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by nimbius 4y ago
Depends on the customer I guess. For me I'll always choose AMD for its bulletproof Linux support.
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by nimbius 4y ago
I work on trucks for a living so i mostly just cosplay a programmer in my spare time, but I had a single teams meeting with our wellness/HR rep at the shop last year about an accident i had and that took almost an hour, had to be resta
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by nimbius 4y ago
if anyones wondering why an indictment might not have charges announced, its generally because the prosecution is working to limit the ability of the defendant to influence the court of public appeal before the trial. The prosecution is ce
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by nimbius 4y ago
First your kid doesn't have teeth and you want them to, now your kid has teeth and you wish they didn't...good grief. Pick a lane parents....
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by nimbius 4y ago
how is it in just five years microsoft has managed to pedal this once vibrant and bustling community of developers and creatives into a roaring dumpster fire of sketcky GPL breaking copilot AI and endless seemingly random outages. https:
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by nimbius 4y ago
OpenAI is certainly open, just for business is all. this is probably a controversial take but until i see a reference implementation in a GPL compatible license, openAI is just a parlour trick to milk cash from corpulent tech giants clawing
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by nimbius 4y ago
Pay closer attention. this is american capitalism, the implementation undertaken by the US itself as is relevant to the stories locale. it is not the definition itself.
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by nimbius 4y ago
The LA riots required nearly ten thousand federal troops to end. The alternative to reforming police brutality is ever escalating violence. Eventually law enforcement dissolves entirely as all cops become targets. This happened during the
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by nimbius 4y ago
requesting quota: poking the SRE or sysadmin to troll up and down the aisles of the colo datacenter sometime this week to find a QEMU hypervisor thats underprovisioned to the tune of $cores/$ram you want.
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by nimbius 4y ago
cloud computings darker secret is armies of overworked sysadmins and SRE's toiling in obscurity through exhausting oncall hours behind the scenes to keep everything running despite these sorts of cuts and mountains of tech debt.. anyo
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by nimbius 4y ago
Suspending educational loan payments is tapping the brakes on what is largely a trillion dollars of absolutely unsustainable debt Joe biden himself lobbied for and now lives in constant low key fear of. Stimulus checks were a feature of Geo
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by nimbius 4y ago
found the American ;) all joking aside, these sorts of watermarks regardless of their altruistic authenticity or perfection were routinely downplayed and ignored during the 2008 collapse. the Bush administration for all its best efforts
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by nimbius 4y ago
things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old f
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by nimbius 4y ago
wild...as a hunter who has made the trek to California a few times for Javelina hog and black bear, i had no clue they even offered a permit for salmon at all...its just not something advertised much.
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by nimbius 4y ago
true story: the last Harley Davidson i bought after I made Journeyman was financed through H-D Financing because in the 21st century vehicle companies are just thinly veiled loan companies. During the sit-down with the moneyman he grunted
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by nimbius 4y ago
I absolutely loathe this puerile tendency to attribute anything even remotely relatable to modern data systems as Shikata ga nai by definition. Grow up. this meatgrinder didnt just condense from aether. Someone wrote this, someone can cha
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by nimbius 4y ago
the key point is that rich VC's got what they wanted at the expense of the truly wealthy. The ops tempo remains unchanged however: Rate hikes will continue, despite this 'tantrum of the vichy.' the shot across the bow for ot
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by nimbius 4y ago
dont forget multinational processed food and snack vendors benefit immensely from the perception that hyperconsumption of sugar salt and fat is normal and good, and that your obesity is a shameless wonder to cherish unto the grave. look at
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by nimbius 4y ago
its the most cynical response ive seen in a long time, to basically reiterate a fundamental limitation of modern central banking in response to the very event thats occurring.
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by nimbius 4y ago
they do this because the board has a financial obligation to its shareholders to mitigate risk. they do this because the board also has a contract obligation to its content providers, artists and unions to safeguard against unlawful piracy
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by nimbius 4y ago
Incompetence. Generally speaking your content creators are your breadwinners as they afford the greatest potential for monetization on your platform. the balancing act is to create a brand-safe environment for consumerism while at the sam
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by nimbius 4y ago
Agreed. All the big players in fact have a vested interest in encumbering Firefox releases as this browser still provides the ability to use poweful adblocking, which directly affects ad revenue.
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by nimbius 4y ago
wild. does anyone know if linear polarization is specific to starlink? youd imagine a circular polarization would make for better reception over all. the second example in the video may have failed as the directionality/alignment of t
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by nimbius 4y ago
curious: for the blockIO engine can a qcow2 image be specified as a path? how do i run python in this? can i get to the BPF engine?
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by nimbius 4y ago
read the TOS. i dont know how many times it needs to be said, but at the end of the day the EULA and TOS for kindle and amazon books is a RENTAL agreement (and a pretty awful one at that.) the question that has to be settled by the courts (
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by nimbius 4y ago
If they are, they could take a page from chinas belt and road effort. The ussr was dissolved by a coward who didn't want to put in the effort to maintain glasnost and wasn't competent enough to engage satellite states for reforms
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by nimbius 4y ago
This is already happening near the shop I work at. Four office buildings and a giant courtyard are basically completely empty and abandoned. The adjacent parking structure is as well and has been for a long time but the old corporate logo
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by nimbius 4y ago
>and replace them with compatibility shims christ can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out and inexplicably make it not only uninstallable by the user, but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any
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by nimbius 4y ago
Bold of you to assume hn hasn't fully convinced me to abandon everything but maps ;) The 4x size increase is my biggest concern...too bloaty.
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by nimbius 4y ago
I've always seen AWS as a rather expensive answer to the build. Any other vps provider or even dedicated Colo is likely much cheaper and less locked-in than the amazon ecosystem. That having been said, the "reference architecture

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