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by chx 3y ago
> If you are not worried about the crease this might cause down the middle, There is a claim this won't happen.
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by chx 3y ago
If you are not using cloud services just virtual machines that's rarely worth it. And for a lot of people renting dedicated servers is the best business decision. It can be so much cheaper than EC2 that you solve your normal scalabilit
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by chx 3y ago
LOL https://www.extrafocus.com/
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by chx 3y ago
It didn't resolve yet hence me rooting for Getty. They won't lose, though.
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by chx 3y ago
Pedantic (but important) footnote: it's USB4. It's not USB 4.0, it's not USB-C 4, it's just USB4. https://www.usb.org/usb4
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by chx 3y ago
Follow Jesse Anderson's Extra Focus substack (there's a book too), his newsletter helps you understand ADHD much more than anything I know of. And there are useful tips too. Remember, if it works for you, it's not weird :)
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by chx 3y ago
that's not how information theory works
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by chx 3y ago
let's say you wanted to count the number of coins on a table you organize them into piles of ten this created new information
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by chx 3y ago
> just as it has not decided to make training data have to pay per file. That's quite exactly what the copyright law states, though. I never thought the day will come when I root for Getty Images but the techbros have managed to do
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by chx 3y ago
And AI art is theft. Hell, even a18n have admitted it! https://i.imgur.com/auBNG0N.jpg
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by chx 3y ago
This again? A blog post stuffed with stolen art and often heard but absolutely not working advice? > Every morning, I start my day by planning it out in a custom template that displays my Google Calendar events and Todoist task list. For
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by chx 3y ago
I am not so sure. This is like saying you lose on lottery because the state always wins in total. Money wise yes but when you have a lottery ticket you entertain yourself with hopes and can dream about what you'd do with the megabucks.
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by chx 3y ago
Let's face it, the Zelenskyy deepfake at the time was hilarious https://i.imgur.com/XSRIBz2.jpg
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by chx 3y ago
Anyone can write anything in a contract -- but a contract can not supersede the law. My question could be restated: if someone did sign this contract and then sold their car and Tesla deactivated the car would a court of competent jurisdict
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by chx 3y ago
Can they do this? I mean, they can decide to only provide maintenance and software upgrades to the original buyer in the first year. That's their business decision and the market will decide whether this makes their product less alluri
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by chx 3y ago
This peace, by and large, is about the lack of entries with other Western European countries on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Germany By that measure, you'd consider the peace ended in 1956
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by chx 3y ago
Journalists might but the publication which did the supermicro spy chip story without retracting it does not deserve that moniker. (Small footnote: I was a columnist, later editor, even later part of the editorial board of the largest compu
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by chx 3y ago
Indeed a sync'd grid is what is typically being called a single grid. HVDC only got the required fast breaker a decade ago so it is nowhere near as widely deployed as the AC system (it's hard to make a HVDC breaker because even if
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by chx 3y ago
say what Texas has made a conscious decision since 1935 when FDR signed the Federal Power Act to stay away because they didn't want the feds to mess with their grid. The feds have no power here because the Texas grid does not cross sta
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by chx 3y ago
Almost all of us in Europe have never known anything but this peace so it almost feels a given. (I doubt a lot of readers are above eighty years old.) Yet a lot of kvetching about regulations happen and so it's good to remind people th
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by chx 3y ago
ENTSOE-E exists because of the 2009/72/EC directive. It's an EU entity. As with many such, they also allow / work with entities outside of the EU but that doesn't change the fact this is an association existing unde
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by chx 3y ago
You don't need that, the official report is good https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-se...
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by chx 3y ago
As an aside, one of the most stunning proofs of how successful the European Union is happened with the grid. On 8 January 2021, the synchronous area of Continental Europe split into two, the system separation resulted in a deficit of power
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by chx 3y ago
Not sure whether I count as a computer scientist, I only have a math teacher masters and half an information engineering degree, I dropped out. Even knowing graph theory and understanding git I still don't have the shortest idea what
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by chx 3y ago
> 3-way merge has more information available that was my question :) what information?
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by chx 3y ago
What would be the difference between git show -U1000000000 $hash > x.patch; git apply x.patch and git cherry-pick $hash for files less than 1000000000 lines?
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by chx 3y ago
The only git tutorial that worked for me is the exact opposite. It even warns you > you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, bu
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by chx 3y ago
ssshhh non-inflammatory common sense replies have no place in a Microsoft hate discussion
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by chx 3y ago
I came online, completely accidentally with the Eternal September crowd, we beta tested NCSA Mosaic mostly as a Usenet reader 'cos there were almost no websites yet. Still it was not only researchers, "Eternal" September is
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by chx 3y ago
> intelligent people [...] was the primary population of many (most?) websites. Oh sweet summer child.

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