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New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:38:54 +0000

There's details in the class action lawsuit

https://stream-ai.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/class-action-co...

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

SturgeonsLaw — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:41:39 +0000

Looks like I'll have to get back into casemodding then

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:43:38 +0000

But it does look funny

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Grok Bot"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:35:09 +0000

Those businesses are welcome to publish their prices if they want to avoid that

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "My server is a phone now"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:10:53 +0000

I still think the best bang for your buck is an old desktop PC. Something like an i5 with 8GB RAM and an SSD will suit 99% of home server uses with capacity to spare.

Even in this environment of inflated hardware prices, you can get one for a reasonable price.

Although I do see the appeal in getting unconventional hardware to do what you want, just for the love of the game.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:16:34 +0000

A group which has been known to collectively make a mistake or two

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:13:29 +0000

Cities in Australia consistently rank in the top 5 most expensive real estate indices and we ain't short of space here, it's just not many people are interested in living in a dusty Outback desert.

And for many, if the property is not within 10km of the Sydney or Melbourne city centre, it might as well be in the dusty Outback desert.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

SturgeonsLaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:27:55 +0000

Money is a factor, but not the only one, and for some, not the most important one. Beyond a certain point, there are diminishing returns. Does driving a car that costs twice as much make you twice as happy? Maybe for the first month, then it's just normal again.

For me personally, quality of life is important, so is vibing with my coworkers, and management that respects work-life balance. I have this at my current job. My salary is good, not amazing but comfortable. Would I trade double the salary for an environment where I'm stressed, expected to work 50 hour weeks, and answer calls on my own time? Nah. No way.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:22:45 +0000

The profit motive is the reason that most of the things that are shit, are shit.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Pacing the frontier"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:22:11 +0000

Here's a step by step guide on how to gene edit rice

https://bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?id=1225&type=0

Mostly it's just heating and cooling tiny volumes of liquids

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:29:44 +0000

It's "just a blog", but if you're after positive and uplifting, that does exist

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

I like to check this every so often as a palette cleanser for the endless bad news that is available elsewhere

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

SturgeonsLaw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:43:56 +0000

On Android I use super dim, as someone who enjoys low light situations, even the darkest brightness setting can be too bright sometimes

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:31:50 +0000

Depending on just how much more cost effective sodium battery tech gets, that might not be a questionable proposition

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:15:52 +0000

Make education free. I'd love to study something like philosophy or art history but there's just no return on that investment. Unless you're already wealthy, it doesn't make sense to drop five or six figures on a degree unless it's likely to pay for itself.

Which is even becoming less likely with STEM, as we hit a confluence of higher education costs, fewer job openings, and AI as a competitor for work.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Grok 4.5"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:54:57 +0000

Why are the tech oligarchs all such dweebs...

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:27:43 +0000

The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills.

The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a century, so it seems like an odd term to lay claim to for something so unrelated.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Bring back crappy forums"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:41:10 +0000

Forums handled this by bumping old threads to the top when a new comment was added. This post sorting method could play nicely with tree style comments

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

SturgeonsLaw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:57:06 +0000

If there was to be a small silver lining out of all this, then a way to verify human comments would be nice.

But it's not worth the privacy impacts and chilling of free speech.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:58:41 +0000

Isn't depreciation the financial system's way of acknowledging that physical things deteriorate over time?

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "The circus freaks of open source"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:46:37 +0000

Not just outsider artists either, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most widely known artists in history and he was dealing with increasingly severe mental health episodes over the years. A large amount of his art was produced while in varying states of psychosis. Starry Night was painted in an asylum.