/silicon/ - technology

The old programming thread is about 9 years old, and hasn't been updated in months. I know /silicon/ is a slow board, but I'd like to make a second programming thread to talk about what newer projects sushis are doing/finding interest in.

What is the most treasured file on your computer?

discord is doing the endless CAPTCHA loop

Has anyone seen/used the Pyra yet?

It looks comfy but it is pricy.

Technologies to prevent cokehead speculators from scamming gullible nerds?
I fall into all the traps of the industry

Hello sushis, I need a bit of help finding a good price to resell a dysfunctional laptop for parts so my friend directed me here since I'm not very good with either software or hardware

Basically the old motherboard got power surged because my stupid ass left it charging during a thunderstorm :( I've had the motherboard swapped out for a new one for the same laptop but it still doesn't boot up at all unless the hard drive is disconnected (and the PC is obviously no use without a hard drive haha). But changing ghe hard drive didn't work either, so now I just have a laptop with a motherboard, hard drive, charger and battery which all work individually but not as a whole. (Well I can only assume the battery works anyway, I assume the power surge only wore it down a bit.)

Laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15IAU7, owned for about 20 months before all this happened. 8GB RAM 512GB hard drive, motherboard and hard drive both very newly purchased, charger is a bit older but still works fine. No damage to keyboard or screen at all, battery I assume still works though I'm unsure of its condition post-surge.

What's a good price I can sell it for parts for? I guess I can sell the old power surged motherboard too as I still have that, and I was thinking of just selling it on eBay or something but I'm open to suggestions elsewhere. I've been told I can get a deal of £200, but I want to check with you guys first :]

wait, is Qt pronounced "cute"??

i thought it was said like cutie this whole time!!

Greetings sushichan. This is a recruitment post from the 4Chan /g/ Usenet General. We're nice and comfy and spreading the love.

Cross posting to raise awareness, reinvigorate, recruit and everything in between.

Posting on usenet is free, easy and is a most comfy experience.

>What is /usenet/?

Open standard protocols still exist and are what the internet was built on
(http, irc, ftp, etc). It's NOT owned by corpos, not under
govt control, and are accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

They simply exist to be built upon and enjoyed by all.

Some, like FTP are outdated and insecure. Others, like rss, irc, http, usenet are still glorious and wonderful open standards.
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Does anyone here actually believe improvements in artificial intelligence will lead to a runaway process ending in artificial super-intelligence (aka the singularity), and if so, can you explain why the feedback effect of an AI improving itself has to be runaway rather than simply lead to diminishing returns? Is it about AI's speed advantage and innate breadth of knowledge?

You could, I suppose, argue that if smart humans can do something, then a smart AGI could do it too, and faster. Therefore if smart humans could eventually create super-intelligence, and smart AGI is successfully created, the rest of the staircase gets climbed much quicker in something resembling a runaway process. But I think people who argue this assume artificial super-intelligence is possible in the first place. What if it's simply not possible, or at least not possible with techniques derived from current advances? How can people be so sure there isn't a hard wall not so far away?

Despite being intelligent, and despite arguably harboring low-level super-intelligence among us in the form of the rare genius, we haven't been able to improve our own brains at all… at best we have some blunt hammers in the form of psychiatric drugs, and we don't even know how some of them work.

I was thinking it would be nice if we had a thread for sharing our own websites/homepages. Woah, here's one now! Show me your netspace sushi!

Here's mine. It's a complete mess, but I like it. It's kind of new well, technically it's existed for a little while, but I only started working on it recently, so it's missing a lot of things, and there are a few links that 404. Though it's hosted on neocities, it's only slighty Lain themed.
https://birdcom.neocities.org/