metalspot

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by metalspot 4y ago
don't bother with a cell phone either. the world is full of stupid contracts with unenforceable terms. sign it without reading and save yourself the headache.
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by metalspot 4y ago
> "adapt" our way out of being 20m under water the human race could certainly adapt to 20m sea rise with zero impact on the long term survivavility of the species. we already adapted to much greater sea rise only 10,000 years a
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by metalspot 4y ago
we actually only have 1 option, which is that climate changes, no matter what humans do, and we can change it on the margins though are actions as well. dumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere is geo-engineering. it is just unintentio
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by metalspot 4y ago
> 4 billion years of evolution that is a pretty important part of the equation. what if the universe is the minimum viable machine for creating intelligence? if you think of the universe as computer and evolution as a machine learning al
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by metalspot 4y ago
this is definitely by design, but it is driven by public policy (reducing inflation), not private companies conspiring against their employees. the worst possible thing from a central bank perspective is a wage-price spiral where employees
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by metalspot 4y ago
its a nice hobby project, but of course a commercial blade system will have far higher compute density. supermicro can do 20 epyc nodes in 8u, which at 64 cores per node is 1280 cores in 8u, or 160 in 1u, so double the core density, and far
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by metalspot 4y ago
sure, if you have a modern system with plenty of ram and ssd, then cpu will still be a bottleneck. what i am saying is that if given a choice of a brand new cpu with 8gb ram and a hard drive (common specs for 10 years ago) or a 10 year old
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by metalspot 4y ago
i used an fx-6300 for years and it was fine. for most use cases the practical need for desktop cpu performance plateaued 10 years ago. during that time adding more memory and moving from hdd to ssd made a much larger difference in user expe
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by metalspot 4y ago
no. it was only a test program, and the test was a complete failure. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/microsoft-mixed-real...
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by metalspot 4y ago
raising prices by 50% on a steadily depreciating asset