Buffalox

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Normal one and zero transistors can hold their state for a while only needing refresh cycles at intervals.
Seems logical to me that it's harder to hold values of greater variance, which is probably also why everything works with binary systems, and not a single vendor has chips that use bits with for instance 3 or 4 states.
What would be most obvious if this wasn't a problem would be to make a decimal based computer. There's a reason we don't have that, except by using 4 bits wasting 6 values, which is very wasteful.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

All three components will be in production this time next year

OK we will see then how good they are.
Pretty awful pictures, hard to see if the monster in the center of the board is a single chip or chiplet design? But it looks like a single chip, so guaranteed to be insanely expensive to make.

Let's hope AMD or others can really break into the compute market with some more competitive products.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody cares about cars killing people and animals.

I think that's overstating it a bit, of course many care, and we have people who are responsible for setting safety standards.
Just because accidents are unavoidable doesn't mean we aren't trying to minimize them and avoid fatalities.

Mandatory safety belts is an example of this. But other than that there are actual scientific studies into road safety, and even city wide implementations of such studies. At least in Europe there is, but I'm guessing USA has it too.

Just because traffic accidents happen, and we obviously need "traffic" to be able to move around, doesn't mean nobody cares.

As an anecdotal example, here (Denmark) the speed limit was increased from 110 to 130 on our equivalent to Autobahn, which may seem like accepting more accidents for convenience or efficiency. But in reality it was to divert more traffic to the safer "Autobahn" to actually reduce the number of accidents on smaller roads.

Traffic safety is as much about psychology as it is about making safer systems.

PPS:
Regarding the animals we have just had warnings about deer, and some places have small tunnels made for frogs.
And there are warning signs where deer tend to cross in almost any country that has them.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

After the latest Android update, When I turn on the torchlight on my phone, I get a notification with a text AND A blingeling sound.
I often use the torch when going to bed, and the audio notification is EXTREMELY annoying since I'm trying not to wake my wife.

For fucks sake, a notification for tuning on the torchlight? I would think it's kind of obvious since first I pushed the button to turn it on, and for fucks sake it a TORCHLIGHT, how could I miss having turned it on?!?! That notification is insanely moronic, and I can't find anywhere to disable it???
Stupid Android updates always fuck up something.

PS:
My phone is a Xiaomi 13T Pro.
If this is a Xiaomi thing, it could be reason enough for me not to buy Xiaomi again.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Good point, and it is also very sensitive to contamination after it is boiled, even minor contamination will ruin the beer.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In that regard I think he and you are correct.
Also that a moderate amount of alcohol facilitates socializing better than most things.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

AFAIK traditional beer has a pretty high content of B vitamins, and those can have the effect of easing depression and improve mental energy.
BUT! Also AFAIK modern brewing techniques removes most the vitamin B to improve taste and looks (making it clear).

What is still often in beer is alcohol, and after the initial up from being a little bit drunk, alcohol is known to make depressions worse, and decrease mental energy.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why would you do it with people you don't trust?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(Translated)

The decision not to sell VLC represents an act of resistance against the increasing privatization of software. In an era when many free applications are monetized through advertising, subscriptions or data collection, VLC remains true to its original mission:

Cool 😎
And thanks. 👍 😀

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It not only gave way, it actually paved the way.
Brainwashing about American individual freedom ideals, have become idolization of billionaire sociopaths as the ultimate expressions of individual freedom.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.

Oh for fucks sake with the strawman arguments. u/freedom never stated anything indicating support for eugenics. But apart from that you are totally wrong about the social Darwinism, it's just not genetic but Memetic as Richard Dawkins has defined it, bad ideals spreading like disease. As in the idolization of personal freedom and money resulting in idolization of sociopathy as the ultimate expression of individual freedom.
So u/freedom was more right than you, it's just not genetics driving this problem, it's cultural insanity.

 

In Denmark when a car reaches 6 years, it needs to be safety checked to be used on the roads. After that it's every 2nd years.

Tesla model 3 managed these safety checks extremely poorly, with 3 times the average failure rate.

In total, 1,392 errors were found on the Tesla model, which is three times as many compared to the other electric cars.

If you don't have a translate page button (to your own language), You may want to switch to Firefox. I'm showing the original page in danish, because danish is delicious.

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My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones, despite the Moto had cheap Panda glass front.

Then I bought my $800 glass back Xiaomi 13T Pro in January, and I loved the phone for the camera and good specs. But alas after only 4 months, and single drop of just 30 cm while sitting on the porch, the glass back immediately cracked! The back now looks like an ugly mess, and the high water resistance is very likely gone too.

For sure the last time I buy a phone with a glass back!!!

I wonder why glass back is so popular, and I curse the media for reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S2 as "feeling a bit cheap", because the back was synthetic, and drop tests showed it was 10 times as durable as the iPhone with its glass back.

Samsung did it right in the beginning, glass backs are a curse.

PS: I don't use condoms for my phones, if they need that for daily use, it's an obvious design flaw!!!

The glass back is supposedly there to give a premium feel to the phone. But because it's fragile, people have to use a cover, but with the cover, the premium feel of a glass back is gone anyways?
How is glass back not a design flaw?

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION:

I am not clumsy, that's why I believe the phone should be able to last without cover. This was the first time the phone slid out of my packet, and I've NEVER dropped it out of my hands. One 30 cm slip and it's broken. Where for instance my Moto had maybe 4-6 in all over the years, and remained unscathed, apart from some tiny scratches.
The sliding out of pocket does occur maybe a couple of times per year, but it's a low drop, and the phone should absolutely be able to handle that tiny drop, as it's an item for everyday use.
I've also never had problems with scratches on my screen on any phone, which is the reason people use screen protectors I guess, which I don't either, because they are ugly, for instance they create a tiny ring around the camera, and they feel awful IMO, my phone came with it, and it took exactly 10 seconds for me to decide to remove it, because I could feel the edge of the screen protector when using the phone.
But please stop with the dropping my phone regularly comments! Just because I dropped my Moto a few times (slid out of pocket) over almost 4 years! Always from low height, which it should be able to handle a few times.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@Thunderf00t

I considered hard weather this really belongs in Technology, but came to the conclusion that exposing a scammer that is considered a tech genius, does belong here. Because debunking a technology company is as important as showing it, when it's considered valid.

That said, I believe most people here are already aware that Musk is not to be trusted blindly. But just how bad it really is, may be news to some.

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