Sakos

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by Sakos 3y ago
> I don’t think anyone doubts that planes hit the buildings The doubt is whether the plane crashes could've made the buildings collapse. And they exist, because I've argued with them in real life.
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by Sakos 3y ago
On the flipside, probably the most common software found and used in businesses everywhere is spreadsheet related, and it's common even in non-business contexts. How many of these applications are adding senseless whitespace everywhere
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by Sakos 3y ago
I don't understand why the only instance monitoring this stuff "regularly" is Samsung itself. The ones with little incentive to actually care about the consequences or accurately monitoring this.
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by Sakos 3y ago
Been getting that too. No idea why. Interestingly, I've experienced it a handful of times on desktop too. 99% of the time it's the Android app doing it though.
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by Sakos 3y ago
Should've asked for photographic proof that they have a cat.
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by Sakos 3y ago
> Results A total of 104 participants (mean [SD] age, 41.1 [11.3] years; 52 [50%] women) were randomized (51 to the psilocybin group and 53 to the niacin group). Psilocybin treatment was associated with significantly reduced MADRS score
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by Sakos 3y ago
> A truly open world, with no boundaries at a scale never attempted before. I don't know what to make of this.
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by Sakos 3y ago
One of the reasons why I'm glad Stadia died. That's a future I didn't want to see realized.
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by Sakos 3y ago
Unfortunately, businesses actually think this way. See any number of lawsuits based on this kind of thinking.
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by Sakos 3y ago
When the people who sell it to us are free to revoke access at any time, then there's no walking back being done by us. We're just recognizing that the accepted state of things was reneged on by one party and they can't insis
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by Sakos 3y ago
This is why I can never accept the idea that we're just buying a license. Laws need to be made that ensure once you buy the rights to access a piece of content, that you keep that right regardless of who the current owner is or if the
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by Sakos 3y ago
I'd also avoid any older laptop with a dedicated GPU. Particularly Apple, but I'd say it applies to every other manufacturer too considering how little thought they generally put into sufficient cooling. I've seen way too man
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by Sakos 3y ago
I had no idea either until fairly recently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe I repaired a laptop where replacing the paste didn't help, but replacing the pipes (or rather the heatsink assembly, which they
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by Sakos 3y ago
On the flipside, I whole-heartedly recommend Kagi because I haven't gotten the sense they're running an unsustainable VC-backed business. As long as Kagi exists and provides such a competent search engine, I'm willing to give
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by Sakos 3y ago
What CPU is it? My suggestions: Have you checked with Throttlestop if it's being throttled for any reason? Have you tried setting your power option to performance or checking the energy options for the cooling strategy and max clockspe
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by Sakos 3y ago
HNs readership grew up in times when where cellphone usage was limited in schools by nature and also by policy (using them in class certainly was never allowed or tolerated). Jailbreaking my phone had nothing at all to do with school and wa
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by Sakos 3y ago
> Not all Firefox add-ons available from addons.mozilla.org will work with the mobile browser. But any extension marked as Android compatible should work, and if you want to browse a subset of compatible extensions, there’s a new page fo
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by Sakos 3y ago
I always feel like when people say they want it returned to the legislative, that's the point. They don't want functional or effective government because they're secretly libertarians or conservatives.
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by Sakos 3y ago
Because they can, I guess? There can be fun had in over-engineering personal projects. It can also be educational. It's no more odd than > grafana, spring, keycloak
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by Sakos 3y ago
It doesn't need to be perfect in order to be effective. What's your point?
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by Sakos 3y ago
It's a pain, but it's the reality that we're stuck with. If you go out of your way to hide failure or burn yourself out trying to never fail, how is that better? What's a realistic alternative to accepting that you'
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by Sakos 3y ago
> I had it chunk & quiz me Can you go a bit into how this works? How do you prompt it? This is the first use of ChatGPT I've heard of that would directly benefit me.
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by Sakos 3y ago
For an example of an SSD review that shows a sustained write test: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-980-m2-nvme-ssd... ( https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mzdXcBUJUuxkbYfmQigqQE-970... ) In a
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by Sakos 3y ago
There's a difference between your personal experience and my experience in a professional role handling multiple customer devices every day. However, I'm also not making a statement about NTFS's reliability vs ext3/ext4.
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by Sakos 3y ago
As somebody who worked as a PC technician for a while until very recently, I've run chkdsk and had to repair errors on NTFS filesystems very, very, very often. It's almost an everyday thing. Anecdotal evidence is less than useful
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by Sakos 3y ago
1) Nobody says otherwise about cheap anything NVMe. They're pretty terrible once they've exhausted the write cache. This is well-known and addressed in every decent review by reputable sites. 2) Sustaining throughput seems the lea
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by Sakos 3y ago
His influence significantly reduced the size of the stimulus bill, which meant significantly higher unemployment for a longer duration and significantly less spending on infrastructure which is so beneficial to economic growth that it can&#
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by Sakos 3y ago
I know the repair place I worked at sees a lot of broken USB-C ports. Way more than they ever had A. They hate the new, smaller ports because they're usually built very flimsily unless it's Apple.
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by Sakos 3y ago
Google is no different from any other entrenched monopoly. It's hard for the organization to care about anything outside its core revenue enough to put significant weight behind it. How many technologies were passed on by Kodak, AT&amp
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by Sakos 3y ago
No, the main problem is that these projects were grossly mismanaged and didn't really have a concrete purpose. It would've been possible to build something incredibly useful without LLMs, I just don't know why they didn'

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