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One of the most important ones that a lot of people use every day are the huge advancements that have been made in creating modern chips. It might not be something new and exciting, but it actually involves very groundbreaking work and huge breakthroughs. Not just the crazy machines that ASML makes, thought to be breaking the laws of physics just years ago. But also advancements in manufacturing, being able to create super advanced 3D structures and large scale manufacturing at a very high level, yet with a surprising consistency in quality and low cost. Not just for ever bigger, more efficient and faster chips, but also things like MEMS at tiny sizes and low cost.

Often it's taken for granted what we have. People saying stuff to the sentiment that this isn't the future, everything is boring, we haven't got flying cars or people living on Mars. But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing. And not just that, but it fits in our pockets and they are so cheap everyone has at least one. Just because we've chosen to spec our tech tree into the small stuff instead of the large stuff, doesn't mean we haven't come a long way.

I think people look at the past at new "inventions" and think that's the way progress is. New revolutionary stuff. It's why people often invest in crowd funding of obvious scam products. They want something that changes the game. In reality it's a lot of little steps that create a big change over time. And imho this has always been the case. We always hear about the Wright brothers "inventing" the airplane. Like they had some magic sauce and thought of something nobody else thought of before. Then made it and bam the world was changed. In reality they didn't invent anything, they developed it. They made prototypes and iterative refinements. And they were far from the only ones working on the exact same concept. If they didn't finish first, someone else would have within the same time frame. But the romantic story of two American blokes with the right stuff changing the world all on their own just sounds good.

So let's also celebrate the thousands of smaller breakthroughs that got us where we are today.

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Where I live it's the same, the machine does all the work. But there's always one or two dudes that walk ahead of the truck and make sure it's all positioned and spaced correctly. Especially in the city where streets can be narrow and there isn't enough room, they end up just wheeling the bins into the machine a couple at a time.

We need to hear from both sides tho. What are the brain worm-having people saying?

3060 TI was a midrange card when it released, I wouldn't expect it to still be viable. You might have bought it 3 years ago, but it released at the end of 2020. So almost 5 years old at this point. With GPU development rates being what they are, that's a long time.

If you still want to get the most out of it: Lower the resolution, this helps a lot. Running at 1080p should probably work just fine. Also check out your memory bandwidth, that is usually the bottleneck for getting the most out of an 5600x. Overclock it if you can, the higher the memory clock, the better it will be.

For the future, my experience is the 70 TI holds up a little bit better than the 60 TI. But this can differ per gen of course. And because of "AI" GPU prices have gone through the roof, so fuck AI.

I keep a very sharp scalpel next to my printer. It's super thin and a bit flexible, but still has a sturdy handle to hold on to. With it I can get in between the glass and the PETG no matter how stuck it is. Once I cut a little bit, usually the whole print lifts right away.

The current US economy is completely dependent on two things. One: low unemployment and steady growth in available jobs. Two: AI getting a return on investment by replacing millions of jobs with computers.

And somehow we are still going about our business like this is totally normal and won't blow up any second now.

They aren't thinking about that, they are thinking of themselves. They are duped into thinking the stock will continue to go up indefinitely. Sure it has dipped a bit, but over the course of 1 year, it's still up 50%. We've been hearing about the stock tanking all year, but in reality it's only down 8% and will probably go up again. Over the course of 5 years it's up over 175%. This makes it a very tempting stock to invest in, it's big gains in a short amount of time. All you need to know is exactly when to buy and when to sell.

At least until the ceiling is hit and the floor falls out, then the stock implodes and all the money is gone. Everyone with a brain looking at the actual company Tesla and all the idiotic stuff Musk has been doing has expected this to happen. But for various reasons this hasn't happened yet.

And remember a lot of things Musk has done aren't legal at all. Blatant market manipulation, total disregard to any rules and laws. Plus all the shit he's pulling with Twitter and xAI folding into Tesla and SpaceX. SpaceX only being held afloat by massive government investments and investments into Starlink. SpaceX is making a lot of money launching Starlink all the time. With the way they've designed it, those units de-orbit within a few years, being so low to be well inside the atmosphere. So they need to keep on launching to keep the network going all the time. Investors are paying for this, in the hopes Starlink ends up making enough money to pay for it. Nobody has ever gotten any similar satellite networks to be profitable, but who knows, they might make it work.

I recently read a cool book and wanted to know what other people thought about it. I had no idea how to find out, probably obscure forums or something. But with search engines being shit these days, I could only find one line reviews. I was looking for something a little more in depth.

So I thought hey let's try some kind of LLM based solution, this is something it should be able to do right? So I told Chatgpt hey I read this book and I liked it, what are some common praises and criticisms of that book? And the "AI" faithfully did as told. A pretty good summery of pros and cons, with everything being explained properly without becoming too verbose. Some of the points I agreed with, others less so. Wow, that's pretty neat.

But then alarm bells started ringing in my head. Time for a sanity check. So in a new chat I posed the exact same question, word for word. However I replaced the name of the book and the name of the author with something completely made up. Real sounding for the context, not obviously fake, but weird enough a human would give pause. And of course, not similar to anything that actually exists. The damn thing proceeded to give a very similar result as before. Different points, but the same format and gist. In depth points about pacing and predictability of a book I made the fuck up just seconds earlier.

I almost fell into the trap thinking LLMs could be useful in some cases. But in fact they are bullshit generators that just happen to be right some of the time.

Your mom's so fat, she pushes the barycenter of the solar system outside of the diameter of the Sun

My keyboard these days is much much stronger than the keyboard I had in the 90s. In the 80s the back was full metal and some had the case be metal as well. Then in the 90s it went all plastic and super fragile. For the past 15 years or so I've had a keyboard with a thick metal frame. I've smashed it lots of times and it doesn't care at all. If you'd pick it up and smash the monitor with it, it would totally destroy the monitor. My desk is a metal frame with solid wood, but the average IKEA desk probably wouldn't stand a chance.