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bmicraft
2y ago
What's the connection here to microwaves? I don't get it.
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bmicraft
2y ago
(Perceived) space efficiency. Many of the things still utilizing deciseconds did so before the turn of the century.
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bmicraft
2y ago
I could settle for a switch at the bottom to disable all lights, and in return the manufacturer is allowed to add as many as they like
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bmicraft
2y ago
If you're going to store that unit in one byte (possible even signed) suddenly deci-seconds start making a lot of sense
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bmicraft
2y ago
> Variables must have units in their names if there's any ambiguity Then you end up with something where you can write "TimoutSec=60" as well as "TimeoutSec=1min" in the case of systemd :) I'd argue they
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2y ago
> though in terms of relative access to goods poor folks today are better off. What's that meant to imply? The people starving today certainly aren't better off than those wealthy Romans were. Not in any way other then a theore
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2y ago
Sounds likes a surefire way to DDOS the next CA in line (and then all the others), since supposedly they wouldn't be prepared for that kind of traffic since LetsEncrypt is currently the default choice almost everywhere.
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bmicraft
2y ago
> What can the actual experts tell me about my child That's the exact sort of distrust in authorities you purport yourself to be against.
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2y ago
> My lived experience is by definition my objective reality. Just glossing over your complete misuse of objective here btw. There is nothing objective about your subjective* "lived realiy". *Definition of subjective: 1. Depende
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2y ago
I'm not telling you to personally change your belief. What I was trying to say is that you're propping up the value of your individual opinion as if it should rival experts to the reader. > [...] claiming that anyone who has a
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2y ago
Wow thanks for pointing that out, apparently it's been around for four years since with the first 2.0 release without me noticing.
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bmicraft
2y ago
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm against unnecessary additives too. But you surely agree that anecdotes are bad source to inform your understanding on a subject where countless actual experts are available.
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2y ago
I don't know whether that's literally true, but I can certainly tell you that there is no point in banning stuff nobody in the EU is thinking of using anyway. US companies are way more "adventurous" with their additives,
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2y ago
It is certainly possible to show that there is no positive correlation with a certain statistical significance. Pretending we're talking about such high standards as "no human future or presently alive could ever be harmed by any
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2y ago
Someone with one (1) anecdote is not an authority and shouldn't be trusted like one. Eroding trust in authorities by equating actual experts with somebody who has a half baked opinion based on an anecdote seems like the real issue to m
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2y ago
As I understand, L2ARC doesn't work across reboots which unfortunately makes it almost useless for systems that get rebooted regularly, like desktops.
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bmicraft
2y ago
Since preexisting blocks are kept at their current parity ratio and not modified (only redistributed among all devices), increasing the parity level of new blocks won't really be useful in practice anyway.
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bmicraft
2y ago
Well, when you start a raidz with 2 devices you've already done goofed. Start with a mirror or at least 3 devices. Also, if you don't wait to upgrade until the disks are at 100% utilization (which you should never do! you're
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bmicraft
2y ago
Please stop spreading misinformation. > On December 1, 2022, the FCC issued an approval for SpaceX[66] to launch the initial 7500 satellites for its second-generation (Gen2) constellation, in three low-Earth-orbit orbital shells, at 525,
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2y ago
Besides he other argument, from what I've heard starlink seems extremely very unreliable compared to fiber
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2y ago
The "traditional" free market approach is that starlink gets a monopoly there, while new providers go out of business before they reach the scale to compete. Meanwhile the talent pool with the knowledge to even install local infra
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2y ago
You can't usually just add up the TDPs of CPU and GPU, because neither cooling nor the power circuitry supports that kind of load. That's why AMDs SmartShift is a thing.
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2y ago
It's a bad point. If the clock says 1:00 and you aren't there you're late. Your boss won't like hearing "well technically I wasn't late because you see your clock has the seconds rounded to minutes so you can&#
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2y ago
> The thermal design power of a laptop CPU-dGPU combo is normally much higher than 120 W Normally? Much higher than 120W? Those are some pretty abnormal (and dare I say niche?) laptops you're talking about there. Remember, that'
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2y ago
3k is still very steep for anyone not on a silicon valley like salary.
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2y ago
If someone without seconds on their clock starts the meeting, yes.
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2y ago
> You can try to keep up with the adblocking arms race, but it is ultimately a losing battle I've never felt that way with uBlock in Firefox for Android. Installed it years ago and don't even need to give it a second thought.
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2y ago
Now I'm interested, which talk do you mean? Edit: I might have read that wrong, but I'm interested in specific recommendations nonetheless.
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2y ago
> ten thousand acres That's 40km² btw
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2y ago
I don't get this, why would they use a microphone when they already have the original quality audio stream going to the speakers?
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