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meanwhile if my US friends come to australia and try to tip i will angrily tell them where to shove it

tipping is a fucking scourge

i’d tape a screw driver to the battery… the tiny drivers you’d need for modern phones could be tiny: look at the sim ejectors… that, but as a screw driver

Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?

because telecom is somewhat of a natural monopoly (cables for sure; wireless less so, but for wireless you still need cables and spectrum)

just because someone waves a pride flag does not mean that they are there to protest for LGBTQ rights

yeah! just the topic at hand! you’re not allowed to feel angry about a specific way in which it has personally harmed you! only the things i care about are valid!

you can buy a house for cash every 3 years in the UK from that much money

yeah every 3 years is too much!

… well, tax so

every 5 years then!

… oh right rent he’d pay in the interim

fine every 7 years!

… ahhhh food costs money too!

okay okay every 8 years!

… i guess people do tend to pay bills

every 9 years!

… it’s not reasonable to be a shut in for those 6 years and being social costs money

every 10 years!

a helicopter crash in a populated area has a high likelihood of collateral damage

yeah for sure… i get it with apple one because i actively use music, drive, and tv+… certainly wouldn’t subscribe to it on its own, because you’re absolutely right: it’s too much of a hassle

there are many ways to fulfil this “obligation”… i’d argue that he’s increasing alphabet stock price in the short term but long term what the fuck is going to happen when the sources all go out of business?

… oh right they’re going to become a news monopoly… cool cool cool

regardless, i think there’s an argument to be made with all this “we are evil because it’s our legal duty to shareholders” that evil is a bad long-term choice. i think boeing is the prime example: if they weren’t “too big to fail” they’d be fucked because of their short term thinking

it’s a little annoying but i find searching for the article title generally produces the right result in the news app

yeah you can’t have a ballot that someone else can force you to keep to prove how you’ve voted… anonymous, individual, untraceable ballots are essential

though perhaps that’s could be mitigated if you could print as many ballots/receipts as you like so you can submit your real one and keep a fake one… then anyone with no care can keep their real one, and anyone being coerced can keep a fake one

i totally agree this is the way to do it: the machines can even keep tallys for early results reporting, but the paper ballots are the only thing that actually matters. that would make subverting the electronic systems useless. it’d also be a good sanity check on the count

after using it for a bit, i’d say in most cases i agree: bit of a nothing burger in a lot of cases (to the point where a few times i’ve thought it was bugged and reverted to the old UI style… it wasn’t), but it’s pretty great when it comes to apps where the UI is secondary (content etc)… the diffraction in the UI rather than a blur makes the whole UI able to be ignored much easier, and IMO it’s still about as legible in most real scenarios

the world is larger than north america… walmart does not operate in the vast majority of the world… it doesn’t even operate in the vast majority of western countries

which part? it’s still transmitting right? and they got useful and interesting data from it only a few years ago

let’s not forget the agency that launched the probe that passed the edge of the solar system and is still functional and doing valuable things…… in the 70s

which other one? because i’ve got kanye on my list too and there’s at least a couple more

tax all wealth above the nth percentile of the populations wealth

honestly imo luck is involved no matter what… maybe other than inherited wealth

They specifically pointed out that Nvidia GPUs have less than 16GB of RAM on their lower and mid end cards

… as a bracket at the end of their comment indicating their distaste for nvidias shitty practices

you always argue in bad faith, and whilst downvotes don’t “mean” anything, they do prove at the very least something you’re doing or saying is not likeable… take that on board, adjust your tone, admit when you’re wrong (which is most of the time)

there was no mention of desktop, OR RTX

and VRAM limitations almost certainly don’t apply to chinese GPUs: the process node is the only limitation in chinas manufacturing capability

i would absolutely not be surprised if they have a 256GB+ card that is equal to an 8yo nvidia/amd card at 1/5th the price and just dump more in… for the same reason that GPUs are better than CPUs for models, many GPUs is better than a single fast GPU

and that’s still only barely relevant because as i said previously, workstation GPUs etc don’t need that - there are plenty of workloads that fit the bill for a card from 8 years ago, and they never mentioned anything about large cards or ML workloads or gaming