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by Roark66 3y ago
Indeed. The FSF is a very worthy cause. If it is true there is a lack of young people involved I'd look for reasons why amongst things like "is it a pleasant space to cooperate in", "are people accepting of new people&qu
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by Roark66 3y ago
I'm not sure about this. On one hand the idea sounds good on the other it raises lots of questions. For example, who will decide who is a "worthy load bearer"? Then once people are funded who will manage their workloads? Also
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by Roark66 3y ago
Because they _really_ want the next gen to be able to run big LLMs locally. Or an alternative argument, they need it as a powerful companion to their Vr "stuff". Although I'm in favour of the first option. Why? I think runnin
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by Roark66 3y ago
Really Raspberry Pi people? I guess availability of cheap very useful boards like rpi zero 2w was a fluke and no one intends to come back to that. Now they're just focusing on designing expensive boards like every other commercial manu
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by Roark66 3y ago
>It's not clear to me why 'value added' needs to be taxed in the first place, as opposed to business profits or dividends. I don't have a firm opinion either way, but I noticed few things that work in favour of VAT in
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by Roark66 3y ago
Yes, it is a tax on spending done by normal people, but for VAT registered businesses it really is a value added tax. For example, let's say you buy a widget for $1000 + 20%vat = $1200, you record you spent $1000k of your money and you
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by Roark66 3y ago
In Poland VAT fraud used to be absolutely huge a bit under a decade ago. After the government established really strict tracking of invoices and they started going after the VAT gangs the budget revenues literally doubled in the span of few
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by Roark66 3y ago
I had to check, because I wasn't aware there is such a time gap between the two. I seem to remember having P4s in many an office desktop while E3 xeons were present in new servers we installed. My Xeon cpu is Intel® Xeon® processor E3-
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by Roark66 3y ago
Europeans too "can't buy cheap Chinese EVs" and yet there is a (slightly) bigger choice of models in Europe. Why? Because Europe has laws that requires car makers to make certain types of cars even if it's not the most p
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by Roark66 3y ago
>The Chinese are willing to work harder for less money to produce higher quality goods. Perhaps individual Chinese are like that, but sadly they are rules by an autocratic regime that is an open enemy of freedom and democracy. Furthermor
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by Roark66 3y ago
>China, meanwhile, has become a global powerhouse in electric cars: It’s expected to account for about 60% of the world’s 14.1 million new passenger EV sales this year, according to BloombergNEF. This is bull**. Why? Because in China it
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by Roark66 3y ago
>it was exceedingly uncommon for PC's in the Pentium 4 era to ship with anything higher than a 200W PSU. Yet today it is not uncommon to hear of 850W PSU's Exactly that. I just had to upgrade my 850W psu to 1000W because I&#x27
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by Roark66 3y ago
It is interesting how many teams and even large businesses fall into the github/gitlab/atlassian trap. I worked for a couple that spend a shit-ton of money to have some measure of "cloud agnostics" while they throw out t
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by Roark66 3y ago
>Something happened at some point where Twitter, Google and Facebook began to comply and now it's the status quo. Monopolistic practices happened. How does any regime force people to comply? First you have to make people you want to
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by Roark66 3y ago
Personally I think the root cause of this was bad documentation practices. If the old system was properly documented they would've scanned the right folder. Likewise with the certificate, if there was documentation to indicate when tha
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by Roark66 3y ago
I wanted to use noveau a couple of times, but I always backed out due to no cuda support. I wish there was a way to use noveau for the display side of things and nVidia's cuda for ML acceleration.
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by Roark66 3y ago
>I hear you. But I am not worried about whatever economic modellers say, or what prominent authors write. What I am worried is when huge companies, predominantly preceived as western ones, spread their arms and swear there is no way they
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by Roark66 3y ago
The article raises and goes fairly deep into explaining many important issues, but I find it's naive belief the numbers China presents quite surprising. Take this for example: >China dominates the production of full electric vehicle
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by Roark66 3y ago
My favourite input app on android does real time autocorrect by displaying 3 most likely predictions on a bar above the keyboard. So it is not really inline. With programming IDEs when I can I configure them to display suggestions below the
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by Roark66 3y ago
What language is it?
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by Roark66 3y ago
For me stock autocorrect was always pretty much unusable, but I have no real complaints about the app I use. I'm bilingual and I type in both languages a lot. I remember when I got my first smartphone I bought SwiftKey app (later bough
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by Roark66 3y ago
>What do you do if you are average (or less) in looks and income (potential)? Prepare for a lonely existance. You try to improve these things. Going to the gym etc, or focusing on one's career is a start.
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by Roark66 3y ago
These were different times... I met my partner of 25+ years on my town's IRC channel. Imagine that happening now.
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by Roark66 3y ago
I too find the code on the left/red (linear) more readable. However the version with all the functions is quite extreme. When I'm splitting my code into functions I decide if something should be it's own function on the basis
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by Roark66 3y ago
I wonder how Apple decides who to inform and who not to when they detect malware like pegasus. Good they did inform a person in question. However, what if this person was much lower profile? Let's say a person that lives in a democrati
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by Roark66 3y ago
At least IRC is usually logged. However, I've noticed a disturbing trend amongst web shops. It used to be common for a shop to have it's return policy and form linked on the main page/menu. Right along side its terms&cond
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by Roark66 3y ago
It is very common for malware to contain java script payloads that try to obfuscate themselves like like this: Seemingly_random_code(seemingly_random_string) The seemingly_random_code decompresses/decodes whatever is in the seemingly_r
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by Roark66 3y ago
>The rock is a rock, but its exaorbitant price serves as a threshold for potential mate selection. Indeed, but don't we already have much more practical things that serve the same purpose? For example a nice house/apartment or
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by Roark66 3y ago
That's a surprise to me. Having lived and travelled across Eastern, Central and Western Europe a lot I never considered vending machines gross. The first vending machine I ever saw must have been a coca cola (or pepsi) vending machine
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by Roark66 3y ago
How these two sentences are in any way compatible with eachother: >company will (..) separate out the small lithium-bearing grains from larger minerals by centrifuging. The clay will then be leached in vats of sulfuric acid to extract li

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