belval

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by belval 4y ago
Most "professional" miners were actually undervolting to keep the power consumption down so it's really not that bad as long as the price is right. Anecdata but, 3 years ago I got an old mining RX 580 4GB for ~120 CAD (about
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by belval 4y ago
> It's not like cats could follow instructions if they wanted to but they just don't want to You can teach your cat to use the toilet, come when you call its name, roll and jump. They can even open doors which requires understa
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by belval 4y ago
> Because sometimes that does happen -- where a downsize disproportionately targets a minority group. Why would a downsize disproportionately target a minority group unless you directly admit that part of your management is racist?
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by belval 4y ago
To be clear, I am 100% onboard with diversity and inclusion, I do believe in giving a fair chance to under-represented groups and I'd be happy to report discrimination in my organization to HR so that we can all build a more positive w
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by belval 4y ago
How would you even begin to prove something like that? No exec would be dumb enough to send an email that says "we see that the bottom 11% in your organization is mostly marginalized groups, we can't let you fire them". It wi
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by belval 4y ago
> Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression
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by belval 4y ago
Any productivity blog that starts with the flawed premise that you can have the average (or even above-average Googlers) developer pump out bugfixes and features 8hrs/day, doing focused work without tiring sets unrealistic expectations
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by belval 4y ago
Realistically (and I am not singling out Apple here), we are more and more captive of an ecosystem. My Android phone is needed to login to most online service through 2FA, I can pay with it, have my calendar and emails on it. Losing my phon
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by belval 4y ago
Bingo, I've had a hard time reconciling the HN's perception of AWS SDE work and my job. I have people telling me that it's horrible, attrition rate, constant grind and endless oncalls. Yet I've never experienced any of t
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by belval 4y ago
Either I spend too much time on HN or those were really easy.
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by belval 4y ago
That's fair, what you wrote actually echo what I thought as I was coming back: that I loved every second of it yet I'd trade the architecture, lively arrondissement and culture for my much larger apartment any day if I had to pick
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by belval 4y ago
> I really wish people spent less time fetishising old ruins and more time actually building a liveable city. Paris would be so much nicer. Might be even more relevant at the national level actually. France really is a dying country. 8%
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by belval 4y ago
Taking your comment in good faith. Snap has a lot of fluff around it that has questionable value (TV Shows, Games). In a recession the investors like to see that fluff gone because it's harder to raise money. Snap with 20% of its emplo
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by belval 4y ago
I'm arguably not well versed in rail/freight, but if they conclude that part of the issue is a lack of railroad (i.e not enough lines), can't we just unlock a few billions to build more and reduce the pressure on the existing
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by belval 4y ago
I never listened to his podcast (I don't even know the guy), but you might want to re-read your comment and think about the totalitarian undertone. You are not the great enlightened above a sea of unwashed masses.
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by belval 4y ago
Respectfully this just display ignorance on how doctors are compensated in Canada. They are paid by the act, meaning that "doing X" gives them money. Euthanizing someone is compensated as a single act so there really isn't an
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by belval 4y ago
40G is purely overkill and is not utilized. Initial build had 8G and then I had 32G lying around so I added it. 4G is probably enough. Though nextcloud does use a lot of memory for miniature generation. As for the G4560, I can stream 1080p
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by belval 4y ago
A low-end x86 CPU will perform better than the RasPis. My current NAS is an Intel G4560 with 40GB of RAM and 4 HDD and it barely does over ~40W on average. The article's cluster does 18W which is better, but even over a year that'
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by belval 4y ago
It varies, but there are semi-safe flow batterie chemistries, mostly for grid scale storage. The real downside of flow batteries for cars is the power density of current tech isn't as high as li-ion.
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by belval 4y ago
The person I was replying to linked a story about someone jumping from a bridge. Yes there is nuance in assisted suicide for psychiatric cases, but the statement "Survivors usually regret it" does not apply here.
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by belval 4y ago
You are equating two very different groups here. The guidelines around assisted suicide are extremely strict, this is not futurama "suicide booth". Being overly holistic about life is disrespecting the right of these people to dig
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by belval 4y ago
This really is a bad product launch. From the bad drivers that just don't work/crash your PC to the launch of the A380 ("eSport GPU") in China first and the slipping deadlines that are clearly set to make investors happy
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by belval 4y ago
I'll preface this by saying that I am pro-choice, but 28 weeks is late, very late. > Survival rates for infants born at 28 weeks gestation is between 80-90 percent. Babies born at 28 weeks old only have a 10 percent chance of having
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by belval 4y ago
I go through the same thing but with a few "popular" GitHub issues. Every time I encounter those bugs I Google it and the first result in my comment on the issue that explains the workaround I used. That's probably how early
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by belval 4y ago
He probably means something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_o... > Another study by the same institute found that when a "drunk" (BAC of over .1) zebrafish is introduc
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by belval 4y ago
Yes, the link I shared is from the same story. My point is that they aren't using it to sell ads.
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by belval 4y ago
Are you suggesting that I was bad at my job? If so that seems irrelevant as I'd be bad at it on both sides of the border.
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by belval 4y ago
It's plain not true, Amazon has shared information with the police, but they don't make money from it. It's also not large-scale with only 11 requests in 2022. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Amazon, no need to invent
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by belval 4y ago
I read your comment before seeing the picture so I somewhat agreed with you initially, but this is not even subtle, it's a good joke...
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by belval 4y ago
As a Canadian that's not really how I see it. I worked for a bit in California and while I was earning more than I do now, the cost of living was probably double what I have right now so the math really wasn't as simple as "m

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