Bancakes

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by Bancakes 5y ago
A carbon tax will not cause corporate bankruptcies. It will just make large polluters pull their weight financially.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
I work and play on Linux. Sure, I screw around a lot on Arch and Clear, but my mainstay is Manjaro. Once a week something pops up but it's expected because I tinker a lot. Debian is totally fine for real-life situations.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Turning off JS lets me read a few lines. Just gotta block the right trigger. Or I guess, fake the user agent.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
You can have debian stable forever, and only update LTS kernels every 2 years or less. Some of my smartphones run linux 2.x.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
You can only blame corporations for slacking off and following "worst practices". Yes, all my friends' and family's computers run windows 8.1 embedded, without updates, no AV, maxed out firewall. Yes, its insecure. Yes,
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by Bancakes 5y ago
If Taiwan falls, semiconductors fall.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
How many people can make predictable, iteratively improved products? The difficulty is in marketing.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
One of the leading causes in covid conditions worsening is stress. The others can be summed up as metabolic syndrome. How we can have vaccinations and still bar people from their intimate needs is beyond me.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
The internet is worthless with respect to classical probability - the number of good outcomes divided by the total number of outcomes. How many interesting facts do you learn per hour, per day, per week; some constant factor? Divide that by
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by Bancakes 5y ago
All these inanimate, inert gifts are much better for kids than smartphones and computers, which they shouldn't have either way.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Basic stretches and calisthenics are necessary for health, more news at 9.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
The whole point of using glass and aluminium was strength and rigidity. Guess it was all fashion, no function in the end.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Carbon emissions per death? The imperial system has gone too far.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
I do agree cheaper unprocessed food is a net gain. However consider this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/09/22/there-ar...
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by Bancakes 5y ago
I'm just gonna assume you're being sarcastic for the sake of shitposting.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Because "idle" is not well defined for manufacturers. For instance, core parking is a thing.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Videogames don't promote violence or toxic masculinity in any way. It's just pixels on a screen you click buttons to. You're overthinking.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Shorting a market is not commerce but thanks for LARPing.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
You'll see the Dieselgate of PCs. It's very efficient and underclocked while being tested, but when a customer registers the product with the website, the driver app installs the normal performance profiles.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Some of us like to keep their PCs in performance governor, disable sleeping, disable, core parking, disable swapping, disable switching to iGPU. I want a responsive PC, not a PC that thinks it's a good time to lower the performance.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Why the downvotes? I bet they can ship the PSU separately and mark the PC as "for-parts" to get around this ban.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Are you an engineer? Do you work for a living?
503.
by Bancakes 5y ago
No, I am not joking, thank you. Classrooms make sense, hence their layouts.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
How about 'classroom office'. You have desks you can move around in any formation and make cliques. Plus everyone is used to it from K12 + uni.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
I've escorted a few people out of the building like that. How people tolerate such trespass is beyond me.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
The creator has been making youtube videos for years. It's his medium of choice.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Hacker news doesn't let you write paragraphs and publish a URL.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
The idea of AI and mathematics as a whole is to compute and do what is humanly impossible. It's expected that self driving means not just superhuman but almost perfect.
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Excellent QA
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by Bancakes 5y ago
Which is not disproven by pointing out flaws in others.

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