MezzoDelCammin

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by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
I can't believe nobody has yet mentioned the obligatory relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Could You please be more clear on how the last sentence relates to the first? If You think Prohibition (of alcohol) is somehow related to prohibition of TikTok, then corollary would be "correct answer to alcohol threat is better alcoho
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
yep. Quite the WTF
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Seems we're fairly divided here between "audiobooks are for fiction" and "they work great as learning resource". How about a slight tangent / challenge: Try to give a few examples of "which" audiobook
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
OK OK, let's get serious. My personal favorite : Lamy 2000 fine nib inked with Rohrer & Klinger Dokumentus. Most times to complement it there's at least one Parker 51 as a quick note taking pen / highlighter (puts out way
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Wouldn't count on that. Thunderbolt is USB-C just visually. It's probably better to think of it as PCIe that coincidentally has the shape of a USB connector.
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Anyone else reminded of Knuth's "Royalties, use of" in TAOCP?
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Damn. So sorry, mate! I was born not far from a Soviet base back before the curtain fall, but nothing like Donbas. Fingers crossed and some contributions to the cause already done. In the meantime : Slava Ukraini!
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
OK, this has been brewing on for a while, so time for a Plan B. Since I don't have enough karma do do a full AskHN, here's to hijacking a comment thread: Question : What's the best solution for someone mainly watching STEM ch
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Thanks for bringing this one up. It's almost strange to see a civilized discussion about something that clearly polarizes a lot of people in the thread. Makes me wonder exactly what kind of social dynamic results in a bunch of people a
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
True, bitcoin miners have probably figured out quite a few things to which I'm fairly oblivious. I always regarded that movement as a complete waste of computing power. Turns out at least some of their stuff may turn out to be useful f
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
$9k for three of those? I'm affraid Your math aint mathing. 7-slot motherboards are IMO Threadripper teritory. The CPU alone will set You back at least $1k5, MB to go along with that is another $1k. Not including the stack of DDR5 that
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
I just did look. 19k karma is indeed nothing to sneeze at. Difference is though that in the HN comments it's someone else who picks the topic and time. Much as I appreciate the discussion here, occasionally I think there's some va
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
I kinda thought about this for a few months now. My problem with YouTube these days isn't ads. It's content quality. It's probably just my personal preference, but what I'm looking for is long form. Lectures, classes, es
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
"Ads is the sole source of revenue" is plainly wrong, unless You're maybe just beginning. Looking at some breakdowns (strangely, quite a few channels publish them) the ad revenue seems to be just a minor slice these days. The
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
The answer will probably be "it depends". On smoothness, fountain pens have the edge in that mechanically, a fountain pen is just a very smooth ball of metal that's being constantly lubricated by a controlled leak of ink thro
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
oh, just You wait until You discover the wonderful new old world of fountain pens and inks ;-)
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
if anyone is interested in a comparison, Paris has had this for some months now. The main idea was to slow / limit traffic through the residential areas (which is most of the city center). There has been an initial wave of skepticism,
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Ah, sorry, I was talking about the money I would pay after the expense deduction of 50%. So, 4090 at $1600 would cost me about $800 of my own money in the end. That being said, I'm writing from the EU, so all these numbers are really j
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
yeah, that's the thing. The AI/ML is something I'd like to play with / learn / experiment on, but it's only tangential to my current paying job at this point in time (I'm basically a freelancer). "Exp
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
yeah, a used 3090 would be the most likely candidate if my next build was something for personal use only. Thing is, I'm probably going to expense it. Which limits me to new components. And I'm not in too much of a rush (weeks &#x
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Interesting bit at the end of the text: 2023-09-13: Preliminary ROCm support added Makes me curious how will the RTX4090/3090 compare with something 7900-ish
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
4090Ti? AFAIK that has never been released
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Cade's bike fit is generally OK, but IMO he's lately been way too click-baity with the videos and trying to tailor his texts to the youtube algorithm ("10 things ...", etc.). Maybe it's just me, but I find it somewh
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
(1) in my case, "bike fit" is more of a process than a one time thing. I keep tweaking it a bit through the year as I train (mainly saddle fore/aft, but handlebar height / angle as well as extra wrap / gel pads some
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
second the "check Your bike fit". In my opinion, the checklist is: 1. check the bike fit (probably the main problem) 2. add some mobility / core training (at some point if You bike long distance out of the blue without much t
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
And have You managed do somehow automatize it in the end?
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
While it's been tough to see the loss of material for further Discworld books, it's probably for the best. Sir Terry's disease started to show in his last few books already. I'm perfectly fine being left with an incomple
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
just out of curiosity - how would You go about that link of the 3 cards? Does AMD have anything like NVLink? (honest question, I really don't know and suspect I might have missed a bit somewhere in the idea)
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
it's not the 4090 that the 7900 XTX should be compared to. It's the 3090Ti. They could be had for just about the same price when You consider 2nd hand cards.

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