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by paulmd 2y ago
the problem is things like forced updates are low-key good security policy. users already have the power to defer updates for up to 35 days. What do people do with it? defer it as long as humanly possible and then whine when the timer run
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by paulmd 2y ago
You have to be careful of citing spec-sheet TDPs because AMD allows their CPUs to boost way above the configured TDP where for apple it’s normally obeyed, and usually not reached unless it’s a mixed cpu-gpu load like gaming. Pointing to TDP
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by paulmd 2y ago
yes. everyone knows chemotherapy agents are going to be bad, and that they can’t be continued forever etc, and yet the long-term prognosis is absolutely clear as to what happens if you don’t take them. drugs don’t need to be used long-ter
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by paulmd 2y ago
Siena would make a very practical HEDT socket - it's basically half of a bergamo, 6ch DDR5/96x pcie 5.0. It's sort of an unfortunate artifact of the way server platforms have gone that HEDT has fizzled out, they're most
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by paulmd 2y ago
As you pick up your coffee be sure to thank them for their body’s water. It is a sign of deep respect.
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by paulmd 2y ago
that's generally the thrust of elvis laws, yes - I'm not sure they're coherent as a concept though. why is elvis impersonation "traditional" in a way that "dolly parton impersonation" is not? and let&#x27
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by paulmd 2y ago
we are talking about someone getting mad because they didn't like the word "copaganda" getting used in a discussion lol, how is this anything other than a total distraction from the point? sealioning is right, bringing it up
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Imagine if SELECT field1, field2 FROM my_table was faster than SELECT field2, field1 FROM my_table. possibly it might not be smart enough to reorder an index on (field1, field2), or it had some weird internal constraint on tuple orderi
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by paulmd 2y ago
weee wooo weee wooo here comes the tone police! (if only real cops could get that kind of response time/clearance rate!) like that’s just a shitty argument yourself, you lost the argument on the facts so you’re complaining about how th
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by paulmd 2y ago
"obviously breaking encapsulation", like if you pull some interface from the dependency through yours, then yeah, you're broken when they break things. That's a generalized interface problem and java can't help you
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by paulmd 2y ago
java has the "rootCause" constructor which wraps another Exception (actually Throwable) of any type passed in. so the idiomatic way would be to create your own error types, but to pass the lower-level exception in as the rootCaus
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by paulmd 2y ago
yes. it's been obvious for a long time that "but the e-waste" is almost universally deployed as an argumentary "get out of jail free" card that is intended to be impossible to argue against, even when there isn&#x2
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by paulmd 2y ago
I do this all the time just for common tools around the house. The easy solution to never being able to find a screwdriver is... going to harbor freight and buying a half-dozen screwdrivers and staging them in areas where you commonly use
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by paulmd 2y ago
How can you look at numbers like this and think otherwise? Market didn’t exist a few years ago and now it’s going to go up infinitely? https://i.imgur.com/20DZLRg.jpeg
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by paulmd 2y ago
there’s no “maybe” about it, people forget that this was legislatively mandated at the time, and considered a positive step to prevent muggings and phone theft (which were drastically reduced by these measures). And this was actually done
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by paulmd 2y ago
It’s a bubble, but people have been saying it’s a bubble since before we hit the levels it will probably collapse to when the bubble pops. It might not even pop down below, say, where they were at the start of the year, even with another 6
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by paulmd 2y ago
Eminent domain can be used to acquire the assets if needed. It’s just not a popular idea to libertarian American political sensibilities to use those laws to acquire assets for the public instead of acquire the public’s houses to build shop
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by paulmd 2y ago
In the long run, less-free societies using free speech as a Trojan horse to disrupt our social cohesion will probably be the end of the US. It’s not like anyone can feasibly invade or anything, and we’re the world reserve currency so it’s n
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by paulmd 2y ago
Welll yes, and libel law incorporates precisely these sorts of protections! People would in fact get in field and kill each other precisely because “they disliked it so much they wanted to stop the other person from speaking”. Dead people d
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by paulmd 2y ago
well, no real-estate is fungible, that's not an actual distinction between GP’s thesis and mine. I don't think that's the fundamental/underlying dysfunction of the real-estate market, because the same induced-demand ef
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, exactly. But sometimes a vast increase in supply actually induces additional demand by itself . Demand would not have increased by itself if you did not increase the supply, potentially even if the price increases . Traffic lanes wor
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Most of the countries these artifacts come from don’t have the ability to properly store and protect them. ok, but the problem this article is discussing is that the British museum doesn’t have that ability either. if you don’t know wh
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by paulmd 2y ago
it’s not possible to be legally bound to commit a crime, so if those “legal issues” (nice euphemism) are great enough then it doesn’t matter what some dead dudes agreed to. the contract is toilet paper from 400 years ago, even if you really
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Suppose you built twice as many housing units as you had residents. Rents wouldn't decrease? Why not? People make the same specious arguments about gpu production during mining booms etc. Surely producing more gpus will lower the
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by paulmd 2y ago
Fun thing about a two-sided marketplace, it has two sides, and sellers need buyers too. In most cases they need buyers so drastically that they will actually pay for the privilege of access to the buyers! You can make all these same argumen
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by paulmd 2y ago
> The distinction here is that Google is rolling out half-baked rubbish that is palpably unreliable. nowhere in that sentence did you mention AI, though. If you take AI out of the picture, isn’t it equally problematic if they had some ot
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by paulmd 2y ago
I think the interesting thing is that this lower barrier to entry reveals some opinions people have about image that may have been incongruent with the way the law was written, that is now driven into sharper focus by making the barrier to
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by paulmd 2y ago
> This is in the context of using replicating someone’s appearance specifically for porn using their images as an input. this fundamentally has nothing to do with AI and people have been using photographs as feedstock for photoshops sinc
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by paulmd 2y ago
Claiming that iTerm2 is only a single key press away from silently registering an OpenAI account, entering your credit card number, and sending non-participating users’ shell pipeline data straight to Sam Altman is possibly the most moronic
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by paulmd 2y ago
> And unlike HTTP, most of the other application-layer protocols we use today don't have anything like a standardized way to communicate "user-imposed constraints on how they want you to process their request, while still givin

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