phkahler

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by phkahler 9mo ago
No questions. Just move on. Engaging in public spectacle isn't a good look for anyone.
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Not sure why people like the bay area so much. Move someplace else and retire. Most anywhere in the US is going to be dramatically cheaper. Buy a summer place on a lake in the Midwest for under 200k. Get a winter place somewhere warmer, sin
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Why do they need a visa for remote work?
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> I walk 4km to work when its nice out here in Europe. Could I do that in the USA? I had a business trip to Germany (from the US) and found it enlightening. We all went out to eat after work one night and a couple of the local German
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> It's not just processed foods, there is also a genetic struggle as well. Looking at my family living in the US and in the EU, being overweight is a thing for a large portion of us. It's not genetic, this is just your fami
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Tahoe made at least one undocumented change to timer events in the GUI. This resulted in a difficult to debug problem in solvespace. I suspect we were doing something "wrong" and had to correct it, but the fact remains they made a
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom. You might be interested in Darktable or the less common fork called Ansel. https://www.darktable.org/ https://ansel.photos/en/ These have Windows
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Never heard of that Linux variant. Use one of the big names: Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. If you have a choice don't use nVidia either, but the bigger distributions do handle them well.
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Exceptions should never be enabled by default. We live in a 64bit world so allocations failing indicates some other problem.
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> > why do we continue to allow them to operate Healthcare facilities? We don’t want to pay for them. When private equity is forced to sell, someone has to buy or the providers get shuttered. Sell? The point is that PE should neve
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> In the era of hitchhiking, the bandwidth for novelty was low. A driver on a long commute had no podcasts, no Spotify or audiobooks. A stranger with a story was high value. Haha! In the 90's I picked up a hitchhiker on the Pens
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> I wish I could buy RP2350 with the ARM cores being hard-fused disabled, "cheaper" since no ARM royalties would have to be paid. Better yet, put 4 RISC-V cores on there!
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> You're telling a just-so story, and you can tell because there isn't a simple schematic 1-2-3 story you can make from this about how these people exert control over home prices. We don't need to explain how they do i
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by phkahler 9mo ago
640K cores should be enough for everyone.
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Clock speed? Hyperthreading? AVX512? APX?
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> We have jobs, we have just decided that the people working those jobs are not deserving of prosperity. I read an article years ago talking about a man that worked as a janitor for a US public school. He was just getting by on whate
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by phkahler 10mo ago
The marginal cost of software is zero. You should expect not to pay for it unless you want pay for new development.
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> HPVs are extremely common: 80% of men and 90% of women will have at least one strain in their lives. This statistic seems to be used by some people to avoid the vaccine - they figure they've already had it at some point. The b
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> Nowadays people can just SWAT you... Right. My old argument would have been that the authorities should not respond anonymous calls - remove the anonymous factor there and punish false reports. The problem is there will always be m
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Couple of nit picks with all these articles about trying Linux. They should explain words like "distro" before throwing them around. This one also uses "Debian" without explanation. If the audience really is Windows user
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> The number of companies that have this much respect for the user is vanishingly small. I think companies shifted to online apps because #1 it solved the copy protection problem. FOSS apps are not in any hurry to become centralized
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> The great lakes are has nearly infinite water... No they do not. The flow there is already balanced, and lake levels are lower than usual. New York already added another tap for electric generation about 12ish years ago, and IMHO i
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> I think the internet would be a lot nicer place if people were held accountable for the things they say and do. I agree. I've often advocated for zero anonymity by default. Everyone traceable by anyone. The thinking is that ba
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Upgraded my 2400G to a 5700G with new 64GB RAM a while back, which is really the end of the road for my system. I got a solid 3x performance increase on multi-threaded apps. Also have enough RAM to play with some this AI stuff - yes even on
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> But without a nova they would never leave the inside of the star to find their way into a new planet. Sure dispersion takes a supernova, but production is a different word ;-)
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Holding position with BLDC or FoC controlled motors is IMHO fairly difficult. Maybe less so in a printer where you can apply current to hold position. We usually do speed or torque control with them. Even with an encoder or equivalent it&#x
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> The idea is that you should link the front and back ends, to prevent out-of-process GPL runarounds. Valid points, but also the reason people wanting to create a more modular compiler created LLVM under a different license - the ult
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Why all those heat sinks? Power electronics are getting very good these days with low RDS-on. Have stepper drivers not kept up?
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Why is a security researcher using a Free VPN? The standard wisdom is "if its free, you're the product". So you're going to proxy all your sensitive traffic through a free thing? Its not great to trust paid services with
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Why is it said that it takes a supernova to make elements heavier than iron? You're not going to get iron-iron fusion, but what about proton-iron fusion or similar? Also, we can make reactors here on earth that convert Thorium into Ur

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