Daily Tech News 20 February 2025

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Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti is here and I've found my next video card. (Techspot)

Though those two items are not related. Or more precisely, they are inversely related.

Not that the 5070 Ti is a bad card, certain items ignored. It is fast, it has plenty of VRAM for almost anything at 16GB, and it, uh, mostly works.

The problem is the price. It was announced with a price of $750, and officially that is still the price. The problem is there is no official card. There was even a drama when Nvidia shipped a particular Asus card to reviewers, stating that it was an official launch card priced at $750, when Asus sent the exact same card to other reviewers, saying that it was not an official launch card and was priced at $900.

That appears to have ended with Nvidia either bribing or coercing Asus into selling the card at $750, which simply means that it won't exist.

But that's going to be true of all 5070 Ti cards, just as it is with the 5090 and 5080 a month after their launch.

If you can find one at MSRP, expect to pay $900 to $1000. Which, yes, is nominally the same price as the 5080. But the 5080 will actually set you back over $2000 right now if you can even find one. And the 5070 Ti has the same GPU chip just with some shaders disabled, and the same RAM, so... I'm sure you can figure it out.

Meanwhile in Australia there are only a handful of listings up but they're in the A$1900 to A$2000 range.

What I actually bought - just this morning - was an AMD Radeon 7800 XT. It's also a 16GB card, and while the new 5070 Ti is 50% faster while using only 20% more power, the Radeon cost me A$729 - about US$400 plus tax - making the 5070 Ti 150% more expensive.

Do I care that the 5070 Ti can run Counter Strike at 332fps instead of 257fps on the 7800 XT? A lot less than I care about the $1200 that will pay for the rest of my computer.

Oh, and if you're playing an older 32-bit game using PhysX, it could run at about a quarter speed because Nvidia cards just don't support that anymore.

So, no. Hell no. I decided it was time to stop waiting before every reasonably-priced card disappeared from the market entirely.

Ordered that 7800 XT and a 7900 (non-x) CPU. Still need a motherboard and some DDR5 RAM, but those aren't in a price/availability death spiral right now.

Tech News

You can get an RTX 5090 as an external GPU for $2199. (Tom's Hardware)

Except for the fact that it's not a 5090 and you can't get it.

It's a mobile 5090, which is a 5080 downclocked and undervolted, with 24GB of RAM but still on a 256-bit bus.

And it's $2199 outside the US. It's not available at all in the US.

So double the price of a desktop 5080 for less performance, except that you can't get either one so it's kind of moot.

Other than that it comes with DisplayPort, HDMI, two Thunderbolt 5 ports, and 5Gb ethernet, or would do if you could buy one but you can't.
Surprising no-one, TSMC has found that it costs twice as much and takes twice as long to build fabs in the US as it does in Taiwan. (Tom's Hardware)

Europe is actually faster than the US in this. Not by much, but it is.
Hewlett Packard has bought the floundering Humane AI and driven a stake through its heart. (Tom's Hardware)

The Humane AI pin cost $699 and $24 per month to keep it connected and did, basically, nothing.

Presumably they have some tech somewhere that HP was after, because the device is being shut down and all customers refunded.
Apple has announced the iPhone 16e, which costs $599 - $100 less than the Humane AI pin - and is a phone. (Thurrott)

It does phone things.
With AI you can now create unmaintainable legacy code in days, not years. (LeadDev)

Congratulations?

Interestingly, the paragraph in this piece talking about the problem of endlessly duplicated LLM-generated code degrading into an unreadable mess is... An unreadable mess.
Palo Alto network devices - firewalls and remote access servers - are being hacked using a combination of flaws, one of which... (The Register)
Palo Alto (PAN) last week fixed that problem, CVE-2025-0108, and rated it a highest urgency patch as the 8.8-out-of-10 flaw addressed an access control issue in PAN-OS's web management interface that allowed an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass authentication "and invoke certain PHP scripts." Those scripts could "negatively impact integrity and confidentiality of PAN-OS."
PHP is to hardware firewalls as pneumonic plague is to children's playdates.
Twitter is in talks to raise money at a valuation of $44 billion - which is the inflated amount Elon Musk paid for it in the first place. (Tech Crunch)

Meanwhile xAI, the 18 month old startup spun out of the Twitter database and datacenter, is raising capital at a valuation of $75 billion.

Musical Interlude

Song is I Lived by OneRepublic. Video is from the French cartoon Wakfu, which was created as advertising for an online game and is far better than it has any right to be.

Disclaimer: I loved, botches.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:00 AM (vOvpU)

2 Good morning, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:02 AM (a1415)

3 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2025 04:04 AM (omVj0)

4 Quoth Marshal McCloud: "There y'go!"

Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! We have 33 F. here, wind chill of 22, for an early Thor's Day. I'm awake, if you want to call it that. Howz you doin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2025 04:06 AM (omVj0)

5 NEW: Head of the Postal Service, Louis Dejoy is stepping down after losing $9.5 BILLION in 2024. In 2023 he lost $6.5 BILLION

USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees

Senator Rand Paul “Can you think of a private business where 80% of what they're, you know, doing to make money is going down in volume that would actually increase their employees?”

Posted by: 13times at February 20, 2025 04:06 AM (JlPlf)

6 w00t
Lotsa peeps already here!

Posted by: m at February 20, 2025 04:08 AM (v0TzN)

7 >>>Interestingly, the paragraph in this piece talking about the problem of endlessly duplicated LLM-generated code degrading into an unreadable mess is... An unreadable mess.

Drat! Because that sounds like a good topic.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2025 04:10 AM (v0TzN)

8 "USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees"

I don't know where the added employees are at, cause every time I go into a Post Office, half the counters are unmanned.
And the Carriers are always saying that they can't keep people on payroll.

Plus, the amount of mis-delivered mail continues to climb.

Same with missing/stolen mail.

So maybe mail in voting would help.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:10 AM (a1415)

9 Disclaimer: I loved, botches.

And, plus:

I laved, batches.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2025 04:11 AM (v0TzN)

10 USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees

Senator Rand Paul “Can you think of a private business where 80% of what they're, you know, doing to make money is going down in volume that would actually increase their employees?”
Posted by: 13times at February 20, 2025

***
And those employees are sullen, lackadaisical, and seem incapable of finding a clearly printed address on their own routes and zip codes. Once I'm no longer at work and have to have packages delivered here, I dread what I'm going to find.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2025 04:12 AM (omVj0)

11 Hey, I have a great idea...let's change Maryland law so that parents can not opt out of gender education for their children in school.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right?
It's not like they are trying to put condom machines in the elementary school bathrooms or anything.

https://tinyurl.com/474rnwhx

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:14 AM (a1415)

12 OOPS.

https://tinyurl.com/2pcvava9

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:20 AM (a1415)

13 unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
11h
IRS to lay off 6,000 employees tomorrow i.e., today, per NYT

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The Biden Regime added up to 87,000 new IRS hires through 2031. How many new hires were there over the last 2 years?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:23 AM (vOvpU)

14 https://tinyurl.com/2pcvava9

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:20 AM (a1415)
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PDF download?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:25 AM (vOvpU)

15 "PDF download?"

Yes

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:26 AM (a1415)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 20, 2025 04:26 AM (dg+HA)

17 *looks up the price of the AMD Radeon 7800 XT*

Too much. Which means all the rest of what Pixy mentioned is so far beyond what I'd be willing to pay that I'll just stick with what I have and be happy...

Which was my plan to begin with anyway.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:28 AM (O7YUW)

18 "PDF download?"

Yes
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 04:26 AM (a1415)
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OK.

https://tinyurl.com/2pcvava9

Redirects to:

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:29 AM (vOvpU)

19 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2025 04:30 AM (K861k)

20 16 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Unavailable in your country. Try Australia, in December.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2025 04:32 AM (K861k)

21 Kash Patel confirmation today.

They better!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:32 AM (vOvpU)

22 The Biden Regime added up to 87,000 new IRS hires through 2031. How many new hires were there over the last 2 years?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:23 AM (vOvpU)
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Ask and thou shall receive!

https://tinyurl.com/5bk6t7kf

Wow!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:37 AM (vOvpU)

23 @12/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

"In my research, we have not found any evidence of why this penalty exists or was every imposed."

A nice example of applying "Chesterton's Fence".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:38 AM (O7YUW)

24 Rescue dog becomes a rescuer and saves a nearly frozen man in Wisconsin. Sunny Skyz story:

https://tinyurl.com/fymmcsyu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:39 AM (42Vb+)

25 Rescue dog becomes a rescuer and saves a nearly frozen man in Wisconsin. Sunny Skyz story:

https://tinyurl.com/fymmcsyu
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:39 AM (42Vb+)
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JJ?

JJ????????

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:41 AM (vOvpU)

26 Another EO to shut off the spigot:

https://tinyurl.com/anpb4vb6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:45 AM (vOvpU)

27

Rabbi's daughter from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews talks about "what God wants for us. " Scripture is Exodus 20:17:

https://tinyurl.com/37trjc3m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:46 AM (42Vb+)

28 Kash Patel confirmation today.

They better!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:32 AM (vOvpU)
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Magazine cover suggestion:

https://tinyurl.com/4nv5ud8w

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:48 AM (vOvpU)

29 @25/Biden's Dog:

Dang it, you made me go look for an early Sefton thread, which wasn't there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:48 AM (O7YUW)

30 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:41 AM (vOvpU

LOL Hopefully he's warm in his bed or up getting to work on the MR , and not recovering from being in a frozen lake and rescued by Riovet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:48 AM (42Vb+)

31 17 *looks up the price of the AMD Radeon 7800 XT*

Too much. Which means all the rest of what Pixy mentioned is so far beyond what I'd be willing to pay that I'll just stick with what I have and be happy...

Which was my plan to begin with anyway.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I just looked them up on Newegg. For some reason they're much cheaper and more readily available in Australia. Maybe they've already been cleaned out in the US by people doing what I did; the cheapest model I could see cost 40% more than I paid.

Not cheap, but compared to what's being released right now it feels like it came from the five-and-dime.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2025 04:50 AM (BLOW1)

32 Y'all aware that a school shooting was thwarted in Texas?

https://tinyurl.com/4nv5ud8w

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:50 AM (vOvpU)

33 Rescued by Rover . Darn autocorrect ruined the joke!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:50 AM (zkHQx)

34 Dang it, you made me go look for an early Sefton thread, which wasn't there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:48 AM (O7YUW)
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Cannot be stressed enough: context.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:51 AM (vOvpU)

35 Good morning !
Thanks Fen. That was an awesome little read.
5° out there. Poor doggehs.

Posted by: OkJohn at February 20, 2025 04:52 AM (NC/it)

36 Please Pray -if you are a praying person/ for Bulg today. He mentioned yesterday he had a morning and an afternoon interview for different positions at one company.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:53 AM (r/zVv)

37 @Biden's Dog: Your magazine cover suggestion is the same as your "school shooting thwarted in texas" link?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:53 AM (O7YUW)

38 Posted by: OkJohn at February

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 04:54 AM (r/zVv)

39 @34/Biden's Dog: "Cannot be stressed enough: context."

And apparently context can not be properly assessed without enough coffee, because I'm still not getting it. *sighs*

I'll just go sit in the stupid corner for a while until I un-eff my neurons or something.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:56 AM (O7YUW)

40
We've got long term corruption and we need Kash now!

877-Kash-Now.

Posted by: Overweight Viking Lady at February 20, 2025 04:57 AM (dg+HA)

41 Don't take Riovet if you're allergic to Riovet.

Posted by: The Legal Department at February 20, 2025 05:02 AM (dg+HA)

42 Former engineer who became a comedian discusses the "flow chart of happiness" ..Just skip the description and scroll down to the video. It's funny without being told why:

https://tinyurl.com/mwftpdxc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:02 AM (r/zVv)

43 @Biden's Dog: Your magazine cover suggestion is the same as your "school shooting thwarted in texas" link?

Is it supposed to be the one with Kash and a modified Fox News chyron?

Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2025 05:02 AM (D9hgC)

44 Posted by: The Legal Department at February 20, 2025 05:02 AM (dg+HA)

It does sounds like a drug. Autocorrect obviously works for Big Pharma. Alert RFK Jr.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:03 AM (r/zVv)

45 @40/Overweight Viking Lady:

"877-Kash-Now"

Related: Posted by Braenyard in last night's Cafe (#141) - and good for a laugh -

Guess who MF. _ It’s Kash time.

https://tinyurl.com/3yke5j6p

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 05:05 AM (O7YUW)

46 Good morning! It is pinche frio out on the patio here in Cowtown. 13F headed for a bright sunshiny day topping out at 30F.

Hoping for a Kash confirmation later today, followed by the release of the Epstein list.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 05:06 AM (3Ope8)

47 Another little comedy video on how getting out of bed changes with age. Just scroll down to the comedy if you have an interest and skip the commentary. You might want to look at it in YouTube if it gets baulky.

https://tinyurl.com/53r4nab8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:10 AM (r/zVv)

48 @Biden's Dog: Your magazine cover suggestion is the same as your "school shooting thwarted in texas" link?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 04:53 AM (O7YUW)
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Fixed:

https://tinyurl.com/mt5mpbre

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 05:11 AM (vOvpU)

49 Morning, 'rons and ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 20, 2025 05:12 AM (hoCmQ)

50 @48/Biden's Dog: Much better. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 05:13 AM (O7YUW)

51 Brrrr. 7 degrees, wc -7.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 20, 2025 05:13 AM (hoCmQ)

52 Heading out. Some links....

New UK immigration anthem:

https://tinyurl.com/3p3ash68

Biden family pardons all about Ukraine?

https://tinyurl.com/4v6askv7

Who's the boss?

https://tinyurl.com/2vufvz77

Daddy's little girl:

https://tinyurl.com/4khmncu5

Gotta go!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 05:17 AM (vOvpU)

53 I know that I've posted this before, because it's one of my favorite psalms- Psalm 27:

https://tinyurl.com/7b87hpat

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:19 AM (JOHif)

54 40
We've got long term corruption and we need Kash now!

877-Kash-Now.
Posted by: Overweight Viking Lady at February 20, 2025 04:57 AM (dg+HA)

Don't make me LOL! He's still asleep.
As an experiment, I waited out the cat for 30 minutes but she persisted.
So, good morning, all.

Posted by: sal at February 20, 2025 05:20 AM (f+FmA)

55 Y'all aware that a school shooting was thwarted in Texas?

https://tinyurl.com/4nv5ud8w
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 04:50 AM (vOvpU)

Funny how the authorities have managed to figure out how to do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 05:27 AM (ExV1e)

56 In typical TX weather, yesterday was the snow, icy rain and high winds day that was supposed to be today.

But we're still going to be closed at the Thrift Store.
A good day to do some cooking for the freezer...

Posted by: sal at February 20, 2025 05:27 AM (f+FmA)

57 @FenelonSpoke: The Missus and I much enjoyed your two comedy videos. The son who could not be happy, and line dance lines both got much laughter.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

58 With AI you can now create unmaintainable legacy code in days, not years. (LeadDev)

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At least now maybe we can have a serious discussion about our H1B problem.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 05:30 AM (Ylq2k)

59 *A good day to do some cooking for the freezer...*

It's important to keep the freezer well fed.

Posted by: Happy freezer, happy life. at February 20, 2025 05:35 AM (dg+HA)

60 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

I'm glad you both enjoyed them. It is so good to laugh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:35 AM (um7vI)

61 I'm going to be praying for Kash Patel today. I think I might be less than sanguine if I was waiting to hear about a job and it had been weeks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 05:37 AM (um7vI)

62 Twitter is in talks to raise money at a valuation of $44 billion - which is the inflated amount Elon Musk paid for it in the first place. (Tech Crunch)

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Next you'll be telling me that "one of the most unintelligent billionaires" Donkey-Chompers "ever met" saw his net worth increase by $70 billion after Trump was elected for the third time.

Wait, wut?

/Damn, if only I could be as much of an idiot as he ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 05:40 AM (1YwYn)

63 We've got long term corruption and we need Kash now!

877-Kash-Now.

Posted by: Overweight Viking Lady at February 20, 2025 04:57 AM (dg+HA)

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Old & Busted: Tango & Cash.
New Hotness: Tech Bros & Kash.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 05:46 AM (1YwYn)

64 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 05:47 AM (zc1Re)

65 It's not super surprising that it costs more to build a fab in the US. The question is, do you get what you pay for?

If a fan in the US is simply built better all around, can make product more efficiently and reliably, and can be staffed with better, smarter people who still have some semblance of that Weberian work ethic let in them... is it worth it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 05:48 AM (jKo6M)

66 I am going to look at the iPhone 16e after reading the review. I have an iPhone X now that is getting long in the tooth and that price point looks good, even with the additional memory.

Posted by: Danny at February 20, 2025 05:52 AM (2aAHu)

67 It's not super surprising that it costs more to build a fab in the US. The question is, do you get what you pay for?

I think it's almost all regulatory delay and overhead, so so, you don't get what you pay for.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 05:54 AM (ExV1e)

68 Pixy, you likely already know this, but for those who don't and who are build-curious:

Don't save money on the PSU. Spend the extra 15% or whatever for the name brand stuff over the XingPingPong 1000W for $70. It's worth it in the long run, even if you can get a warranty return from PingPong.

Pay the premium, install it once, and forget about it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 05:55 AM (Ylq2k)

69 Don't save money on the PSU. Spend the extra 15% or whatever for the name brand stuff over the XingPingPong 1000W for $70. It's worth it in the long run, even if you can get a warranty return from PingPong.

Further, PSU going bad will often cause issues in other components.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

70 AOC.

Calling people stupid.

"Stupid" is your whole brand. Stupid is what got you to where you are. Musk is famous because he led multiple companies to make shit people said was impossible. Electric cars? Cheap boring transit to low earth orbit? A drilling machine that the average global hegemony can still afford to rent?

What are you famous for? Having decent tits in college and being wrong about everything? You're throwing stones in a rubber house, honey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 05:56 AM (jKo6M)

71 Further, PSU going bad will often cause issues in other components.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

Chinesium is contagious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 05:57 AM (jKo6M)

72 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 10 bitter degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.

I took Tuesday off, which in retrospect was a mistake, as I have to work today instead of being coddled in my warm, cosy bed. I've got a couple of hours' work ahead of me, so will see you all on some other thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 06:02 AM (Q0kLU)

73 If a fan in the US is simply built better all around, can make product more efficiently and reliably, and can be staffed with better, smarter people who still have some semblance of that Weberian work ethic let in them... is it worth it?

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I think we're going to have a few years of having to sort things out and come to terms with some BS, but it will have to eventually level out. By that I mean we're already dealing with American companies that pretend that their cars, trucks, etc. are made in America and they charge American labor prices for them, and they were doing it to pocket the difference. No one got a cheaper Silverado just because Jose made it for $13 in Mexico. They still paid $60K for that truck.

I think Americans will support Americans, especially with good jobs and products. "We've tried the other side and it got us here, so let's try the American made side again" hopefully.

And let gumball machine plastic crap that can be made by Chinese slaves continue to be made by them, same as always. But important stuff like medicines? We need to be making that here, or paying Chinese slave prices. One or the other.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:05 AM (Ylq2k)

74 Hey Warai-otoko,
That sounds like a line from a good blues tune. Reminds me much of this one, this is very appropriate for AOC.

https://tinyurl.com/OlMose

"If you must keep talking, pleeeease, won't you make it rhyme..."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 06:07 AM (vd6bO)

75 One or the other.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:05 AM (Ylq2k)

I suppose an informed consumer is the lifeblood of a good company with a good product, and death to a b-school huckster.

Small wonder there's so many efforts to keep consumers uninformed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:09 AM (jKo6M)

76 - 7 degrees?

Luxury! It's -11° here. Wind chill -28°
And they've lowered what the high is going to be Sunday.
Same old game. Give em some hope and then yank the rug out from under em.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 06:12 AM (ItCQP)

77 Trump signs EO placing "independent agencies" under the control of the President.

https://tinyurl.com/y67j8bx9+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 06:13 AM (ExV1e)

78 We need to push for incentives to have factories reopen in America. The problem of course is that the left and the media (But I repeat myself) will shriek about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:13 AM (jjoN6)

79 It's -11 outside with only 3mph wind. I did have to take the dog out so can report it's cold out there. But it is supposed to start warming up some.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2025 06:15 AM (o5+a9)

80 The FBI is dirty but then you knew that.

https://tinyurl.com/2792evjj+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 06:18 AM (ExV1e)

81 There's a cooperative mechanism in "pure capitalism" (if you want to call it that) where it is in a company's own best interest to prioritize employee pay over nearly everything else. The more you pay them, the more of your stuff they can afford to buy. And the more of other company's stuff they can buy. And the more other company's pay their people, the more they can afford of your product and everyone else's.

And the more of everything everyone sells, the more money you can take in as actual tangible profit backed by actual tangible wealth, as opposed to finagling numbers on a balance sheet and sucking the wealth out of your own firm like a parasite.

It kind of works like that for the leeches and mites of government, too. 50% of a dirt clod to make everyone hate you is a miserable take when you could have had 10% of a mountain that loves you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:19 AM (jKo6M)

82 3 mph wind?

9 here. Likely my fault.
I'll stop talkin'.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 06:20 AM (ItCQP)

83 9 here. Likely my fault.
I'll stop talkin'.
_-_-_-_
Let's put up more windmills and slow this thing down.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 06:23 AM (vd6bO)

84 Good morning everyone. 10° out but clear , no wind. Moon still visible. We're not going to be getting the snow they reported last week , storm is going south of us. But they can tell us what will happen 50years from now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 06:24 AM (3qNrw)

85 Hey, dig me, i just invented supply side economics. I'm awesome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:24 AM (jKo6M)

86 Time to hit the road. Later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

87 Pixy do you play CS2? Guess it doesn't matter since you're an Aussie and I'm east coast US but I'm interested if that's a standby for you.

Posted by: ghost of kari at February 20, 2025 06:26 AM (Wsh/V)

88 Read a story the other day that TI Texas Instruments had the patent on how the math models in GPU work. They did not have the technology at the time and ended up selling it to Nvidia.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 06:30 AM (gbOdA)

89 81 Couldn't agree more. Sadly, I have seen the opposite of that argued in this space during a previous bout of insomnia.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 06:30 AM (vd6bO)

90
Good morning, Hordians. 27 here at Schloss Hadrian. No pipes burst, power is on, 45 in the garage, 34 in the attic. I guess we survived the night.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 06:31 AM (dxSpM)

91 There's a cooperative mechanism in "pure capitalism" (if you want to call it that) where it is in a company's own best interest to prioritize employee pay over nearly everything else. The more you pay them, the more of your stuff they can afford to buy. And the more of other company's stuff they can buy. And the more other company's pay their people, the more they can afford of your product and everyone else's.

-

Yep. And Our Betters got together somewhere around the 70s - right after they killed JFK and put the U.S. on the path to 2020 - and decided to export our jobs and import an illegal worker underclass, all to weaken the middle. Who just kept right on being Americans and "figuring it out," watching our dollar's value decline and the new requirement for both parents to wage-slave increase, and the entire time assuming the politicians loved America, too. And we were wrong. It was always just a trough for the people in office and the folks in charge above them.

The mid-70s really does appear to be key to a lot of things. Interesting article here:

https://tinyurl.com/32p56en9

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:35 AM (Ylq2k)

92 re 81

Grace Murray Hopper said it back in the late 70s:
"The greatest danger in America is the growth of Management Theory"

we have given our economy over to bean counters and MBAs, and this mess is the result.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2025 06:39 AM (KaBJL)

93 https://is.gd/QKOZAf

Lol. Meme.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

94 uhuh, mid 70's was also the high water mark of engineering in this country, when it all switched from making things better to making them cheaper.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2025 06:42 AM (KaBJL)

95 17 degrees in ETEX.

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2025 06:42 AM (jgmnb)

96 85, high five!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2025 06:43 AM (KaBJL)

97 Yeah the Radeon 7800XT is usually around $580 on Amazon and Newegg last I checked.

That’s AMD’s mid-range 1440p with some 4K/2160p card. The 16GB VRAM is the most important part.

The 7700XT is cheaper but only has 12GB.

The 7600XT is even cheaper at around $325, has the 16GB but only a 192 bit bus so it’s meant for 1080p & 1440p.

I like the new AMD 9070 and 9070XT coming out next week. They will both have 16GB but if they’re priced at $659 and $759 like the rumors suggest then AMD is shooting themselves in the foot again with their pricing.

Lower those prices by $100 each and they could have some winners on their hands if the performance is at 5070 & 5070Ti levels.

We’ll know how much AMD plans to screw up Radeon, again, in a few days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

98 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 20, 2025 06:45 AM (PiwSw)

99 TeeJ

Ice fishing weather?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

100 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

101 Matt Bracken's take on drone warfare over on substack is a good read. Ann Barnhardt has become a great source of memes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 06:47 AM (vd6bO)

102 9 degrees 'Murican here. Don't know what the wind-chill is.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2025 06:47 AM (gm9Sb)

103 May you all have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others! Going to do some work for Saturday and Sunday's services while sitting at the eeeeevil corporation Starbucks and having a coffee which is overpriced. ( I get distracted at home sometimes and my office would be cold and remote.) and no, I don't go to Starbucks everyday or even most days, but yesterday I met some nice interesting teens there who didn't have a class on Wednesday morning and we had a good conversation about their interests.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 06:49 AM (Izgil)

104 We are colder, at -10℉. Wind chill, at -27℉.

Two hour delay in going to school.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

105 FenelonSpoke

May those kids want to come to your services.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

106 Oh, that stupid airline tweet making the rounds...

"Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day"

.....

So.... 99% composed of people who don't know how to fly a damned airplane?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:50 AM (jKo6M)

107 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

It's a balmy -7 here with a -16 wind chill.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 06:50 AM (BpYfr)

108 This is strange: walmarts roseburg-supercenter restricts local nonprofit from trapping feral-cats

https://tinyurl.com/yjxurshn

Posted by: Ciampino - here kitty kitty at February 20, 2025 06:50 AM (KjLnc)

109 108 Great Value breakfast sausage, now with more tabby.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2025 06:52 AM (gm9Sb)

110 Wife is in the orchestra for a show. She has decided that she will never be working with them again because they have to have a "land acknowledgement" that talks about the nameless slaves that worked the land for their White (yes capitalized) owners.

Why do SJWs need to poison things? Is it because of an inferiority complex or just a lack of happiness?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:52 AM (jjoN6)

111 mornin yall

3/4 of the mail we get is junk. I'd rather have a 3/4 reduction in USPS staff. Junk mail can be delivered by a private company, if they can figure out how to make it profitable.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

112 109 108 Great Value breakfast sausage, now with more tabby.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2025 06:52 AM (gm9Sb)

They're eating the dogs
They're eating the cats....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:53 AM (jKo6M)

113 Looking at the crisp morning air, I feel like I am on the outskirts of Moscow. Without a Pkw 3 to keep running. So that's good.

I should look in to how the front line is changing in Ukraine. Are the Russians trying to grab more territory before a cease fires?

BIAB.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

114 Oh, that stupid airline tweet making the rounds...

"Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day"

-

(tries to remember the name of the low-rent Dollar Tree airline that is constantly having videos posted of massive brawls breaking out while boarding)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:53 AM (Ylq2k)

115 "3/4 of the mail we get is junk."

I remember when Harry Reid said that junk mail was important to old people because it made them feel like they were part of the community.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:54 AM (jjoN6)

116 It's a mystery why direct mail solicitation is even still legal.

Guess that bulk rate really adds up on the back end.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:54 AM (jKo6M)

117 114 tries to remember the name of the low-rent Dollar Tree airline.

Spirit Airlines?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:55 AM (jjoN6)

118 114 VMGR 252, Cherry Point

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2025 06:55 AM (gm9Sb)

119 So.... 99% composed of people who don't know how to fly a damned airplane?
_-_-_-_-_
That's funny right there. Was having a similar conversation about "Diversity is our strength" with a gal at bigcorp where I used to work. I asked "Diversity of what? Competence?"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 06:56 AM (vd6bO)

120 - NaCly

I imagine there'll be safe ice by tomorrow. Maybe even today.
But this kid ain't going out. Don't have the gear. As in over a grand in outerwear to stay, well, not totally frozen.
And not going to spend it for no more days than we generally have safe ice per year around here.
I'll leave that for the folks up north that can drag their heated huts out. And, or, are younger and tougher than this old man.

But, come mid March,,, look out. I'll be out chasing, those spawning walleye. And then the white bass. Then crappie and blue cats.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 06:56 AM (ItCQP)

121 the nameless slaves

-

Dang. They expose themselves there. They only see famous people as actual people.

It makes more sense at why they don't care about you or your family in regards to illegals, though, doesn't it?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:56 AM (Ylq2k)

122 Patel vote is this afternoon. Many Depends will be soiled when he is confirmed. Good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 06:57 AM (3qNrw)

123 Spirit Airlines?

-

SPIRIT! That's it. Thanks.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 06:57 AM (Ylq2k)

124 Good morning, good people, from an extremely disgusted person who is just about tired enough of the constant assault on the values and morals I and my brother were raised in accord with. We both, along with ALL the members of our family live by these values and morals with not a hint of apology. What we don't do is try to cram them down anyone's throat unceasingly anywhere we are. I kinda pity the next leftwit fungus blotch who trips the trigger on this with me.

Enough with this, may as always your effort be rewarded with maximum benefit in all manner and the state of our leftwit fungus be as dismal as ever. The coffee is hot and fresh and delicious, to be lovingly savored.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at February 20, 2025 06:58 AM (hKoQL)

125 Why do SJWs need to poison things? Is it because of an inferiority complex or just a lack of happiness?
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:52 AM (jjoN6)

"I have to make this statement or else someone might think I'm one of the Bad Guys. "
...
"Oh no, now i can't stop making this statement or they'll really think I'm one of the Bad Guys."
...
"It's not a bad statement though, really, all these people who roll their eyes at Statement are just showing that they're the Bad Guys. "
...
"Statement is Good. Statement is Life. Death to those who would oppose Statement."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 06:59 AM (jKo6M)

126 It makes more sense at why they don't care about you or your family in regards to illegals, though, doesn't it?

They're subhuman scum. That's why it makes sense.

And as for Spirit Airlines? I have no problem with discount services but you definitely get what you pay for.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 06:59 AM (jjoN6)

127 Further, PSU going bad will often cause issues in other components.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

Especially when the head coach thinks he is god.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 06:59 AM (mWSu4)

128 Spirit Airlines?

SPIRIT! That's it. Thanks.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie
-

As a marketing ploy, they could trying changing their name to Springer Airlines.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 07:00 AM (vOvpU)

129

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 20, 2025 07:00 AM (c0tJM)

130 28 down here by the bay

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

131 "Statement is Good. Statement is Life. Death to those who would oppose Statement."

My response to such nonsense is "Maybe if they'd fought harder they wouldn't have lost the land."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)

132 This "DOGE dividend" may be the thing that gets PDT to 90% approval. The remaining 10% can just suck a lemon.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

133 Death to those who would oppose Statement.

Include image of angry muslim.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (ExV1e)

134 I hope Kash doesn't get dramatic and go out on field operations. Too many in the bureau that would arrange a tragic accident.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (gm9Sb)

135 Junk mail is crucial to the USPS. Way back in 2010:

"But in 2010, the Postal Service found it was actually closer to a 1:2 ratio, with First-Class Mail bringing in $34 billion while mail termed “Advertising” brought in $17.3 billion."

https://tinyurl.com/ycyv2n6j

Bezos is the one that really figured it out, though. Getting an entire government organization that can never go broke to work for you at a loss, pay pensions, etc. delivering your packages was a stroke of genius.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (Ylq2k)

136 Cold, wet, and windy here in Jerusalem. Mrs. BD says exercise at home on the elliptical instead of going out for an hour-long walk.

Sound advice. l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 07:02 AM (vOvpU)

137 The remaining 10% can just suck a lemon.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

I approve this message. -- Don Lemon

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:02 AM (ExV1e)

138 Warai

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 07:02 AM (gbOdA)

139 My response to such nonsense is "Maybe if they'd fought harder they wouldn't have lost the land."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)

My response is "they're still here. They can hear you, you know. Just because you obliterated them from the butter tub doesn't mean they're all dead now. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 07:02 AM (jKo6M)

140 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

May the snow in Virginia Beach be gone soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

141 Kelly Loeffler was confirmed for SBA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:05 AM (ExV1e)

142 I feel just awful for the people who never discovered the wheel or figured out how to make two story buildings. It's tragic that people who understood metallurgy and circumnavigating the globe took advantage of them.

The meanies.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 07:06 AM (Ylq2k)

143 The Humane AI pin was made by a group of former Apple employees.

My thoughts are that these guys brought this idea to Apple, Tim Cook thought it was a terrible idea that would cut into iPhone sales if they even sold so no, we won’t have an “Cloud AI device pinned to your shirt with an Apple logo on it. Thanks, no thanks, get back to work.”

The guys, told themselves that Tim Cook is wrong (and gay) so they packed their bags and found an Angel investor, probably their own Apple stock, and started Humane AI with the sole intention of making a glorified tech demo, putting on sale, watching it get destroyed in every review for its uselessness, and cash in when a big tech firm buys them out.

…which is exactly what happened.

I do feel for the fools who spent all that money on one of those things, though.

(A monthly subscription for a half-ass Star Trek communicator, geeeesh.)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

144 I feel just awful for the people who never discovered the wheel or figured out how to make two story buildings. It's tragic that people who understood metallurgy and circumnavigating the globe took advantage of them.

The meanies.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 07:06 AM (Ylq2k)

I feel so bad about it that I think everyone actually involved should be sentenced to death.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:08 AM (ExV1e)

145 97 Yeah the Radeon 7800XT is usually around $580 on Amazon and Newegg last I checked.

That’s AMD’s mid-range 1440p with some 4K/2160p card. The 16GB VRAM is the most important part.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Wonder why it's so cheap here. Hardware Unboxed in their 5070 Ti review had a chart comparing performance vs. Australian MSRP of various video cards, and the 7800 XT was the clear winner. And I paid about 10% under MSRP, or 30% under US retail price.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2025 07:08 AM (BLOW1)

146 Posted by: NaCly

Thank you, That's very nice but they live 45 minutes away and I didn't even mention that I was a pastor I only said that I was praying for Ukraine because I am because one of the girls has family living in Ukraine. I don't ever mention "Come to church " unless Ive e known people for a while. The last person who started coming asked me where my church is. I think I'm like you , Salty. I'm just interested in people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 07:08 AM (zkHQx)

147 Just because you obliterated them from the butter tub doesn't mean they're all dead now

Saving that for later.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 07:09 AM (jjoN6)

148 Pritzker warns about Democracy - but his party is the actual threat.

https://tinyurl.com/mrybckja

Posted by: Ciampino - Jabba the Governator at February 20, 2025 07:09 AM (KjLnc)

149 I've tried using AI, once again yesterday. It came back with the same answers I had already found. At least it wasn't wrong this time, but I would not have known for sure without doing the research myself. I fail to see the value.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

150 fd

Does AI contain the data in the CRC Manual?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

151 It is comforting to know that even a slackwit bedazzled gender studies drop out knows instinctively where on Earth every single person is obligated to live based purely on their skin color.

It's an amazing skill. A gift, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 07:12 AM (jKo6M)

152 "Does AI contain the data in the CRC Manual?
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

You got me. It seems to excel at crawling the internet and producing paragraphs that sound like they were written by an expert. We all know how much faith to put in experts.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

153 It seems to excel at crawling the internet and producing paragraphs that sound like they were written by an expert.

IOW, Twitter PhD "wisdom".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

154 If the information is not on the web, then AI doesn't know about it. That seems to be a problem.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

155 I've tried using AI, once again yesterday. It came back with the same answers I had already found. At least it wasn't wrong this time, but I would not have known for sure without doing the research myself. I fail to see the value.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

The developers can constrain the AI to provide the answers it wants. The 'value', if you will, is in training humanity to accept, without question, the answers provided. Many, perhaps most, will do so through some combination of stupidity and lack of intellectual curiosity. This will provide the control mechanism that the globalist aristocracy craves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:18 AM (ExV1e)

156 You got me. It seems to excel at crawling the internet and producing paragraphs that sound like they were written by an expert. We all know how much faith to put in experts.
_-_-_-_-_
So far I have found AI to be useful for a first-cut at an answer to a technical question that was adequately answered by search engines five years ago. It does format the answer better, and is obsessively fed with more and more data.
Trouble is, we will give AI the wrong things to do, and it won't end well.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 07:18 AM (vd6bO)

157 Kash Patel confirmation vote is today? Finally!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 20, 2025 07:19 AM (SfhV1)

158 The hamassholes returned the the 4 dead bodies in locked coffins with keys that didn't fit the locks.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (mB6WH)

159 I've tried using AI, once again yesterday. It came back with the same answers I had already found. At least it wasn't wrong this time, but I would not have known for sure without doing the research myself. I fail to see the value.

I'm noticing that CoPilot is less likely now than it was earlier of providing receipts to its search process. That is, earlier (like a year ago) every response had a reference or several to where it found these nuggets of internet "truth".

More often now, it leaves its trail off like we are supposed to be conditioned by now to believe it.

I liked the references, it gave me a chance to see whose website was ransacked by the crawler, and what yahoo published the "training data" inadvertently on their webpage.

I'm waiting for the day when AI can transcribe How-To YouTube videos and use that for training data so when I photograph a part and say this broke off of my dishwasher, it can tell me where to get the part and how to properly install it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

160 Have a great day, everyone. Stay warm.

It's cold outside.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

161 The hamassholes returned the the 4 dead bodies in locked coffins with keys that didn't fit the locks.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (mB6WH)

Israel should release their prisoners in the same fashion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (ExV1e)

162 Who was that lady Trump nominated for Secretary of Something or other that some Republicans didn't like because she was too pro-union? Has she been confirmed?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 20, 2025 07:21 AM (SfhV1)

163 I wonder if DOGE will uncover a single case of a federal agency or of an individual within one who has demonstrated the slightest sense of fiduciary responsibility for their role as steward of the taxpayer's dollars.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 07:21 AM (h/ffs)

164 If the information is not on the web, then AI doesn't know about it. That seems to be a problem.

And AI believes the Enemedia without reservation or question. As if every word of CNN comes down from Mt Sinai.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:22 AM (a4flb)

165 Who was that lady Trump nominated for Secretary of Something or other that some Republicans didn't like because she was too pro-union? Has she been confirmed?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 20, 2025 07:21 AM (SfhV1)

Still in committee.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

166 BREAKING — Zelensky govt reportedly blocks Trump's Truth Social network across Ukraine -- Oops!

https://tinyurl.com/yxha8pma

Posted by: Ciampino - Z needs to go hide at February 20, 2025 07:23 AM (KjLnc)

167 Still in committee.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

Thank you.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 20, 2025 07:23 AM (SfhV1)

168 Salty!

( I fell back asleep on the couch this morning)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 07:24 AM (a1415)

169 "We all know how much faith to put in experts."

And yet, likely 97%+ of the folks around here put their "faith" in what 97%+ of certain "experts" taught them in school.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 07:24 AM (ItCQP)

170 And just like that, today Mrs VIA and I have completed 32 trips around the sun together as husband and wife.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 07:25 AM (a1415)

171 It is comforting to know that even a slackwit bedazzled gender studies drop out knows instinctively where on Earth every single person is obligated to live based purely on their skin color.

Its fascinating to see, from the evidence of the 1KGP how people spread from Babel over the millennia.

We are far more related to each other than we think.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:26 AM (a4flb)

172 VIA, Happy Anniversary

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 07:26 AM (mB6WH)

173 If the information is not on the web, then AI doesn't know about it. That seems to be a problem.

Another problem is that if it's on the web, AI does know about it. Which leads to fish puns.

Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2025 07:26 AM (KBusA)

174 And just like that, today Mrs VIA and I have completed 32 trips around the sun together as husband and wife.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 07:25 AM (a1415)

You are blessed.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 20, 2025 07:26 AM (SfhV1)

175 Good show, VIA. May you have 32 more.

We are not far behind at 29 next month.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

176
Spirits Airline >>>> Spirit Airline

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 07:28 AM (dxSpM)

177 And yet, likely 97%+ of the folks around here put their "faith" in what 97%+ of certain "experts" taught them in school.
Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 07:24 AM (ItCQP)

And we have daily discussions in these hallowed grey boxes about how our eyes have opened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

178 BREAKING — Zelensky govt reportedly blocks Trump's Truth Social network across Ukraine -- Oops!

Yet another chapter in the Trump Derangement Syndrome saga.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:28 AM (a4flb)

179 "Senator Rand Paul “Can you think of a private business where 80% of what they're, you know, doing to make money is going down in volume that would actually increase their employees?”"

NASA's hiring.

Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 07:28 AM (QB+5g)

180 And just like that, today Mrs VIA and I have completed 32 trips around the sun together as husband and wife.

That is an encouragement, live out your values in such a manner where others will admire and adopt them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:30 AM (a4flb)

181 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Slackwit bedazzled gender studies drop outs at February 20, 2025 07:30 AM (DobEs)

182 USPS, slightly better than a carrier pigeon.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 07:30 AM (mB6WH)

183 The US mail service has lost 5 Amazon packages for us in the last 6 weeks. The Amazon rep let me listen on the call when she called the post office. The women at the post office said she had no idea where my packages went. It looked like they dropped out of the system. The Amazon rep hung up and told me they deal with this every day. Amazon is keeping the post office alive and they screw them too.

Posted by: Megthered at February 20, 2025 07:30 AM (J9ZRC)

184 - @171 UDUP

Oh come on. That's just some story out of a book that people who want to have a sky daddy believe.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 07:32 AM (ItCQP)

185 There is a lot of theft in the postal system. If you didn't get a package from Amazon it was very likely stolen.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

186 USPS, slightly better than a carrier pigeon.

Do the illegal aliens eat carrier pigeons too?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:32 AM (a4flb)

187 Lindsey Graham calls Zelensky to say he still has a friend

https://tinyurl.com/2ahne47k

Posted by: Ciampino - Z needs to go hide somewere at February 20, 2025 07:32 AM (KjLnc)

188 There is a lot of theft in the postal system. If you didn't get a package from Amazon it was very likely stolen.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2025 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

C'mon, man, next you're gonna tell me they threw out ballots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

189 Israel should release their prisoners in the same fashion.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 07:20 AM (ExV1e)

Remote control neck bombs that do not let them into Israel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

190 My friend experimented with Grok yesterday, asking it for style advice on his and his dog's K9 outfit based on an old photograph. The response was almost instantaneous, extensive and bizarre in that Grok knew the name of his deceased dog.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2025 07:34 AM (h/ffs)

191 It is comforting to know that even a slackwit bedazzled gender studies drop out knows instinctively where on Earth every single person is obligated to live based purely on their skin color.

It's an amazing skill. A gift, really.

And then when you suggest that white people should have a country of their own based on that criteria, they have a Trigglypuff level of meltdown. Why?

They hate white people. Especially if they are white.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 07:34 AM (jjoN6)

192 There is a lot of theft in the postal system. If you didn't get a package from Amazon it was very likely stolen.

I can agree with that statement. Amazon, like many other companies have invested billions into their inventory and management systems on a relentless pursuit of reducing losses.

The weak link, the USPS does the exact opposite. They spend billions on those who contribute to package loss and mismangement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2025 07:34 AM (a4flb)

193 - @177 different nic

Not in the area I was referring to.
But then, it's not so much a head condition as it is a heart condition.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 07:36 AM (ItCQP)

194
"BREAKING — Zelensky govt reportedly blocks Trump's Truth Social network across Ukraine -- Oops!"

Oo, oo, oo, ...fight, fight, fight!"

Posted by: Arnold Horshack at February 20, 2025 07:37 AM (QB+5g)

195
Hot coffee. In a big double mug. Good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2025 07:39 AM (dxSpM)

196 The USPS lost a box rental payment put in their own drop box inside the post office that was is their own envelope. You can't get much worse than that.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 07:39 AM (mB6WH)

197 I have no doubt our packages were stolen and Amazon reimbursed us, but spread that out over the country and even Amazon can't continue that.

Posted by: Megthered at February 20, 2025 07:39 AM (J9ZRC)

198 I had a $25 gift voucher from HP so I ordered a bluetooth mouse from them. Tracked the UPS/Fedex (don't remember which) all over the place until a USPS somewhere in MO. There it apparently died or was snagged by a kitty as they couldn't find it. HP had to send me another.
Yep, probably stolen. Small package from HP, someone figured it might be valuable.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Postal Inspectors should set traps for these people at February 20, 2025 07:39 AM (KjLnc)

199 Welsh Knife Crime

@JoStevensLabour
·
Follow
Too many young lives have been lost to knife crime.

That’s why this Labour Government is taking action with the toughest-ever restrictions on online knife sales—closing loopholes and keeping dangerous weapons off our streets.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

200 Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has promised to not raise taxes, despite a three million dollar budget deficit.

https://tinyurl.com/3k9xsbwf

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 07:41 AM (a1415)

201
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

202 194
"BREAKING — Zelensky govt reportedly blocks Trump's Truth Social network across Ukraine -- Oops!"

Oo, oo, oo, ...fight, fight, fight!"
Posted by: Arnold Horshack

+++

Let's you and him fight.

Posted by: My ten year old self at February 20, 2025 07:41 AM (DobEs)

203 Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has promised to not raise taxes

In other words, he's increasing taxes but he'll find a good name for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 07:42 AM (jjoN6)

204 One knife a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McMansion at February 20, 2025 07:43 AM (DobEs)

205 And just like that, today Mrs VIA and I have completed 32 trips around the sun together as husband and wife.

So you're both astronauts?

Congratulations and God bless you both!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 07:44 AM (WpOId)

206 The People's Republic of Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It.

Posted by: Wes Moore at February 20, 2025 07:44 AM (DobEs)

207 Glad you found a great card. Hope you find a better emulator for the 32-bits.

Posted by: Draki at February 20, 2025 08:12 AM (ScvFB)

208 In spite of the unwashed bullshit diarrhea that drools from the infected oral openings of the left, I firmly believe that we live in the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people who are governed, not ruled, by the most unique form of politics in history, that has in the course of it's existence met and prevailed over issues even more serious than the current mess, showing an unbroken record of success.

And in posting this, I categorically defy any to show demonstrable untruths in any part.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at February 20, 2025 08:23 AM (hKoQL)

209 Wonder why it's so cheap here. Hardware Unboxed in their 5070 Ti review had a chart comparing performance vs. Australian MSRP of various video cards, and the 7800 XT was the clear winner. And I paid about 10% under MSRP, or 30% under US retail price.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2025 07:08 AM (BLOW1)

Good question.
GPU pricing is so out of whack it’s unreal.

I know why Nvidia keeps their prices so high and stock so low, AI boom + Crypto-Craze hangover where people are willing to pay double or triple the price of the same class of GPU from two or three generations back.

But AMD? Always playing catch-up with Nvidia and still will only drop the price on similar spec models by around $50-$100. Plus they will give you more VRAM in a few models.

I think AMD knows they’ll sell at higher prices in the U.S. because a lot of people will refuse to pay the Nvidia tax for some ray tracing & CUDA cores. So they can charge an extra $100 here and get away with it.

Where else are you going to go?
Intel Arc?

I don’t expect AMD to lower prices on the 7000 series until the full 9000 series is out, like they did for the 6000 series which became the “low-end”,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2025 08:35 AM (6ydKt)

210 I'm quite happy with my Sapphire 7800 XT. It has good performance in everything I play, runs local AI stuff reasonably fast (even without official rocm support), stays cool, isn't too loud, no bugs or rendering errors... Of course, I'm on Linux, using the open source drivers, which are probably better than the official Windows ones from AMD. And I have a 1440 screen and run things in a slightly smaller window.

The only real downsides are that I can't run Cyberpunk in full path tracing mode, and it came with a free copy of Starfield.

Posted by: AFFA at February 20, 2025 09:04 AM (NMz5T)

211 You know the RX 9070 should be out in, what, a month or two? I gather some actually already got shipped to retailers when nVidia rolled out their One Billions Frames!!! stuff, and AMD said, "You know, maybe lets just work on drivers and supply for a month or two while we figure out wtf nVidia is on about, first?"

Posted by: Voyager at February 20, 2025 09:19 AM (nmL8W)

212 Yeah, I bought a Powercolor 7800XT Hellhound GPU about a year ago. Excellent card for the money. RGB options are are limited, but it runs very cool, and it's a lot faster than the Radeon 580 it replaced.

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