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Comment Re:I'm not sure I want a Ive designed device anymo (Score 1) 52

The agony, of course, is that Dieter Rams was all about function, which informed his designs. If Apple had hired him (he's still alive, incredibly) instead of just imitating him, he'd probably have taken a significantly different direction that actually respected the complexity of the underlying hardware instead of trying to butcher it. And the logos would have been smaller!

Comment Discord takes your credit card hostage (Score 4, Interesting) 70

They won't let you delete the card while you have an active nitro subscription. However, you auto-renew before the subscription expires. You aren't given a chance to remove your card and they continue extracting money from you.

Even worse, they somehow get your NEW card details (mine expired, I got a new CCV and EXP date, somehow discord got the EXP and that's all they needed to continue charging me. I didn't give it to them as I was expecting the card to be rejected for an improper expiration and I was not planning to renew.)

Discord CEO and CFO need to be tossed in jail for wire fraud and theft by wire.

Comment Re:Three docs that were (Score 3, Informative) 350

You post AC because you can't properly back up your claim.

Protip: Ivermectin's protease inhibitors don't work on the same shit paxlovid does. They in fact target entirely different things. Ivermectin targets muscles.

But you keep posting AC on a site full of people that know better. All you're doing is making yourself look cowardly AND stupid.

Comment Re:Another Cirrus (Score 3, Insightful) 30

As someone with a tiny bit of flight experience in a Piper Cub and a Cessna 140A, every plane certainly has far different capabilities and attention requirements. Even the same airframe with more power handles so much more differently because of the weight distribution changes and what not. I'm rather disheartened to see a troll mod here and I have none to help rectify that.

And your personal rule is what my first flight instructor said to me on my very first flight (they did takeoff and landing, I handled everything in between for the lesson.)

Comment Engineering is only part of it (Score 2) 81

Right now, Boeing's problem is QA/QC. What they need is a CEO with *SOME* engineering experience but who has a specialty focus and whose primary experience is with ISO/TC184/SC4 and maintaining quality standards, and production speed be damned. You can be an engineer all day long and still fail as a CEO because you don't understand the standards and regulations applicable to your industry. If the new CEO does not understand the QC side of things, it won't matter if they're an engineer, this fiasco will repeat itself.

Comment Re: Performance per Watt (Score 1) 65

Why? Search algorithms are enormously efficient and easily parallelizable, and what you can describe can be divided into stages and pipelined as well.

You also don't know all that many people, maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand tops. Even sequentially going through a list of all the external characteristics you know about a thousand people is sheer triviality for a modern computer. The dataset would be small because you're not trawling through petabytes of data but looking through already digested and organized information.

Comment Re:GPU does what? (Score 4, Informative) 65

Everything works better when specifically designed for the application. A CPU can render in software, but a GPU does it better. A GPU may mine crypto well, but an ASIC designed for crypto and nothing else will do a much better job.

AI turns out to have some quite specific needs that GPUs don't ideally satisfy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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