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by axiolite 5y ago
> while the US was far more evil than anyone cared to admit at the time, and the USSR far less than the US propaganda would have you believe, Have you not heard of Stalin? Many more murders than the fascists / Nazis / holocau
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I'm not sure why US is so against getting more of the best and the brightest Because it's being used to drive wages down and American workers are getting fired from their jobs. > H1B/greencard often acquires the very
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by axiolite 5y ago
There's a lot of revisionist history out there. The Emperor singled-out the atomic bombs in his surrender message. Japan was depending on the USSR to mediate a conditional surrender, until they entered the war, which closed that avenu
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by axiolite 5y ago
> What I want to know is why aren't wages going up? Who says they aren't? Every business around here has a banner about hiring, usually listing a $1,000 bonus, and hourly wages are shown at least 20% higher than they were pre-
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by axiolite 5y ago
> some people might not be able to get cigarettes from the gas station, or buy gas without a credit card. Switching to credit card kiosks won't help. It's usually illegal to have a gas station operating without an attendant.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> When families have 2 children under 5, the cost of childcare for both children encroaches the income of one parent alone. Except: 1) That was true BEFORE the pandemic, yet there was no labor shortage. 2) Salaries have gone up due to t
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by axiolite 5y ago
Reflective roof paint only helps if you have no insulation (which might be true of a shed, detached garage, etc.). Basic R-4 insulation performs dramatically better. "A cool roof does not improve energy efficiency if your ceiling is [
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by axiolite 5y ago
"Busting the myth on solar thermal reflective paints, and having a cool roof": https://efficiencymatrix.com/understanding-solar-thermal-ref... If it was worthwhile, we wouldn't need to wait for a paint, we&#x
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by axiolite 5y ago
> It's easy to imagine having a compiler upgrade [...] Not in OpenBSD it isn't.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> One neat thing about PCIe is that every PCIe compliant device must support using less lanes than it can. So your GPU which would like to work with x16 must support x1 etc. I tried this with a SAS controller. They make 16-port SAS PCI-
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by axiolite 5y ago
As of 2020, India has about half as much solar generation capacity installed as the US. The question is why fewer, very large facilities are preferrable in India. Economics (land or labor)? Population density/distribution? Or is it
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by axiolite 5y ago
> What happens when the good in question is food? Prices go up on the food most people prefer to eat, first. People who cannot afford the foods they're accustomed to eating will switch to lower-priced foods they would never have co
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I have enough HW and can live a few years off what is there. I guess people have been trained to get the newest thing every year I imagine the downvotes were for implying that everyone else is in a similar situation as you. What abou
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by axiolite 5y ago
There are plenty of existing Wi-Fi analyzer / scanner tools out there. I don't see how this signal-strength map function is more helpful than the signal strength meter those have, particularly the audible (beeping) indicators whi
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by axiolite 5y ago
It was much better in the 90s and very early 2000s. The creation of the politics section, Sept 2004 was the beginning of the downfall, in hindsight. The site really kept changing for the worst from then on, and the latest change in ownersh
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by axiolite 5y ago
Why? Because Slashdot is a hideous zombie of its former self, sold off several times to different owners, and now all about politics and inaccurate / flamebait semi-tech stories with the credibility of a tabloid? I guess that's
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by axiolite 5y ago
> This is probably the best ending the Linux community could have hoped for No, IBM's counter-suit being successful and those who launched the ridiculous lawsuit being fined, disbarred, and or thrown in jail would be the best ending
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by axiolite 5y ago
> And I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse of SCO will pay all of it to their lawyers. That's not how it's supposed to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693487
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by axiolite 5y ago
Things are confusing because Xinuos recently launched a brand new lawsuit against IBM and IBM owned RedHat. Xinuos' claims in that case are all about anti-competitive behavior and nothing about TSG's historical accusations of cod
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by axiolite 5y ago
> you’ll notice that Mr X never promised to have the data. He instead said he lacked the data. I don't know what the actual situation was, but what the parent typed seemed to indicate Mr X was implying he could provide his data late
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by axiolite 5y ago
> conversations usually start with claims that are hard to believe, and completely unsubstantiated. Like Occam's Razor points in the complete opposite direction. Requests for evidence to back the claim up are usually deflected In pu
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by axiolite 5y ago
No need for special equipment. You can diagnose a weak battery just by turning on your headlights.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I have been patiently waiting for the next "bubble" to pop, The moratorium on evictions (due to COVID-19) still lingers on. When it once and finally ends, things will change. Companies switched to remote work, allowing peopl
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by axiolite 5y ago
Using stock RHEL7/EPEL packages: zstd-1.5.0-1.el7.x86_64 On an old Athlon II X4 615e right now. The difference in our results certainly is curious.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> So you can just use one thing for almost every application instead of picking between three different things. I honestly can't see how remembering several ranges of zstd levels and their time/speed trade-off is any easier th
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by axiolite 5y ago
zstd is NOT single-threaded by default. It's dual threaded. You have to pass the --single-thread option to make it single threaded. I think you need to try pigz...
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by axiolite 5y ago
Sounds like you're comparing multi-threaded zstd to other utilities that are single-threaded (e.g. gzip instead of pigz). I duped /usr/share/dict/words into an 8GB file and did a couple tests on the old system I&#x2
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by axiolite 5y ago
> zstd has good enough compression ratio I never understood zstd. It's basically lzma+gzip+lz4 packed together. Show me any zstd level that has significantly different speed and data size than one of the levels of those three can&
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by axiolite 5y ago
It's not "incorrect". They literally explain the reason why they say it is so in the very next sentence. Only taken out of context does it appear incorrect.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> An LED doesn't run on 24V DC It can. Cree's JR5050 24‐V LEDs run on 24V. They have 30V and 36V versions as well.

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