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Nvidia CEO: "We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence"
  • Usually people are against just throwing more hardware at a problem.

    They're going to keep making more powerful hardware either way, since parallel processing capability supports graphics and AI just fine. But if they can use a novel software solution to drastically increase performance, why not?

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    Nvidia CEO: "We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence"
  • It's just another graphics-enhancing tool. But instead of fixed-algorithm antialiasing, it's machine-learning-powered "fill in the blank".

    I don't think this application is really all that controversial. Some people are unhappy that AAA games are going to expect or require compatible hardware in the future for no good reason, if the game itself runs just fine without it.

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    The first graders who survived Sandy Hook will vote in their first presidential election
  • I know a guy who was a student there when it happened. Newtown is white-bread upper-middle Connecticut. Fairly conservative, in the actual sense, not the Republican sense. They've been fairly evenly split in the past few presidential elections. While some of the people directly affected might lean more left, I'm not sure if it's a significant number.

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    Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets
  • It gets tricky when you're generalizing a community. He knows this, which is why it's phrased a certain way. People of that community must have standing, that is, they must show that they were harmed, and that harm was a result of his statements.

    If a bunch of them get together and say "hey when you said that, we lost money in our businesses, or we were turned down for a job/loan/home", or have a community org willing to sue for that reason, then it could happen. But that takes time and effort that most people don't want to spend, so they continue to get away with it.

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    Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets
  • A lie requires intent. Without proof of intent, they will lose a libel suit.

    In this case, since Vance has admitted he knew it was false, I think they have a defense, but they're probably just afraid of getting sued at all.

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    Trump safe following gun shots near Florida golf club, says New York Post.
  • The gunman was spotted about 400 to 500 yards (365 to 457 meters) from where Trump was playing

    That's not "nowhere near". That's not much more than the effective range of an AK-47 (~300 yards). If the guy wasn't an idiot, or the Secret Service was failing at their jobs again, Trump would have walked right into range.

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    [Meta] I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here.
  • I'm almost certainly not going to watch one, but I'm not going to suggest they're banned, unless something changes and the majority of content becomes videos for some reason. I haven't felt that it's a problem.

    I'd rather see posts of tech support or someone's shower thoughts be removed, because I see that pretty frequently, and it pushes the relevant content down. At least it's not 80% tangentially-related business news or "Musk tweeted something" any more.

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    I am building a mini-itx pc, any suggesting on ssd placement?
  • Whichever one you think you're going to remove less often. Probably the 2 TB if you think you might upgrade the other.

    If one of them needs a heat sink, you'd probably put that one on the front. You could also put a thermal pad on the other and use the case itself as a heatsink.

    I assume your case doesn't have a removable back panel.

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    Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers
  • I don't think this is something to focus on. Tech being 40% of all emissions in the US is suspicious, given that in 2021, all industry was 30.1%, and all transportation was 28.5%. And the total emissions in the US was 6.3 billion tons. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=108623

    I don't have more recent data (if it's in the article, I didn't see it at a skim) but I feel like oil, gas, and agriculture are the bigger long-term targets.

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    We should probably use upx to package executable in torrenting space (Discussion)
  • What advantage does it have over existing methods? It's great that it's cross-platform, but so are zip files. And the content inside isn't cross-platform, so I don't think that ultimately adds anything.

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    local DNS server does not work as expected
  • First, don't use .local, as it's used by mDNS. You should use .internal or a domain you own. I recommend changing before you get any more committed to your environment.

    I'm not really following your post, because you're not specifying whether each point is on the server or laptop.

    Personally, I dislike Ubuntu on the server because of how it runs stuff like systemd-resolvd, which as you've experienced, gets in the way of standard operation.

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  • Link to post: https://lemmy.world/post/19274834

    If you tap that link in Boost it'll probably crash, so don't do it unless you're okay with that.

    I'm guessing the problem is that the post URL is a magnet link.

    Edit: oh yeah, to work around, you'll have to open it in a browser and hide it.

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    I got banned earlier today with the message "rule 1", no other information about why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one, which just says "We want the bot gone. That’s it. It’s really that simple."

    So I checked the modlog for other bans, and @aniki@lemmings.world was banned today as well, also just for "rule 1", probably either for the comment saying "a stupid bot writing useless bullshit" or "This is what you call "Not listening to criticism."", neither of which are an attack on any person.

    (Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca was banned with the message "fuck off", which I'm pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but doesn't appear to be related to the MBFC bot.)

    One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee was banned, again just "rule 1", last comment being this one, again not an attack on any person.

    So what's the deal here? I couldn't find any rules for mods on lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?

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