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by elipsey 11y ago
Good point, but not ideal for everyone. Especially with IOMMU and an SSD, performance isn't so bad when it works. I haven't liked the overhead with this in the past though, plus no full disk encryption, (although I guess you could
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by elipsey 11y ago
Why painful? Can you desable secureboot, but UEFI on Ubuntu is still sucky?
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by elipsey 11y ago
This. Is the bootloader locked? So far I have mixed feelings about tablets. I like the "tablet" part but not the "it is cryptographically sercured from doing anything that might upset a government, corporation, or business mo
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by elipsey 11y ago
Are the bootloaders locked?
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by elipsey 11y ago
I think one of the big dreams of the "biotech revolution" that has yet to materialize is to reduce barriers to entry in drug manufacturing so that drug companies have less market power, at least for drugs/jurisdicitons that a
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by elipsey 11y ago
The F-35 arguably had a design philosphy that was the opposite of the one used for the Cutlass. It looks like the design started in 1945, and this story was taking place in the early 50's. The F35 took longer and cost more, whereas the
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by elipsey 11y ago
Instead of being anxious, our goal should be to fix things if we can, and plan mitigation strategies if we can't. Peak oil is a thing: by definition there is _some_ global maximum in produciton volume over a long enough chosen interval
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by elipsey 11y ago
Well, I read Richardson's paper. Here are a couple of tasty quotes: “Baron-Cohen suggests that the higher prevalence in crime, sexual abuse, the use of prostitutes and murder are disproportionately committed by men and show that men la
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by elipsey 11y ago
It really does seem like a race to the bottom at this point, but it's a releif to see that we're starting to move past calling people theives for ad blocking. Except for the scolding, this situation reminds of the days shortly bef
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by elipsey 11y ago
"giving heterosexual male desire free rein among anatomically female sex robots will only worsen men’s objectification of women and children generally" So unless this was quoted out of contex, hetero-male sexuality is the only kin
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by elipsey 11y ago
We already tax economic externalites. A carbon tax is hardly "reorganizing society". If you want to stop doing that in general, then it's _you_ that wants to reorganize society according to your political beliefs. Frankly, I&
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by elipsey 11y ago
I don't think AMD is really dumb enough to actually want to catch up on the desktop. It seems like they are doing a certain amount of marketing lip service to desktop hardware, but their really interesting products are APUs/GPUs f
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by elipsey 11y ago
The quote "stock acquisitions that create such anticompetitive horizontal shareholdings are illegal under current antitrust law" doesn't seem to include any reference that I can find to any original text written by Elhauge.
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by elipsey 11y ago
I think the language is slightly archaic, but with patience we adapt quickly. Also, perhaps it was written with a more literate audience in mind than the average modern newspaper which targets a modest reading skill level ( http:/&#x2F
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by elipsey 11y ago
Yes. I tested this on myself (n=1), and I am convinced that it's super bad for you. I had a graveyard shift job for a while in college, which alternated with swing shifts from 3pm till midnight a day or two each week, so I was not allo
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by elipsey 11y ago
I must confess that when I saw a citation to the Heritage Foundation, I felt obliged to verify this through other sources; it seems about right. Also, it's an interesting exercise to view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by elipsey 11y ago
OP said "API", and refers to many thousands of images which need to be evaluated. It seems like he is pointing out here that this problem is unlikely to have a completely algorithmic solution, and if it does, the solution is proba
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by elipsey 11y ago
I'm really glad people wrote octave and gave it to me for free, but I found a lot of unimpletmented functionality that kept me from getting things done, for example in image handling. I tried to port some code from matlab a couple of y
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by elipsey 12y ago
I have more than one friend or loved one with a serious psychiatric diagnosis. They, and some other pretty smart folks I know, have sometimes remarked that they might have been perfectly happy, or at least accepted rather than stigmatized b
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by elipsey 12y ago
A company and it's customers are both victims when it gets hacked, but when it has millions of customers the external cost of poor security is so great the bad outcomes seem inevitable. However, there would be less harm from these kind
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by elipsey 12y ago
Thanks, I guess there's nothing new under the sun. I've always been afraid I would get the fortune I deserve...
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by elipsey 12y ago
In addition to favoring the fashion of charismatic naming and artwork for exploits, I am utterly delighted by the notion of "misfortune cookies". Imagine: "You have good reason for self-doubt." "Avoid heavy machiner
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by elipsey 12y ago
Does it have full screen mode yet?
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by elipsey 12y ago
Yes, if you use gpl'd code for free, the license forces you to share the improvements you make. That's the whole point of the GPL. No one forces you to use gpl'd code; if you don't like it, go write your own code.
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by elipsey 13y ago
Perhaps this is an opportunity for Gnome users to bribe the foundation to revert some of Gnome's insane UI decisions. Example: A series of kickstarters such as "Bribe Gnome to remove pop ups that say 'Your window is ready&#x2
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by elipsey 13y ago
Gotcha. Not calling it an excuse. Maybe anyone can become dependent, but not everyone _does_. I think our model of behavior ought to include the recognition that in some cases people are unable to refrain from drinking even though they know
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by elipsey 13y ago
I agree with Codhisattva that in many cases people who are very drunk are not in control of their behavior. Moreover, an alcoholic is, by definition, not able to control his behavior. I have heard first hand accounts from self identified al
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by elipsey 13y ago
Does AMD GPU hardware have a general advantage mining? err, can you link me to the other thread?
449.
by elipsey 13y ago
Can I propose Optifist? A super-computing system based on said CPU could then be nameed Deep Fist...
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by elipsey 13y ago
It's a relief that AMD has a performance/watt alternative to bulldozer. I sure hope they can keep being a business so I have someone to buy hardware from that doesn't fuse off features to screw us out of a %65 margin. Either

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