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Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

I saw several concerts there and it was awesome. You want to live a life without anything fun in it?

Barron Trump declines to serve as an RNC delegate by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Seriously, this is like trying to bring back the monarchy. Fuck the GOP.

I apologise if this is already common knowledge, but I just found out you can have multiple layers of LUKS encryption on a drive! by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago

Actually the bottomLuks generates most of the power.

What field do you work in, and how many digits of pi do you use? by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago

I haven't typed the digits of pi for probably 20 years because it's defined as a double precision float in all the programming libraries I use.

What does "next Saturday" mean by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The 11th. "This" is the upcoming. "Next" is the one after that.

Source: being a human being and scheduling stuff with people for many decades

Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago

I am insanely interested but the apple ecosystem sucks. I use a MacBook for work because it's that or Windows, but good lord do i hate the closed source walled garden. Linux at home ftw.

The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

the only element on Earth cold enough to make an MRI machine work.

I didn't know that elements had a defined temperature. Bang up reporting there, NBC.

Andrew Yang: Biden going to deliver us ‘Trump the sequel’, endorses Democrat Dean Phillips for president by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

Andrew Yang is not a serious person that people should listen to. Next.

Red Sea crisis from Houthi attacks hits world trade as cost of shipping soars by 170% by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, if buttholes are shooting missiles at boats, I think we're beyond "convenient excuses." Do you want to captain a ship through there by chance?

Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Never quit when a company intentionally makes your life shitty?

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago

I just made this exact switch a few months ago, so, yeah, it happens.

Sugar, spice and too little nice by maniacal_gaff in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 93 points 8 months ago

Generalizing entire groups of people usually isn't recommended. I know boomers who would code circles around any of the kids who think that configuring wifi is the height of tech literacy.