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Flux.ai is probably trying to hide the fact their product does not do what it says it does and they're basically scamming you out of your money (won't even refund you for prompts that did not do what they said they would do.) The entire thing was trash when I tried it two years ago and it's still very much trash now, not even able to do a basic TSOP LED driver without you needing to spend hundreds of dollars to correct its mistakes.

"nobody will be stupid enough to hand-code an account recovery where you get to type any email address."

I can think of several pre-2000s chat rooms that did EXACTLY this. It is how I lost several chat accounts as a teenager.


Not a full password reset, but I've seen this on some sites even recently for 2FA... more than one poorly implemented SMS 2FA prompt has asked me what number I want to receive a confirmation code at to prove it's me. :facepalm:

The first two generations supported DDR3 only. Haswell and Broadwell (v4) brought DDR4 support.

right, and they talk about "v4" which is DDR4.

There were several V4 Xeon models that supported DDR3 AND DDR4 simultaneously. If you had a motherboard with an X79 chipset it would (sometimes) work properly.

I am not aware of any commercial vendor shipping v3/v4 boards with DDR3. I have a couple hundred Supermicro systems that are stuck on v2 CPUs with DDR3...

Get a 2696 v4 or 2686 v4 and a X79 motherboard and you should be able to use DDR3.

Never a problem. RemoteFX does (did) everything you'd want. Make your OS, log in remotely through an accelerated client. The real problem is Microsoft did something around Windows Server 2008 R2 that killed performance (literally halved it) for RemoteFX. You're only now reobtaining the virtualized video performance we used to have back in 2008.

The solution is to quit frequenting places that abuse you like this.

But it seems you LIKE being abused.


It's not necessarily enjoying it. OP evidently just thinks the trade-off is worth it. Some people like baseball more than researching which phone they can buy, which one has an unlockable bootloader, and which is supported (even unofficially) by LineageOS.

That's fine. They don't have to. Their solution can be calling their local representative and complaining that the stadium their city is paying for, is locking them out.


I had forgotten that we are paying billionaires to own stadia. Cannot find funding for schools or libraries but we can sure pay someone who doesn't need the money so they can build a monument to their own ego.

This is actually quite impressive, and I'm left wondering if similar engineering ideas here would work to create a combination Raman shift and XRD/XRF spectroscopy solution.

Since I am working in the XRD/XRF/XAS space, what are the multimodal techniques that you see as the most beneficial ones to complement the x-ray measurements? If you can tell, I would also be interested what your field of research is :)

My field of research is whatever catches my fancy.

I do Aerospace as my current profession.

I just like to hunt for rocks and Caltech loves having me along because I get them stuff they normally don't get.


"but if you download something under a license that doesn't grant you ownership, then it isn't yours."

Possession is 9/10 of the law - if you have a copy, you have possession, and thus you have SOMETHING and LEGALLY it is considered yours (now whether you legally obtained it is a different story and THAT is where charges stem from.)


Random nit, the original saying was "possession is 9 points of the law", attributes that strengthened legal claims, rather than a percentage. Things like possession, good lawyer, money, patience, witnesses, for which if you had the object in your possession were likely to be in your favor.

Then let me be the not day-one account to say Railway is utterly bearing some responsibility here.

"However, in this ring, there was still a hard dependency on workload discoverability being tied to the network control plane API that was hosted on the machines running in Google Cloud."

They've gotta be joking me that they deliberately left something so critical under the control of any other entity than themselves. That demonstrates a lack of critical planning and a lack looking at their configuration from a first-principles approach.


There is always responsibility with Railway, that's given. But also taking into account how many big websites went down when AWS was down, building critical redundancy at such large scale is not cheap, and not many companies do it. Same as security theatre, we have redundancy theatre because they needed to sell the CLOUD.

A Youtuber that records jookin (a mid-South form of dance) uses Gaussian splats for his videos to bring the dancers out into the forefront and hold center stage, it's a neat trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MGoFaIiWs - WARNING - heavily adult lyrics and a loud starting "MOTHERFU*AAAAAAS" right off the top.


That doesn’t really look like Gaussian splats to me- but this video, Helicopters by A$AP Rocky, uses the technique well:

https://youtu.be/g1-46Nu3HxQ?si=y_u257DzgOg2QV83


What makes you say this is using Gaussian splats? It looks like simple motion-based cropping to me.


Because I know the video producer and have talked about this in-depth with him.


"If you’re not then this seems quite paranoid, bordering on LARPing."

There are sooooooo many other situations where such device lockdown is warranted. Government intrusion, sensitive industry, journalism, anything ITAR/EAR covered, and more. Your reduction to a single issue is absurd.


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