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by dsr_ 3y ago
Ethics doesn't require a divine origin. You're thinking of morals.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Get the highest resolution scan that you can manage. Break it into glyphs. Select your representative glyphs. Become frustrated that in eighteen pages, there are no examples of [#%|\=÷×{}!*/] or a capital X or Z or five digits. Find su
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Which is a little strange -- since you have physical access and are capable of booting from a USB stick, the procedure is to tell the bootloader to use sh as the init, mount the root filesystem r/w, change the root password (copying th
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by dsr_ 3y ago
At the time (up through 1993), that was what we had. In open labs, there would be some jockeying for the better (newer, almost always) terminals -- a VT420 with white phosphor being the pinnacle of experiences, anything in amber usually bei
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Please be careful when plumbing external connections into the human circulatory system. Several important security mechanisms are bypassed, and there's much more complexity to blood than is initially obvious.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It's not even clear what chip is driving the "RJ45" ethernet -- in quotes because normally you see a nominal speed rating, 1Gb/s or 2.5. That's not what I want from a vendor. I want clarity.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
This can be done now with wifi. The question I answered was about datacenters. There is wifi in datacenters -- usually for the benefit of visiting techs. Not for inside a rack. Incidentally, if asked to set up 20 workstations on an overgrow
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Thoughts on the MNT Reform Laptop(artemis.sh)
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Any place you have this in a point-to-point rig, you could have fiber cables guiding the light and creating a private collision domain, improving overall bandwidth, reliability and security. The cost of datacenters is not currently constrai
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by dsr_ 3y ago
If you discount unique prints and unique colors of existing pieces, LEGO tries really hard to use a mold repeatedly in several sets. If it turns out to be generally useful, they will use the mold for several years before putting it in stora
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I assume someone does, but my friends and family will readily respond with "ack" or "pong".
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I don't think Meta is ever going to federate in the first place. What would they gain?
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"Do you know of any open positions?" is asking someone else to do an unknown amount work for you. "Can you introduce me to the hiring manager so I could ask some questions?" is asking them to do a specific small favor. &
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Those are two great things for security that prevent you from: $ rm -rf * No permissions in this directory - want to try with sudo? (Y/n)
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by dsr_ 3y ago
127 years? Is it an overflow problem?
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I have a fair amount of experience with ZFS, and have the same question.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Apprenticeship is an economic model. As a skills-transfer model, it tends to be very good at common practices, mediocre at rare practices, and terrible at theory. In order to get expertise in a field, one generally needs to understand the u
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I'm not supposed to imply that you didn't read the article.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I'm assuming retention and participation numbers will be gamed.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Your argument is not "this is a thing which should not be taught" but rather "the economic model of teaching this is bad". And I agree. But I would also say that the economic model for teaching everything is terrible. So
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by dsr_ 3y ago
And, in subsequent paragraphs, also Dan Ariely (he).
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Which is not that much of a problem for Thunderbird, which is released for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but not IOS. And the Android version is actually K9.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Set 10698. 790 pieces, $35 at amazon. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-large-creative-brick...
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by dsr_ 3y ago
My wife says that sound means that I'm happy and relaxed.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
My own take: Some people want to play with playsets. Some people want to display models. Some people want to create art. Some people want to construct machines. Some people want to assert allegiance. Some people want to collect. All of thes
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by dsr_ 3y ago
You can get a similar effect on top of any file system that supports hard links with rdfind ( https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ ) -- but it's pretty slow. The Arch wiki says: "Tools dedicated to deduplicate a Btrfs for
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by dsr_ 3y ago
No, we're in a hype bubble. This one includes several meme complexes, the largest of which is shouting "LLMs/GNNs are AI!" By applying the label AI, they bring in the connotations of all the stories we have told ourselve
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Yup. The US uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin for portable antiarmor, and it's still in production. If the US Army or Marines needs to defend against air attack, they expect to have their own air
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Don't worry: nobody would be incautious enough to hook a safety-critical system up to a general purpose computer, of all things.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
OK, it looks like they took the Zenfone 9 (which I've been using for the last year or so) and gave it minimal upgrades. Fair enough. Here are the things that they didn't change that they should have, IMHO: - camera holes in the sc

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