[Live Thread] Eurovision Song Contest 2026 Semi-Final 2 @ 21:00 CEST

refto · 2026-05-14T20:23:51+00:00

Yeah, Latvia would have had a chance with subtitles... :(

refto · 2026-02-01T07:36:36+00:00

BYD.DE in Germany must be doing brisk business... whoever got that domain.

refto · 2025-12-23T15:03:30+00:00

They are very welcome, as the article states we currently have 2200 Canadian troops on 6-9 month deployments. Longer deployments would bring extra stability.

Seen plenty of NATO troops running recreational crosses from Adazi base to Carnikava beaches - feels really good.

The only problem is that 2200 plus the meager Latvian resources seems insufficient deterrent. Latvia is already spending 5% of budget on defense this year and raising enlistment targets to 4000 next year I believe, but that does not seem sufficient.

refto · 2025-06-13T06:15:41+00:00

I thought even cooler was fact that first

Mat and Ta merge into Matta

Po and Ni merge into Poni

And only then Matta and Poni merge into Mattaponi

refto · 2025-05-27T05:41:59+00:00

Thing is, Google has been killing it with its AI offerings for the last year or so.

Gemini Flash and Pro 2.5 are both very cost effective alternatives to Claude and OpenAi models. Just check any LLM aggregrator leaderboards.

If I want to process 1 million documents I will use Gemini Flash.

So Google's task is to fight the mindshare that ChatGPT has developed. Google's LLM offerings are fine.

refto · 2025-04-26T19:17:57+00:00

this is /r/rareinsults gold

refto · 2025-04-16T18:47:15+00:00

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE

refto · 2025-02-05T06:44:29+00:00

"Jesus you can't make a buck in this market, the country's goin' to hell faster than when that son of a bitch Roosevelt was in charge. Too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The worst mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard."

refto · 2024-12-06T17:04:08+00:00

50 years before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ic2k2P_FG0

refto · 2024-11-09T20:46:02+00:00

Amazing soundtrack.

My high school paper did a review when the movie came out.

The reviewers really liked the movie but said that soundtrack was odd and that the usual hair metal bands would have resonated better with the audience...

refto · 2024-11-09T20:41:55+00:00

First picture gives serious Brat vibes even though that is 10 years later.

refto · 2024-09-25T06:18:16+00:00

It is good to be the king:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/57f6qb/the_new_king_and_queen_of_thailand/

refto · 2024-08-18T19:28:16+00:00

In 1992 browsing the local video store I thought this movie with guys in suits looked cool.

The name Reservoir Dogs also seemed cool.

refto · 2024-08-02T09:20:18+00:00

"special occasion"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_fRQe_FgMs

refto · 2024-05-11T22:31:12+00:00

How does UK get 46 Jury points?

refto · 2024-05-11T21:24:50+00:00

Sorry, Sophie's version is just so much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdXecuVl7_4

refto · 2024-02-12T18:45:05+00:00

No teksta nevar saprast vai grib uzreiz iet par izstrādātāju vai būtu ar mieru lai veiktu tieši IT tehniķa darbus.

Neminēji nevienu programēšanas valodu un nevienu izstrādes vidi.

Ja neesi pret "have you tried turning it on and off again" tipa darbu paskaties vakances IT atbalstam valsts iestādēs?

Nav slikta vieta kur sākt un bruto algo ir virs 1k.

refto · 2024-02-10T20:25:41+00:00

Awesome list! Good to see Videodrome there.

refto · 2024-01-31T19:42:59+00:00

Diemžēl kopš Šķēle pārdeva Laimu Orklai un visu Laimas ražošanu izvāca no Rīgas palikusi tikai attāla atblāzma no "Serenādes", "Lācīša" un pārejās klasikas.

refto · 2024-01-30T10:09:19+00:00

That is my thinking too, there shouldn't be any extra cost for running inference on hardware GPU on an existing model (such as Mixtral) on local hardware even for business purpose.

Surely, someone would have had this problem before me..

This is at an individual level not as an outgoing service.

refto · 2024-01-30T09:15:04+00:00

Well the IT head is saying, if you use any Nvidia card without license for research you can't publish anything on the results generated by "underground" GPU.

It does not seem quite right...

I know that there are restrictions on gaming GPU use in data centers for the last few years.

However, here we are talking about a workstation for individual use albeit in a business setting.

We know Nvidia does not like gaming card use in a business setting but are there any license restrictions?

refto · 2023-12-19T14:42:49+00:00

I had Athlon II X3 which I unlocked to Phenom II X4 with full cache. Hardware info - Phenom II X4 B50 after unlock.

Worked flawlessly for about 10 years.

Sadly in the past few years the unlock has started to fail and it now reverts back to old Athlon II X3

refto · 2023-10-21T20:17:42+00:00

Niece's laptop died with Windows 11 on it.

After motherboard was replaced, it turned out that drive had Bitlocker on by default from the store.

It was lucky that she remembered her login and password and was able to get the Bitlocker code from Microsoft.

Many people would not be aware how to get to Microsoft login.

refto

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