Ranvier

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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

"The charges include market manipulation, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and wire fraud, which can lead to sentences of up to 20 years"

SEC also has a press release

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-166

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That is an impressive amount of LPS (lies per sentence), even by Trump standards. Some of them have layers, like a nesting doll of lies where each lie has even more lies inside when examined closely.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 months ago

I guess it vaguely looks like this one in terms of the large flat plane in the front. Though it's blade runner, so it's all grungy like pieces are falling off and it's all rusted and junk. Wait maybe cyber truck was inspired by bladeunner.

Doesn't look much like a lot of other cars in the movie though.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's a link to the gameplay reveal so people can see what you're talking about:

https://youtu.be/CTNwHShylIg?si=ebVtoc-xD7eVMOjX

The art style and tone looks much better in this than the weird trailer, but the gameplay looks closer to like mass effect 2 than dragon age origins. Probably gonna skip this one.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well there are evaporator fans in modern refrigerators in the US. They serve an important role though helping with defrosting, improving cooling efficiency, and evenness of cooling throughout the fridge.

https://refrigeratorguide.net/maximize-cooling-efficiency-best-refrigerator-evaporator/

Usually only very small refrigerators are without them now.

It is another point of failure though, but should be pretty easily repairable. I mean it'll still be able to cool without the fan, but it'll be running much more to try and compensate and keep things cool though.

If you know the YouTube channel technology connections, here's a fun video of him messing around with a fanless style refrigerator:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8PTjPzw9VhY

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 110 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (24 children)

Will use 4x as much electricity though, ugh.

https://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/your-old-refrigerator-energy-hog

Anyone know of any refrigerators today that are as durable as older ones and have today's efficiencies, but without the smart features and other junk?

Average refrigerator today still lasts 13 years though, and while they're made cheaply they also are cheaper (at least as a portion percentage of the average paycheck).

https://reviewed.usatoday.com/dishwashers/features/ask-the-experts-why-dont-new-home-appliances-last

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

Only catch is Republicans probably launching some type of legal action to try and stop it.

https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-professional/article/13-republican-ags-seek-to-stop-irs-s-fre-direct-file-pilot-program-020224

No lawsuit launched yet to my knowledge, just sternly worded letters saying please stop helping taxpayers instead of letting predatory companies like Intuit fleece money off of them.

I would expect them to try something soon though with this announced.

 

Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

https://archive.is/BquYY

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That the eye can only perceive 24 fps is a myth. Plus vision perception is very complicated with many different processes, and your eyes and brain don't strictly perceive things in frames per second. 24 fps is a relatively arbitrary number picked by the early movie industry, to make sure it would stay a good amount above 16 fps (below this you lose the persistence of motion illusion) without wasting too much more film, and is just a nice easily divisible number. The difference between higher frame rates is quite obvious. Just go grab any older pc game to make sure you can get a high frame rate, then cap it to not go higher to 24 after that, and the difference is night and day. Tons of people complaining about how much they hated the look of Hobbit movie with its 48 fps film can attest to this as well. You certainly do start to get some diminishing returns the higher fps you get though. Movies can be shot to deliberately avoid quick camera movements and other things that wouldn't do well at 24 fps, but video games don't always have that luxury. For an rpg or something sure 30 fps is probably fine. But fighting, action, racing, anything with a lot of movement or especially quick movements of the camera starts to feel pretty bad at 30 compared to 60.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

From the applications section of the Wikipedia article on quantum entanglement:

Entanglement has many applications in quantum information theory. With the aid of entanglement, otherwise impossible tasks may be achieved.

Among the best-known applications of entanglement are superdense coding and quantum teleportation.[85]

Most researchers believe that entanglement is necessary to realize quantum computing (although this is disputed by some).[86]

Entanglement is used in some protocols of quantum cryptography,[87][88] but to prove the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) under standard assumptions does not require entanglement.[89] However, the device independent security of QKD is shown exploiting entanglement between the communication partners.[90]

A lot of Sci Fi and other popular media likes to misconstrue quantum entanglement as allowing for faster than light communication so that they can have faster than light communication in their story, often for narrative purposes to make their galaxy spanning epic possible on a human time scale. But as far as we know, faster than light communication is impossible. It doesn't mean quantum entanglement is useless or not an important scientific finding though.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is just chat gpt rephrasing the comment above me. Don't worry though, when chat gpt is wrong it's quite confident sounding and even cites sources that don't exist but look quite convincing!

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

I don't think it's particularly gpu intensive like you'd expect for a graphically intense game, there's a heavy cpu bottleneck due to Npc calculations, some have suggested due to a lot of physics calculations with npcs. The npcs also have severe pop in issues in the city. For most people playing this the gpu isn't going to be the issue. Even the most powerful gaming cpus are only able to take it so far in its current state though.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hold on let me have chat gpt rephrase that for you.

I'm not exactly sure of the source, but there was a statement suggesting that language models offer three kinds of responses: ones that are too general to be of any value, those that essentially mimic existing content in a slightly altered form, and assertions that are completely incorrect yet presented with unwavering certainty. I might be paraphrasing inaccurately, but that was the essence.

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