cogman10

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by cogman10 4mo ago
Completely agree. My point is more that even though our hands are amazing and even if we decided we want all the features of hands, there's no reason why you'd design such a device with 5 fingers and an oddly placed opposable thu
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Yeah. The main problem I have with voter integrity laws is they all seem to revolve around making voting harder. To me, it seems to be an effort to make it easier to throw away inconvenient votes. Some laws, in particular signature matchi
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Not an issue. Voter fraud has been prosecuted, measured, and accounted for across the US. It basically never has any sort of impact on any election. There are 10s of instances of it each year. Far too few to swing any election. That said
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by cogman10 4mo ago
No it's not. And, as a prime example, this case which the supreme court does not and did not take that view. It's not even something the dissent argued. This is your own personal interpretation.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Not according to the supreme court any time this has come up.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> Is he a liar? Yes, he's quote mining to try and argue that there was some sort of confusion about the implications of the amendment. This was part of the debate about the amendment and whether or not it should be reworded. In ot
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Notice the "and" clause before the "subject to the ju
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by cogman10 4mo ago
I'm sorry, but it's simply insane to appeal to the founders over Jus Soli. The founders did not write the 14th amendment. Their opinions on the matter are irrelevant. The 14th amendment grants Jus Soli. End of story. It doesn&
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by cogman10 4mo ago
That exception comes from the fact that, I'm guessing, no diplomat or their children have sued over it. If they have, I'd love to see exactly where a prior SC decided that it's constitutional. If you are an originalist, textu
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by cogman10 4mo ago
There's also a weird play with the prosecution. Like if a pardon is issued before trial, under normal circumstances the prosecutor will drop charges and the pardonee does not need to accept it. Further, a prosecutor won't go afte
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by cogman10 4mo ago
In fact, part of accepting a pardon is accepting guilt. That can particularly be consequential if there is a civil case associated with the criminal charges. For example, if I'm charged with drunk driving and I run into someone'
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> What would be the top uses of humanoid robots? To replace humans for general tasks. McDonalds would like to use them to flip burgers, take orders, and deliver meals. Amazon would like to use them to pick items from their warehouses f
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by cogman10 4mo ago
I'll do you one further. Self driving cars is far from a solved problem. It's something we've been working on for the last 20 years at least. We are getting closer, some solutions are impressive (like waymo). But even thos
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Totally agree. I'd also point out that what makes this whole thing smell of being a grift is the fact that what's being chased is humanoid. Humans are not the pinnacle of dexterity or stability. And freed from biological constrai
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Yeah, it seems like this makes a massive cut into their possible revenue.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
LTE and 5g both use QAM 256 and higher. Wifi 7 can use QAM 4096 (though not a lot of motion there).
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> I imagine that today they'd probably use something like Opus and a fountain code or similar, yes... But you can't expect everyone to replace their radio every 10-15 years ;) Certainly not, which is why I believe DAB (no plus)
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Yup, you are correct about decompressing before hitting disk. > Even if you activated zram and disk-backed swap, I'm pretty sure they just get used in parallel, not through some sort of fallback. You can tweak priorities such that z
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by cogman10 4mo ago
In the long run for who is the question. It's worked great for walmart for several decades now. And the venture capitalists continue to use the plunder from prior pillaging to continue the exploit train. And further when a company achi
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by cogman10 4mo ago
When you do zram, what happens is the pages sent to zram are compressed. But when those compressed pages need to be evicted to swap, they are decompressed before being sent there. It's not helping you to avoid hitting the disk, it&#x
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> Why does H-E-B do so many nice things for the state? But: Why aren’t more companies like H-E-B? Regardless any sort of legal principle, the fact is capitalism rewards exploitation. The more a company exploits, the more profit it can b
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> it doesn't degrade gradually as signal gets worse That has a lot more to do with the dated implementation and less to do with digital radio. There are a number of digital broadcasting techniques which can minimize and compensate
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by cogman10 4mo ago
I'll have to give them a shot, but admittedly the nostalgia is almost certainly a big reason I love the RA OST (and starcraft as well). I didn't play enough doom to really love it in the same way.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Don't do zram, do zswap. The big difference is zswap is dynamically managed by the kernel and zswap sends out compressed pages to swap.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
I love using the RA OST for coding. The songs are fun and fast paced with low lyrics. It helps that this is a childhood favorite game of mine.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> I think it's less about what data centers are and more about what they represent. I don't really agree with that. Like I agree with you that these things represent a lot of things people hate. But what they are also matters
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Box elder is particularly egregious. 9GW of new natural gas burning power concentrated in 1 location in a state that already suffers from poor air quality.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> no one I know gives a shit about the energy consumption or water usage. They do when the knowledge of the resource consumption is paired with "Which will directly lead to your electric/gas bill going up." People are als
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by cogman10 4mo ago
This is literally how open source development is meant to work. Having a fork which has features not on main, which main may never adopt, is what allows for both teams to evaluate what the other project has and accept or reject those. Proto
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by cogman10 4mo ago
The american pallet is simply different and all our breads tend to be sweeter. The other part of this is that amercian breads tend to only use 1 grain, wheat. And they tend to either use whole wheat or bleached wheat. Even when something

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