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Re:Home Lab Beginners guide on Monday March 11, 2024 @02:58PM (#39672044)
The Omada line makes pretty decent AP’s too. A step above ubiquiti in terms of reliability but also dead simple. I’d have gone ruckus if I could have but the mailman stole my $200 eBay R550 score and I didn’t feel like shelling out $500 for one.
Re:Home Lab Beginners guide on Monday March 11, 2024 @02:54PM (#39671999)
I actually picked up a refurb desktop from Walmart with a ryzen 3500 for $400, it runs basically everything without breaking a sweat. Proxmox running homeassistant, docker, my seedbox, media server, etc and it averages 3% CPU usage.

I did not know just how much heat a 16tb disk can put out up until that point though.

Has it gotten any better recently?

I run a node but I haven’t actually used it as a search engine in a while, as I found the result quality to be exceedingly poor.

I have a 14 MBP M1 16/512. It’s… not great. The other day photoshop was running super slow so I opened up process manager and discovered that not only had it eaten all 16gb of ram, it was also using up ~30gb of swap space. Even just general day to day safari use will give me random lags and slowdowns that I don’t get on my desktop which is running an i5.
Considering the disaster Gemini has been so far it may easily turn to being just as mocked as Siri is now.
Re:Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI on Monday February 26, 2024 @11:38PM (#39520199)
Not to mention intel rapidly catching up in the $/perf calculation.
I just tried the latter with gab’s AI and it was excellent.
How is that “creepy”?

Regardless, we’re already seeing the effects as manufacturing moves away from China and towards India.

Now, what happens to those increased wages when the demand for workers is gone?

That’s right. They collapse.

Re:Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:20PM (#39379063)
The most amazing thing about their current offerings is that they haven’t screwed them up yet.

AMD has a looooong history of seemingly deliberately shooting themselves in the foot every time they get ahead.

Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:41PM (#38809964)
Which they are likely sorely regretting as tensions flare higher with China and our navy is struggling to protect shipping around Israel.
Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:15PM (#38789595)
> However, like all ferrocyanide salt solutions, addition of an acid or exposure to UV light can result in the production of hydrogen cyanide gas, which is extremely toxic.

Now that does seem like a bit of a concern, doesn’t it?

> Our guess is that this unknown hardware feature was most likely intended to be used for debugging or testing purposes by Apple engineers or the factory, or was included by mistake. Since this feature is not used by the firmware, we have no idea how attackers would know how to use it

Considering the targets were primarily Russia and China, odds are fairly high this was a US intelligence backdoor.

I have a few zooz Z-wave devices and a bunch of zigbee stuff.

The Z-wave devices turned out to be significantly more unreliable surprisingly.

The only z-wave device I still have running is my smart lock. Everything else has been replaced with zigbee.

Re: on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:00AM (#38717462)
The topic will get downvoted regardless.
Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you? on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:57AM (#38717442)
DM’s are still working too.
Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you? on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:38AM (#38717335)
Down for me too.
Re:CUDA vs. ROCm: A Case Study on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:29PM (#38705467)
Sure but what’s the energy and overhead tradeoff?
Because my ADHD means that if I don’t have a closed door I will literally never get anything done.
Re:Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:44PM (#38698784)
> Forbes reached out to Twitter for comment, and received an automated poop emoji, which the company has been using to respond to press requests for at least a month.

You gotta admit, the kind of shenanigans Musk pulls are hilarious. The definition of F-U money.

Re:Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:42PM (#38698748)
Musk has enough money to single-handedly pay for the costs of running twitter for the next few centuries, and nobody in their right mind would actually let twitter be “killed”.
The algos will immediately yank the price up as soon as an order that big comes in. On many smaller stocks it’s possible to manipulate the price with less than $100k.
Re:New PFAS discovered with novel testing method on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:45PM (#38686476)
> Researchers collaborating with Baker’s lab collected samples from North Carolina’s Cape Fear River in 2016. Using this new detection method, they tested the samples and found 47 different PFAS. Of those, 11 had not been previously detected in the river, and eight had not been detected anywhere outside of a lab.

Chemours, a renamed DuPont factory, has been caught dumping PFAS into the river before. Funnily enough, it was spun off partially in order to assume liabilities against DuPont from the various lawsuits they had against them for very similar reasons.

There are also multiple superfund sites along the river. Pollution has been an issue for decades and yet nothing ever really seems to change.

They will almost certainly settle, and very quickly in my opinion (also just a layman opinion however) because if Masimo is successful in forcing them to stop sales the next logical step would be to force them to disable the feature until a ruling is made otherwise.
They’ve already spent >60 million just on legal fees.

Somehow I very strongly doubt they’d have spent that much just paying their employees more.

This is literally standard corporate playbook behavior that has been utilized since the creation of corporations. In what possible way is it “more than fiction”?
Nor is Apple copying their tech the “kiss of death” that the article mentions, as Masimo makes primarily medical/hospital equipment. The majority of their equipment is sold to other businesses or through medical suppliers. Seeing as how they claim to own 90% of the hospital O2 monitoring market, I think they’re doing just fine.

Once again, this isn’t Apple stealing tech from Joe Shmoe. This is just standard legalistic BigCorp infighting, corporate backstabbing, brain drain/theft, etc.

Side note - I love the infant sp02 tape monitors they have, as they work incredibly well for use on adults with poor extremity perfusion. Earlobe usually works great.

Masimo is a $billions dollar company. The description of a “David and Goliath” battle is a tad misleading.

Sure, they acted scummy, but this is just typical BigCorp behavior where one huge corporation steals from another huge corporation.

Seeing as how he appears to have created the account 6 hours ago to reply to my comment, I would have to say “doubtful”.
Have you forgotten how many democrats have called for the murder and/or execution of trump publicly?

Give me a break.

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