EarlKing

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by EarlKing 1y ago
Addressing each other by surname is something that occurs principally in the context of sports, but outside of that you'd just address someone by given name. That was the case as regards children addressing each other or teachers addre
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Just a note that directly linked under that is a copy of the archive through 2024: https://ddosecrets.com/article/cryptome-archive-2024
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by EarlKing 1y ago
This seems to overlap quite strongly with a certain Code of Ethics[1] that people were up in arms about not too long ago... [1] https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
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by EarlKing 2y ago
As would I. You know, this seems like yet another reason to allow HN users to direct message each other, or at least receive reply notifications. Dang, why can't we have nice things?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
How do you sleep at night knowing corporations use your advice to import scab labor that displaces the existing population?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
There is a significant need for a lower cost of living and wage increases to even entertain the notion of retirement savings first. Get back to me when you solve that problem first.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Ahhh, Conner. My second computer (a 386sx-33) had a whopping two Conner IDE 120MB drives... until it didn't. I can remember the clicking as those drives would spin up... until one fine day the clicks died and POST threw an error wonder
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by EarlKing 2y ago
I hate cookie pop-ups. Enjoy. https://archive.is/nhCC9
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by EarlKing 2y ago
One person's results is not everyone's results. To say that this is hyperbolic would be the understatement of the millennium.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Even if this is entirely innocent and the result of someone trying to do the right thing... not a good look. They should honestly accept his candidacy and then revise the submission guidelines to be more specific in the future. To do otherw
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Hey Don? I've seen this post of yours more than once, so I'm assuming you've got it saved somewhere, ready to go whenever the Flute gets mentioned. I don't disagree with anything you've written here, but I am curiou
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by EarlKing 2y ago
I always found it amusing that he made sendmail the centerpiece of his argument. Sendmail, the veritable swiss cheese of software. Don't get me started on his so-called Linus's Law that, after decades, I think we can firmly say wa
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by EarlKing 2y ago
OK, this seems like a good thread to ask about something that was contemporary to the TI-99/4A ... namely, the idea of "Fairware". As near as I can tell this term was coined to refer to freeware at a time when that term was s
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Are you sure you want to get into everything else? Because I could've sworn we just had a major controversy with Vivek Ramaswamy running his mouth about the supposed laziness of American workers to justify racial discrimination against
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by EarlKing 2y ago
OK, sounds good... hey, you're going to pay taxes on those machines, right? Because no business operates in a vacuum. Gotta pay for that military, police, and fire that allow you to continue operating. Think of it as the labor element
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by EarlKing 2y ago
It's a consequence of companies outsourcing to countries where they can get away with slave labor and a complete lack of environmental regulation. There's nothing natural about it.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The state is under no obligation to allow known foreign propagandists attached to a known communist party to engage in activities well outside the protections of the first amendment. Of course, they don't HAVE to shutter. They can sell
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The sad answer is... probably none of them. Runtime optimization has always been one of those things that sends most programmers running away screaming, and those who make languages never seem to come from the ranks of those who understand
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Well, if the user isn't going to be sharing the GPU with another task then you could push things back to install-time. In other words: At install time you conduct a benchmark on the relevant shaders, rewrite as necessary, recompile, an
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Sounds like the sort of thing that would lend itself to runtime optimization.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
FINALLY. Nvidia's always been pretty craptacular when it comes to their documentation. It's really hard to read unless you already know their internal names for, well, just about everything.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Yeah, they're being agitated alright... by horrible working conditions, declining real wages, and the people who apologize for it and pretend they're all bots or something rather than real people with real interests that are every
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by EarlKing 2y ago
You can say it's not true just like people on Mastodon can claim they're not riddled with furries, but that does not nothing to dispel the popular opinion. People have seen what they have seen.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Is this a spinoff of DynamicLand?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
I'm sure there are. I'm also confident that they're politically-driven spammers who are simply banning anyone they had an argument with once... so not only are their lists useless to me for finding people to filter, they&#x27
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Which leads me to my second point: There is a cost for curation. If a given forum is filled with people I don't want to follow, and there's no easy way to sort them from the ones I do want to follow, one can easily say that the co
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by EarlKing 2y ago
My experience has been the exact opposite. On Twitter I get all the nuanced discussion while Bluesky is filled with ranting since one political group decided to decamp to it. Ultimately, even when those people were still on Twitter I didn&#
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Link to the first article in the series: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php
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by EarlKing 2y ago
If you think everyone on X is a "nazi" then clearly you've got problems. Twitter appeals to a massive audience, whereas alternatives do not. Media outlets will go where the eyeballs are... and that's not to Bluesky, to M
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Pretty sure there's a massive difference in both the breadth and scope of the demographics of X and Mastodon/the Fediverse.

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