Throwawayaerlei

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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Static RAM they bought from IBM; they trusted it too much, didn't include ECC in its path to CPUs, and completely torched any chance at becoming an enterprise vendor by blaming their customers, making them sign NDAs before Sun would &q
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Is that really a lot in the scheme of things? I don't have CFL backlit LCD TV info handy since they've been supplanted by LEDs, but I looked at Best Buy (a big US seller of these sorts of things) and found a popular $500 65"
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Real, intelligent people for customer support (well, the last time I needed any, which was years ago). You are paying for the service and it's not cheap although also not expensive compared to normal things you also need like Intern
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"not going out and getting better vaccines for narcissistic reasons" Not narcissism but the loss of face, which also means a loss of power. Which is the only thing Communists care about; compared to that the loss of a few million
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"If by being open and liberal (in the non-political sense) one risks being banned then essentially it's punishment (or the threat of punishment) for defection and the outcome is for everyone to end up being governed by the censors
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
There are others, Pleroma was explicitly designed to be lightweight for small nodes, written in Elixir and thus running on the battle tested Earlang ecosystem BEAM VM. Also have heard and run across a few instances of Misskey which runs on
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"I've also seen instances blanket-blocking anything Pleroma, because "all the bad people come from Pleroma". I've even seen it called evil software because it affords more customization of filtering, rewriting, and
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
You should be careful about such "I'm sure" statements. "Right wing" Fediverse is very tolerant in moderation, that which results in bans, the only big issue is how much, if any pornography to allow and that gets f
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
One other thing to factor into this good picture you're making of the situation: at each step in greater transmissibility of variants and sub-variants for Omicron a given isolation or here Zero COVID policy becomes harder. That said,
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Their two main COVID vaccines aren't terrible as far as I can tell but they're not great. Against classic Wuhan and I'm not sure about pre-Omicron variants. Which we've got some data saying is as bad as the previous
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
My understanding is that Xi and the CCP he controls simply didn't prepare for this besides administering without mandates the PRC's two major indigenous vaccines which appear to be subpar in general. Although as inactivated whole
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
I thought it was a post-WWII Czechoslovak Soviet thing but it turns out the history goes 1419 and the English word to an example in 1618 which per Wikipedia helped spark the catastrophic 30 Years War: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
I run a desktop workstation with a UPS, its lead acid batteries are not infinite and don't like staying discharged, so at times shutting down quickly and cleanly is very important. The more I hear, the happier I am that I moved to Lin
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Yes, in the 1970s plus or minus black was the preferred term.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
It's worse than that, most endowment funds are earmarked for specific purposes.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
And/or a threat to his or the CCP's power, which is their first and foremost concern. thinkmcfly might as well ask why WWI started when it predictably going to impoverish the major combatants. Saw a factoid some time ago that wor
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
And not just Google, or per the article Amazon and Apple. While I'm long out of the Windows ecosystem (my Year of the Linux Desktop was a decade and a a half ago), it's been noted it has partly changed from a product you use to g
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
As a general principle, the Space Shuttle program was massively capital constrained, so many trade-offs were made that compromised safety and operating expenses. I suppose the latter helped in limiting the number of flights, but then again
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Thanks for the general info ... have we found any caves on or in the moon?? And the reference, just skimmed it but it appears to be written at a high and thorough level. But I wasn't clear about my real question: is there a shield pla
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
So fiction showing people were thinking about X at such and so a time not evidence people were thinking about X at such and so a time??? All the "get to the moon" or beyond SF, which per Robert Heinlein was an explicit goal of his
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time. I was appalled when I learned about LEO atomic oxygen. "Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things get much worse." Anything in the Orion to deal
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"And then the status quo took root & reusable rocket proponens were no longer taken seriously because - what were they thinkig, this is how we have always been doing it!" Disagree as someone who as a kid watched this happen in
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
See https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Jupiter_Energy_Fleet from the late 1970s; people have been thinking about this problem for a long time. This SF TV series cheated with a new physics which allowed compact nuclear f
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Because as a society, we decided long ago that everyone should be treated as equally as possible." That we have a progressive instead of flat personal tax rate system shows this is a pretty lie.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
The big thing that's missing from this discussion is the primary reason for the US manned space mission program and it's ultimate goal per JFK in 1961, 4 months into his presidency, of "before this decade is out, of landing a
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
A very great deal depends on urgency. Here in the US when it was erroneously through I might have cancer I was in the specialist's office in less then 24 hours. Granted, that was a "Oh, we're not going to be too busy tomorr
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
NASA was always a public works program, that's one of the reasons LBJ was its biggest high level booster back in the 1960s, it had an explicit mission to uplift the US South. Per the guy who invented the reentry vehicle, the lack of
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Some people have called the SLS the Senate Launch System.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"a massive unforced error, like the Chinese government going after all its internet giants with a hammer" Depends on who's viewpoint you're talking about. The Xi and CCP are so far presumably very happy with the results
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"now we're doing it safely ." Mercury through Apollo really did not like the idea of using solid rocket boosters, you can't turn them off if things get out of hand, and of course they'll do that themselves in lot

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