jotm

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by jotm 4y ago
I've been shocked many times by 220V, but it wasn't until I got my own TV that I started respecting electricity. The teacher was a flyback converter (and its capacitors). Only had to be shocked once to understand you don't fu
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by jotm 4y ago
If you're doing a custom case and don't limit your imagination, you can use one of the many netbook or laptop motherboards. Downside is they're limited to 1-2 mPCIe slots, on the other hand they also have 1-2 SATA ports so yo
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by jotm 4y ago
Isn't that "base-10"? HDDs, RAM, network speed were base-2 (e.g. 1TB = 1024GB) for most of my life until SSDs became common and even Google now says "1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes" to my exasperation.
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by jotm 4y ago
You know what's better than Pentaform? Any of the companies doing refurbishing and resale of used PCs. I can get a laptop that has everything built-in and the same performance as this cheap wasteful keyboard for the same price. Amazing
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by jotm 4y ago
The problem is you're adamant on using these platforms. The Internet exists outside them and still works fine. In fact, Google and Chrome are a bigger danger as they can force people to do whatever at the very point of entry to the Int
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by jotm 4y ago
They're doing you a favor, just quit that garbage.
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by jotm 4y ago
A practice dating back to MySpace, or even before it. Facebook used to do the same "yo wait, you need to send us a photo of yourself to verify the account". You could send... any selfies, even ones already uploaded to the account.
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by jotm 4y ago
> we’re not just navigating a script like a computer We just don't see the script. One of the primal driving forces behind creating AI is to have slaves with high intelligence doing work no one else would 24+/7+. I assume you&#
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by jotm 4y ago
If that's where you draw the line, you've already lost. Satan wanted you to use computers and he won. If you want to be saved, stop using computers, and I'd say stop using any technology that uses electricity just to be safe.
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by jotm 4y ago
This is more or less what I do for a loss of ~3kg/month. At least for me, we're talking massive amounts of water, by the way. ~500ml every 2-3 hours, all day for the whole time. Ayran/yoghurt with more salt and water works
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by jotm 4y ago
Indeed, if people cared enough, they'd be able to get amazing results out of any hardware. I also have a window that faces North, I use the rule of thirds to better place myself in front of the camera, I only do video calls during the
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by jotm 4y ago
I already can't wait to die, and I've got plenty of time ahead. I mean, yeah, if you fit in/like the current systems, you might think living forever is cool. But what would you think during the next world war, for example? Or
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by jotm 4y ago
The tank can carry a bigger gun, but that's about it. Most of it is armor that it has to haul for 100-300 miles at a time (before it runs out of fuel). Also, lol at "Ukrainian tractors". Their biggest (only?) tractor plant wa
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by jotm 4y ago
Which makes soldered chips in mobile devices (and NUCs/small PCs) all the more insane. But it's good for business - people will just buy a new one anyway... Hopefully socketed chips on desktops will never go away, maybe recycling&
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by jotm 4y ago
That's social media and it sucks.
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by jotm 4y ago
This is something that every individual needs to realize themselves, but you shouldn't give a flying fuck what strangers think of you. Or anyone, really. Their thoughts and opinions are their problem, not yours. "Oh, but what if
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by jotm 4y ago
Publicly available but protected? Sorry, but that's just mean. Your son will likely never read all, or any, of it. But someone else's son might. If it wasn't login protected, that is.
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by jotm 4y ago
I bet my life it does help people. Even if it's just one sentence that someone read as part of 20 tabs they opened for whatever research/project/thing they were doing. You can write for yourself, but if you publish it on a pu
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by jotm 4y ago
Yeah, 3-4 weeks without it... Also, try different coffee brands/beans/roasts. I hate coffee now because of that variation. So better yet, use caffeine pills, but also try different brands, because some give you "cleaner"
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by jotm 4y ago
I don't see the problem. You can taper off easily in less than a week - every day, drink half of what you had yesterday, for example.
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by jotm 4y ago
Just from my personal experience, yes it does.
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by jotm 4y ago
Caffeine pills. You might need to find a good brand, because the effects can be different (though none of them have negative GI effects).
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by jotm 4y ago
> the AI is human enough That could count as sentient. I mean, look at most people - we follow a preset course from birth to death. Anyone doing "their own thing" is the exception. And even they have limits. Enter the job marke
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by jotm 4y ago
Why would I compare Linux distros? You can literally turn any one of them into another, all the packages are there (prebuilt or source). With some exceptions, of course. I had ALL the Desktop Environments I could find installed at one point
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by jotm 4y ago
What I would love is easy GPU (and other hardware) passthrough to the (Windows) VM. You can already use "real" partitions on separate drives to maximize performance. Graphics is the only thing that's complicated. Tbh, I onl
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by jotm 4y ago
I mean, go further back and black (and even Asian) people of any gender were also depicted as subservient to the "master race". On the other hand, now every household needs two working adults. Living alone is basically twice as ex
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by jotm 4y ago
I like working with metal, and cost wise a steel kitchen would be comparable to marble or high quality wood. But apparently people don't like them! I suggested it to a few people and they were like "eww no, I don't want some
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by jotm 4y ago
I apologize for that. It was really an impulsive, useless comment.
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by jotm 4y ago
And cruise ships. God, I hate cruise ships.
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by jotm 4y ago
It's even more amazing how most rooftops aren't painted white/silver/reflective. Just because it looks ugly .

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