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John Herbert

@johnherbert

Award winning design engineer, based in Hong Kong. BEAM Professional since 2010

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Joined June 2008
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BREAKING: openai launches "ram amnesty" program citizens can drop off unused 32gb sticks at any data center, no questions asked in return, you get a $200/month subscription to use your own ram
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There was something v wrong. I went to work on the MTR and saw some smoke and flames. I came back 8 hours later and the whole things were on fire glowing from the MTR.
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inmediahknet@inmediahkOct 30
山頂光影匯演項目終止 被問開支 羅淑佩：已使用的資源有限 inme.cc/ifJ0ab
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What’s astounding is that so many of the public just looked on as charlatans siphoned up taxpayers money in the belief that Green hydrogen was a viable source of energy when the majority of the public would have no idea what green hydrogen is&how dangerous hydrogen is to handle
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うるせえメモリの在庫返せバカ
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM for their own PCs is a waste and instead should be saved for data centers "It’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
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The Chinese stock market exists to teach the Chinese to keep their day job. The only way to win a small fortune in it is to start with a big one.
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When your bow is long you're gonna have trouble with 3 point turns innit #HKnumberplates
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The world according to Sam Altman btw 😭
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Because they now have a cool acronym
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Where is the action against ICAC, HK’s final safeguard against this sort of crap. Which also failed.
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Watch her relaunch her career as being a persecuted patriot.
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I too agree that SA's remarks are way too irresponsible, inconsiderate, and ext. selfish AF...... Tech is not always about progress but regress, as exemplified here, due mostly to human corp. greed......
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So the people in charge last time who failed, are now being transferred to a new department to do the same thing again? Sounds like they are just painting shit white and trying to convince us it’s vanilla ice cream.
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OpenAIのサム・アルトマンが「個人のPCにメモリを積むのは無駄なので、全てデータセンタに集約すべき」と言い出したので、全世界から袋叩きにされている。 （そのうち『一般家庭に電力を供給するのも無駄』と言い出しそうなので、袋叩きにされた方が良い）
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The OG #HKnumberplates
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What if Marx was right about owning the means of production but just horribly wrong on the long term timeline and limited by his imagination
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NEW: Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for everyday people to own RAM, arguing it belongs in data centers.
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🇭🇰 | ~6pm 30-Oct-2026 | Hennessy Rd, Causeway Bay HKPolice arrest two "local" men, 50 & 43 - the former accused of stealing cash from 4 shops who hired him to work in-store, plus a dine&dash, during September & October; the latter of handling stolen goods dimsumdaily.hk/police-arrest…

Police arrest two men after alleged hiring ruse and dine-&-dash spree across Hong Kong

Two men, aged 50 and 43, are arrested after a string of thefts and a dine and dash case across Hong Kong, with police saying five businesses lost about HK$53,000.

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👀 what's happening in CWB?
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Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers. Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
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NFBUK@NFBUKOct 30
‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
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