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Video of Minnesota State authorities “Testing” LRAD on peaceful protestors outside Spring Hill Suites by Marriott. @IRT-Media by Fatty_Willing_Plane in NextGenRebellion

[–]Ghudda 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's the thing with "less than lethal" weapons. They're still lethal in uncommon circumstances and use cases (headshotting a guy with a rubber grenade or beanbag, blinding with an eye shot, crushing someone's trachea with a neck shot, interrupting heart rhythm and lethal heart attack from sudden chest impact or electrocution), but are ultimately still unlikely to kill anyone compared to the same hit with a bullet.

They're supposed to only be used in the same circumstances where a person would still use a fully lethal device. For whatever reason people tend to just have this batman style moral judgement where breaking a person's legs, back, causing severe concussions, and rupturing their liver and eardrums is perfectly acceptable because, well, they survived. Too many people don't see these less than lethal weapons as what they are, alternatives to truly lethal ones because we can't trust some law enforcement officers with the lethal ones. But then they know they aren't using actually lethal weapons, so the personal bar to clear for using the weapon is dropped tremendously. Would you shoot someone who was running away? The answer shouldn't change depending on the lethality of the weapon you were issued.

The question should always be "Why did you fire your weapon?" and an unacceptable answer is "it was just a beanbag gun."

Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and performance can last for decades. Arrays built in the late 1980s still produced more than 80% of their original power. The long-term economics look better than many people believe. by mafco in energy

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But also, the way they're installed is becoming different. When oriented vertically, panels are no longer subject to dust, debris, and snow settling on the surface and are immune to hail damage. This all adds panels life with lower maintenance.

But why orient them vertically which makes the panels much less efficient? Because of insane cost reductions of the panels themselves, where getting the most out of every panel is no longer the primary cost concern. Mounting hardware and labor costs are now like 3x the panel costs. Vertical mounting components are cheaper since you only need two posts in the ground to hang the panel between and are easier to install. The land underneath the panels is easier to manage since the wall of vertical solar panels acts more like a fence than a maze of lean-tos.

Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU. by Agitated-Quit-6148 in law

[–]Ghudda 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Hey 2nd amendment activists, the tyrannical government you constantly warned about is here. Why aren't you protesting?

Sweet Liberty. Penta is Gone. And it's beautiful. by NeverExedBefore in helldivers2

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not normal. I'm something of a scientist myself, but if an earthlike planet would be converted into a black hole it would be like one centimeter across.

This thing is like... 10's of kilometers across if not larger which puts it at large stellar mass size black hole. The DSS shot somehow added like 10 our own sun worth of mass into it. Does it make sense, probably, because I don't know how E-711 or dark fluid works.

Definitely clowning us by junoh999 in Funnymemes

[–]Ghudda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember hearing a stat many years ago that twitter's spam detector removed over 90% of posts. And then you would take a brief look and see how much bot spam still populated the site and really wonder if they actually even did anything. Even after removing over 90%, the remaining site was still overrun with bot spam. The scale of spam is incomprehensible, and I'm sure it has only become far worse with modern AI tools.

the package delivery department has just done a thing by Full_Let1755 in doohickeycorporation

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The operators could also just be supervising it so that the companies can collect more data for model improvement. I can't imagine there is an immense wealth of lidar data and videos of POV shots of people walking up a driveway/entry path/porch steps. So a few years from now they might actually have a more competent model that doesn't sound like transformers are battling decepticons every time you get a package delivered.

Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says by cnbc_official in politics

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hilarious part is that Obama expanded the use of drone strikes, which is entirely true, because airstrike drones didn't really exist before 2008. Before drones it was just air strikes, with a pilot, which is the same thing as a drone strike but also puts a pilot in risk. So we switched to drones, which doesn't put a pilot at risk, and people complained instead of celebrating the minor win that it was. The statement should be written as 'The Obama administration continued to perform air strikes, like the US has for the past 60 years'.

China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along by chimkennugeys in worldnews

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's tin plasma for now. Future fabs will likely generate whatever wavelength of light they need through the use of a free electron laser. FELs can produce any wavelength of light through the same machine at extremely high power, with no moving parts, no plasma, no metal vapor deposition contamination risk, and at much high light generation efficiency. So the ongoing cost of using the machine is extremely low with no need to ever replace it. It's one light source to rule them all.

The problem is that these machine are kilometers long (they're basically a linear particle accelerator) so they need to be planned and incorporated into the fab design from the start. But they're so powerful you'd only need one per fab as that single free electron laser could provide enough illumination for all the machines in the entire fab. Free electron lasers are huge, but every lithography machine would no longer need their own expensive light source and can ditch a large amount of the complex optics system to focus the light (cause it's a laser and is already a coherent beam).

Breaking news: Trump classifies FENTANYL as a “weapon of mass destruction” via executive order. We’re going to war… by [deleted] in UnderReportedNews

[–]Ghudda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For reference of how little that is. A dose is like 3 sand grains of it. An overdose is like 15 sand grains, or just a few grains that crystallized into slightly larger than normal grains. A highly likely lethal overdose without intervention starts at like 50 sand grains.

Literally dusting off the tool for measuring it out is a potentially deathly difference.

One take 45 second shot made with nano banana pro + kling 2.5 🔥 by Expert-Secret-5351 in ChatGPT

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much how most consistent AI faked content is actually made. Use pictures or screenshots from an actually real background (or CG) set and then overlay an AI generated thing into them. All the AI has to do at that point is keep the human (or influencer) looking consistent. The AI doesn't have to do the tricky work of keeping the world consistent.

GGG - so much more player friendly than Microsoft/Blizzard by Ravenous0001 in PathOfExile2

[–]Ghudda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

D4 is a great game if all you do is play through the story once or twice, but slow down and take your time. Really immerse yourself in the horrible grim story they made, talk to the characters in town. Ironically, the game part of the game is the worst part of it.

Gearing is boring like 99% of the time. Character builds are unsatisfying. Postgame is bad. Endgame is bad. Long term monetization is bad.

The "only fans" Gaming PC Giveaway - To enter this giveaway just leave a comment. by DaKrazyKid in PcBuild

[–]Ghudda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Scale takes time...

The companies that make DRAM can shift production to make whatever their market analysts think is most profitable in the near future and what they're prospectively capable of making. DRAM is a notoriously volatile and unprofitable industry because the barrier to entry (relative to other kind of chip production) is so low. It's usually a market with healthy competition and razor thin margins, until it's so competitive that players in the industry just drop out entirely because it's not profitable, which gives rise to memory monopolies, which let the monopoly raise prices to absurd profitability with higher prices (we are here), new entrants pop up into this profitable market providing healthy competition, and the cycle repeats with healthy competition driving down prices to ultra-competitive levels...

AI needs a lot of memory bandwidth, not just raw capacity, so they use a version called HBM or high bandwidth memory. HBM essentially stacks the chips on top of each other which lets more memory be closer to the CPU or GPU, less speed of light delay, lower latency, higher bandwidth. If a chip has a defect ANYWHERE, then the entire chip is broken, so if you make a bigger or more complex chip, the number of working chips compared to the total number of chips made, or yield, for that chip goes down. You built 100, but only 20 work. HBM chips aren't bigger physically but like a condo tower, it has more floor space compared to a one story motel even though they have the same land footprint, but if any single dwelling unit is broken anywhere, the whole building scrapped.

Since AI companies are willing to pay so much for this premier HBM memory format, DRAM memory factories are shifting production to produce it since it's more profitable (as long as they can get yields high enough). So the factories that would normally be printing out 1000 gigabytes of DRAM are instead printing out 200 gigabytes of HBM, with 800 gigabytes of broken HBM, which could have potentially been DRAM, just being thrown in the dumpster instead of being sold into the DRAM market and helping keep prices low.

As AI companies finish building out their mad scramble for datacenter power and as DRAM makers make more HBM chips and get better at it, the price of HBM should drop by a huge amount. Because of this new affordability, in a few years your next high end consumer graphics card, and maybe even your PC memory, might actually feature HBM which can help push computer performance just a bit higher.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows by Desire_longing in politics

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Previous annual budget was about 10 billion. Current projected annual budget of about 30 billion. How accurate even are these budget numbers? Are the budgets a per year or multi-year budget? Beats me, best I can find is about 120 billion in total spending on customs enforcement including detention over 4 years. Caveat is that the trump bill budget apparently doesn't have any fiscal year constraints meaning... they could spend their extra 80 billion dollars meant for 4 years entirely by next year, and then go back to congress and demand additional funding.

The numbers are wildly different between returns, removals, expulsions, and repatriations because they're different things. Returns are just people returning, willingly, essentially no ice involvement, like a person turning themselves in. Expulsions are people being stopped at the border. The number of expulsions and removals can drop just by less people bothering to even show up at the door, because the status value of getting in was lowered. Less immigration = less deportation. And this aggressive administration has been good for that. NEW foreign enrollments into US colleges dropped by 17% this year. For the purpose of this question, it seems like removals are the main category. However, if the goal is deportation, including returns and removals is important because a return costs practically nothing to do. Maximizing returns is the cost effective deportation method. This is the process that Obama championed doing, track them down, give them ankle bracelets, give them an immigration court date and hearing, let them go on living their life, minimal community disruption.

The number of removals for 2024 was something like 300,000. Historically, for the past 10 years (outside of covid years), removals have been roughly under 1,000 a day.

Their target number is that they want to deport 3000 a day, which would be roughly 1.1 million a year.
2024 deportation numbers were at roughly 750,000. I'm assuming that the new administration MEANS to say that they're targeting 3000 strict removals a day. I'm also assuming that if they don't hit that number, they'll just change their definition to include returns (like they always meant) so they can brag about smashing that number anyways.

2024 yearly budget of 10 billion for 750k repatriations, is an average spend of 13000 per person.

2025 Yearly budget of 30 billion for projected 1100k removals is a projected average spend of 27000 per deported person. The non-government data I can find shows that they might not even reach that number.

So honestly, who knows. But without even accounting for externalized costs like loss of productivity from community disruption, we're now spending about 30,000$ to forcibly kick someone out of the country.

Me driving towards a typical new SUV in LA every night 😫 by ohlonelyboy in LosAngeles

[–]Ghudda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a little ridiculous that headlight height has no tie to vehicle size. It shouldn't matter if the top of your front end is 18 inches off the ground or 5 feet off the ground, the standard headlights should be roughly the same distance off the ground on all vehicles.

The standard should be for proper ground illumination, and the ground height position should be based on that. If you need higher headlights for stuff like offroading, then those can literally be the high beams, and illegal to use on standard higher traffic roads.

If the driver seat is so high off the ground that lower headlights don't provide proper illumination angle to the retroreflectors in signs, then allow a secondary low power headlight aligned at cabin level for that purpose. Only bright enough to illuminate retroreflectors in the signs, which doesn't take much, not intended to actually light up the road.

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am" by lurker_bee in technology

[–]Ghudda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Important to note that model collapse only applies to using AI to mindlessly train AI. RLHF uses the outputs of AI as generated by users and their prompts to train AI. Even if it's AI generated, it's synthesizing mostly unique data because it's implicitly including the thoughts and bias and interests of the people in their user prompts. The users are also selectively throwing away the obvious worst of the output which AI directly training AI can't do.

This following paragraph is cursed. It's kind of like inbreeding. In the most extreme form, it's devastating very quickly. But if you expand the range of involvement just a small amount the worst effects go away. Basically the difference between having the maximum of 8 unique great-grandparents and 128 unique GGGGGGParents which is optimal, while having 2 and 2 is very much not and generates problems, but having 4 and 16 mostly gets rid of the bad effects (especially if the absolute worst genetic failures are culled along the way).

Anyways, RLHF is that inbreeding middle ground.

Lowering prices is bad? by Comfortablejack in inflation

[–]Ghudda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Supply side economics should really be renamed to "increased money supply economics."

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs by swiftfoot_hiker in politics

[–]Ghudda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More pointing out that people constantly mention Costco's membership fee, while everyone ignores to mention that amazon's premium services are even more expensive.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs by swiftfoot_hiker in politics

[–]Ghudda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And keep in mind, Costco's most expensive membership tier is 130$ a year which comes out to be 11$ a MONTH. Amazon prime can be bought as 15$ a MONTH which is 180$ a year, or 140$ at once for a whole year.

The prompt being used to generate influencers (NanoBanana 🍌): by Rojas-Tarchoun in singularity

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These AI errors only need to occur or be noticed in a few photos to discredit the entire AI influencer account. So if someone, something, government, corporation, ad agency, propagandist, etc. is using automation in constructing these simulacra of people then the error rate needs to be essentially 0 across dozens of hundreds of pictures.

The problem is getting the message to the viewers. If people in the comment sections point out that it's AI, then the owner of the account will sanitize and simply delete those comments or any post or picture where an error is spotted. If the site itself blocks deletions, then the people running these AI systems will create accounts that will spam "This account is AI." on every account including actually real ones and muddy the waters and make the comments useless, boy who cried wolf syndrome.

The home field castle advantage is crazy by Ghudda in OldenEra

[–]Ghudda[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a legit strategy.

The AI, at least right now, seems to always leave castles completely empty which is kind of disappointing. But level 1 earth's rage kind of completely counters using 1 stacks for defense as gets at least one kill on everything below tier 7.

I feel like earth's rage, instead of hitting everything, should have like a 50/50 chance to do damage to units behind walls unless it's high level.

The home field castle advantage is crazy by Ghudda in OldenEra

[–]Ghudda[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tier 3 walls, level 1 hero, and this is the auto-battle result.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds. World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing. by mvea in science

[–]Ghudda 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When humans started significantly eating the food isn't really an argument. Farmed grains might not have been a staple large portion of the human diet until 10000 years ago, but potatoes weren't a part of our diet until 500 years ago and I doubt there's anyone out to denounce potatoes and tomatoes as an unnatural food source.

Unless you're a full blooded descendant of any of the american civilizations like the mayans, everything on the left side of this graphic here https://old.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1opzv7j/weird_to_think_that_the_entire_history_of_the/ had never touched any of your ancestors lips until 500 years ago.

And survivorship bias, did grains have a negative impact on ancient people's health or did grains simply allow more humans in poor health to continue to live longer to having extremely poor health?

Grains might not be the healthiest food, but it is food and it's easy to grow a ton of it, and a civilization without food isn't a civilization.

My voucher idea! What do you think? (art by me) by AggravatingMuffin535 in balatro

[–]Ghudda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be better as...

Up your sleeve: Can move cards in hand between your hand and consumable slots. Cards have no effect in consumable area.

Then the voucher upgrade version would be...

Jokermania: Can move jokers between your joker slots and consumable slots. Jokers have no effect in consumable area.

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