whaleofatw2022 (u/whaleofatw2022)

whaleofatw2022 commented on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics theintercept.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/qingcharles

1123581321 · 14 days ago

Believe this is bad legal advice. They would only need to prove you destroyed information with intent to impede an investigation/case. They would not need to prove something convicting or weighing was destroyed.

whaleofatw2022 · 14 days ago

I wonder what the threshold is?

E.x. if one had a "dead man's switch" phone that required a passkey every x minutes, and each time you did so it set the next threshold...

whaleofatw2022 commented on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics theintercept.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/qingcharles

rimunroe · 14 days ago

I don't know about that exactly, but my understanding was that this is similar in justification to compelling a person to be fingerprinted or give a DNA sample. To me there does seem to be a fairly major difference between forcing someone to disclose information held in their mind and forcing them to provide a biometric. The former seems equivalent to compelling testimony against oneself. I have a hard time seeing the latter as compelling testimony against oneself, especially if giving fingerprints or DNA isn't.

whaleofatw2022 · 14 days ago

Part of it is that compelling information can be problematic, in that other circumstances can happen where the information may not easily be obtainable.

Extreme example, imagine a stroke or head injury causing memory loss.

OTOH DNA/Face/Fingerprints, usually can't be 'forgotten'.

whaleofatw2022 commented on Tesla ending Models S and X production cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

jordanb · 15 days ago

Tesla's original "secret plan" (published on their website) was to become a commodity car manufacturer faster than electric cars became a commodity. Such that the other manufacturers would find them selling obsolete vehicles and Tesla just becomes the new General Motors.

This was the justification for their stock price for quite a few years: "It's logical that Tesla is worth more than all other automakers combined because it will soon be the only automaker."

Then in 2022 Elon basically admitted that they couldn't win on production and had to continue to win on technology and they'd do that with self driving. [https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-worth-basica...]

But now Tesla is way behind on self driving (which was oversold by the whole industry tbh). So what's their new plan? Now they're no longer a car company and will make robots!

whaleofatw2022 · 15 days ago

Your take makes sense.

i.e. the GigaPress for frames but it just didnt scale like they hoped.

whaleofatw2022 commented on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction entropicthoughts.com/nvid... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Yizahi · 24 days ago

That is commonly repeated idea, but it doesn't take into account countless token farms which are smaller than a datacenter. Basically anything from a single MB with 8 cards to a small shed with rigs, all of which tend to disregard common engineering practices and run hardware into a ground to maximize output until next police raid or difficulty bump. Plenty of photos in the internet of crappy rigs like that, and no one guarantees which GPU comes whom where.

Another commonly forgotten issue is that many electrical components are rated by hours of operation. And cheaper boards tend to have components with smaller tolerances. And that rated time is actually a graph, where hour decrease with higher temperature. There were instances of batches of cards failing due to failing MOSFETs for example.

whaleofatw2022 · 24 days ago

Let's also not forget the set of miners that either overclock or dont really care about long term in how they set up thermals

whaleofatw2022 commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

Intralexical · a month ago

My youth experiences left me with zero desire to ever work anywhere near a tech company. But when I was still in grade school, I once flipped through a Scott Adams book that my father had borrowed from the local library. There's one line that I remember particularly clearly, directed at any woman who felt uncomfortable or ignored in the workplace:

  "WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH YOU!"

Google tells me this is from "The Dilbert Future", 1997, pg. 146 under "Prediction 38". It's presented as the explanation for when a woman speaks in a meeting, and male coworkers don't listen to, quote, "the woman who is generating all that noise".

Adams more or less tells female readers to just deal with it, while also telling male readers that they're broken/lying if they're not engaged in a constant sexual fantasy about their female coworkers.

To be honest, this did real damage to how I felt about sexuality and gender. Not a huge amount on its own, but it's just such a distorted take from a respected author, whose books my father kept checking out, that I read at a young age.

Scott Adams clearly lived an atypical life. Most people don't quit their jobs to write comics about corporate culture. If I had to guess why he took such a hard turn later on, I think, maybe it's something that happens when a humorist can't compartmentalize their penchant for absurdity and need for attention from real life, they can tell jokes that resonate with a lot of people, but at the same time their serious views also end up becoming ungrounded...

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago

You have to remember, it is theorized that Scott Adams is the 'Cartoonist' from the Pick Up Artist book "The Game".

If you aren't familiar with it, well I was once given a copy by a friend who said they used it to 'get their partner'.

I tried reading it, found it despicable (its basically everything we hate about manipulation in the attention economy,) also the person who loaned it to me had bad narcissistic tendencies; the only time I saw them cry was when someone died that they didnt get to bang.

whaleofatw2022 commented on Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Jare · a month ago

I thought the reason for this to be a visa is because their fields' activities were in-person (acting in movies/plays/shows, academic life & research, sports training & leagues, etc). A streamer / OF worker is not like that as far as I know (but e-sports is). So this is purely to bring people with money and/or influence, nothing exceptional except the number of 0's.

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago

> A streamer / OF worker is not like that as far as I know (but e-sports is).

Well Streamer vs Influencer can be different potentially, that said I can think of one example even for video game streamers, that being the AGDQ charity event where speedrunners/streamers do stuff live for charity at the event space.

whaleofatw2022 commented on This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser iczelia.net/posts/snake-p... · Posted by u/snoofydude

Andrex · a month ago

That honestly doesn't seem too bad. Zelda 1 is relatively large but it reuses a lot of assets and honestly probably doesn't have that much text. (More than a Mario but way less than a Dragon Warrior.)

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago

AFAIR tho im not sure its even 128k, I think disk cards themselves are more like 110k and even then FDS Zelda had separate sides mostly for main menu and saves.

IOW might have been able to fit in 96Kb or less.

whaleofatw2022 commented on RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game? scottjg.com/posts/2026-01... · Posted by u/scottjg

scottjg · a month ago

you're lucky you didn't get stuck with an S3 ViRGE.

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago

Haha I remember how they couldn't even do transparency in MDK properly.

Was a bit faster than software (but hey I suppose if you weren't doing any transparency that makes it easier lol).

whaleofatw2022 commented on What Happened to Abit Motherboards dfarq.homeip.net/what-hap... · Posted by u/zdw

rasz · a month ago

I posit the opposite. Super Socket 7 motherboards were a terrible choice aimed at suckers trapped by sunk cost fallacy.

>along with an agp slot

Non working AGP slot, or rather working until you tried to play 3d games with 3D accelerator actually using AGP features, then you got crashes no matter the chipset (VIA, ALI). Solution was switching to x1 mode, disabling sideband signaling or just swapping to a 3dfx card.

1998 with the release of Intel Celeron killed any possible K6 advantage https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/981226/p_cpu.ht... ~120 yen to $1

Celeron 300A MHz 10,440 ~$90

K6-2/300 10,850 ~100

https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/981226/newitem....

ZIDA BXi98-ATX (440BX,ATX,AGP1,PCI4,PCI/ISA1,ISA1,DIMM3) 15,800 ~$140

FIC PA2013 (MVP3,ATX,2MB,AGP1,PCI3,PCI/ISA1,ISA1,DIMM3) 2MB cache 13,800 ~$130

>amd k6 550 cpu

thats year 2000

>The only set of cpus not compatible were the slot and socket 370 cpus. But they were pretty expensive anyway

You are comparing bottom of the barrel AMD CPUs with top spec Pentium 3s. Correct comparison should be against Celerons. January 2000 prices https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20000617/p_cpu....

K6-III/450 14,550 $140

K6-III/400 8,980 $85

Celeron 300A $57

300A@450MHz beats K6-III/450@550MHz in every possible benchmark.

by June 17 2000 https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20000617/p_cpu....

Celeron 533A 10,570 $100

Celeron 366MHz 7,700 $73

Duron 600MHz 9,990 $95

K6-III/450 24,800 $236 !??!!?

K6-III/400 14,800 $140

K6-2/550 7,949 $76

K6-2/533 5,970 $57

K6-2/500 5,350 $50

$76 K6-2/550 is slower than $73 Celeron 366, not to mention pulverized in benchmarks if you happened to find Celeron capable of 100MHz fsb.

Old slow ram makes K6 setup even slower. You would think the benefit were much cheaper motherboards, but even that wasnt the case. SS7 boards started at ~$75 while Abit BE6-2 was $90 and cheapest 440BX ones (P2XBL) $65. K6-2/550 3DNow! (100MHz Bus) $90 vs Celeron 500 $93 https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-2000-07/page/n3...

Slot1 made much more sense, only release of K7 made AMD competitive again with Duron on the low end and Athlon way ahead of P3.

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago

ALi definitely had a shit AGP setup, but I never had problems with Vias VP3

whaleofatw2022 commented on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

nrp · 2 months ago

Three major ones: Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix

And a couple of smaller ones: CXMT (if you’re not afraid of the sanctions), Nanya, and a few others with older technology

whaleofatw2022 · 2 months ago

Is this glofo's time to shine?