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by buran77 2y ago
Far, far more people are gaming on Nintendos, Playstations and Xboxes with iGPUs and relatively weak total processing power than on 400W GPUs. You're making the mistake of thinking only the fastest can win but in real life the good eno
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by buran77 2y ago
Unless you happen to not be aligned with or really on the wrong side of that fabled ideal power monopole. It can quickly knock you from ignorance to reality. Imagine Russia was that monopole of power. Or look no further than a dictatorship.
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by buran77 2y ago
> Seems that you’re actually getting some advantage. Seems like a vanishingly small fraction of users are getting some advantage. Everyone else just pays.
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> The hair at the site of the mark will grow back white and show the identification number Is freezing a follicle turning the hair permanently white? I couldn't find anything on the mechanism. I'm surprised that people who are
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by buran77 2y ago
The "Mistral Pixtral multimodal model" really rolls off the tongue. > It’s unclear which image data Mistral might have used to develop Pixtral 12B. The days of free web scraping especially for the richer sources of material are
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by buran77 2y ago
> You are claiming On the off chance that this was not written by some bad LLM that will miss the point again... I'm claiming that some countries with power are in a never ending cycle of pulling some appalling, odious crap that fur
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by buran77 2y ago
I think that's an accurate explanation that many people will take as an excuse or justification . The short of it is "the US (like all powers which can afford to, but more) will do whatever it needs to do for its benefit whil
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by buran77 2y ago
50 years from now the official position of representatives of powers (Russia, US, China, Israel, etc.) on their own actions from today will still be completely avoiding the topic. But some might, at best, halfheartedly admit that what happe
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by buran77 2y ago
There are many reasons for the distinction, culture and money being chief among them. Dubbing is far more expensive than subs. So countries like Germany or France would be more likely to afford it. They're also countries which try to p
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I see a few commenters think the big chart/diagram in the first picture is the one being discussed. It is not, it's the rightmost slice ("Salinas") of that infographic which shows something like a warhead. It's show
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by buran77 2y ago
"Engineer" in the software world is just a job title like calling yourself a "scrum ninja". It's not a protected title like "professional engineer" in the US or the equivalent in SA. The bar for the former
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by buran77 2y ago
> No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer. "No evidence needed" works if you want to be an astrologer. Then everything causes cancer (and death really) by me
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> you are abroad and do not have clear idea about the local situation You're walking a path you're almost guaranteed not properly equipped for. Probably nobody is but knowing not to charge ahead would already mean a lot. If hav
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> I don't understand why google play really bad about developer relations Because these are the lowest effort and cost actions they can take and there are no consequences to doing it like this.
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> how do you even know that the cloud company will even exist in the next 25 years You don't and trying to guess which technology or provider will still exist in 25 years is probably pointless. If you want to keep your data for exte
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But stavros, you started this thread by complaining that the solution is bad because in order to protect your data you have to create additional data to protect. This is the most basic definition of data resilience and misses a very critica
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> some of my CDs are older than most of today's "cloud" servers and can be read just fine. And if you're happy being able to recover "some" of your data that's a perfectly legitimate option. Write CDs a
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stavros, to understand if any precautionary measure is effective you must first understand what you're protecting yourself against. Your line of argumentation is moving the goalposts a lot and punctuating each stop with "that&#x27
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> higher-reliability options You'd be comparing to an old optical disc. So almost anything is higher reliability than that, starting with a newer optical disc and probably ending at any cloud storage. > does a consumer have This
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If you already have a lot of data on older, less reliable storage formats you have the choice of keeping a full copy all that data on something with higher reliability, or store just a small fraction of it in the form of the ECC file. The f
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> people _want_ water if they _want_ to live > want vs need is almost entirely subjective People need water if they want to live. Somehow you managed to picked the one need which is literally the single biggest need for life a
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> The article notes that’s what the elected claims in a filing. Unfortunately, Reuters didn’t attempt to value the ticket. > If I lie on my tax filing But what if you don't lie? Do we know the real value of those tickets and if r
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I'm also periodically surprised that topics that seem to be of core interest and very popular on HN just drop off the front page in a matter of hours. Meanwhile discussions like this one [0] (which stayed on the front page with not eve
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> so much effort is placed on trying to identify and hamper cheaters in real time, when that both seems extremely resource intensive and unnecessary, considering you have all the digital evidence proof of cheating you need after the fact
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This wasn't an "honest mistake" conviction. Trying to turn a complete embarrassment of a legal process, driven by a racially biased witch hunt into a moral win is like saying that "in here we rape you with lube and a con
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> I think he deserves punitive damages Yes... Come 2025 he may just have to pay them.
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Unreasonably idealistic solutions are some of the worst kind of solutions because they make you feel like you have the answer but the benefits never materialize. The moment you pick any other OS to be the "80% of the world" one, r
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by buran77 2y ago
> For the same reasons there's antivirus software for Mac and Linux. Because they can also get malware or could use the extra control CS provides, and the "I'm not a significant target so I'm safe" is not really
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> I actually would disagree with you that this specific issue was an instance of (1). There wasn't anything wrong with the query per se I think OP's #1 agrees that there's nothing "technically" wrong with such a
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> I care much more about user-replaceable batteries Then I strongly encourage a trip down memory lane to one year ago when this was actually decided and discussed [0]. Lots of good info there on exactly this topic. > I don't see

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