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by geraldhh 3y ago
"friends are people that show up when it's not convenient for them" - my mum
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by geraldhh 3y ago
this holds true for a quantitative comparison. thou, i suspect that domain to be unusually influential
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by geraldhh 3y ago
mostly bought together
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by geraldhh 3y ago
feels like they subjugated half the web, yea
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by geraldhh 3y ago
tbf enigma was marketed as unbreakable, but serious engineers know that such a "perfect" thing is very unlikely to be true. also afaik it did hold up until a sizeable amount of corelated plain-chipher-text was available for analys
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> We had FB up to 6 figures in servers and a billion MAUs (conservatively) before even tinkering with containers. that would have been around the time when containers entered the public/developer consciousness, no?
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by geraldhh 3y ago
"That's what they want you to think"
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by geraldhh 3y ago
why is that?
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by geraldhh 3y ago
saw a convenience shop selling bottles of (soft-)drinks bundled with a single cigarette, so there's that
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by geraldhh 3y ago
almost like getting laid
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by geraldhh 3y ago
emigrants probably have above average motivation
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by geraldhh 3y ago
starlink meta data is surely being collected and used for sigint, thou i suspect russia has good enough mathematicians so that listening in on content is not on the table unless the endpoints are compromised.
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> It seems the market is just too saturated, despite the frequent news about we need millions of people who can do X! It seems like a way to get cheap and disposable labor. seems a good bet to stay clear of industrialized work environmen
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> Some of the most toxic people I ever worked with were very charming in interviews this may well be a feature of (social) economics and hence a necessary evil
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> That 4 year study results in a masters if the student is able fwiw 4 year study ends with a bachelors degree
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by geraldhh 3y ago
obviously we can't. hence no money can be enough to compensate for a friendship
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by geraldhh 3y ago
otoh most 17 year old's would probably not do any better. is the morale here that nobody should have "invested" it anywhere?
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> Why would someone pay money to back up to the internet what they downloaded from the internet to begin with? most of your points lack insight/pragmatism but this one made ma laugh
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by geraldhh 3y ago
true, but the overlap in quality between low/high resolution and bitrate encodes are neither historical nor limited to yify. as someone that grew up with VHS and VGA; 2-3mbps h264 720p is fine and few practical gains above 5mbps 1080p.
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by geraldhh 3y ago
> The future of the warfare is when you have no high-value targets at all on the battlefield and everything is spread out as evenly as possible. that would put the utmost importance on communication and orchestration
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by geraldhh 3y ago
true. thou i would argue that dead people are a negative externality of most major industries (think tabaco, oil, cars)
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by geraldhh 3y ago
or billions of feet
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by geraldhh 3y ago
"are x-frameworks better than vanilla-x"
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by geraldhh 3y ago
fwiw wind power also requires a generous amount of maintenance
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by geraldhh 3y ago
MU-MIMO implies a phased array no?
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by geraldhh 3y ago
thou, the question is, wheather you can buy a friendship with the money. the answer is probably, no, hence it's not worth it.
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by geraldhh 3y ago
philosophical
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by geraldhh 3y ago
arguably good enough
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by geraldhh 3y ago
thou nobody ever got put in jail because he defied the recipe
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by geraldhh 3y ago
adding nuance to your fence analogy, most fences are decorative and/or suggestive of a border but can be overcome somewhat easily and are hence not useless because they have a hole somewhere.

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