AdrianTheFrog

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

I use win-shift-s, I find it more convenient bc you can type it without your hand leaving your mouse (it also allows you to select an area and saves automatically now as well), both of your hands stay in the normal area

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

xkcd.com/989/

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

VP9 (Google’s codec) is also royalty free (and supports transparency, unlike AV1)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Writing “Abolish PACs and lobbying” implies reverting Citizens United v FEC so you probably don’t need a separate list item for it

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Citizen’s United is what is preventing the government from abolishing lobbying, so abolishing lobbying implies reverting Citizen’s United. You could either have one or the other on the list, but you don’t really need both.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I would say that around half of AI development is free and open source.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I can run a small LLM on my 3060, but most of those models were originally trained on a cluster of a100s (maybe as few as 10, so more like one largish server than one datacenter)

Bitnet came out recently and is looking like it will lower these requirements significantly (essentially training a model using ternary numbers instead of floats to reduce requirements, which turns out to not lower the quality that significantly)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in free and open source software, which Lemmy also is.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Kind of? There is one singular Linux distribution designed to work on macs, and it’s still missing a lot of features the last time I checked

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

people have been talking about them recently, and its funny to suggest that a seemingly new, futuristic, and professional product copied an old, relatively unpopular game console

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I think everything works in windows but the old windows media player. You can test it by setting the time in a windows VM to 2039.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It had no payload on any of its flights. Rockets that have enough time/money put into development to have a reasonable expectation of working on the first try (and don’t have such an ambitious design) normally launch with a payload on their first flight. Sometimes, even those fail on the first few flights. Having the first few of a new rocket design fail before reliability is achieved is common (ex: Astra) and SpaceX’s other rocket, the Falcon 9, is known as the most reliable rocket, I even suspect it achieves landings more often lately than most others do launches.

Starship’s last launch went decently well, reaching orbit (which is as far as most rockets go!) but failing during reentry. It is also supposed to be the rocket with the largest payload capacity to low earth orbit, with 100-150 tons when reused and likely 200-300 when expended.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV

I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

It makes sense if you interpret it as ≥6, which is probably what they meant anyways.

Edit: I’m pretty sure it also works in hyperbolic space

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

The quotes provide the same meaning, basically that you are parodying the other side.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

It’s a pretty commonly used format on many parts of the internet, I think most people would interpret it that way, especially when everybody reading will see that what is being quoted is obviously untrue.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

It’s what a wealthy conservative business owner might say upon reading the first sentence of your comment, I think it fits.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The funny thing is that NASA contracts the same companies as the military anyways (in the modern day, at least)

NASA Prime Contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman currently have over 3,800 suppliers contributing to Orion, the SLS rocket, and the lunar spaceport at Kennedy.

It gets slightly less funny when you realize that that’s the reason Nasa’s latest rocket made primarily from Space Shuttle parts is way more expensive than basically any commercial rocket. Essentially Congress only agrees to fund NASA if it means they also get to fund these military contractors.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

He said in the blog that they’re kind of expensive and very hard to clean, so he had a rule of no food/drinks in the ball pit.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

People call the control system of the Saturn V a computer when it is less powerful and capable by any measure you choose to compare. I’m really just calling it a computer though because a lot of people don’t know what the word microcontroller means (this isn’t a tech specific community)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I got a really great deal on a server recently by getting a workstation from a local university surplus store with an i7 6700, and was able to fit it out with a 256gb ssd and 16gb of ram from ebay for a combined total of $70. I’m just using it for a video game server currently but I plan on possibly hosting a personal website there in the future.

It was probably a bad idea to get the drive used but it was only $15 and I’ll start backing it up once I get some files on it that I actually care about.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

From a report from an anonymous German spy

"Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk. Though he is often idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do. He has no fixed times for going to sleep and waking up. He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world. "

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Who runs a communist society? The people? Do we all take turns being president? What happens if it’s a bad dude’s turn and they don’t want to relinquish power?

No one said communism and limits on the government/a constitution are mutually exclusive (If your communist society even has a government, which technically they aren’t supposed to, not that I’ve seen any details on how that is supposed to work).

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

That proof for the order of operations sure seems to rely a lot on our current order of operations…

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

“Wrong answers” only according to our current order of operations, math still works if you, for example, make additions come first (as long as you’re consistent about it).

OFC it is a convention and to change it you would have to change all expressions ever written all at the same time, to avoid confusion between competing standards. I’m not arguing that it should be changed, only that there is no ‘high truth’ behind it.