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by cheema33 10mo ago
Are you telling us that the party of golden ballrooms... err.. fiscal responsibility is not actually being fiscally responsible?
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by cheema33 10mo ago
> down-votes can't stop China. Tariffs can though... People like you and I pay tariffs. Not China. You realize that right? And how will that stop China? Tariffs mostly hurt American consumers and producers. Just ask farmers.
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by cheema33 10mo ago
I am not surprised. My Windows 11 systems with modern and beefy hardware frequently runs very slow for reasons unknown. I did use https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat recently and that seemed to have helped. Windows
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> Why does it matter if Netflix is using an open standard if every video they stream is wrapped in proprietary closed DRM? I am not sure if this is a serious question, but I'll bite in case it is. Without DRM Netflix's business
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs. Graphics cards were relatively inexpensive. When one got old, you tossed it out and move on to the new hotness.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Build trillion dollar data center infrastructure in Russia. What could possibly go wrong? Ask the owners of the leased airplanes who have been unsuccessfully trying to get their planes back for about 3 years.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> This article is an advertisement for what appears to be a networking service, something which is not really made clear until near the end. I have been seeing an uptick of articles on HN where someone identifies a problem, then amps it
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> Utility scale is 2x cheaper despite all that. I think you mean cheaper for the utility. It is certainly not cheaper for me, the homeowner.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
I use GraphQL. It has a higher learning curve. But it addresses the shortcomings listed by the referenced blog article. It offers type safety, efficiency and modern tooling. And it is also human readable. If you use good tooling, you can ha
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> I think this app is harmless.. It may be today. And you have no way to know for sure. But there is also no way to know what the app will do down the road when a politician you do not trust is in control of it.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> Given the payoff and endless iterations resources will be thrown at it and it would eventually get better. Allow the user to download and install it if it turns out to be great. Do not shove things down people's throat against the
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> It's not like a backdoor, but safety of citizens, which is the prime mandate of a sovereign state. This sounds great in theory. But in practice this sort of thing is rife for abuse. Say, I have complete control over what this app
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Is the Supreme Court completely impartial in India? Is so, then this is credible. At least in the US, the Supreme Court is anything but impartial. Judges typically vote along party lines.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
You can take out a data center in space with an accidental collision of a small runaway satellite. Taking out a data center in the middle of Oregon would be significantly harder and will invite massive retaliation.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Even though I knew which RL was being referred to here, the (ab)use of initials in this ways annoys me to no end. I wish people did not do that.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
The difference here is that Anker will recall a faulty product. Lesser known brands will not. If you know of another brand that has a better safety and reliability record, please share.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Agreed that RDP is very well designed. And we don't have an equivalent in Linux or Mac world. All competing protocols are a compromise. I am particularly impressed with good multi-monitor support in RDP. Competitions has had more than
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Utility-scale solar needs land and has to deal with line losses. Rooftop solar does not have to deal with either.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
The answer is easy, if you choose to accept it. Your project, whatever it may be, is worse than this AI slop. If you think it is not, please share it here. Let us judge it. A little honest feedback might be what you really need.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
The need for lawyers will shrink and is shrinking. My company used to call lawyers for many small little things. Now it is easy to ask an LLM and have the second LLM verify it. For super critical things, we may still call lawyers. And in th
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> I stopped listening to Lex Fridman after he tried to arbiter a "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine... Same here. I lost all respect for Lex after seeing him interview Zelensky of Ukraine. Lex grew up in Moscow. He so
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Corvallis, Oregon is another college town where buses are free within the city and also to some other cities including Eugene and McMinnville.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> I always wonder why the question isn't "how do we keep homeless people from living on our busses" Similar questions get asked often enough. The problem is that there aren't any easy answers or solutions. Cities have
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> Everyone who worked on this is a traitor to the human race. Have we felt this way for all other large scale advances in human history?
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> most highly optimized AAA game to have come out in the past few years, still has a 16GB RAM minimum. Are you talking about VRAM or system RAM? Steam machine has 16GB of system RAM and is expandable. VRAM is limited to 8GB.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> I can't hit Ctrl+F to find text on a page. I can't select text with my cursor. I can't copy the address of a hyperlink. I was intrigued before I read this. This stuff is a non-starter for me.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> Many prefer to be tipped in cash. Tipping is about the only time I need cash. Outside of restaurants, most people I need to tip do not have an easy way to receive digital payments.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> I think you spend less if you pay cash because you see the money. This may be true for some people. Doesn't work for me at all. I see the money equally in digital and print formats.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
> It’s about our quality of life.. not about longevity. I'll take quality of life over longevity. Sure. But I am really hoping for both.
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by cheema33 11mo ago
Having never used Dillo before, I just installed it and tried it. And then I found out that it does not support JavaScript at all. There aren’t many or any sites/apps that I regularly use that would work without JavaScript. That limits

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