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That medieval era technology can still be manufactured at an individual scale was not my point. My point was that access to the technological advancement has not trickled down and that this creates an imbalance of power. Compare how easy it
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Thank you for the correction. I did not know about those 2 examples.
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I believe the lesson here is not that we shouldn't invest in speculative theory research. It's that we need more breadth, we need to not get stuck researching only one option.
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I do believe we are getting sidetracked by the example. The original argument was that some fields are studied for their own sake. And that is a good thing. Pretending that the reason to study them is that they may prove useful in some unde
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Countering SaaS-ifying by others can also be achieved through the AGPL or through the BSL (initially not open-source, reverts to open source after set period). I do believe one of the failures of GPL was not being AGPL from the start.
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Of course, and it is long overdue in almost all domains. Corporations have used their power to influence the state and get away.
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And weaving machines have not fully trickled down to citizens. You can not easily buy a weaving machine (there are some second hand ones) or easily go to your local maker space and use the weaving machine to create the design you desire. Op
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> They're also generally not something you can do with your girlfriend or wife. This is an issue of availability. There need to be more games with a broader appeal. I can certainly see why FPSs are not appealing to the feminine demo
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Can you source your claim that Exynos used weird GPUs? AFAIK, Exynos mostly used ARM Mali (the default for ARM chips) cores with the exception of the most recent iteration when they formed a partnership with AMD to use RDNA in the 2200 mode
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I am not trying to be snarky or play gotcha games. I am pointing out that the Amish lifestyle is an artifact of American society and would not be possible in many other parts of the world. They are playing life in such an easy mode that the
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Ignoring of course the very many ways they are reliant on the outside world for their lifestyle to be possible.
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That may actually have not been the case: https://theconversation.com/the-black-death-may-not-have-bee...
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If you put the swap partition/paging file on the RAM drive you achieve what you suggested. With the benefit of not wearing down an SSD. The better way to do this is with Optane, but Intel abandoned Optane so eventually stocks will run
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1. True 2. Intel abandoned Optane, so availability will be spotty 3. Encryption is not always plausibly deniable. And when it isn't, rubber hose cryptanalysis can be applied even if the key is unrecoverable. Data on a RAM drive, if it
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Note however that (due to Intel's complacence, AMD's inability to compete in the construction vehicle series of chips era, crossing several good-enough performance lines, upgradability and the general slowing of Moore's law a
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As long as SATA is involved, a DRAM-Drive will not be faster than any decent SSD. For the SSD era, SATA is SLOW! That's why NVMe exists. However, there reasonable reasons for wanting a DRAM-Drive.
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There are many plausible reasons for this: 1. Someone already has maxed out their motherboard and has some unused sticks of ram and would like to repurpose them instead of selling them or worse recycling them (remember reuse is before recyc
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Modern SSDs far exceed the capabilities of SATA. That is why SSDs now use NVME with M.2 or U.3. There exist old slow PCI (DDR1 era) cards that do exactly what you expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYbCYgYZVT8 There ar
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Also, the entire domain is managed by Apple Open Directory on an Xserve. And all of the business logic is not in the Java code, it's in C code called from the database.
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> This is in direct contrast to typical REST-ish APIs that may use arbitrary identifiers. In these systems, clients must understand the identifiers and how they compose into paths to be used as URIs to request content. > Unfortunately
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In relation to this my objective is to viciously mock, not to persuade nor polarize. I am an outsider with no ability to influence American politics, yet American politics does affect me an ocean away regardless. The legitimization of bulls
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Nobody uses Linux to avoid paying Windows because Windows comes preinstalled on most computers and because Windows piracy exists and is tolerated by Microsoft in order to entrench Windows usage. Switching to Linux is a deliberate choice to
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No need to opine. The US DoJ already settled that debate. To quote Wikipedia: "In 2015, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson sued the United States government on free speech grounds and in 2018 the Department of Justice settled, ack
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Call me a cynic but I am all for that. And afterwards you encounter the flat earthers and the holocaust deniers and the Putins and Alex Jones of the world and all kinds of other extremists in all kinds of extremes of all directions. And the
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Maybe the conclusion then is that when "higher concept of branching" means something, and other tools like mercurial align with that meaning, it is git that is wrong by using a different meaning. Git could have called their branch
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Unless you have a Sony phone (where photos are still point and click witha 2 step button) it's point and tap now.
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But it has 2 features that are unique: - You can hide the titlebar/tab-bar at the top therefore maximizing vertical space - It can be set to either be sticky (always open) or auto-collapse into a thin icons-only vertical toolbar. The g
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Note that 3VL (3 valued logic) is one of the more criticized aspects of SQL. 3VL is a gigantic leap of of complexity over 2VL (boolean). The number of possible operations is a lot higher and the choice of operations is not standardized. To
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There was a point when I actually started liking Edge. It had a few things going for it: -it has by far the best vertical tab implementation of all browsers (someone please copy this) -it has great PWA integration -it isn't Chrome whil
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Old MacBooks used to be more upgradable. I did upgrade my old MacBook and did prolong it's life. Current MacBooks have 0 upgradability. Once the specs are too low, that's that. Also, current MacBooks used in corporate environments

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