Cyberspirit

if I know noctua it'll have a heatsink on the pump. Then an extra 200mm fan on the pump 'just to be safe'

Boy if that's the PC I don't wanna know about the rest of the room...
Average NZXT user. Ants were probably attracted by all the cheeto crumbs and tossed soda cans laying around, and eventually found their way into the PC.
 
Throughout the years I've found all kinds of bugs inside computers, spiders, roaches, moths, bedbugs, and ants in addition to the tons of thick greasy dust and other debris from years of abuse. Same with every other device, there was this one phone that "sometimes worked" and when I opened it I was greeted by dozens of roaches inbetween the pushbuttons and board, they were preventing the buttons from working, and of course, droppings everywhere.
Went to a house to diagnose a flickering light and when I removed the wall switch it was full of dirt and ants, they had literally eaten the wire insulation off and the dirt did the rest of the job. Then a fluorescent fitting with 3 dead geckos inside, and much more.
 
The most disgusting I've encountered so far was a fridge with a whole ecosystem inside, the bottom was absolutely taken over by some kind of mud, at least 3 different kinds of mold (green, black and the "hairy" one that looks white" and white mushrooms. The woman said she thought "it was normal" and that it has been there "for 10 years with no issues", and the reason for this is that her mother told her she "couldn't clean the inside of the fridge because it'd start to smell bad" and that "chemicals can't be used if there's food inside". So my job not only consists of repairing things I also have to do biohazard work.

would that mean that ants could transfer 10-50 times the heat compared to regular thermal paste?

I agree on this. 
Heck, as long as you're paying the bill for the phone, you should be allowed to go with whomever you want for the service.
Buy the phone with one carrier and use a different one for service. Not like these leeches were actually giving you a "deal" on the phones most of the time. With financing, you will end up paying more in the end anyway.
 
All that said, personally I just buy cheaper "mid range" phones out right instead of paying for it monthly. No contract needed. Can go with whichever provider offers the lowest fee for the most data without being held down.

Word of advice, a zinger kind of loses its punch if you say it 21 times. 
 
 
There is no time limit to writing comments. If you were still working on it then you could have just finished the comment before posting. 
 
 
What makes you say Apple isn't a tech company? I think they might possibly be the best example of a tech company. They develop their own OS and libraries. They develop their own hardware including GPU, CPU and NPU architectures. They are also highly involved with the development of new process nodes. 

Ah I remember when I:
Subscribed and paid for Funimation Now Funimation Now blocked APAC and forced us over to AnimeLab AnimeLab discontinued and told to use Funimation Now Funimantion Now discontinued and told to use Crunchroll All while losing access to content with every forced move.

Summary

 
Several paragraphs of text have been decoded from the inside of a scroll that was buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. These scrolls were too fragile to physically unroll, so researchers took high resolution CT scans of the scrolls, and released the data to the public, promising $700,000 to the first team to decode 4 passages from the inside of the scroll, based on the scan (along with a number of other prizes along the way), before the end of 2023.
 
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My thoughts
This is an achievement that could only have been done with machine learning, and the technical feat here can't be understated. It has taken a lot of work to get this far, it's incredible to see what the community can achieve when it's given a goal like this. The $1M+ prize pool (donated by various mostly rich people) certainly helped to incentivise people to participate, and it will be interesting to see if this model gets adopted for any other projects in the future. If they are able to achieve their goal of extending this technology to read all 800 scrolls, this will be a big breakthrough in our understanding of Ancient Rome, let alone the other potential places where this technology could be used.
 
Sources
Official announcement: https://scrollprize.org/grandprize

Why is this even an RTX? Who would run raytracing on this? Why not go and release another GTX range cards like with the 1600 series?

As an audio-engineer who specializes on commercial AV-Stuff, I feel the need to comment about your setup. Terribly sorry for that 😄
 
Dante is cool, although there would've been nothing wrong with a couple of 8-channel Dante Amps and conventional passive speakers (makes swapping out the active component, the amp, a lot easier when it inevitably dies). For the court itself, if you have fixed directions (most importantly, what your front/"stage"-area would be), a couple of good beamsteering-columns can work wonders. There are some options, Pan Acoustics for example, which are rated to withstand ball impacts (I really couldn't find an English equivalent to "Ballwurfsicher" 😅) and sound pretty goody especially for voice (music will profit from some subwoofers, those could be mobile and set up just when needed).
This could dramatically decrease the number of speakers you would need.
 
As DSP I would've gone with something Yamaha. I don't know what exactly you were referring to when talking about the Dynacords echo cancellation, but if it's AEC it won't help you with feedback all that much. That's more something for video conferencing.
What you're looking for is feedback suppression, and that is a discipline where Yamaha, in my experience at least, really beats the competition by a mile. While most DSPs will use notch filtering to fight against feedback, Yamaha has the option of using pitch shift feedback suppression. Despite this being a very old school approach, it works really well, fast and doesn't destroy the frequency response of your mic like notch filtering does.
Yamaha shortly released the DME-7 which could be just the right product for your needs.
 
All that combined with a nice control-system (I'd prefer Extron in that case) and some high quality Mics (Shure ULX-D or Sennheiser ew-DX should do) and you'd be good to go.
 
Sidenote: the company I work for has developed a laser-guided camera tracking system that's meant to work with PTZ cameras. If that would be something interesting to you, slide into my DMs
 
Viele Grüße aus Deutschland!
 

FYI, the anchors that come with the Frame TVs are not for drywall. They are for concrete. That's why they spun. Samsung (for some reason) didn't include anchors for drywall, which most people have in their house. It's dumb. I carry drywall anchors specifically for when I install Frame TVs.

Don't joke around about blowing up planes, even more so if you are about to board a plane. It was a joke isn't an excuse, not everyone will find it funny or read it as a joke, not those employed to stop threats, you can't just let it go because what if it wasn't a joke.
 
Your harmless fun means people have to put their jobs on the line and lives of others just in case you are in fact just joking?
 
Make the joke, just do it at the right time and place 🤦‍♂️

I'm also sceptical of the claims that the airport was monitoring the snapchat messages that were sent over their wifi network. Seems more likely that either a recipient in the snapchat group chat reported the message or it was automatically flagged within Snapchat. Somebody within Snapchats Trust & Safety team could have reviewed the message and noted the location data aligned with an airport which makes the threat much more credible. Snapchat tags photos with GPS location data and along with the IP address showing as Gatwick airport's public wifi that would definitely raise alarms. Another possibility is that his phone itself flagged it, though I think that is less likely.
 
A flight from Gatwick England to Spain is around 4-6 hours. He apparently took the photo and posted the message while at check-in. I'm extremely surprised that within a few hours they were able to identify a risk, alert authorities, identify the person, identify what flight they were on, communicate with Spanish authorities, and launch fighter jets to intercept before the plane even made it to its destination. When you think about all the things that have to happen in that chain of events and all the people it would have to go through that is a fast response time and honestly impressive. 
 
Edit: Correction, flight time between Gatwick, England to Minorca, Spain seem to be 4-6 hours, not 2-4 hours.

Airport security isn't going to assume it is "just a teenager making jokes" if there's even the remote chance they could be wrong. There's too much at stake.
 
Don't joke about performing terrorist acts.

I thought we all knew, by now, 2 things not to do.
 
1. Joke about blowing stuff up in and around airports and government buildings
2. Use public Wi-Fi
 
This muppet failed on both.

What an idiot. 
Really went and spent $135k on a car? 
Could've put that towards something far more useful.
 

I work with a kid that was looking at buying a house last summer.
He's now 22 with a 2023 Dodge 3500 factory lifted instead of a house. $1,700/mo for 7 years.

i got so very utterly confused
 

 
i got some extension that adds cats to thumbnails last night that i forgot entirely about

Replace "games" with almost any other form of media in this "sToP lIvInG iN tHe pAsT" take it becomes apparent immediately how vapid and philistinic it is. 

Games don't age. If they're fun, then they're fun

That's actually not that serious information, the "what to do" in those situations is pretty standard and easily found information. Health information about minors is easily the most serious of anything, that's HIPAA breach hard core mode. If you want the book thrown at you almost nothing works better than "won't somebody think of the children"

you know.. you'd think people have the ability to learn from others' mistakes.. but i've been hearing this exact news for several years now.. and it keeps happening.

Trains. Just use trains. Whole idea was to prevent High speed rail from getting funding so they had to "Show" something.

Ai monitor this Ai bed that. Where is my damn Ai cat girl holographic waifu in a box. You let me down CES! 

Slapping AI into everything is just this year's version of slapping "smart" into everything

Good thing about your TV is that it's so heavy and huge that you will probably keep it for a long time because every time you get the itch to upgrade you'll get a PTSD from thinking about how to get it out of the house.