cthalupa

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by cthalupa 3y ago
I'm on the "Probably a nothingburger" side of things but just getting confirmation that it is possible and some understanding of what the process involved is is a massive jump for science. If it's actually superconductin
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Ah! This does make sense. I mostly run things fullscreen on my laptop and use Mission Control to swap windows so I really only encounter this when my laptop is docked to a larger display. It doesn't particularly bother me one way or th
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by cthalupa 3y ago
As a daily Mac user for about 13 years now I have no idea what phenomenon you're talking about. For any program that is open, even if it hasn't been in use for a while, I click it once, and it comes to the forefront immediately. F
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by cthalupa 3y ago
MBP once again have HDMI ports and good keyboards. I wouldn't mind a single USB-A port but I don't particularly miss it, and 3 USB-Cs is plenty for my uses. I haven't needed an ethernet port on a laptop since the mid 2000s tr
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Just remember that the technology to travel across interstellar space safely is much more demanding than the technology required not to crash into the planet or avoid being seen by cameras that are always inexplicably taking photos or video
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by cthalupa 3y ago
We really have no idea how the case law is going to fall out on whether or not it is legal to train on copyrighted content. There is precedent in the US that lends itself to the idea that this would be considered fair use, such as Google Bo
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by cthalupa 3y ago
We've got a pretty good track record in predicting near-ish-future scientific/technological advances, which is what we would need for self replicating machines. To be clear, I'm not talking nanobots or similar - much more mac
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Sure - it's a multi-part issue. Deflation is just as bad when wages are flat, though, or even worse. The real value of all this debt Americans have accrued would still be increasing while wages are flat. Deflation also means that busin
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Worthwhile to invest in I think is the bigger question - from a practical 'can we build a self replicating probe fleet that would eventually cover the galaxy', there's at least evidence that it's possible in the next hun
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by cthalupa 3y ago
We do not want deflation, particularly in an economy where the average household debt has increased significantly. -3% means that the real value of all this debt that has been accrued over the past few years is increasing at higher rate - n
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Tidal forces are highly dependent on the mass of the black hole. The more massive, the less tidal forces you have to contend with. The bigger problem is finding such a black hole that doesn't have a very unfriendly to life and electron
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> All it takes is for a Magnetar to have a hiccup and it could sterilize an entire galaxy. There are tens of millions of magnetars in the milky way and we can and do observe their "hiccups" - we've traded a multitude of GR
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Something like a fleet of von Neumann probes could expand across the entirety of the galaxy in a million years or so, and wouldn't care if the original civilization had long since flamed out. Which is long time by our standards, but no
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The problem is that "Technology allowing an advanced civilization to travel to Earth, enter the atmosphere, leave, etc." is significantly more complex than "Technology that would allow them to be completely undetectable to us
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I believe the comment is more about the practical reality of it - I can say that I have a story that takes place across the whole universe, but if the scenes only take place in a handful of planetary systems, even if I say they're in d
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I was able to get ChatGPT 4 to attempt to summarize this, but it's almost entirely hallucinated. >As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the book "The Ruby of Kishmoor" is not a standalone title I am aware of. Howeve
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by cthalupa 3y ago
There's the 't' series of instances that offer burstable CPU. AFAIK still 1:1 on memory though, and there's models that allow you to pay to stay un-throttled when using t family instances vs. getting throttled when out o
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I don't want to necessarily make this an argument to/from authority, but for some context here - you are discussing this with Paolo Bonzini, maintainer of KVM, contributor to QEMU. In the list of people that best understand the di
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by cthalupa 3y ago
My reading was that the "comparable in size" was more about memory footprint and less about usage of storage
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by cthalupa 3y ago
But that's not how that works. KVM is as "bare-metal" in access to the system as ESXi is. The hypervisor code runs in ring 0 in both cases.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
>Maybe it's because of the time I grew up in, but in my mind the prototypical Type-I hypervisor is VMWare ESX Server; and the prototypical Type-II hypervisor is VMWare Workstation. My point is that these are largely appropriated ter
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Thrash, black, doom, death, power, nwobhm, a little bit of the various *cores, a billion permutations and fusions between all the above.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Xen is an alternative hypervisor (like esxi). Instead of running on top of Linux, Xen has it's own microkernel. This means less flexibility (there's no Linux body running things), but also simpler to manage and less attack su
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Type-1 and type-2 hypervisor is terminology that should at this point be relegated to the past. It was never popularly used in a way accurate to the origin of the classification - in the original paper by Popek and Goldberg talked about for
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I think there were some arguments to be made based on Z&A's first two albums, but the third is unquestionably a mostly-metal album. The dismissal with no details beyond "this ain't it chief" is particularly maddening
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by cthalupa 3y ago
>There are so many good metal sub-genres, who are they to draw a line? They explicitly state they are not the ultimate arbiters of what is and isn't metal, but they have a mission for the site and have to draw the line somewhere, an
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I dunno. There's a lot of stuff I would put on EM that they have decided not to allow, but I think Rob Zombie and Rammstein very clearly fall into the 'not metal' camp. I like both, but neither of them sound anything like met
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Their first album also includes guest vocals from hardcore punk musicians. The general EM argument is that they are adding black metal elements to music that is fundamentally hard rock and/or punk. It ends up being arbitrary, but I thi
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by cthalupa 3y ago
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Nanowar_of_Steel/354026... ?
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by cthalupa 3y ago
>Memory is a good guess but it's not really actionable advice for performance analysis, you really need to pull out some proper tools to understand why you're getting that number. I don't really understand and by extension

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