TechPlasma's comments

On: What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle

[TechPlasma]

The verge has seemingly been doing this a lot recently and it's been very annoying. It's not obvious that any given article will be paywalled or not. It would be nice if they at least marked them.

[pjmlp → TechPlasma]

As per last tweets from them, it seem nowadays all of them, they are now subscription based.

I understand the change, eventually there won't be any publications left, if people keep refusing to pay for them, and use ad blockers as well.

[DeepPhilosopher → TechPlasma]

Whether or not its paywalled depends on how much you read. You can get around most of the paywalls by going incognito or clearing your cookies.

On: Tesla Robotaxi

[TechPlasma]

I think their "robotaxi" is kinda pathetic. But goddamn... That bus is one of the single most beautiful vehicles they have ever designed. I absolutely love it. (Fan of Art Deco and streamliner locomotive design)

On: Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rig...

[TechPlasma]

Wait to they hear about that one "Lock-picking Lawyer" then they'll always be scott free.

On: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

[TechPlasma]

I just really want Tab Groups.

This is a nice step forward.

[Tagbert → TechPlasma]

I know that FF says that Tab Groups are on their roadmap but I hope that get to it soon. I'm tired of relying on third-party plugins for that function.

On: Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission

[TechPlasma]

I think there are thrusters on the Russian side of the station. They aren't large but they move the stations orientation for docking sometimes. (And cartwheels for fun and horror)

On: History of the Paper Clip (2016)

[TechPlasma]

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

[alt227 → TechPlasma]

Its like Beetlejuice.

Say paperclips 3 times and someone will link to Universal paperclips.....Or clippy will appear and murder you.

[Bluestein → TechPlasma]

Goodness gracious. I am (sort of) back.-

There went my week :)

Thanks. I guess ...

PS. A Yomi calculator, if anyone needs it: - https://www.extratricky.com/yomi

[ben_bai → TechPlasma]

Love it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.

[ASalazarMX → TechPlasma]

Now I understand how it can use paperclips to make technology; technically any bent metal can be considered a paperclip.

[divbzero → TechPlasma]

a.k.a. “Future of the Paper Clip”

[AlexDragusin → TechPlasma]

After 30.0 septendecillion, feels like there are still not enough paper clips!

On: A comet approaching Earth could become brighter th...

[TechPlasma]

Wake me when it's brighter than the sun.

[CoastalCoder → TechPlasma]

> Wake me when it's brighter than the sun.

I doubt we'll need to.

On: Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Open...

[TechPlasma]

I read this comment as "NVIDIA just took over Saudi Aramco" and was briefly confused in what could possibly be their reasoning for that acquisition?! Perhaps they decided to get some weird lower price on fuel for their gpus.... Anyways it was a brief but fun bit of confusion.

[Qworg → TechPlasma]

This was a good opportunity to say "overtook" as it breaks the idea of acquisition (and sounds more like racing)

[delfinom → TechPlasma]

To be fair, this is the time for NVIDIA to leverage their stock and buy up shit to diversify because their stock is going to correct eventually lol. So why not buy out a oil producer ahaha.

[wkat4242 → TechPlasma]

I did too. It's confusing wording. Overtook would be much clearer as someone else mentioned.

On: RR – Railroad Diagram Generator

[TechPlasma]

Slightly saddened by lack of usefulness for building model railroads....

[unpixer → TechPlasma]

I too was expecting the equivalent of a schema builder for model railroad layouts.

[euroderf → unpixer]

Where is the LLM for designing layouts and specifying parts lists ?

On: Space shuttle Endeavour's giant orange external ta...

[TechPlasma]

Is this talk anywhere? Or maybe one sililar to it?

[hodgesrm → TechPlasma]

I've never found anything like it, unfortunately.