KingMachiavelli

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by KingMachiavelli 5mo ago
Frankly, I think we need to bring back corporal punishment for specific crimes. The process to arrest, prosecute, and then imprison people for "public space crimes" is basically flawed. Arresting and prosecuting is slow and expens
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by KingMachiavelli 5mo ago
I'd like to understand why the WiFi spec developed so slowly from G to N and finally to AC but now it's seems like a new version is released every other year yet many of the features/extensions are poorly implemented or have
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by KingMachiavelli 5mo ago
Wouldn't the app registering the card provide the card image? And actually cards from the same provider/app are suppose to occupy the same "vertical" slot but then show a horizontal dialog. Also, I bet even with the iden
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by KingMachiavelli 5mo ago
LoRaWAN seems interesting but the documentation and availability of is either "Crypto hobby project from Seedstudio" or "Strange telecom companies selling $900 base stations that still expect an internet connection (for licen
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by KingMachiavelli 5mo ago
So what’s the real solution for when Starlink is too expensive and too high power? I really want to solution for remote mountaineering communication that’s not just GMRS. And what about remote weather sensors? I really don’t need a full int
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
> claim data centers produce no long term pollutants whatsoever While running. Incurring a pollution penalty once in fungible location (i.e where mines are approved and "hopefully" managed responsibly) is better than incurring
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
I often get side tracked into commenting on regular social media like Instagram and I'm somehow surprised over and over how poor critical thinking skills in the greater population. The zeitgeist of US politics is "this doesn'
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
`nosuid` and probably `nodev` should IMO be the default filesystem mount options. `/dev` is already a special devtmpfs and the initrd minimal /dev can just explicitly mount the initrd tmpfs rootfs with `dev` and `suid` if necessa
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
> My neighbors just gave Ford $60k. It'll be a while until my neighbor gives Anthropic $60k. How much of that 60K does Ford actually keep? And how much will it be once BYD is allowed in the US? The forecast for Ford is pretty much
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
I don't think this is where peak battery tech ends up. At current capacities, batteries are becoming genuinely dangerous, and faster charging only amplifies the risk. Charging high-capacity cells outside a temperature-controlled charge
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by KingMachiavelli 6mo ago
They 100% should have communicated this change, absolutely unacceptable to change behavior without an extremely visible warning. However, backing up these kinds of directories has always been ill-defined. Dropbox/Google Drive/etc.
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by KingMachiavelli 7mo ago
The profits of auto manufacturing are distributed to US stock holders. The same won’t be true for foreign companies. For very large industries, this is a large amount of capital either staying or leaving the US. Also, it’s unlikely that the
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by KingMachiavelli 7mo ago
IMO the consumer PC industry is near an existential crisis. The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ. The exact same spec
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by KingMachiavelli 7mo ago
AFAIK Fith Amendment only protects against self-incrimination, you absolutely can be subpoenaed to testify against someone else and failing to produce truthful testimony is a crime.
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
VMWare is far easier solution for normal enterprises than K8s. K8s more suited for having many small VMs that can be quickly deleted and recreated i.e modern microservice architecture. vSphere & friends is more targeted for running very
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Comparing a companies current valuation to it's all-time or 52-week high isn't really useful. NVDIA is down ~14% from it's ATH but 25x it's initial market cap; it's certainly returned value to it's investors. W
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Sure but AFAIK FedNow is not going to hold funds or authority to payback or revert "fraudulent" transactions? If I lend out $X dollars but my client says the loan was accessed fraudulently then who pays for this loss? The bank, th
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
The actual lender for a CC is not Visa, it's the associated bank that's backing the CC. So the redistribution of wealth is occurring on the banks books not Visa's.
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
The ideal solution for this is the LVT is split between each level of government and it's parent. Each level receives tax revenue based on the market value after it's own zoning and all other restrictions apply. But each level m
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Agree it isn't practical to block everything while still allowing software engineers to do their job. An online regex tester is super useful or could be a big risk is an employee uses it incorrectly. But it is helpful to block certain
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
> Some of these high county-level percentages stem from high populations of immigrants, whose first language is not English. The PIAAC only assesses English literacy, though its background questionnaire is given in English and Spanish. I
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
No the resources you used would have degraded since you were in uni. Since people use the internet, less people are using the library so the library gets less funding, professors aren't checking if the library has enough copies of book
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
It's actually quite convenient, school desks are quite small so trying to fit a textbook and your homework notebook is quite cramped. You can just put your phone directly next to the HW problem. High schoolers and college students stil
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Sure but why would you want to? I can lookup 10x the number of sources just using LibGen and Google Scholar than I can in a real library.
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
A ban on cell phones would make doing homework a lot more difficult. It's far easier to have textbooks on your phone than carrying them around all day. Almost impossible to write any kind of paper without the internet.
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Really can't recommend Nix for Python stuff more, it's by far the best at managing dependencies that use FFI/native extensions. It can be a pain sometimes to port your existing Poetry/etc. project to work with nix2lang c
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
Only if by "consumer protection" you are OK getting your Ebay account banned. Ebay already provides there own buyer protection... but if you disagree with them and do a charge back then most likely your account will be banned.
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
It's not the Ubuntu community that will convince Nvidia it's their large enterprise customers that want docs like "How to develop CUDA application on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)". Nvidia can only use an ancient Ubuntu version a
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
You should at least wrap the ffmpeg calls in a systemd-run command with restricted internet access, ro-filesystem except /tmp, etc. It super easy to prevent AI from becoming skynet or even just stopping it from running rm -rf / bu
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by KingMachiavelli 2y ago
I've had a nearly perfect experience with Intel and AMD. It's pretty rare to have a machine now days without integrated graphics so it's easy enough to just use the integrated GPU for the desktop environment and only use the

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