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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…
Using an LLM to parse stuff is like using a rocket launcher to kill an ant.
You can accomplish the same thing using a million times fewer resources with a purpose-built program.
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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
I'm old enough to remember when everyone generally agreed that using fewer resources is a good thing.
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…
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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'
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I really don't get the anti AC fraction
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What is your favourite gaming console you have played?
For me it's the N64. I know it's a slightly dubious pick, but there's something alluring about those early 3D graphics. No one knew what they were doing yet and it produced some of the most lovable jank.
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Valve Says It Can't Negotiate With RAM Makers At All On Price
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Costco is a public US company that wins customer loyalty by not price gouging
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Valve Says It Can't Negotiate With RAM Makers At All On Price
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I'll keep saying this til I'm blue in the face. I don't want sophisticated RAM. I want modest RAM that's easier to make.
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TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure
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Valve Says It Can't Negotiate With RAM Makers At All On Price
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Maybe Gabe could give up a few of his superyachts
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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
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I feel like it kind of has.
Otherwise, people who are about 40+ years old would all be driven mad by now.
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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
This is just silly. Every single thing they list can be caused by something other than alcohol except for fetal alcohol syndrome. From from the "root."
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Flock of scissors
Those aren't scissors. They're shears.
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Those who are old enough, do you miss these days?
What do you mean, old enough?
Those are fairly modern computers. They don't even have 5.25-inch floppy drives!
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Early UI Peek
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Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real
Not very accessible.
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Steam machine prices are live
reasonable given the current situation but not reasonable in general. I'll wait for prices to go down or my income to go up.
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Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time
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12 years is beyond the lifetime of a computer?
looks at my 13-year-old PC w/ original hard drive still going strong
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What do you think about discord?
Reminder that we are a month away from the date that Discord postponed age verification to in hopes that the uproar would blow over.
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No Hantavirus, thank goodness.
the idea of needing a test to know whether you have chronic diarrhea is sending me
