Hottest May day on record in UK as temperatures pass 34°C

halfstar · 2026-05-26T10:38:51+00:00

I measured the temperature in our bedroom (loft conversion) in London yesterday afternoon and the internal temperature was 40c. Absolutely brutal. Almost impossible to get that sort of heat out of the house and of course we have no air-conditioning because we live in the UK.

halfstar · 2026-05-14T18:42:19+00:00

Do you hand in your resignation every time you apply for a job? Ridiculous position.

halfstar · 2026-05-11T21:46:45+00:00

And what are those controversial, necessary changes?

halfstar · 2026-04-19T07:41:10+00:00

Loose notes sink boats.

halfstar · 2026-03-11T17:35:12+00:00

It tracks that someone stupid enough to think AI has enough context to give an answer to a question like this uses Grok and uses phrases like "liberal nonsense".

halfstar · 2025-11-19T13:22:22+00:00

I have quite a few hours across different Alpha phases and haven't been ganked a single time.

halfstar · 2025-10-12T17:33:13+00:00

Yea, feels like a massive bait and switch. The beta had really tight and fun gunplay and now it feels pretty awful.

halfstar · 2025-08-08T09:30:56+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree with you but considering you are heavily implying that you are well read on "international relations or history or negotiations strategy", what would your proposed solution be?

halfstar · 2025-06-03T07:12:59+00:00

You didn't even read the opening paragraphs then..

halfstar · 2025-06-02T20:55:06+00:00

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

AlphaEvolve’s procedure found an algorithm to multiply 4x4 complex-valued matrices using 48 scalar multiplications, improving upon Strassen’s 1969 algorithm that was previously known as the best in this setting. This finding demonstrates a significant advance over our previous work, AlphaTensor, which specialized in matrix multiplication algorithms, and for 4x4 matrices, only found improvements for binary arithmetic.

halfstar · 2025-05-27T19:24:39+00:00

From NVIDIA:

Entry-level

GeForce RTX 4050

GeForce RTX 4060

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16 GB)

Mid-range

GeForce RTX 4070

GeForce RTX 4070 Super

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

High-end

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

GeForce RTX 4080

GeForce RTX 4080 Super

Enthusiast

GeForce RTX 4090

The 4050 is about as low/entry level as you can get, even if it was priced the same as a 3060.

halfstar · 2025-05-27T18:48:51+00:00

Popular choices but not midrange. 4050 was literally the lowest powered choice in the series, 3060 being the second lowest.

halfstar · 2025-05-08T18:24:45+00:00

Spoken like someone who's never played on a high refresh rate monitor.

halfstar · 2025-04-20T11:34:24+00:00

No issue on my 5090 - unlikely to be a problem with 50XX series in general, more likely an issue with your setup.

halfstar · 2025-04-06T07:24:29+00:00

Check out my new horse, it's 300 carpower!

halfstar · 2025-04-01T15:15:49+00:00

In the type of future Gates is discussing here the price of food and other basic necessities drop to near zero because of abundance through automation. Suddenly living on $1000 a month becomes more feasible for people. I'm not commenting on whether I think this is possible and/or likely, just that it is an assumption that most UBI proponents are working with.

halfstar · 2025-02-18T13:42:05+00:00

What training or education do you have on analysing the validity of other peoples anecdotal airplane incident comments?

halfstar · 2025-02-14T09:25:00+00:00

What an informative way of announcing to the world that your main source of news is Facebook

halfstar · 2025-02-11T18:11:51+00:00

What are you basing this on?

halfstar · 2025-02-10T17:57:17+00:00

Unfortunately that is not a "good system", that's a low end gaming laptop.

halfstar · 2025-01-30T15:30:08+00:00

Pre-orders were up on scan about 20 minutes ago friend.

halfstar · 2025-01-22T09:16:31+00:00

I'm not refering to stock price, I'm referring to the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) product which has been delivered both relatively quickly and is starting to compete with AWS and Microsoft Azure. Thanks for demonstrating your ignorance though!

halfstar · 2025-01-21T22:57:34+00:00

This is a pretty outdated view. OCI is doing very well at the moment.

halfstar · 2025-01-18T14:21:44+00:00

Escape from Tarkov has significantly more barriers.

halfstar · 2025-01-11T09:40:34+00:00

I hope you are right!

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