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by eru 2mo ago
We don't know how to mix the two in general. There are plenty of tame enough special cases where we know how a mixture has to look like. Finding a tame enough special case was how Hawking discovered his radiation.
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by eru 2mo ago
As far as anyone knows, electrons are already point masses.
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by eru 2mo ago
Even without quantum mechanics, black holes are trouble: Approximately everything in nature rotates. Including black holes. Schwarzschild blockholes do not rotate. Rotating black holes are much more complicated and don't necessarily
334.
by eru 2mo ago
One (part of the) problem is that Linux doesn't support writing compressed swap to disk. Only uncompressed memory pages live on disk.
335.
by eru 2mo ago
MacOS uses swap all the time. Btw, there's (at least) two sides to swap: (1) While there's plenty of headroom, you might still want to swap out 'cold' memory, so you can keep more files cached in RAM. (2) When you are (n
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by eru 2mo ago
> [...] or you’ve exhausted your RAM at such a rapid pace that the disk IO cannot keep up with the read and writes to swap. I don't know what that means. When your system is in such extreme memory pressure, it comes to a crawl, exa
337.
by eru 2mo ago
> the geographical limitations inherent of a ski resort make the free-market argument hard to believe That's a bit of a weird argument? It's a bit like saying that while you are inside a Walmart, they have a monopoly on sellin
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by eru 2mo ago
> At no point the system becomes unresponsive. That is, if you are lucky enough for the dialogue to pop up. I do agree that when you get the dialogue, it is a much better user experience than under Linux.
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by eru 2mo ago
> I run both Windows and MacOS and have done so for decades. I cannot remember the last time I had a hard freeze like I get on Fedora. I've gotten plenty of freezes and even more slowdowns on my MacBook Air M3 when using lots of RAM
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by eru 2mo ago
> So my new pet theory is that this is one of the few times we're seeing a positive effect from the heads of all of these big businesses being part of weird public (e.g. WEF) and private (e.g. Bohemian Club) orgs where they get to t
341.
by eru 2mo ago
Much of the US banned paid public bathrooms. The people behind the initiative dreamed of getting a cornucopia of free public bathrooms.
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by eru 2mo ago
I would suggest industrial espionage and luring away employees instead of invasion, if you are after secrets. > To render inoperable sure, but invaders would surely be able to suss out some of their secrets from the remains. Yes, but I h
343.
by eru 2mo ago
A few employees with sledge hammers would be enough. These are rather delicate machines.
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by eru 2mo ago
> The fact that the CCP is relaxed about core Chinese companies running their manufacturing in Taiwan might suggest that the CCP considers that it can make China and Taiwan one country, at a time of the CCP's choosing. I'm not
345.
by eru 2mo ago
Or, my suggestion to use corpuses instead of corpora was pure prescriptivism, yes. I often use corpora, because it's what's common enough. And I sometimes use nonsense plurals like octopodes just to be silly.
346.
by eru 2mo ago
Similar, yes. Or the industrial revolution.
347.
by eru 2mo ago
You wouldn't need to run all ten years ahead of time. Every Dec 31 you could test out the coming year, if you wanted to.
348.
by eru 2mo ago
Maybe, but that's very diffuse and hard to attribute to Wikipedia. And it would show up in real GDP, not necessarily in nominal GDP.
349.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm sure there are ways around this. I'm not an American, and I was just trying to figure out whether they have data on me, because I used to work for American companies in the past.
350.
by eru 2mo ago
I think in the US workers' rights to talk about salaries is already protected by law.
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by eru 2mo ago
Oh, ok, thanks. It seems reasonably likely that maybe Google Cloud might be to blame.
352.
by eru 2mo ago
Your savings are real, but they don't show up in GDP or a profit-and-loss statement of any company.
353.
by eru 2mo ago
Sorry, when I wrote 'all', I meant people all over the world (not just in China). Individuals can still get unlucky. Just like a coal miner might be out of a job, when solar panels become effectively free. Software engineers are
354.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm not sure we can blame the Stasi. Well, at least not blame them alone. West Germans were protesting and boycotting a census when East Germany was still her own country.
355.
by eru 2mo ago
'No regulation' would be preferable over regulations selective enforced only against people the selectors don't like.
356.
by eru 2mo ago
Yes, that's definitely a valid complained you might have. There's also what you might call 'economics of scale in compliance'. Ie in absolute terms, the big guys suffer under the rules just as much as you do, but they c
357.
by eru 2mo ago
Oh, the form also expect you to have a US social security number and US mobile number.
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by eru 2mo ago
I don't agree with the mate's weird ideas, but capitalism is fairly adaptable and works reasonable well even in fairly weird systems. Have a look at eg Germany's social market economy.
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by eru 2mo ago
> Just capitalist with no regulation... In what kind of anarcho-capitalist utopia do you live? Have you seen how many regulations they have over in the US? The Dodd-Frank act alone was 2,300 pages. And that's hardly the only rule
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by eru 2mo ago
Interesting, it looks like you can only get your own data, if you have an American postal address. So if you moved abroad (or never lived there), you can not get your data, even if they have it.

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