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fock
6y ago
did you ever try this? or is this just something which you think should be it's distinguishing feature? Asking mainly because I think this is cool, but the whole setup (lots of random binaries in the server) is not so different to an
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fock
6y ago
here as well. And worst thing is: every month there is a paper, for which I could write one page on its faults... and I'm struggling to produce anything, because everything "doesn't work" (in the sense that it can't
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6y ago
well, even if it's rightwing idiots it seems you can go relatively far. We just deleted all our labs data because a colleague didn't get that you had to unmount and destroy the existing (benchmark) zpool to create a new one when f
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fock
6y ago
totally agree: here's no rent control but a friend could see trickle-down economics at work from his office with half the condos (10years old building) across the yard being "under renovation" so that owners can just squeeze
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fock
6y ago
back then I remember that people generally had a single computer, used by the whole family! It's definitely not good for kids to trivially install a banking trojan when downloading stuff. Nowadays: all my data belongs to a single user,
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fock
6y ago
well, there's plenty of passive speakers which you can hook up to any amplifier from the last 50 years.
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fock
6y ago
though if you just compare specs and ad-copy, you can just get a one designed for indoors and control room applications. Which behaves like a typical TV priced around 20-30% below. At least this seems true for the samsung lineup, which roug
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fock
6y ago
well, with the "white-label" TVs mentioned in the article you don't have this problem, because they don't even have these features. Said that, the advertised brand just looks like the usual bottom of the barrel chinese T
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fock
6y ago
so compared to a run-of-the-mill Lenovo/HP/Dell - where I still can get all parts 5 years after buying it - the innovation is that you have decoupled the I/O ports with your modules, which might reduce wear and failure there
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6y ago
> If you look at the Chinese chip industry, then you see that a lot of money comes from the private sector. Huawei, Xiaomi, etc are investing a ton of money in semiconductor companies. A private sector which got so successful not least b
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fock
6y ago
So, could you tell me for example, what this relatively often cited paper solves or where it's actually applied to solve a real world problem? https://openreview.net/forum?id=Sy2fzU9gl
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fock
6y ago
> For the single reason that biased systems in certain areas will not deliver the results you need to use it properly. well, they produce happy numbers for papers and depending on the brainwash-level of a population, they might also suff
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fock
6y ago
but isn't ethics inextricably linked to the worldview generally? We have some common ground nowadays (no killing in so called "civilized" countries), but to me it seems like you are just proposing the usual neo-xyz-argument:
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fock
6y ago
If you refer to the first part of "thanks to the internet": for basic BDs, keys to decrypt are available up to the end of 2019 (depends on the release profile). For newer/4k movies, these keys are not supposed to be used offl
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fock
6y ago
Generally I'd consider any pre-MKBv68 Bluray pretty userfriendly if it doesn't use BD+. Fully liberated playback thanks to the internet. Don't throw in a newer disc though, it will chain your drive again. Unfortunately I thin
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fock
6y ago
yeah, I was wondering about this as well: basically I have experienced times, where I could rightly sit there and watch the wall for hours. I guess this indicates depression and significantly hampers implementing these ideas...
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fock
6y ago
Your argument would be helped if you would actually respond to each of these points, which you don't. Let's do it for you > 1) cities indeed in somec countries set the fare regulating taxis like a utility. it's pricy for c
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6y ago
Maybe I am missing something: public-facing systems generally don't build on a shell-like environment and I don't think memory-safety is a big problem anymore in 20 years-old core-utils people use individually on their CLI. So wha
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fock
6y ago
how do you load 40GB of data into a device having only 16GB RAM (or do you mean 40GB csv which goes down in size when parsed machineusable?)
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6y ago
ok, so you could you give an example on a day, where I'm only browsing wikipedia with my Linux-computer? I would tend to agree with you and while there certainly are applications, the relevancy is really blown out of proportion. Techni
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6y ago
what kind of ML-systems are you using daily? (non-embedded ones) Probably stuff around search qualifies today, but this does actually not work for me more often than it does. Sometimes I'd just like the index...
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fock
6y ago
it's a chemical, but of course every reference is conveniently painted over by this
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6y ago
3M and DuPont knew 30 years ago about the PFAS-dangers, yet here we are still using it and the "replacement" GenX is not a bit less problematic (try to Google that. Apparently someone doesn't want you to find that...)
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fock
6y ago
If they only used 20M€/a (which is a fraction of investitions in R&D and minuscule compared to the subsidies for agriculture), they could hire 10 managers (or just reuse the R&D infra) and pay 190 devs at competitive salaries (
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6y ago
While Mac is indeed problematic, for Windows you can just download a copy of their evaluation VM and go through installation there. For my own course installing and doing "Hello World" is actually the 0th exercise, because it does
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fock
6y ago
you are aware that it's quite trivial to locate big electricity sinks. And this would be done in every country having a suitable grid: have fun mining in congo
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fock
6y ago
yet you can do something not matching the real world outcome. and there's no way to roll that back. and people still need real-world trust in you... seems not soo smart to me.
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fock
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and yet the same machinery decided to translate the director of a movie as "direktor" in germany. I guess your quote applies there as well!
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6y ago
Like a fellow poster said, that's easily manipulated, especially if the marketing of a VC-funded startup jumps on the train. My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool
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fock
6y ago
well, X11's abstract sockets try to disagree about the access-control part
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