Palomides

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91.
by Palomides 11mo ago
in the wider context of wanting to sweep the whole thing under the rug (half a million killed in the iraq war), there's no stomach for it in the US and I don't think one or two prosecutions can salvage much good will
92.
by Palomides 11mo ago
so you don't get stuck with many billions of dollars in useless GPUs and data centers when the bubble pops
93.
by Palomides 11mo ago
why? selling GPUs is way more profitable
94.
by Palomides 11mo ago
is that true? ubuntu and red hat for example use chrony or systemd-timesyncd
95.
by Palomides 11mo ago
using all these personal adjectives to describe the world economy strikes me as very chauvinistic, and I am not convinced the cold war was such a good thing that we need another!
96.
by Palomides 11mo ago
it's kinda sad to see comments like this implying war with china as some sort of inevitability we only "need" to bite the bullet if we want to make WWIII economically possible
97.
by Palomides 11mo ago
someone did https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/pistorm-on-the-macintosh... personally I think it's a bit too close to just emulating the whole thing
98.
by Palomides 11mo ago
really? are their skills atrophying because they don't spend enough time at work?
99.
by Palomides 11mo ago
>retro-computing hobby doesn't need the ability to run contemporary operating systems why not? I still want to run modern software on older machines for security and feature reasons
100.
by Palomides 1y ago
this is a shockingly false thing to see someone say, I have family members who have died due to drinking milk from their own farm pasteurization and vaccination are the crown jewels of modern civilization
101.
by Palomides 1y ago
I couldn't find a list anywhere, does this currently run on any hardware?
102.
by Palomides 1y ago
I'm not sure there's much overlap in use cases, considering the two very separate classes of 'embedded'; Qt is used on Linux capable devices and IAR is MCUs why would Qt want to customize a compiler when they still need
103.
by Palomides 1y ago
https://github.com/avaraline/Avara
104.
by Palomides 1y ago
even billion dollar corporations like cloudflare (with a "free speech absolutist" CEO) absolutely do drop unpopular customers due to user pressure
105.
by Palomides 1y ago
well... yes? does that not happen regularly on many platforms? even on a free service, users have some tiny leverage; they can vote with their feet
106.
by Palomides 1y ago
if you call your userbase a braying mob, you're not going to have a userbase for long
107.
by Palomides 1y ago
"he didn't technically break any rules so I won't ban him" has been the death of _many_ social spaces good moderation requires discretion and keeping the users happy, not slavish legalism
108.
by Palomides 1y ago
maybe around $400 for 25Gbe depending on your noise and power tolerance, and 40Gbe is dirt cheap now if you only have two or three devices that need a fast connection you can just do point to point, of course
109.
by Palomides 1y ago
want to emphasize, for those who haven't been following, a nice used 25Gb ethernet card is like $25 now
110.
by Palomides 1y ago
nobody has solved manipulation at any price point, you can't scale your way out of that
111.
by Palomides 1y ago
oculink is basically just pcie, you can get a dumb adapter card for like $20
112.
by Palomides 1y ago
it's a network for ISPs and organizations with big networks to hook together to let traffic flow more directly, mostly only routers talking BGP
113.
by Palomides 1y ago
do not, under any circumstances, RSVP to a protest
114.
by Palomides 1y ago
man I dunno, I was expecting some magic but the tasks seem to boil down to untar, configure with some flags, make install it does seem the machine is faster than me since I would have to spend a minute to copy each of the --disable-whatever
115.
by Palomides 1y ago
even a single new mac mini will beat this cluster on any metric, including cost
116.
by Palomides 1y ago
it's not really the same as putting snippets of media in a youtube video... the internet archive has, loosely, three categories of stuff: * out of copyright (totally legal) * copyright but abandoned (not legal but nobody cares and is g
117.
by Palomides 1y ago
it's frustrating that so many people use the internet archive as pirate file hosting for things that are easy to find elsewhere (legally or otherwise) it jeopardizes all of their other missions and access to otherwise inaccessible medi
118.
by Palomides 1y ago
have you seen https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5 ? sadly I don't have the FPGA skills to play with it, but the features are very cool
119.
by Palomides 1y ago
I think feelings on immigration show that there isn't a "vast majority" of people who want to "live together" and "abide" each other 35% of americans are happy with how the current administration has been
120.
by Palomides 1y ago
the arm cores are absolutely the least interesting part of this thing, does it matter much if they're outsourced?

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