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811.
by jrmg 4y ago
Modern CPU and scheduler combos will in fact try to do that or, at least, do something that has that as a second order effect. They’ll try to run the CPU at a speed that evens out regular bursts into steady loads, on the lowest power core o
812.
by jrmg 4y ago
Is there a point to going beyond 60 updates/s in Factorio? Because if not the system seems to be doing the correct thing and using less power. I hope AMD isn’t causing higher power usage for all users just to game some benchmarks!
813.
by jrmg 4y ago
It is now ‘tonight’ in England. Are they visible?
814.
by jrmg 4y ago
This might be too optimistically naive, but I wonder if they’re treating the shoes as a commodity. Like, for every 1000 shoes in Dow collection bins, they’re using 1000 shoes in the recycling-to-sports-surfaces projects, but they’re not the
815.
by jrmg 4y ago
And fraudulent nutritional supplements. And weird speech-synthesied rousing music: ‘Jim worked for a big electronics manufacturer, and had an idea. <Electronic item>s for the people. They they wouldn’t let him make it. They stole his
816.
by jrmg 4y ago
He posts that later: https://twitter.com/brian_lovin/status/1628505684504625152
817.
by jrmg 4y ago
The Apple docks state that if you get a notification about an AirTag assigned to a family member, you have the choice of silencing the notifications indefinitely. Search for ‘family’ here: https://support.apple.com/en-us&#x2
818.
by jrmg 4y ago
Yeah, I agree.
819.
by jrmg 4y ago
There are loads of comments here from people that don’t realize that you actually can turn off notifications for AirTags that belong to family members you’ve linked your iCloud account to. It’s mentioned in one sentence at the end of the ar
820.
by jrmg 4y ago
My pet Stack Overflow annoyance: the number of questions that have highly voted confidently incorrect answers or (perhaps worse?) answers that do work, but not for the reason in the confidently incorrect explanation that follows the ‘what t
821.
by jrmg 4y ago
This is actually enough to power the laptop and trickle charge! I’ve had a M1 Pro and now have an M2 Air plugged into my weirdo USB-C monitor that only provides 15W power(!), and unless I’m heavily compiling all day (like change-compile-cha
822.
by jrmg 4y ago
Every socket is another potential point of failure. When shipping millions of units it’ll be noticeable.
823.
by jrmg 4y ago
There are also millions of Apple customers who have no idea that Apple is actively going out of their way to ensure that the devices they own can't be upgraded. I think it’s way more likely they’re trying to create devices that are l
824.
by jrmg 4y ago
I mean, you’re really not being civil by any description of it I’d recognize. Accusing me of being okay with arson? ‘Mind-diarrhea’? Are you at all open to discussion? I’m projecting my own views a lot here, but I am pretty sure you’re not
825.
by jrmg 4y ago
Please, try to be civil. It’s really hard for anyone with different views to seriously engage with you when you’re making such an abrasive presentation. Civil discussion is traditionally a value of the western culture you prize so much.
826.
by jrmg 4y ago
It really didn’t make any ‘sense’ back then either - no-one ran read-only linux on their TV for actual work. It was always really just for fun and challenge of it.
827.
by jrmg 4y ago
I’m a fan of Isso: https://isso-comments.de/
828.
by jrmg 4y ago
I think you’re assuming some sort of extreme militancy about non-gendered language that I don’t have. Yes, of course you’d need to be specific if it was important. I’d use ‘10 parents’ only if it wasn’t important. Your example isn’t great
829.
by jrmg 4y ago
I wasn’t trying to make a value judgement about replacing the existing words in Dahl’s already-written books. The parent comment wanted an explanation to _why_ someone might select ‘siblings’ over ‘brothers and sisters’ and I answered with
830.
by jrmg 4y ago
Offensive is probably too strong a word. The reason to replace an aggregate ‘brothers and sisters’ with ‘siblings’, ‘mothers and fathers’ with ‘parents’, or ‘boys and girls’ with ‘children’ is because for all of these the replacement suffic
831.
by jrmg 4y ago
You can also just run apps from anywhere - network drives, removable disks, disk images etc., so the system can’t just delete settings for apps it’s currently unaware of.
832.
by jrmg 4y ago
Don’t worry - they can gzip it and make it something for the CPU people to worry about instead!
833.
by jrmg 4y ago
I think what I’m saying is that that seems problematic (and I think the things we’ve seen from ChatGPT and Bing just emphasize this). From chatting with these models, orders of magnitude better ‘understanding’* seems necessary before they’l
834.
by jrmg 4y ago
I can’t help shake the feeling that something closer to code (or specific training?) and further from natural language should be being used to configure these models at this stage of development. I was _astounded_ by the ‘Sydney document’ b
835.
by jrmg 4y ago
I’d like to hear what the actual consequences of these leaks and subsequent combustion are without the alarmism (which, even if warranted, doesn’t need to be in every actual explanation of what’s going on!) Right now, I see the EPA saying ‘
836.
by jrmg 4y ago
They did. But I still feel this is different. In 2001, there were _loads_ of companies that were started in the mid-late 90s on internet hype, and either had literally no business model apart from ‘drive up engagement and we’ll work it out
837.
by jrmg 4y ago
Yeah, agreed. When I started working in the fall - at a company that didn’t have layoffs, at a job I was offered in the spring - there were layoffs and closures happening at other places all around me and I remember feeling sort of guilty a
838.
by jrmg 4y ago
_If_ you trust the stats, it supposedly does - it says it counts: employees laid off (or lose their jobs due to Tech companies going out of business)
839.
by jrmg 4y ago
This doesn’t feel correct to me. I graduated with a CS degree in 2001. Companies were downsizing and shutting down when I started working in the fall of 2001. To complain more concretely: I think the stats are wrong. The dot com bubble didn
840.
by jrmg 4y ago
What is that screenshot of ‘Morning Affairs’ to ‘Embark’ meant to show? Related, that’s probably not the best picture to show if they’re going for mainstream acceptance. I suspect it’s probably a pretty sedate video actually, so the author

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