Lascaille

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by Lascaille 5y ago
>I don't see how that's a meaningful distinction from people who have made the color beige their sole personality trait I'm not really sure how to respond to that. It's intrinsically different. It's getting respo
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by Lascaille 5y ago
I'm not saying that I enjoy watching war footage, I'm saying that there's a severe dearth of it in conventional media, to the extent that for the first three days of the war I was saying to myself 'is this war really hap
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by Lascaille 5y ago
I looked at your other comments and they're usually quite contributory and positive, so with that in mind, what inspired this one today? Because it's just the very worst sort of annoying pedantry.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>on others you can find a lot of interesting stuff There's value to be gleaned from /pol/ if you can stand the lunatics. The skychan threads sometimes yield some interesting conjecture. 4chan is currently the best place fo
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Very well said.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Bodybuilding.com misc & 4chan are super toxic communities. They're places that provide access to actual human beings though. So many other online communities - especially ones with wide readership - are astroturfed into obliv
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by Lascaille 5y ago
There's always people who push to regularise and gatekeep the profession, and while they claim to have noble aims it's often simply because they're better at bureaucracy (and surrounding themselves with it for protection) tha
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by Lascaille 5y ago
It may surprise you to know that there's a similar culture that revolves around skins. That's why people buy them and trade them. I don't know a lot about it and it isn't as clearly visible as sneaker culture but I know
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by Lascaille 5y ago
That wasn't really the point I was making. I was making the point that goods which practically affect one's appearance in reality affect more than just one's appearance due to the nature of human personality.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>They're skins. They have no in-game effect. This is true in exactly the sense that the brand and type of sneakers you wear has no-in school effect.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
From looking at their examples, they don't populate the 'ref' field of the ortb2 structure. There's an argument to be made here that the advertiser isn't being completely deceived because they're choosing to ac
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>The Great Resignation had to have taken a huge toll on regular enterprises. The Great Resignation was people leaving jobs they didn't want (front of house/service industry/gig) for jobs they did want (career-track jobs) a
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by Lascaille 5y ago
I was thinking of sendfile() but I see now it's become a wrapper around splice(). My knowledge is a little dated to say the least.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Maybe file serving can be hardware accelerated Encryption aside a lot of file serving is accelerated. In Linux, apache has just called a kernel function (I forget what it's called, something unsurprisingly along the lines of socket
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by Lascaille 5y ago
It's The Economist. Clickbait isn't really their thing. And everyone sensible in the knowledge economy already has a subscription.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Itanium had a decent service life and a reasonable install base. It didn't take off because of economies of scale and Intel not really wanting to introduce a big x86/x64 competitor. The Itanium platform was totally unaffected by S
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by Lascaille 5y ago
I lost all interest in replying. The replies I was getting were so odd I just deleted everything. It seemed like botreplies, weirdly automatic seeming comments that just didn't engage with what I wrote at all. That's my take, you
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by Lascaille 5y ago
That's a great article. I do worry sometimes that something is up with CPU development, that we're tending towards more and more complicated designs with workflows that are very hard to analyse and simulate even for the designers
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Oh, it's the far end of their circuit? Okay, that makes more sense.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Which over generalization is that? "deplatforming Pornhub increased the value of bitcoin" Because correlation does not equal causation, complicated-seeming math and control groups notwithstanding.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
That #10 step isn't on Fiji, Fiji isn't 1ms away from .au
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by Lascaille 5y ago
To expand a bit on what I said, I think if you have a circle of friends that you mostly communicate with online, and they're the ones that send you links and things, that group will be led by whomever has the strongest opinions. That p
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by Lascaille 5y ago
That's one hell of a price-premium over aliexpress $1.50/meter strips. Yes, they look very nice, two types of dedicated white LEDs alongside a RGB but wow the price... Are they really worth it? If you're not working with prep
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by Lascaille 5y ago
250ml is a standard UK measure of wine. 175ml and 125ml are also UK standards but in a lot of places if you order wine by the glass you'll get 250ml.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Viewpoints like these really do seem to be proliferating at a concerning rate. The progressive left championing the benefits of radical and toxic authoritarianism while screaming frantically that everyone to the right of them is a fasci
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by Lascaille 5y ago
From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's voluntee
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by Lascaille 5y ago
They think and believe that something is simply a scam. Why would you expect them to enter into dialogue with the scammers?
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Of course, even more efficient would be to use the natural gas to make electric power that runs a heat pump. That could be 200% efficient end-to-end. Or, as the gas is already being pumped to your home, use the natural gas directly to p
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by Lascaille 5y ago
US-centric advice.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Yes, it would lead to Trump being in control, but that's entirely different from a bunch of yokels playing king-of-the-hill with the capitol building. That's not 'entirely different' from 'a bunch of yokels play

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