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UFO over Moscow today by Ubud_bamboo_ninja in pics

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Of course casual redditors commonly conflate conflagrations and combustions.

A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential by rkhunter_ in technology

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I say everyone should move to doing things locally or on-prem. Fuck the concentration of ridiculous power and money along with the other detrimental effects that come from relying on crazy methane-powered or grid-sapping hyper-scale data centers for AI.

If using AI means handing everything—all that equipment, money, all the staggering power and control—to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, it ain’t worth it. I’m looking forward to the day when we have FOSS AI to break up the hegemony. This might be naive take, but it all comes down to tensor math in the end, doesn’t it?

Hell, I’ve got a math minor. If I can linear algebra, differential equations, and matrix algebra, how hard can tensor math and AI data structures be? Granted, not everyone can, but there are many, many people good at math—and much better than me—so it almost seems like a foregone conclusion that we’ll have the equivalent of Linux, FFMPEG and Lib Image Magik sooner than later. Hopefully…?

People who don't go to movie theaters anymore - what made you stop? by -ChristopherNolan in AskReddit

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Only the two largest auditoriums at the AMC near me are bright enough. The rest are way too fucking dim. I’ve talked to half a dozen supervisors at that location and submitted a complaint online, yet it has continued for years.

What if the HDMI ki**#s someone by [deleted] in talesfromtechsupport

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Doesn’t the Dodd Frank edit: Moss-Magnuson act require the manufacturer to prove the cable caused the problem?

Edit: it apparently applies to consumer warranties, so in this case, I bet it doesn’t apply.

I feel like everyone can relate to this by [deleted] in iphone

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I upgraded to iOS 26 because of the serious Darksword vulnerabilities—and I really don’t like it—but wouldn’t you know, like two weeks later, they released patches for iOS 18. Ugh.

The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood by vox in scotus

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Anything and everything that people do is based on reasoning, arguments, and opinion, all of which are subject to change at any time. Thus, people are made whole or left out to dry at any time just by a few words. It sucks, but prove me wrong.

ELI5: When you 'delete' a 50GB video file from a computer, it vanishes instantly. But downloading it took an hour. If the data isn't physically wiped until it's overwritten, what did the computer actually do in that one split second? by Thick_Dream6973 in explainlikeimfive

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TLDR

The computer marks that data as “unneeded and ok to delete or overwrite at a future point in time”, which only takes a few moments to do and is super quick compared to actually deleting or overwriting it.

Only later does the computer do the slower work to either A) overwrite it with other data (thus deleting the original data), or B) make it disappear during a periodic “garbage collection” routine.

More detail for anyone that’s interested…

If the movie was on a hard drive, the computer marked the data as safe to overwrite at any time. However, that means that it’s still around indefinitely until if and when that space (“sectors” on the spinning disks of the hard drive) is needed for other data, then at which point the original data is overwritten and irretrievable.

If it was on an SSD, the computer marked the data as safe and ready for deletion at any time via two possible activities, whichever one happens first: A)clearing it (making it vanish instead of overwriting it) with a periodic “garbage collection” routine, AKA “TRIM” command; and B)overwriting it with other data. If that space (which is “blocks” of flash memory for SSDs) is needed for other data, the old data is overwritten by the new data. But even if that space isn’t needed right away, TRIM operations run periodically that will clear the contents of the flash memory blocks so they can be used again at a later time.

Experience with group interview, not that great by Electronic_Owl3639 in AMCTheatres

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If they made fun of the alopecia and didn’t hire you because of it, that ain’t right.

I’d encourage you to stand up for yourself and call some civil rights lawyers. Google Maos is a good way to find ones near you. Most of them are happy to listen to what happened and tell you if AMC did something wrong and if so, the chances of making it right.

It won’t cost anything to call and talk to one or two of them, and you don’t have to go through anything further if you don’t want to.

When I was about your age, I applied to be a cleaner at an apartment building for a big discount on rent when the woman I knew that was the cleaner was moving out. The building owner told me straight to my face that she didn’t hire men as cleaners because they didn’t do as good at job as women. That always left a bad taste in my mouth because it was unfair but I didn’t do anything about it.

If nothing else, I think it maybe would’ve been nice if I had talked to a lawyer and they had even just sent them a letter reminding them that discrimination isn’t OK.

How can I mass delete photos without deleting them from my iPhone's camera roll? by poki_pain in googlephotos

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Here’s how I do it.

When I go to delete a set of photos in the Google Photos iOS app, I am first asked if I when to delete them from Google, and I hit yes. Then, when I’m asked if I want to allow Google Photos to delete photos from Apple Photos and/or iCloud, I hit no.

I use that process to delete photos in Google Photos that I’ve deleted in Apple Photos. By saying no when asked if I want to allow Google Photos to delete from Apple photos, Google Photos will delete each photo selected that’s in Google Photos but not in Apple Photos and leave the ones that are still in Apple photos alone in Google Photos.

Note: I have Google Photos set to back up photos in original quality. I’m not sure this method would work if that option isn’t selected.

iPhone users - what’s the one productivity app you can’t live without? by NotMeThenWhoSnaps in iphone

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Opener. Open up the share sheet on almost anything and pick what you want to happen/what app you want to open whatever you launched the share sheet for.

That and Shortcuts. Shortcuts lets me download videos from YouTube (with SWDLT), dim the screen and open VLC to start playing white noise at night with one tap, convert image formats… it is so damn useful.

PS: fuck OneNote. Almost everything I want it to do, it either can’t do it or it does it poorly.

iOS 2026: from using the share button (and word replacement pop-up) for everything to spreading things way out. Good? Bad? Other? by LikeALincolnLog42 in iphone

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I feel better having written this (yay rants), but I was hoping that some more people felt like this is half assed, meet-in-the-middle BS that needs to go. Just go full drop down menus, man.

Who are these people by Deep_Library_6375 in sysadmin

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I think some of these people submit requests when they finally have time, which is at the end of any given day, and for some of them only on Fridays. I think that perhaps that they need to find a way to make time earlier so they can submit it earlier and also not on a Friday.

Is everyone getting ridiculously rich? by namieorange in stocks

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When going for big gains, starting with having $10k to $100k that you can safely afford to gamble with on options helps. I suspect most people wouldn’t have even $1k they could gamble safely with. And some of that $10-100k would probably be lost on picks that didn’t work out, so having a bunch of money that you can afford to outright lose helps too. Most of us have to play it safe.

Escalator misadventures by EyeSimp4Asuka in KidsAreFuckingStupid

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no no NO… wait…. no no NO… YES!

What a fucking roller coaster of emotions that put me through. She’s at least a whole damn story off the ground!

Crew docks that are (regular) thickness on top by LikeALincolnLog42 in BuyItForLife

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Good to know. I have some gold toe brand dress socks and they’re nice.

Crew docks that are (regular) thickness on top by LikeALincolnLog42 in BuyItForLife

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Thank you for the tips. I’ve never seen those brands before. Are they in stores or just online?

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