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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Because IMAP sucks on bad network links. It involves a huge number of round trips to synchronize the state, and re-establishing the shared state when the connection is interrupted takes forever. A lot of online commenters refuse to believe
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yes, often the first response to some calls is a CHP aircraft that continuously loiters in the area.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Unfortunately, Flock really has been doing some shady stuff and the alliance of 1) people with legitimate concerns about Flock operations, and 2) the much larger population of people who are accustomed to getting away with petty crimes is,
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yeah this doesn't bother me in any way, shape, or form. We already have manned aircraft that respond to such things, unmanned aircraft are a strictly better solution. It makes sense for police and it makes even more sense for fire. An
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Imagine believing this.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Even current Dell servers less than a year old ship with G200 graphics. If it works, why change it? A 1998 ASIC can be put in the corner of a modern chipset for pennies or less.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Nobody is retiring solar panels after only 20 years.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Sure. I picked IMPACT for having hardware textures. An interesting list would contain the first examples of processors that had things we still have today, like geometry processors. It would also contain evolutionary dead ends that tried to
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Damn, you're right. Once they burn this tranche of solar panels the Chinese will really have them over a barrel.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
SGI IMPACT would be another
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Broadcom makes the TPU. If you want TPUs, you are working with Broadcom whether you want to or not.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
It's easy to think about. Google reported a global average power consumption of 3.7GW in 2024, so you can think of this deal as representing an expansion of something like 10-15% of that 2024 baseline, if you assume 50% capacity utiliz
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Tax evasion, fraud, etc. Chiropractors organized as limited partnerships, that type of thing.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
To be fair the wealthy neighborhoods of North Dallas are notorious hotbeds of crime. It's just not the types of crimes that get reported on right-wing TV.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
For homicide this is very correct. You could live dead center in the statistically most violent block of Chicago and still cut your personal risk of being a homicide victim by 1) not being a criminal, and 2) not posting diss raps to your 11
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
There's a gigantic global industry of telling people that a far away place they've never been is bad and dangerous. This industry exists to make people overlook the objectively bad and dangerous place where they actually live. Thi
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
> manually editing the hosts file was a mostly-obsolete practice by the time the first version of Windows shipped This claim strikes me as obviously wrong.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Strava is an example where to enjoy all the features of the platform you have to use the app for some and the browser for others. Neither has all of them.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
I know it's really really loud in your echo chamber but short form videos are extremely popular.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
That's ... exactly what the subscriptions feed does right now?
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Changing your account recovery and 2FA settings then immediately trying to recover your account from an unusual country should temporarily lock out your account, every time, and this is what all normal users want.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
If you wanted to intentionally trigger every account abuse system at Google, follow this guy's script.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Funny how "use hugepages" is right there on the table and 99% of users ignore it.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Many VPNs are owned and operated by organized crime, intelligence services from all kinds of nations, and cops. The idea that a VPN somehow protects you does not enjoy a rational basis.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
If I borrow a lot of money to start a business and then don't start the business I would also be in the hole. So, don't do that?
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
What about Frank Rosenthal? Admittedly these guys are extremely rare, that's why the handful of successful ones are famous.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
We already recognize that contracts that violate one party's fundamental human rights cannot be enforced because they "shock the conscience", in terms that American jurists use. This article does not include the terms of the
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Yes?
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
That's a ridiculous constraint to put on the freedom to enter into contracts.
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
The clause in question didn't even arise until after employment ended. Again, this person faced no obligation to sign this contract. They wanted the payment, so they signed it.

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