cbozeman

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by cbozeman 2y ago
I usually buy from ServerPartDeals and goHardDrive. I missed out on a really great refurb sale of 12TB Seagate drives that were $74.99 each, but even now, you can find 12TB disks for $89.99. My only problem with LTO5 tapes is the amount req
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by cbozeman 2y ago
When people say, "The Deep State", what they really mean is, "unelected lifelong government employees who can create regulations that have the force of law". And that is a problem. Congress makes laws, not government a
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> DIT: and as another bit of random trivia the guy who invented QWK format died of a heart attack after being swatted by an 18 year old who was after his @Tennessee twitter username. That username should be permanently retired and the 18
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by cbozeman 2y ago
The only part of your post that I do not agree with is: > It's like the Mr. Beast open-mouth-surprised expression thumbnail nonsense; you feel incredibly compelled to click it. I feel incredibly compelled to ignore it.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
"You're out of your depth" is an insult to someone with an excessive ego. If you're not actually out of your depth, you won't be insulted by it. I don't get insulted when someone says I'm stupid. Because t
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> And that pisses of corporatocrats like you worse than anything else. Congratulations, you've shown you don't know how the world actually works. This is called "Weird Nerd" but it really means, "Someone who can&
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by cbozeman 2y ago
"You're out of your depth." That's what you do. A lot of very smart people think because they're very smart they have some kind of exceptional insight into the inner workings of all things. They don't. And they
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by cbozeman 3y ago
Another part of this is the rise of search, period. Back in the Ancient Times, when "search" sites were in fact, directories of sites, not unlike the Yellow Pages, you had a categories and listings. I've been using The Emulat
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> I guess the question is whether doing this (injecting yourself into the download flow for an open source piece of software and profiting via ads while doing so) is "malicious". Yes. It's malicious. You're trying to
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent. Then you have a highly flawed understanding of humanity... to the point you should check out of tech for awhile and
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by cbozeman 3y ago
And the sad part now is that HP Color LaserJets are hampered by such godawful software and design that I wish I had bought a Brother color laser printer. I will never make that mistake again. I have a beautiful HP Color LaserJet MFP 4301dfw
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> bits flipping in DRAM will not go away unless the economics in DRAM manufacturing change This seems like all the argument necessary to require all computers - and I do mean all computers - to require ECC memory. The security risk is si
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by cbozeman 3y ago
If it can't do insensitive speech then the usefulness with not be so high. Jordan Peterson put it best, "In order to think, you have to risk being offensive."
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by cbozeman 3y ago
You need a blog. And I need to read it.
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by cbozeman 3y ago
Alright. You want to be blunt, I'll be blunt with you too. You are an idiot. No matter how smart you might actually be. Coddling creates weak people who cannot resolve matters on their own, and this matter was completely within her p
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by cbozeman 3y ago
12 years of primary school and 4 years of college and she can't read? How much hand-holding do you need? College is supposed to be for high-performing, high-IQ individuals. I realize that is no longer the case, and I realize that has n
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by cbozeman 3y ago
I struggle with this one particularly because of the modern world. There's several layers to peel back on this onion, so let's take a look at them: > That colleague who insecurely asks a (somewhat naive) question about IT does
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> he should just've been able to file for bankruptcy after he served his jailtime and that should've been it. The purpose of criminal restitution is to punish you. You shouldn't be able to discharge a punishment.
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> The goal of AGI is not to emulate a human. I am not sure if that's accurate based on the researchers I read and listen to. > AGI will be an alien intelligence Possibly. Remains to be seen. > and will almost immediately surpa
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by cbozeman 3y ago
I wouldn't call it a "grand conspiracy" so much as a "plain case of human greed". Intel does everything in it's power to stymie AMD in the late 80s, all of the 90s, and the early 2000s - that's an establis
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> I'm not sure I can subscribe to this definition... Is this because it is a completely man-made system and not one that evolved slowly over time through natural processes?
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> Yes, you have; you're just misidentifying the product. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. do not make products for you and I, their users. We're just a side effect. Their actual products are advertising access to your eyeballs,
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by cbozeman 3y ago
Fusion is well on the way, you just don't hear about it as much because the whole point of fusion isn't to make money, it's to permanently end the energy "crisis", which will end energy demand, which will have nearl
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by cbozeman 3y ago
> A good quarter has reverted to old Nokia phones and respond to emails within 3 business days. How does this affect their professional life?? I simply cannot see that working out well at all. > Sometimes I get a tinge of fomo when th
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by cbozeman 3y ago
All of this revolves around people doing stupid shit and not critically thinking. There's a price to be paid for being oblivious to your surroundings and not thinking. I have a niece who is 20 years old, scored very high on a formal IQ
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by cbozeman 3y ago
This post is mind-boggling to me... > > We could be running fiber-optic cable to every house in America, and we even know how much it would cost. > That's the problem, isn't it? It costs too much. No it doesn't, and
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by cbozeman 3y ago
X isn't dead, nor is it dying. Elon Musk took away a bunch of people's status, people who thought they were important somebodies because some nerds in an office met them in person and/or they paid some money to get a verifica
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by cbozeman 3y ago
I think you mean MacLev.
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by cbozeman 3y ago
Welp, there you have it... The beatings will continue until wages improve.
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by cbozeman 3y ago
Well for the first couple of hundred thousand years of our existence as modern humans, we didn't teach everyone to read and write. It's been essentially the past 400 years, give or take some decades. And as it happens, it's t

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