riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

For crying out loud!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Beat Saber! I was the same as you until I got addicted to (modded) Beat Saber. Now I play for about an hour every day and I'm vastly more in shape than I used to be πŸ‘

I play a lot of speed (as a 48yo) but I also like to have fun:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657

😁

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah but it works and it's still free 🀷

[–] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

It ain't much, but it's dishonest work.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 82 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Jokes on us: Because of the gravity issue, alien life on such planets jumps right to stargate technology.

"They spent almost a thousand years fooling around with rockets!"

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

BYD is special in that they make nearly all the components of their cars. I wouldn't be surprised if they owned and operated the mines that obtain the metal necessary to build them because they're that integrated.

Contrast that with how western car companies do it, where they outsource most of the vehicle parts manufacturing to 3rd parties. When Ford or GM needs a new side mirror for a new vehicle they just designed, they'll send the spec to some company that just makes mirrors (like that) and put in an order.

When BYD needs a new part like that they just make it them damned selves. In fact, they'll setup an enormous production line for each stupid little thing.

BYD can get away with this because China's market is so big and a lot of the things they need for making electric vehicles are subsidized by the Chinese government (aka the people paying taxes).

This is why a BYD compact electric SUV is $12,000 (in China) and an equivalent vehicle in the US is $40,000 (or more, I shit you not!). That $12,000 SUV with 300 miles of range really is equivalent to a $40,000 vehicle in the US!

It's one of the benefits of having your government pick and choose winners and subsidizing TF out of those winners. There's also things other than subsidies at work that give BYD a huge (price) advantage but they're more complicated than I'm willing to write out at the moment.

What's the downside to doing things the China/BYD way? The inability to pivot. In theory, the EV market could undergo a massive change so that demand drops like a rock. Then they're stuck will zillions of cars no one wants. This already happened.

BYD also has teeny tiny margins which leaves them vulnerable to market crashes (like that). Fortunately for them, the government will bail them out and give them loans that are basically free money. Just like how the US government bailed out GM.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Remember, kids: If we taught you how to protect your privacy and recover from things like this, you'd also learn how to get around the censorship we impose upon you so stay in the dark and suffer.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 89 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

The real question: Why didn't she just make a new Discord account? It's free and stupidly easy.

It's not that hard to contact your old friends and tell them your account was hacked. In fact, that happens all the time.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel it is important to point out that a third world economy is not necessary for things like that!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

The AI features are actually pretty cool!

Using a local AI model (running on your own GPU), you can:

  • Drag files on to the "AI bar" to bring them into the context of a prompt.
  • Tell it to perform actions like, "merge these two PDF files."
  • Use it to search your filesystem, "find pictures of spiders."
  • Ask it to find system settings or tell it to change them, "turn on dark mode."

It supports voice and probably visual (e.g. with a webcam) I think.

Best of all: It doesn't send any of that to some data center in the cloud! I mean, you can configure it to do that but you can just as easily use say, qwen3.5.

Note: It's not realistic to expect to be able to use local models if you have less than 16GB of VRAM (in your GPU). I mean, some 8-billion parameter model will work with say, 8GB but you're not going to be satisfied with the results most of the time 🀷

[–] riskable@programming.dev 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No one will believe you, so they'll call it "sock therapy."

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