harry8

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91.
by harry8 10mo ago
If pleading is the only way out of the mess, learn to tolerate the mess.
92.
by harry8 10mo ago
The ironic thing about satire is that sometimes it is very difficult to tell apart from the thing being satirized. So, like, was that satire? I got a good laugh out of "Multiplayer PowerPoint" either way.
93.
by harry8 10mo ago
But you still need something to do your dhcp, so maybe not fewer moving parts? Dunno. I did pi-hole first, then much later decided to use unbound for dns because it looked super easy to add it. It was. Haven't thought about it much sin
94.
by harry8 10mo ago
Yeah, fair point. And I don't think I've seen a router for sale that wasn't using dnsmasq as a dhcp server for 20 odd years. Must be some, I guess, but haven't encountered them.
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by harry8 10mo ago
I don't know about unbound's blocklists and stats or indeed much about unbound at all. This: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ was stupidly simple, pi-hole has a gui that I was already u
96.
by harry8 10mo ago
Yeah. Nowadays I use pi-hole which is dnsmasq underneath and use it with unbound. Works great. Minimal fuss, efficient setup, little maintenance, I don't have to understand the guts. Everything on my local network is addressable. Ad bl
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by harry8 11mo ago
Well even if you are sure about your intuition in the knowledge that this confidence by humans has led to huge problems and tragedies in the past, you still want to have a good estimate of the effect size. How much resource to allocate to t
98.
by harry8 11mo ago
You should also consider the point of view of anyone working on github and being paid by microsoft but who actually does care. Note that they are not named and shamed or anything like that. Do you think there is a chance these hypothetical
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by harry8 11mo ago
There is a difference between what you say to and about volunteers working for free on their hobby and what you say about the work of a company famously known as "The Death Star" You want to work with people and the group says &qu
100.
by harry8 11mo ago
https://x.com/handbarfs/status/1741365674008559962
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by harry8 11mo ago
In addition to search engines you can learn a great deal about all sorts of things using an LLM. This works well enough if you don't want to pay. They are very patient and you canb go as deep as you want. https://duckduckgo
102.
by harry8 11mo ago
Needless to say building the wrong things for the wrong reasons at huge expense is exactly what the military industrial complex wants and spends a great deal on influence to achieve.
103.
by harry8 11mo ago
Note that Warren's personal wealth has been vastly more than he and three generations of his ancestors could ever possibly spend however frivolously for /decades/ now. The only thin you can do with that money is give it away
104.
by harry8 11mo ago
Off the top of my head, a couple of examples. The "white knight" purchase of Salomon Bros stake to "save" them from a hostile takeover was a redistribution of wealth from the existing shareholders who would have accepted
105.
by harry8 11mo ago
It's not a poker position. It is everything. At 95 you're a lot closer to the end of everything than the start, your body is really giving up and it is exceedingly difficult to enjoy anything much. The speculation is that buffet w
106.
by harry8 11mo ago
>It almost feels as if the US need(s|ed) to be a bit more involved in the Ukraine war in order to keep their finger on the pulse of how conflicts are... This grates a little after the utter debacle of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya ... I'
107.
by harry8 11mo ago
He definitely wants us to think that about his integrity, his fans even more so and in fairness, he's pretty good. Not quite the sunday-school capitalism perfection that some would have us believe. Which can grate a bit if you've
108.
by harry8 11mo ago
"Hard Real Time" is the magic phrase to go as deep as you want to.
109.
by harry8 11mo ago
> Was literally just transcoding some video, playing a podcast, and browsing the web. Yeah that's the perfect use case for current system design. Nobody sane wants to turn that case into an embedded system running a single process w
110.
by harry8 11mo ago
Think about using a modern x86-64 cpu core to run one process with no operating system. Know exactly what is in cache memory. Know exactly what deadlines you can meet and guarantee that. It's quite a different thing to running a genera
111.
by harry8 11mo ago
> ...buy us anything. Totally depends on who "us" and isn't. What problem is being solved etc. In the aggregate clearly the trade off has been beneficial to the most people. If what you want to do got traded, well you can
112.
by harry8 1y ago
True. But they could give consent in advance. If this horrific disease progresses to the point where ... I give my consent for ... Subject to final approval from family member/doctor/whatever.
113.
by harry8 1y ago
Because then you get a fight. Signal moves to F-Droid and F-Droid gets a huge mindshare increase and much harder to kill. Signal is today's thing the security state in Europe & the US clearly hate and want to backdoor and destroy.
114.
by harry8 1y ago
Anyone else thinking this looks like precursor to banning Signal and similar? 1) Put google in control of what you can install. 2) Get google to block it. Noting that making it harder to install does most of the job as you need you contacts
115.
by harry8 1y ago
No way. Apple stopping support for security upgrades is the issue requiring a phone to stop being used, by you or the 2nd hand recipient. Same issue for the various android vendors. That sure won't change if your phone uses a little le
116.
by harry8 1y ago
Yeah power. But less so. My phone or laptop battery lasts shorter between charges. I’m not buying more phones or laptops to take up the slack. Powering the screen dominates battery usage between charges. It isn’t nothing, sure. I’m in no wa
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by harry8 1y ago
They run on machines that are designed to have unused computer capacity. Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones. Responsiveness is the key. Ffmpeg runs on a load of server farms for all your favourite streaming services and the bajillion more y
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by harry8 1y ago
>Putting aside all of the discussion on whether IQ is a valid construct >Having a computer score well on them is better than the computer scoring poorly, but probably does not mean anything close to what the same result means in a hum
119.
by harry8 1y ago
I was against Charles Manson, doubly so because he had a bad haircut. See it?
120.
by harry8 1y ago
> doubly so one where Vance shared a version of it himself No. Should have precisely zero baring on anything at all. Reminder: Support of free speech requires support of the right to say things that you loathe by people you hate or you d

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