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they don't even pretend you'll break even in the ad, since it'll be mining a few dollars a month tops for significantly more than that in electrical costs it's also less efficient as an electric heater; copper coils and a fan are basically 100% efficient (all the electricity goes into heat) whereas this thing squanders it on computing pretend money. if it did something prosocial (like folding@home or what have you) it's slightly better, but the true solution is our lord and savior the heat pump, blessed be thy efficiency of 400%
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Dec 30, 2023 06:44
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Computing hardware is no less efficient than coils of nichrome wire at turning electrical energy into heat. If they were, where would the excess energy be going? It would violate the conservation law. It just takes way more resources to make the hardware.
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Dec 30, 2023 06:54
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Heat pumps, on the other hand, actually do do magic, something-for-nothing hyper efficiency
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Dec 30, 2023 07:30
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ikanreed posted:Heat pumps, on the other hand, actually do do magic, something-for-nothing hyper efficiency You are stealing heat from the environment and imperceptibly reducing the urban heat island effect. 
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Dec 30, 2023 07:45
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https://i.imgur.com/SiYEMCL.mp4
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Dec 30, 2023 08:33
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i still don't get what these loving miners are mining. they're mining math??? you can't mine math
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Dec 30, 2023 08:47
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Nichael posted:you can't mine math Skill issue.
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Dec 30, 2023 09:00
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Jesus, that's terrifying from the ground up, then they blindside you with an australian accent
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Dec 30, 2023 09:08
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:when I was a kid I wanted to be a baseball player yeah same. now I just wanna be an official scorer for some minor league team no one cares about. I'd be a total homer too it would rule
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Dec 30, 2023 10:20
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Nintendo Switch with heart arrhythmia attachment? What hardware even is that?
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Dec 30, 2023 14:58
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Nichael posted:i still don't get what these loving miners are mining. they're mining math??? you can't mine math "Mining" is just generating lottery tickets. Better/more hardware lets you generate tickets faster. The winning ticket every 10 minutes gets imaginary money printed out of thin air. The mining itself serves no purpose, it is just to incentivise people to run the program that secures the network.
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Dec 30, 2023 15:07
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Milo and POTUS posted:Jesus, that's terrifying from the ground up, then they blindside you with an australian accent I didn't have the sound on and I'm imaging someone going "ey oval office looks like your ticker's gone all wozza"
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Dec 30, 2023 15:22
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TACD posted:Nintendo Switch with heart arrhythmia attachment? What hardware even is that? quote:The volume of blood in the finger will have an effect on the amount of light reflected back, and makes for a perfect way to automatically measure someone’s heart rate.
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Dec 30, 2023 16:19
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*b/w ad of man with severe brain damage munching dehydrated strawberries* There has to be a better way.
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Dec 30, 2023 16:20
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Platystemon posted:Computing hardware is no less efficient than coils of nichrome wire at turning electrical energy into heat. If they were, where would the excess energy be going? It would violate the conservation law. it’s used up moving all the little switches inside that keep track of my Marios
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Dec 30, 2023 16:36
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I didn’t know the Switch had this built in. I’m still confused though, is the Switch constantly monitoring your heart while you’re playing a game? Is this a new feature they’ve just released?
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Dec 30, 2023 17:05
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TACD posted:I didn’t know the Switch had this built in. I’m still confused though, is the Switch constantly monitoring your heart while you’re playing a game? Is this a new feature they’ve just released? i'm pretty sure the game shown is a fitness game that specifically utilizes that feature for gameplay reasons
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Dec 30, 2023 17:14
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its an exercise game/accessory where you hold and twist and flex a ring while moving around. guess it also monitors your pulse https://ringfitadventure.nintendo.com
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Dec 30, 2023 17:16
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I own Ring Fit, the bit where it measures your heart rate by putting your thumb over the IR sensor is real, but you don't do that while playing the game normally for it to interrupt you like that so I'm voting fake
Grey Fox has issued a correction as of 19:10 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Dec 30, 2023 18:06
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skooma512 posted:Distributed computing's heyday was over as soon as bitcoin came on the scene. Most of the people doing that were gonna mine coins instead.
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Dec 30, 2023 18:07
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mawarannahr posted:I wonder how many college students/staff/faculty have gotten away with mining btc on the campus HPC cluster Probably a few, but any competent IT is going to notice that poo poo immediately and go into kill mode over it. It's like cockfighting for computers, very bad for them
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Dec 30, 2023 18:27
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tokin opposition posted:Probably a few, but any competent IT is going to notice that poo poo immediately and go into kill mode over it.
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Dec 30, 2023 18:32
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The common scheme for students to live in housing where electricity is "free" and run cheap miners there. It doesn't matter how inefficient they are if someone else is footing the power bill. I imagine most institutions are wise to that by now though.
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Dec 30, 2023 18:32
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also after the dedicated mining chips became a thing, even mining on supercomputers will give you chump change
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Dec 30, 2023 18:32
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ymgve posted:also after the dedicated mining chips became a thing, even mining on supercomputers will give you chump change
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Dec 30, 2023 18:44
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mawarannahr posted:looks like you can mine about $230 a month on 16 a40s or $830 on 16 a100s. i bet there were some folks who made a lot more back in the day when nobody would know + mining was easier though. lol  Can't wait to spend $160,000 to make 800 a month* *If you can find someone to take them and not scam you
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Dec 30, 2023 18:49
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Can I game on that bad boy though?
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Dec 30, 2023 18:50
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Grey Fox posted:I own Rig Fit, the bit where it measures your heart rate by putting your thumb over the IR sensor is real, but you don't do that while playing the game normally for it to interrupt you like that so I'm voting fake
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Dec 30, 2023 18:53
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tokin opposition posted:lol the idea is you get someone else to pay for them and trust that you're doing important research! they spend a lot of time sitting around over the holidays....
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Dec 30, 2023 18:53
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Grey Fox posted:I own Rig Fit, the bit where it measures your heart rate by putting your thumb over the IR sensor is real, but you don't do that while playing the game normally for it to interrupt you like that so I'm voting fake i dont think it would play spooky music at you and also you could sue the poo poo out of nintendo if they got it wrong because of a faulty sensor
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Dec 30, 2023 19:07
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ring fit is fun and great cardio
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Dec 30, 2023 20:05
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netizen posted:Can I game on that bad boy though? You can not.
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Dec 30, 2023 20:30
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Sure you can, but it involves either using the hdmi out of a motherboard that has one, or doing some virtual machine + remote desktop bullshit. It will suck at it though, it's not tuned for video rendering, though it can do it.
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Dec 30, 2023 20:33
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The game that warns players that they are having a heart attack doesn’t exist yet. I thought that that was clear from the subject matter and voiceover.
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Dec 30, 2023 21:10
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Given how utterly terrified Nintendo was of anyone exerting themselves to the point of actual injury (it makes you do a n00b tutorial every. single. loving. time. you do your first squat of the day or whatever, warns you not to exercise too much, and keeps interrupting you to nag you to take breaks even if you've barely broken a sweat), it would be absolutely shocking if they included something as lawsuit-worthy as a "diagnosis" of heart attack. The workout is no joke if you put effort in, though. Using the Ring Fit gear to play Zelda would be injury-prone for sure. Someone modded a ring fit set to do that and it looked exhausting.
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Dec 30, 2023 22:02
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Tagra posted:Given how utterly terrified Nintendo was of anyone exerting themselves to the point of actual injury (it makes you do a n00b tutorial every. single. loving. time. you do your first squat of the day or whatever, warns you not to exercise too much, and keeps interrupting you to nag you to take breaks even if you've barely broken a sweat), it would be absolutely shocking if they included something as lawsuit-worthy as a "diagnosis" of heart attack. "HYAAAAH" I scream as I spincut a bunch of breakable poo poo off of every nearby surface in the living room, killing the dodongo
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Dec 30, 2023 22:06
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ymgve posted:also after the dedicated mining chips became a thing, even mining on supercomputers will give you chump change this poo poo is all so insane and nonsensical
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Dec 30, 2023 22:43
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Nichael posted:this poo poo is all so insane and nonsensical more reason to burn gas for no reason at all
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Dec 30, 2023 22:45
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more falafel please posted:yeah same. now I just wanna be an official scorer for some minor league team no one cares about. I'd be a total homer too it would rule my son told me he wanted to be an umpire the other day. a job that is actively being phased out by modern attitudes and technology.
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Dec 30, 2023 22:49
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:my son told me he wanted to be an umpire the other day. a job that is actively being phased out by modern attitudes and technology. lol
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Dec 30, 2023 22:51
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