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by jandrese 1y ago
Because most of those drives are getting slotted into sleds in arrays. A double height drive might work fine in a PC case (at least if you're willing to break out a dremel), but the majority of the buyers of big drives are not using o
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by jandrese 1y ago
Is there not a problem where companies stop manufacturing the tape media because it is obsolete?
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by jandrese 1y ago
The I used to stand for "inexpensive" too, until RAID drives turned out to be everything but. They've since made it a backronym as "independent", although the drives really aren't independent either.
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by jandrese 1y ago
> But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying One of the reasons some people ditch the hardware RAID controllers and do everything in software. If you're at the point of pulling the drives from a dead enclosure and sti
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by jandrese 1y ago
If an employee is unproductive they can be fired. Layoffs are how you get rid of employees that are productive without having to make up some justification because it lowers your costs and increases the stock price, which rewards the execu
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by jandrese 1y ago
Ask the people shopping in grocery stores. Or the grocery store owners themselves. The farmer doesn't get a say.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Even in this case the IRS could pre-fill everything it knows and let you spend 5 minutes adding any details they missed. For the majority of people it would be "open up mytaxreturn.irs.gov, verify that everything looks correct, hit ye
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by jandrese 1y ago
I think it depends on the state. Virginia for instance used to have a free government run tax filing system, but the tax prep industry got a rep elected who killed it off and punished the state for its insolence with one of the highest e-f
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by jandrese 1y ago
If they mention it by number of BTC then the USD value would be different for every person who read the article, in a few days it might be dramatically different. Who knows?
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by jandrese 1y ago
This thread is making Cambodia sound like an oversized Cayman Islands.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It certainly signals a willingness to tolerate sketchy behavior, since that is mandatory when working with crypto.
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by jandrese 1y ago
How does that work? "Sorry this church is closed on Sunday, we hold mass on Monday instead because our priest is shared with a bigger church."?
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by jandrese 1y ago
Don't forget your competition is people in third world countries who have access to effectively slave labor, but do have higher shipping costs.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The fundamental problem with UBI is that if it is enough to live on (even if it's a crummy life), then who is going to pick the strawberries? The ugly truth is our society is built on top of people doing absolute shit jobs for insulti
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by jandrese 1y ago
As opposed to the current situation? Landlords are always going to try to squeeze the tenants, that's the nature of being middlemen.
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by jandrese 1y ago
They really have Monday morning and Monday afternoon mass? Friday afternoon? This seems like a lot more activity than the Catholic churches that I know.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The original low cost SDR was a European TV tuner USB stick. A driver developer noticed that it was possible to turn off the built-in vertical and horizontal blank suppression to get a raw I/Q dump from a device that was available for
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by jandrese 1y ago
Comparing GPU performance to some half decade old Intel IGP seems like lying with statistics. "Look how many times faster our car is![1]" [1] Compared to a paraplegic octogenarian in a broken wheelchair!"
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by jandrese 1y ago
They oversubscribe.
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by jandrese 1y ago
What if you ran the cable on the top of the wall and covered it with crown molding?
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yes, but this article is mostly talking about TEMU or Amazon fly-by-night brand batteries, so you have to take their word that they are using Lipo4 cells and not just blatantly lying like they do for every other aspect of the product .
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's shocking how much performance you gain by temporarily turning off Windows Defender. I had a local disk to disk copy that the Windows File Transfer dialog estimated was going to finish in 10 hours after it settled down. It wasn&#
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by jandrese 1y ago
That's true of every bubble. It's the best thing around until it suddenly isn't. Don't forget that bubble popping doesn't necessarily mean that the sector is dead. The Dot Com bubble popped but people are still se
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by jandrese 1y ago
I think that's mostly training costs. There is a serious level of diminishing returns and the primary way companies have been trying to get ahead is throwing more and more hardware at it. AI already burns something around 5x as much
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by jandrese 1y ago
I would really hope that nobody considers AI companies to be foundational to the economy the way the housing market is. I know there is going to be people crying in Congress with "Think of the 401ks!" but I really want the hype m
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by jandrese 1y ago
> “is that the exhaust gas from the turbines is at 800 °C and almost supersonic speed. MY SHOES ARE ON FIRE! They kinda handwaved the whole "wash the disaster area in superheated jet exhaust before doing your S&R" problem.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Rent controls exist, although they're mostly a legacy thing now.
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by jandrese 1y ago
For me the problem is that the start menu want you to use the search bar, but the search bar breaks all the time . This isn't just on one machine either. I have seen this on at least three different Win11 installs and it drives me c
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by jandrese 1y ago
Even on Windows it can be a hassle because so many links will send you to Java 8 which Minecraft won't run on. Even the official links on minecraft.net sent you to the version that wouldn't run Minecraft for some time.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Unfortunately the recent rulings from the Supreme Court suggest that they will favor unlimited executive power whenever possible, at least when Trump is involved. Stare decisis doesn't apply when you have a 6-3 majority and a 930 page

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