mikestorrent

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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Sounds like an answer from a non-parent, honestly. There's a lot more to it than that, and virtually every couple I know with children thought about it a lot before going ahead. The number one reason is because they see other families
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
That's the smoking gun -- he was absolutely right. It's not ice cream, it's slop!
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
So they should prorogue the entire Parliament and they all take a month off together. Why the fuck should some particular province or riding or whatever miss out on representation on an important issue just because their rep is out for a we
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
The trouble is that most conventional ways of building a new service are trivial to block. What is needed now is unstoppable messaging and social networking built on top of existing services and protocols that won't be blocked right aw
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
It's mostly a lack of properly descriptive words in the language. I think "totalitarian liberalism" or the "managerial state" is probably closer to what we're talking about here. Power is not concentrated in on
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
At least we're giving out free verification cans
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
This worked for me, once. Putting drives in the freezer has worked 3x. I miss that... when an SSD dies it's just dead
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
did you have a copy of Hiren's in there?
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Who gives a shit what time it happens at? It's not like you're actually making the day shorter or longer, man.
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Hell no. Never going back.
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
I bet you a dollar you could get a better machine for free if you looked around ;)
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
T400 is definitely cool, I have a T420 I love. But that Aptiva... man, when those were new, they were full of more bloatware than any other machine I'd ever seen. I made bank in high school just reinstalling windows for people on those
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
But why
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Are you Yanks seriously not going to get this sorted out before winter? BC has moved - can at least the rest of Cascadia get their asses in gear? Come on, California, I do not want to be dealing with a north-south time zone difference with
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Right. That's what sanctions can accomplish...
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
$15 now, so one might say that it's pretty much just the time-invariant value of the minimum hourly wage
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
I tried to read this writeup, but it has too many hallmarks of AI, and after a long week of reading AI-written stuff at work, I don't want to read "It's not X, it's Y" on the weekend. The concepts here may be amazin
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
1650 watts of liquid cooled Risc-V
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
At some point we're going to have these chips for a couple bucks in kids toys
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Bless your heart
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Quantum annealers (D-Wave machines) are basically analogue computers, with Josephson junctions as the primary component as opposed to oscillators. I wonder if they could render these images, too?
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Consider also that right now LLMs run slowly enough you can watch them think. I've seen a demo of an LLM running at an absurdly high speed and it reminds me of when I moved from a 2400 baud modem to a 14.4 - BBS screens that I could wa
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
I concur highly. Well, make sure you buy your cheap support contract, help beta-test Proxmox Datacentre Manager, and push for it. They could probably just onboard one of the open source authors as a contractor or something if enough compani
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
I will consider switching, but with like 400 VMs now it'd be a lot of work. Do you happen to know if it lets you deal with disks separately from the VM host? Used to use that flow on VMware, taint a machine but not its stateful seconda
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Ah, I mean load balancing like an AWS ALB; obviously one can use an Nginx or HAproxy for that, but it's not a primitive, you need to deploy a machine and run it. They have auto-balancing now? Damn. I wrote a balancer using the Google O
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Exactly. Might be the only place they have a semblance of home.
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
The problem with this idea is that it assumes responsible parents, which are not a given. I agree with you completely - I don't want any kind of controls on the Internet - but we live in a world where we cannot actually rely on parents
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
https://github.com/Telmate/terraform-provider-proxmox ... I run Ansible against Proxmox hosts to ensure the config on them is what I want, and then Terraform all VMs into place on them. It's not too far off from h
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
Just use Terraform against Proxmox and don't leave mysterious things nobody else knows how to work with.
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by mikestorrent 4mo ago
CLI is dandy but Terraform is even nicer. I run something like ten Proxmox clusters now around the world, and an AI agent can deploy a fully terraformed VM for me, tied into monitoring, asset mgmt, EDR, etc in a few minutes...

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