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  • AI in reality

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  • Man alive, don't get the managers working with audio. "Doubling the stream" might work if you're using a signed audio format rather than an unsigned one, and the format is in the same endianness as the host computer uses. Neither of which are guaranteed when working with audio.

    But of course, the ear perceives loudness in a logarithmic way (the decibel scale), so for it to be perceived as "twice as loud", it generally needs an exponential increase. Very high and low frequencies need more, since we're less sensitive to them and don't perceive increases so well.

  • What do I want to see in the Linux ecosystem in 2025?

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  • Finish the transition from X to Wayland?

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  • The ho-meow-ner, at that.

  • Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business

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  • Bear in mind as well that the Scottish government rejected a lot of the privatisation that the remainder of the UK went through, so 'government' doesn't just mean civil servants in offices, it means things like Scottish Forestry and Scottish Water as well. Need to manage small teams of people over very large areas who are frequently out of mobile phone contact, as well as sharing information with subcontractors who will frequently be one-man-band operators who may just have a van and a mobile phone; no laptop, no IT team.

    So 'convenient', but also 'almost nothing else would be practicable'.

  • ChatGPT is down

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  • Thought they were running GPT on a Playstation3 cluster, there. Sure, get the PS3 for cheap, but spare parts will be a bastard.

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • Ah yes. I remember preparing a recipe once that included frying up the ingredients in a cup of oil, and that turns out seriously fucking greasy if you use the UK cup size.

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • Bear in mind that the gallon we use is different from the US gallon, too:

    • a UK gallon is eight (imperial) pints of 20 fluid ounces, so 4.54 litres
    • a US gallon is 231 cubic inches, so 3.79 litres

    The reason that I thought American car fuel economy was so terrible as a child is partly because UK mpg is +20% on US mpg for the same car on the same fuel. But also, because American car fuel economy is so terrible.

  • 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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  • That's not correct, I'm afraid.

    Thermal expansion is proportional to temperature; it's quite significant for ye olde spinning rust hard drives but the mechanical stress affects all parts in a system. Especially for a gaming machine that's not run 24/7 - it will experience thermal cycling. Mechanical strength also decreases with increasing temperature, making it worse.

    Second law of thermodynamics is that heat only moves spontaneously from hotter to colder. A 60° bath can melt more ice than a 90° cup of coffee - it contains more heat - but it can't raise the temperature of anything above 60°, which the coffee could. A 350W graphics card at 20° couldn't raise your room above that temperature, but a 350W graphics card at 90° could do so. (The "runs colder" card would presumably have big fans to move the heat away.)

  • 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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  • Tell me about it. The numbers that I'm interested in - "decibels under full load", "temperature at full load" - might as well not exist. Will I be able to hear myself think when I'm using this component for work? Will this GPU cook all of my hard drives, or can it vent the heat out the back sufficiently?

  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus

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  • At first, the air of mystery suggested hidden depths, but increasing exposure revealed that it was all just woven from thin air and would routinely come out with increasingly absurd stories that contradicted previous statements.

    Also, the X-Files.

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  • But cooking a ham is still okay?

  • Just asking questions, bro

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  • For the love of God, Montresor!

  • An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS

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  • What a shower of twats. Don't block the request in that case, just redirect it to your local server that returns a 1x1 transparent png for all requests.

  • AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops

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  • Invested in a water cooler setup back when I had a Bulldozer chip, which was near essential. Now on a Ryzen, and getting it to exceed about 35 degrees is very difficult. Been very good for long-term stability of my desktop - all the niggling hard disk issues seem to just go away when they've not subjected to such thermal cycling any more.

    Fantastic chips.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Impressive, since "network effects" are what keeps people on a platform. Why move off Xitter or FB when everyone's on there, and not on the new place? Keep moving a significant fraction of a million people every week, and pretty soon, it'll be where everyone is.

    My partner, who is very non-technical, signed up for a BlueSky as well this week: "all the teacher blogs have declared that they are moving over". Looks like everyone has had enough.

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  • Writing this on a Tuxedo Pulse 14 gen 3 - great laptop, flawless Linux support and a coding workstation. Perfect for a bit of eg. Disco Elysium or Crusader Kings 3 on the go, but it's no gaming machine; it has a lot of pixels for a Radeon 780M to push. They do have a list of gaming laptops, though, if you wanted a speciality machine?

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Having had one of the old Windows phones with a keyboard dumped on me at an old workplace, can confirm it's completely possible for a phone to have a keyboard and be a complete piece of shit.

    A good phone with a good keyboard may have some use cases. If you do a lot of writing but not any more computing power or screen space than a phone has, plus you want to be doing that on the move, then yeah. For me, can shitpost on forums using my phone in my spare time, and dealing with on-call work issues - having multiple tabs of Jira and Slack open, for instance - just isn't really practical on a small screen.

    If your job is very email-centric, then yeah, sure. Blackberry were very good for just having the stuff you need - email, vpn, 'corporate' office documents - in a form that worked.

  • Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds

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  • Also interesting is the notion of 'Kolmogorov Complexity' - what is the shortest programme that could produce a given output? Worst case for a truly random sequence would just be to copy it out, but a programme that outputs eg. a million digits of pi can actually be quite short. As can a programme that outputs a particular block cypher for an empty input. In general, it is very difficult to decide how long a programme is needed to produce a given output, and what the upper limit of compression could be.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

  • Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for September 28, 2015

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  • Nice art, too. I think that scrolling down might ruin the pacing? but that's some beautiful spacing and colouring.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • Assuming that these have fairly impressive 100 MB/s sustained write speed, then it's going to take about 93 hours to write the whole contents of the disk - basically four days. That's a long time to replace a failed drive in a RAID array; you'd need to consider multiple disks of redundancy just in case another one fails while you're resilvering the first.