I’m with wizblizz that the China part of your comment makes no sense. China’s Ministry of Emergency Management does not withhold emergency funds if provinces refuse to commercially support israels genocide of the Palestinians.

archive link: https://archive.ph/7FfsX

Now you’ve got me reading the wikipedia page on Zen 5 and 6 instead of working 👍

Looks like fake IDs are back on the menu, boys!

I was reading recently about how Nvidia gpu familes (i.e. the RTX 40xx series) all use the same architecture, but are separated by the number of defects on the board (as all nanofab-made electronics have a certain amount of defects). They are placed into different ‘bins’ that have certain ranges of defective components, but the functionality as a gpu is still fine. I imagine that other companies do this too, and with other electronics besides gpus. Also as mentioned in another comment, ‘2nm’ is a marketing term and does not indicate the actual size of the transistors. My point being: this may not result in larger supply of currently available electronics that use different architectures (4nm, 5nm process, etc). It is more likely to be a move to prepare facilities for next-gen electronics. I don’t know about specific companies intentions to move to ‘2nm’ processes for their products or how easy that actually is, though, so it would be a case by case check.

I will agree the government has a right to keep things classified

Can you explain why you think this? I’m not trying to argue or anything, just interested in others reasoning. For context: I am contemplating the contradictions of a government “of, for and by the people”, is funded by the people, and that is allowed to withhold information from those same people.

“I see AI as a positive because it undermines the monopoly on intellectual property of capitalists”

I would contest that it does the exact opposite. Massive companies have been given free reign to legally steal (see Meta’s plagiarism/piracy court docs) from the entire internet. They then roll out the ai model, that they own, which can recreate things (art, writing, technical docs, etc) that are amalgamations of all the stolen work. They then sell subscriptions for people to use their ai, funneling people away from paying real artists.

According to the article the program only ended in 2013? I was in high school before that date in the states and never heard anything about a fitness test

Thanks! Going down the rabbit hole now

Need graph source. Who had the thermometer in 12000 BC

Done. Zuckerberg is now starring as Joel in The Last of Us.

Love the writing in this article. Fuck Zuck.

This pause has already been lifted. Traumatizing fed workers for the sake of traumatizing them.

The rest of the quote in the article: When Inskeep pressed Buttigieg on whether he believes a parent who has complained about a trans athlete competing in girls’ school sports “has a case,” he agreed. “Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.”

Not a great answer. I wonder how he would have answered if the question was rephrased from a trans kids point of view, i.e. if a trans kid was barred from playing high school sports and the parent complains, do they “have a case”?

Eroding demand = sick people dying without the medicine they need

I’m starting to understand why people starting burning down all the real estate in the book “Parable of the Sower. “

Shit article. Only source is: “The warning came from authorities in eastern Zhejiang province on WeChat over the weekend after a comedian referred to her allegedly abusive marriage in a performance that went viral on Chinese social media.” There is no link to the primary source of any ‘warning’

The sound is caused by ‘gradient coils’ that are being switched on and off at kHz frequency, which is in the audible range for humans. The sound is caused by those coils vibrating due to the interaction of the magnetic field with the electric current in the coils: they’re non magnetic but they still feel the ‘Lorentz force’. As far as calibration, there is a pre-scan step (which is one reason why MRIs can take awhile) used to optimize the RF settings to each patient. Patients come in many shapes and sizes so the settings have to be tuned to get a good image every time. I’m actually not sure of how often they need to be serviced, but it seems like the manufacturers are here checking on the machines pretty often!

I recently tried spreading the word to other MRI folks about the dangers of ‘magnetic eyelashes’, which i learned was a thing from my fiance. Kind of suprised we havent seen any incidents with those, thankfully.

like others are saying: I installed a second NVMe SSD and put Linux Mint on it. This was a very simple task, and it automatically setup a boot window so when I start the computer it gives me the option to pick Windows or Linux. Linux Mint has a software center where I selected and installed Steam w/ Proton (again, super easy to setup, lots of online instructions) and my games work just fine. I keep Windows just because I dont want to lose my access to the OS, but Linux is now my main.