esseph

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901.
by esseph 7mo ago
> I would say WW2 was pretty long time ago A staggering number of people enlisted or re-enlisted after a break in service due to 9/11 and patriotic ideas. (... And then more than half ended up getting sent to Iraq.)
902.
by esseph 7mo ago
> The fact you're even posting on the orange site to begin with implies you received some expensive training that would ordinarily require a university degree. That is quite a leap.
903.
by esseph 7mo ago
Actually there should be a 'sync' as step 2 :)
904.
by esseph 7mo ago
Let's get crazy 1. swapoff 2. drop disk cache (1) 3. panik!?! hrm, seems ok
905.
by esseph 7mo ago
> make it to 10 years without having at least the opportunity for some leadership. Maybe if that person is young and hasn't done real work. The best ICs are often horrible managers, it's a different career. Same applies idea he
906.
by esseph 7mo ago
He's likely in a coma or already dead.
907.
by esseph 7mo ago
If the US ended up damaging power plans and desalination plants, that would mark a clear inflection point in the number of "friends" the US has militarily, economically, and politically. Sure, Israel would still be a big fan, and
908.
by esseph 7mo ago
50:1 10:1 Big range, but still a lot of workers for every foreman. (Father in law did 35yr in carpentry and teaching job corps)
909.
by esseph 7mo ago
> a lot of survivorship bias dressed up as design philosophy or strategic bets I wish more people realized this
910.
by esseph 7mo ago
Sure, which is why many white collar workers look down on tradesmen (in the US at least), and tradesmen look down on white collar workers as "bullshit email jobs".
911.
by esseph 7mo ago
> "aside from totally going mad & speaking unpuncutaed gibberish [...] I trust it enormously." The bar is very low :(
912.
by esseph 7mo ago
The 590x was great and lasted me around 5-6 years until I picked up a replacement, but it was really just a rebadged 580. The 580 is a solid card that was an excellent price/performance value and held a respectable spot in the market f
913.
by esseph 7mo ago
> Sure, but sedentary labor destroys the body through neglect—which is ultimately a choice Huh? It's not clear to me what you're trying to say here.
914.
by esseph 7mo ago
Correct. Dozens or hundreds of workers for every manager or foreman. There's also a lot of owner/operator one-man shops.
915.
by esseph 7mo ago
Much like carpentry, or electrical work, or concrete, or just about any of the trades. Any labor throughout human history.
916.
by esseph 7mo ago
> In order to make this possible, we’ve moved to our own bare metal racks. Early in our testing we realized that moving VMs across cloud nodes would not have acceptable performance properties. We asked Google Cloud and AWS for a quote on
917.
by esseph 7mo ago
This is because of Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT People are using AI as a search engine. https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-search-seo-traffic-study/ https://searchengineland.com/how-googles-ai-over
918.
by esseph 7mo ago
> The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued. Source? All the recent data I can find shows a more than 80% decline in global food aid, education, and vaccinations, as of February 2026. Education aid for 2
919.
by esseph 7mo ago
Cloudflare DNS?
920.
by esseph 7mo ago
You should look into how often nuclear weapons are moved by truck. You've probably driven past more than a few.
921.
by esseph 7mo ago
Okay let me juice you with some "emotional words". There is a direct line from his decisions to more than ten times the number of Americans KIA in the entirety of the Vietnam war. Argue about how it happened all you want, the bo
922.
by esseph 7mo ago
He's directly responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people via DOGE and their abrupt withdrawal and support of food aid. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
923.
by esseph 7mo ago
Flatpak gives me one package to install and a little bit of a minor security boundary around the application. Out of Appimage, snap, and flatpak, flatpak has been the only one after years that seems sane. It also works really well with atom
924.
by esseph 7mo ago
Not just public data.
925.
by esseph 7mo ago
> hmm maybe aws should make datacenter locations secret? Open source intelligence today rivals the best of any nation. That would be virtually impossible to hide for long.
926.
by esseph 7mo ago
Satellite -> satellite warfare already happens, and may have even been the the cause of a Starlink satellite "exploding" the other day.
927.
by esseph 7mo ago
Not enough damage. Send two drones to firebomb the roof of the datacenter. Wouldn't trigger any fire suppression system that I am aware of.
928.
by esseph 7mo ago
You're barking up the wrong tree. The gear to replace the power infra is more readily available than the thousands and thousands of miles of wire and fiber in a datacenter, plus all the equipment, batteries, inverter/chargers, may
929.
by esseph 7mo ago
Again, you're just built different :-)
930.
by esseph 7mo ago
85?!? I've lived in extremely cold and extremely hot/humid places. I cannot imagine setting the temp in the house that high.

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