barfingclouds
Re:US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind proj...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:00PM (#49225338)
Where is “here”?
Re:US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind proj...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:58PM (#49225323)
Offshore wind can power the data center too. Your dichotomy is not relevant
Re:SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
on Saturday June 06, 2026 @02:12AM (#48421913)
Thank god
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:13PM (#47096362)
I’m no tech expert like a lot of people here, but I find Gemini 3.0 insanely good for my regular daily questions. Hoping this one is great too. I’m kind of at the point where many answers are essentially perfect and I don’t know if I need much more
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash
on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:46PM (#43732536)
I just need the Gemini app to allow push to talk :( Otherwise it’s not usable for me in the way I want it to be
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:08PM (#43530486)
The left has been authoritarian. Rewind the clock to 2018, and speak your mind freely on a college campus and at some point you’ll say something that makes you lose your job. That’s one of many examples of the left being actually authoritarian.
I’m not saying two wrongs make a right and I’m not justifying the current administration. But if we look to how we got here, that’s a lot of why, if not mostly why.
Re:Claude can now search the web
on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:40PM (#43441077)
Yeah I have to manually hold it down every time I talk. I have a lot of pauses and simply would not be able to interface with that without that option. It’s why I essentially can’t use Gemini voice mode
There’s a grok app for iPhone that’s basically the same as ChatGPT/deepseek/mistral/gemini/claude
Re:California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:12PM (#42969292)
Yes please
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:17PM (#42731016)
Yeah it’s about that algorithms could radicalize the population or turn them against each other
Re:More Men Are Addicted to the 'Crack Cocaine' of the Stock Market
on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:44PM (#42506688)
Yep this is the craziest part. The answer has been known for a long time. S&P500. Literally that simple
Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:36PM (#42455605)
Nice I might do this method too
Re:Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
on Saturday December 14, 2024 @05:31AM (#42416094)
So that’s it for Magnus Carlson’s perfect streak?
Re:Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:00PM (#42276627)
As someone who lived in LA, the air quality is usually moderate or above, like all the time. I consider that not good
Re:California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @03:54PM (#42259660)
I’m from Oregon suburbs right by Intel’s largest campus. I went to all public schools and I was really fortunate that for the most part I was able to intellectually explore and take advanced classes. I took full courseloads in high school instead of having empty periods like most of my peers. I entered college as a a junior credit wise. What I read about California often horrifies me
Re:Starlink Direct to Cell
on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:03PM (#42240623)
Well competitors are going to have to use SpaceX rockets to get their satellites up. So no matter what SpaceX is winning
Re:Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free ...
on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:43PM (#42208452)
Very much this
Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won"
on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:36PM (#42161532)
I have bluesky and mastodon accounts and I’m always surprised at how people extreme people call them. I have them just as my music/photography accounts. So the people I add are doing the same stuff. My feed is just as extreme as Flickr aka zero extremeness. Just pictures of bridges and music and normal thoughts.
Re:ChatGPT Search
on Friday November 01, 2024 @04:56PM (#42021473)
Perplexity has already been doing this for a long time and it’s pretty excellent. I use it daily
Re:New Mac Mini with M4
on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:06PM (#41990750)
I bought a portable AC battery for my Mac mini for $65. Hard agree though that it would be a lot cooler if the conversion was in the cable so I could just do dc in.
The thing is, M chips run so efficiently that even with the power loss from conversion, it’s still pulling less power than a lot of PCs.
But yeah it running on a sleek dc battery would be a lot cooler
Re:New Mac Mini with M4
on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:01PM (#41990721)
If I’m someone who does not super high intensity photo and video work, is a usb 3.2 gen 2 aka ~1 GB/s speeds fine in a hard drive?
Re:New Mac Mini with M4
on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @07:57PM (#41990692)
I got the Mac mini m1 as my first Apple computer recently (used). It’s really cool. It never heats up ever
Re:Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
on Saturday October 26, 2024 @05:54PM (#41958013)
Weird, because in Trump’s last presidency he was pretty anti Jeff Bezos. But I guess however they feel about each other, the assumed business tax benefits of a trump presidency make him want trump
Re:AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:58PM (#41875051)
Agreed. I use perplexity and chat gpt daily, but if I understand correctly that’s all done off device which is fine with me. I don’t need to generate weird images, or have my phone rewrite emails for me, or summarize stuff.
Re:Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
on Friday October 04, 2024 @12:01PM (#41742759)
I think companies small and large should pay for an insurance that will obliterate patent trolls with legal fees. They often win by bullying individual small companies. But if there’s a collective response then maybe they can’t get so far?
Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck ...
on Sunday September 29, 2024 @11:56AM (#41688200)
I’ve never heard of those people
Re:macOS Sequoia is available today
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @07:09PM (#41573868)
Upon getting sequoia it asked if I wanted their new windows tiling or rectangle’s. Rectangle has been good to me, so I stuck with it
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:56PM (#41506457)
Yeah that’s how I feel. I feel like the iPhone 7 could handle all the daily use cases just fine. Every phone after is cool but doesn’t accomplish anything
Re:Prevention of HIV
on Thursday August 08, 2024 @05:26PM (#41196484)
I think this study was just young African women in a high incidence area. They basically picked the most likely place in the world a person would get it
Re:Prevention of HIV
on Thursday August 08, 2024 @05:23PM (#41196466)
They did this study in a high risk group, so that rate of infection was expected