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by mgerdts 3y ago
Care to comment on the downvote? I want humans that apply their creativity to produce works to be able to earn a living. If you train your brain or your AI on some content, it seems reasonable to pay for at least one copy or borrow a copy f
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If the book was acquired illegally, the entity that suffered the loss may have a claim for the illegal acquisition. Meta and OpenAI have the money to buy a copy of every book under copyright that they have their AI read for training. I have
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by mgerdts 3y ago
... on a book that they’d illegally acquired then read.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
It was sometime around 1994 and I had working as a UNIX sysadmin / systems programmer for the college of engineering for about a year, while studying computer science. Most of what I was doing involved scary stuff like TCP/IP, oth
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by mgerdts 3y ago
> It doesn't sound like it. It just harvests the charge off the water particles. That’s what I thought as well, but they do talk about selection of materials to avoid wetting.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I emailed an author of the paper and got a pdf. From the conclusion: > Sustainable Air-gen technology holds promising prospects. Although a single sheet of Air-gen has a lower energy output (e.g., up to μW cm−2 level) than some existing
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by mgerdts 3y ago
It has been in the Solaris version of zfs for a long time as well. This came a few years after the Oracle-imposed fork. https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/reflink3c-what-is-it-w...
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If I am experiencing a bug in RHEL 8.x and others with similar hardware could also experience the same bug, it would be swell for me to be able to submit a fix that would stand some chance of making it into a future RHEL 8.x release as well
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by mgerdts 3y ago
As a CentOS user when that was a thing, I looked for ways to contribute fixes to red hat for inclusion in future updates of RHEL. I came up empty. It seems the way at the time was to contribute the fix to fedora. Now I’m supposed to contrib
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If you haul dirty stuff, it’s much easier to hose out a pickup than a cargo van or suv. For a half way point between tent camping and pulling a camper/caravan, slide in campers work with pickups but not cargo vans. If using a cargo van
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by mgerdts 3y ago
The hummer comparison is bad. More relevant, the bed is the same length as that of a short bed Tacoma.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I’m hopeful that smaller vehicles like those supposedly coming from Telo and Canoo can change the market. The Ford Maverick has shown that a modern pickup can be smaller and fuel efficient. Telo looks interested in upping the ante.
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TELO is a tiny electric truck the size of a Mini with a bed as big as a Hummer’s(electrek.co)
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Before 1994 usenet had trolls but what we recognize as spam today was all but unheard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam In my .edu world the most annoying part of email was “chain mail” in which e
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I tried it out around the yard and it correctly identified a variety of native flowering plants (in and past their prime), a couple trees (one native to the region, one about 400 miles from its native range), and a few ferns. The only one
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by mgerdts 3y ago
The next video in my feed explained a more complete rehab, including replacement of the sleepers (ties) and rails while allowing the adjacent track to stay in service. F’n amazing. https://youtu.be/7zsyMxRnQ68
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by mgerdts 3y ago
You can grab the version from the solaris userland repo I linked and use it without me completing a homework assignment. Just grab the pigz-2.3.4 source then apply the patches from [1] in the proper order. Maybe some of them aren't ne
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Interesting. It looks like https://github.com/zrajna/zindex became public about a year after my searches for parallel uncompression came up empty and I started hacking on pigz.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
> I've been thinking about some approaches to parallelize decompression of a single stream, it's not easy You saw this, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35915285
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by mgerdts 3y ago
The data is compressed with GDeflate, not deflate. The single stream is designed to use the parallelism of a GPU. It is described here: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/blob/main/GDeflat... The
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Yeah, probably so at the cost of compatibility. As implemented, the .gz file can be used with `gzip -d`.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If you are interested in optimizing parallel decompression and you happen to have a suitable NVIDIA GPU, GDeflate [1] is interesting. The target market for this is PC games using DirectStorage to quickly load game assets. The graph in [1]
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I implemented parallel decompression a while back. It is in Solaris 11.3 and later. https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/compo... Shortly after submitting a PR the code went through maj
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Go to Costco. Free exams, no membership required for the exam. Hearing aids are about $700 each with free cleanings and adjustments, at least as long as the warranty. Membership is required for purchase and service. I have had cleanings an
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by mgerdts 4y ago
> and you can’t turn it off! At least on windows 11 pro workstation, this is a right click and a preference setting or two away. The start menu can be moved to the left corner where it has long been with a taskbar setting. I did this as
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by mgerdts 4y ago
I’m particularly interested in what they mean with these: > Promoting privacy and the security of personal data; > Shifting liability for software products and services to promote secure development practices; and,
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Biden- Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy(whitehouse.gov)
11 points by mgerdts 4y ago|4 comments
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> As the Commission explains below, the definition of non-compete clause would generally not include other types of restrictive employment covenants—such as non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) and client or customer non-solicitation agree
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by mgerdts 4y ago
I've done little more than a quick drive through Joshua Tree, but I expect that like most national parks there's not a lot of options for how to get from point A to point B on the roads. The vehicle in question is Corolla, so it w
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by mgerdts 4y ago
I first encountered shadow roots while trying to use tampermonkey to work around a problem with the latest release of Gerrit. What I thought would be a relatively trivial effort to find the right element and modify its style turned into a l

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