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Kibbles n Shits posted:Company towns except instead of a bunkhouse it's just a parking lot they are well ahead of you with camperforce
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Oct 22, 2023 18:14
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I'm finally getting a 4K TV this week. I got my current one in 2015 and it still works, I'll just move it to my bedroom and probably never use it.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:17
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it's funny how the annual iPhone release has gone from a massive hype event to something that barely registers on peoples' radars. I wonder how much of it has to do with the increments being less and less noticeable I went to replace my iPhone XR (not by choice, the logic board gave out) and I've never been so undersold at a company store before. like 4 different people working there said that the 14 straight up wasn't worth it, and that I should just get the 13 instead
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Oct 22, 2023 18:27
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Taima posted:Something I've really appreciated about this discussion is, no one is acting like these individual consumptive choices are helping anyone, we're all just going "yeah I don't personally see the point anymore" which is totally fair. i'm probably about 80/20 overall on 'buy new prime shipping replacement + chuck the other one in a landfill' versus 'repair and fix up' anyways. doodad electronic treats are just so cheap that it's often not worth 1-4 hours of labor to fix something.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:33
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:it's funny how the annual iPhone release has gone from a massive hype event to something that barely registers on peoples' radars. I wonder how much of it has to do with the increments being less and less noticeable We've reached technology maturation on a lot of stuff that was driving the 90s through 10s and there's not really anything on the horizon. VR is a gimmick on par with 3D TV. AR might work but I don't think anyone will bother. AI is the only shot for a comparable technological leap to what we grew up with -- and it's currently being squandered on nonstop barrages of slop. Between that and staring down the barrel of a brutal recession I think we're in for at least a couple decades of technological stagnation.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:52
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she makes 5x 100% of the federal poverty guideline
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Oct 22, 2023 18:57
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scrolled down the thread and lol https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1715957910415499752
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Oct 22, 2023 18:59
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my mom complaining about landlords and rising rent prices, but because "the management companies that own everything don't recognize good tenants and aren't kind" lmao
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Oct 22, 2023 19:02
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SKULL.GIF posted:We've reached technology maturation on a lot of stuff that was driving the 90s through 10s and there's not really anything on the horizon. VR is a gimmick on par with 3D TV. AR might work but I don't think anyone will bother. AI is the only shot for a comparable technological leap to what we grew up with -- and it's currently being squandered on nonstop barrages of slop. Just because personal computers and phones have stagnated doesn't mean that everything will, but I agree that we're heading towards tech that gets replaced when it breaks instead of because something better is available. I never had an 802.11a router, but g was a huge improvement over b, n was gigantic over g, and ac was likewise a big jump over n. Now there's wifi 7 routers hitting the market and I haven't even upgraded to 6/ax because ac is good enough. One segment that's still improving is solar deployments, that's real and self sustaining at this point but it's going to have some really bizarre effects on the electricity market. We are heading towards power being dirt cheap when the sun is shining but more expensive than it currently is when the sun isn't.
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Oct 22, 2023 19:06
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Gunshow Poophole posted:every day i pray
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Oct 22, 2023 19:19
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I think this thread is seriously underestimating drones as a huge technological innovation. Their military application is hard to miss and a tidal wave of DoD money is going to start flowing into drone R&D and even without that the materials are only going to get cheaper and smaller. Sure they're just a miniaturization and recombination of existing technologies but so were smartphones.
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Oct 22, 2023 19:31
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AnEdgelord posted:I think this thread is seriously underestimating drones as a huge technological innovation. Their military application is hard to miss and a tidal wave of DoD money is going to start flowing into drone R&D and even without that the materials are only going to get cheaper and smaller. Sure they're just a miniaturization and recombination of existing technologies but so were smartphones. Is there any civilian benefit aside from small package delivery?
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Oct 22, 2023 19:38
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being able to take aerial photography without chartering a plane or helicopter has been pretty cool, but not life improving in any tangible way no
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Oct 22, 2023 19:40
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Save on gas money: sleep in your car at work
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Oct 22, 2023 19:42
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Yes but what if the someone is the next Hitler? Hitler 3?
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Oct 22, 2023 19:42
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SKULL.GIF posted:Is there any civilian benefit aside from small package delivery? well for one thing my parents had a roof leak during a rainstorm a few weeks back and when the roofer showed up to assess the roof and do a quote he used a drone to look at the roof rather than actually go up there with a ladder themselves its also not hard to imagine that you will be able to put some sort of manipulator on these flying drones, like you see on those walking dog drones, where they will be able to retrieve items or use simple tools
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Oct 22, 2023 19:47
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SKULL.GIF posted:Is there any civilian benefit aside from small package delivery? The chance to very quickly convert your status to non-civilian in the eyes of governments that don't want even the potential of small packages delivered to them
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Oct 22, 2023 19:47
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euphronius posted:she makes 5x 100% of the federal poverty guideline The FPL guidelines are a joke & it's criminal that so many benefits, from ACA subsidies to SNAP, use them as a basis for eligibility. The LAT also had a piece on people living out of their cars & this graf, from a woman living in an RV with 2 of her kids, was incredible: quote:Now I clean Airbnbs. The pay is good — about $20,000 a year — and I keep getting referrals, but I can’t go back to renting because I’d spend most of my money on rent and eventually I’d be back to where I was, with no money for food or bills. It would all go toward rent. Maybe I can buy a house one day. I don’t need a mansion. Until then, I have to stay here. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-21/los-angeles-homeless-rv-cars Imagine even being able to find a rental in L.A. that costs "only" $20,000/year.
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Oct 22, 2023 19:56
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loquacius posted:The dealership was talking like it was scrap but that was probably a tactic Harbor freight vacuum pump + manifold gauges + can tap + box of green O rings and two cans of R152 air duster are about as much as a single AC fill at a shop, and once you have those you can fix friends' cars and even refrigerators and air conditioners with some adapters. Trunk latches are usually a lubrication or alignment issue that I usually fix with lightly used motor oil or a 12mm socket, and speakers/brakes are cheap. Buying a new car is a sin unless your current one is more rust than chassis and you should have given me the money you spent, I rate your post bourgeois/10
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Oct 22, 2023 19:57
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Thinking of writing a contemplative LinkedIn post about how, as I carefully destroy a decade's worth of expired bank, credit, and rewards cards, I am in a literal and metaphysical sense losing a part of myself, and my history.
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Oct 22, 2023 19:59
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Spaced God posted:my mom complaining about landlords and rising rent prices, but because "the management companies that own everything don't recognize good tenants and aren't kind" lmao It's true, though: Many smaller landlords don't want to deal with the hassle of unit turnarounds & won't raise the rents on good tenants as much as the companies that use market-rate algorithms. I rented the third floor of a private home & got one rent increase over 13 years. My current rent has gone up less than 1 percent per year & I'm paying about 30 percent below market rate.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:00
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what penance do I do for subletting part of my storage unit to a friend and becoming a l*ndlord
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Oct 22, 2023 20:01
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bonelessdongs posted:Harbor freight vacuum pump + manifold gauges + can tap + box of green O rings and two cans of R152 air duster are about as much as a single AC fill at a shop, and once you have those you can fix friends' cars and even refrigerators and air conditioners with some adapters. Trunk latches are usually a lubrication or alignment issue that I usually fix with lightly used motor oil or a 12mm socket, and speakers/brakes are cheap. Nobody knows how to do car repair themselves, good for you if you can but it's nonsensical to expect any given person to apropos of nothing, touch grass
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Oct 22, 2023 20:03
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SKULL.GIF posted:Is there any civilian benefit aside from small package delivery? suppose it depends on if there's any worker class benefit from accelerationism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack
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Oct 22, 2023 20:08
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loquacius posted:Nobody knows how to do car repair themselves, good for you if you can but it's nonsensical to expect any given person to apropos of nothing, touch grass The only secret to car repair is typing "(problem and car year) forum" into google or youtube or finding a service manual https://hondafitjazz.com/manual3/ You'll never doomsdayeconmaxx or network with people who's cars you repair with that attitude bonelessdongs has issued a correction as of 20:12 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 20:08
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loquacius posted:Nobody knows how to do car repair themselves, good for you if you can but it's nonsensical to expect any given person to apropos of nothing, touch grass Buy all these tools for one specific kind of job in addition to ozone hole gas and hope you manage to get everything right the first time. Your training is youtube videos, Your shop is an apartment parking lot. Maybe AC recharge is a bad example because you might have to do it once for the lifetime of a car, I've only had it done to mine once and that's because a valet crashed into a wall and damaged the condensor loquacius posted:Honda Fit Aww yee HRV. We got a 21 after our Nissan Versa did the Nissan thing and ate it's transmission. skooma512 has issued a correction as of 20:22 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 20:18
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SKULL.GIF posted:We've reached technology maturation on a lot of stuff that was driving the 90s through 10s and there's not really anything on the horizon. VR is a gimmick on par with 3D TV. AR might work but I don't think anyone will bother. AI is the only shot for a comparable technological leap to what we grew up with -- and it's currently being squandered on nonstop barrages of slop. Since 1970, computer speed doubled every two years, but that's no longer the case. A home computer in 1985 had its speed measured in thousands of operations per second, and now it's billions of operations per second. Some graphics cards do a trillion. But the trend is slowing down, so we no longer have exponential growth in computer chips to drive constant growth in the tech sector.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:25
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Gearhead posted:Last I had heard, the issue was severe OVER reporting of births, this turned up in the most recent census efforts. China's population was supposed to peak this decade, it actually peaked last decade. "Renowned geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan recently made a startling prediction during an interview with commentator Joe Rogan." I found this article, and no one else seems to be claiming this, so I think it's a bunch of bullshit. China hasn't officially revised their population numbers downward or anything like that.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:30
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bonelessdongs posted:Harbor freight vacuum pump + manifold gauges + can tap + box of green O rings and two cans of R152 air duster are about as much as a single AC fill at a shop, and once you have those you can fix friends' cars and even refrigerators and air conditioners with some adapters. Trunk latches are usually a lubrication or alignment issue that I usually fix with lightly used motor oil or a 12mm socket, and speakers/brakes are cheap. sorry i only touch machines with no moving parts (computers)
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Oct 22, 2023 20:47
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learning new skills ftw
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Oct 22, 2023 20:47
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Chamale posted:Since 1970, computer speed doubled every two years, but that's no longer the case. A home computer in 1985 had its speed measured in thousands of operations per second, and now it's billions of operations per second. Some graphics cards do a trillion. But the trend is slowing down, so we no longer have exponential growth in computer chips to drive constant growth in the tech sector. m1 is decent it compiles quite a bit faster than an i5 I had 5 years ago. but it wasn't really bad then, either, and I still use that computer. i got a new i9 at work and the difference between that and the i5 isn't nearly as great (at times it feels slower and idk how) for the average user it's probably not going to make a difference at all except for much improved battery life.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:49
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Chamale posted:"Renowned geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan recently made a startling prediction during an interview with commentator Joe Rogan." I found this article, and no one else seems to be claiming this, so I think it's a bunch of bullshit. China hasn't officially revised their population numbers downward or anything like that. Well, hopefully it is just bullshit. But I suppose we'll see.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:49
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Chamale posted:Since 1970, computer speed doubled every two years, but that's no longer the case. A home computer in 1985 had its speed measured in thousands of operations per second, and now it's billions of operations per second. Some graphics cards do a trillion. But the trend is slowing down, so we no longer have exponential growth in computer chips to drive constant growth in the tech sector. A big part of it is also how the growth is achieved vs. what is noticeable to the average user with the average workload. "Operations per second" is really "operations per cycle per core times cycles per second"; growth in operations per cycle or cycles per second died down in the mid-2010s, and while we're still sticking near exponential increases in theoretical throughput with a "then add more cores" approach that doesn't help for calculations where each step relies on the result of the previous one. OTOH, the average workload these days is "let me just fire up an entire copy of Chrome dedicated to displaying an IM client, and a second copy of Chrome to track your TF2 stats, and a third copy of Chrome to flash LEDs on your mouse", so who knows when the wheels will really fall off.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:51
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mawarannahr posted:m1 is decent it compiles quite a bit faster than an i5 I had 5 years ago. but it wasn't really bad then, either, and I still use that computer. i got a new i9 at work and the difference between that and the i5 isn't nearly as great (at times it feels slower and idk how) All the growth now is wide, not tall. We had 3 ghz cpu's in 2002. That's about where we're at still as far as making ones that don't consume way too much power or require theoretical materials to construct. Programmers have to architect things now on the basis that hardware won't get faster, it'll just have more parallel paths. So they have to abstract all their tasks into infiinite threads to take advantage of any future gains. In the past they just knew stuff would be faster in 2-3 years and ambitious apps got better and better. More cores, and more threads are good and we make the most of it. But in reality, some tasks that are the bulk of the work can't be done in parallel and single core performance is crawling forward since about 2004.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:54
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a lot of computer programs being slow on a single core is because the popular programming paradigms are slow on modern cpu architectures, so there's still a lot of wiggle room there for "easy" gains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo video tl;dr most computer programs spend most of their time bottlenecked on waiting for memory instead of actually running code
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Oct 22, 2023 21:29
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comedyblissoption posted:a lot of computer programs being slow on a single core is because the popular programming paradigms are slow on modern cpu architectures, so there's still a lot of wiggle room there for "easy" gains the next "major" development is slapping memory onto CPUs
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Oct 22, 2023 21:34
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Mustached Demon posted:the next "major" development is slapping memory onto CPUs lol. they've been trying to square that circle for over 20 years now. maybe this time it's different??!
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Oct 22, 2023 21:44
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skooma512 posted:I've only had it done to mine once and that's because a valet crashed into a wall and damaged the condensor Do you not need to recharge the thing on an ongoing basis, due to the presence of a leak?
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Oct 22, 2023 22:05
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my computer is fastest because i replace the cpu drive belt every 2 years and regularly top up the graphics fluid
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Oct 22, 2023 22:27
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I taped down my computer's turbo button
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