standing after a test comparable to the strongest earthquake in California. Though I agree that compared to the other options available it does look way more unsafe and inefficient.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Ragdoll X @lemmy.world

    Mechanical Batteries: The Future of Energy Storage? | FD Engineering

  • In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into.

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  • QnQ pwease down't ask me abouwt Tiananmen Squawe, that's vewy mean...

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  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • It's a known problem - though of course, because these companies are trying to push AI into everything and oversell it to build hype and please investors, they usually try to avoid recognizing its limitations.

    Frankly I think that now they should focus on making these models smaller and more efficient instead of just throwing more compute at the wall, and actually train them to completion so they'll generalize properly and be more useful.

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    You really believe there's a shiny rock called "uranium" that kills you with its aura? Don't be silly, that's magic, not science!

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    yesterday was a very normal and not at all stressful day so I made a meme about it

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Sodium-ion batteries in the USA. Beating China at their own game!

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    What did we learn from Covid? (Jen Sorensen)