CarelessExpert

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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
I've had little to no fan noise unless I'm deliberately driving the machine hard (i.e. building a kernel). But if they do spin all the way up it's a jet engine.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Just okay. With tuning I'm at 8-ish hours casual browsing with low screen brightness. IIRC this puts it in the same league as the XPS 13 but miles behind an X1 or MacBook.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Exceptional. My work machine is a Lenovo X1 and IMO the Framework approaches that machine in build quality and fit/finish while being infinitely more user serviceable. It's really impressive.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Eh, after getting exhausted with forced Windows updates, I've run Ubuntu and Debian on a Lenovo X1C5 for years with basically no issues. The only thing that didn't work was the oddball fingerprint reader on the unit, which was di
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I use ThinkPads, so I probably could use Linux if I wanted to. But other people might not want to prioritize their OS choice over their hardware choice. Yup, absolutely true, and I'm no evangelist or Linux maximalist. People shou
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
That first one puzzles me. What do you mean "no sleep mode by default"? I've been running Linux on laptops for a few years now and this is the first I've heard of this... Are you perhaps referring to hibernation?
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
What distro were you running? It's pretty rare to encounter this on Debian or Ubuntu unless you're running an unstable release and are encountering package breakage...
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> My friend tried to use Linux-only for a while, but he said trying to video conference just sucked. As an FYI, for folks reading this, I spend at least half of every day in video conferences and this is largely a non-issue these days.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Eh, I just see them as "different" coffee. I have a decent burr grinder, buy fresh roasted beans, and brew with a Moka pot. I also have a drip machine when I plan to drink a lot of coffee over a period of time, i.e. a lazy morni
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Everybody is making educated guesses in the dark, We are absolutely not . Are there many things we don't know about the function of the immune system? Sure. Are we "in the dark"? This couldn't be more incorrect, a
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> a. Take the vaccine and be naked when the vaccine resistant variant eventually emerges. First, this is deeply deeply misleading, to the point of being misinformation. The idea that a version of COVID will pop out that renders the curr
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
The reason I expect it'll land in economics textbooks is that the snake oil of the blockchain has provided a very pure marketplace for these bubbles to form, including a complete and visible transaction record. That provides a level o
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> The NFT game is all about making your NFTs look unique and noteworthy, with as much fanfare and publicity as possible. That’s because the only way to make money from an NFT is by flipping it to someone else, who thinks they can flip it
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I’m wondering the same thing. The only thing I can think of is being able to correlate times, ports, and traffic volume from some origin, to some VPN node, then look for near identical data coming from that node to an ISP, and then on
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the article was flagged because this guy apparently thinks that > masculinity is toxic. And that’s also what people love about it, similar to how they’re addicted to the rotten rinds in cheese. All that striving for
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
So, couple things. First, it's optimistic to assume that data is accurate and up-to-date. Second, I can't emphasize my "group consensus" point enough. Anyone who's driven in real world winter conditions has seen a d
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I think people vastly overestimate the challenges of weather conditions for self driving. This remark makes me wonder if you've ever lived in an area that actually experiences winter. Around here, dead of winter, there are no line
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> but there was nothing I could do to stay awake, and there was no exit I could take. Surely there was a shoulder for use during emergencies. Why on earth didn't you pull over and turn on your hazards?
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Unless you only ever transact in crypto, at some point you need an on-ramp or off-ramp from/to the traditional banking system, and at that point regulation is pretty straight forward. My read of it is that they're going to ban an
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> The crypto world is running out of safe havens. So just to be clear, your definition of "safe haven" is, what, total lawlessness with no governmental oversight? Frankly, these moves make me think people are taking crypto seri
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Let's not forget: The Astronomy Picture of the Day (granted, it's been updated over the years but the style is decidedly retro): https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html And the original WikiWikiWeb: http:&
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Do you believe, generally, that the presence of potential conflicts of interest can be a valid and useful heuristic for evaluating the objectivity and trustworthiness of claims In this particular case it simply doesn't matter. Th
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
This was reported a month ago and has been discussed ad nauseum, including issues with the Israeli data and methodology. Why bring it up again now? Edit: BTW, regarding the data and methodology, here's a great write-up about why the
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Note, this is just a trial delivery, which though a really impressive step, doesn't represent full industrial-scale production yet. The article notes that "By 2030, the aim is for the business to have the capacity to produce 5 mi
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
All excellent points, thank you!
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> No, it's not. I'm suggesting that there is an obvious conflict of interest here, because there is. Actually, it literally is. From https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem "when someone makes a
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Well, there are certainly no obvious conflicts of interest behind this quote. This is just an empty ad hominem. Is the data accurate or is it inaccurate? Is the interpretation of the data valid or is it invalid? Either SpaceX is or it
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Honestly, I don't know that I'm with Greenwald all the way to the conclusion, here. I think it's just as possible that successive administrations all fell for a mix of sunk cost fallacies, confirmation bias, poor incentives,
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I believe them more than I believe MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, etc. Why? Is there some objective reason you believe them more, or is it just that they tell you the things that feel right to you? Speaking purely for myself, I find Greenwald a
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I feel like I’ve been reading about the demise of Uber ever since they graduated from startup darling to media bad guy, yet somehow they continue to operate. That's easy enough to explain: Billions of dollars in the capital market

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