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by qayxc 4y ago
That's not a left or right issue - it's simply a fact of life. Example: you are free to verbally shit all over your boss and company in public; just don't expect to work there for much longer. Another example: you are free to
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by qayxc 4y ago
He is. He just - like most other free speech proponents - conveniently fails to mention the part about consequences. It's also no secret that he's very much fine with Claqueurs and boot lickers, but amusingly thin-skinned when it
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by qayxc 4y ago
I honestly fail to see how using a different terminal, typing "spell word ", looking through a list of suggestions and then entering a number followed by another keypress to copy said word into the clipboard and finally pasting t
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by qayxc 4y ago
This begs the question: has there ever been "real" journalism? Electronic publication opened the door for easy money in the form of ad revenue for very little effort and risk (compared to print media of old). Just looking at the c
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by qayxc 4y ago
I can only cite sources. Disputing the numbers would have to be taken up with Statista and their sources, I can't comment on this. The revenue chart looks more favourable for Microsoft (e.g. 20% share for Azure vs. 30% share for AWS),
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by qayxc 4y ago
GP seems to be oblivious to actual stats [0]. Last year, Azure was the 2nd biggest player in cloud computing, being "only" 2/3 of AWS' market share, but still having more than 3x the market share of the next biggest comp
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by qayxc 4y ago
Wait, so back in 1861 - the first and last time a civil war erupted in the US - it was due to Leftist taking over academia and then the whole country? Interesting. Or maybe you are from Europe, where civil war has a long tradition. But mayb
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by qayxc 4y ago
Sure, but there's something about saving one's life that's not quite the same as saving one's device or car...
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Agreed. Especially considering that the main threats are still good old social engineering and gullible users downloading and running malware. Attack vectors like Hertzbleed require considerable resources, detailed knowledge about the targe
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You can use tools like ThrottleStop [0] I use it on my laptop and run it to disable turbo boost most of the time -interestingly for performance reasons. Turbo boost leads to very erratic behaviour on laptops when you have long running CPU-i
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by qayxc 4y ago
I'd draw the line by trying to evaluate the utility of adding electronics vs. not adding it. RFID tags on clothing and other such items - good and reasonable, because it aids with logistics and has no major downsides for the customer (
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> I say this as someone that bought my first bitcoin at $5 and sold my last one for $4500. I left a lot on the table. It's called gambling and you should consider yourself lucky. Very, very lucky. You basically whine about 90000% RO
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by qayxc 4y ago
I gave this some more thought, because I find this topic fascinating and important in light of recent developments in the field. Sentience requires the ability to perform computations and to store information. This is the most basic necessa
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> Can we agree to remove "in any scientific sense" from there? No we can't, that's the entire point. As soon as you remove that, you remove any testable, repeatable observation, which is the whole point. > I think
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by qayxc 4y ago
> In the absence of a formal definition, any statement about "has sentience" is not only unfalsifiable, it's absurd. I have to disagree with you there. While it's indeed a question of faith (i.e. unscientific) to give
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by qayxc 4y ago
A rose by any other name... Also: > In this way the machine becomes an abstraction and a disguise for human ruthlessness. That's the key point right there. A machine is nothing but a predictable and designed application of natural f
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by qayxc 4y ago
Defining the term is hard. So hard in fact, that no one has managed to do it in millennia (it's not as if this question is new). We can, however, use proxies to get around the problem. Just like "life", "species", o
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> Maybe computers are "inherently oppressive" but this is about the weakest and most inneffective argument for that I can imagine. The whole thing was an incoherent mess. The author didn't even realise that every point h
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...and the exterior of the floppy drive
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Doesn't apply in case. He didn't gradually upgrade components, but swapped every part except for the case. Correct title should be: building a modern PC inside an IBM Aptiva case.
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by qayxc 4y ago
Wouldn't it be sufficient to just use a simple sun shade? There's no atmosphere that could transfer the heat so my naive assumption would be that a simple sun shade would do the trick.
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by qayxc 4y ago
Are you sure about that? Thermo-electric solutions are practically maintenance free, ultra-reliable, and mature technology. Even using a simple Stirling enginelike in NASA's Kilopower [0] project isn't super challenging expensive
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Boosts confidence in the company if the only way to get any comment is the social media account of the guy who also tries (tried?) to buy said social media.
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According to the paper, it's the absolute temperature that matters. The desorption is optimal at about 60°C to 70°C, meaning the absorption-desoprition cycle wouldn't work anymore if the ambient temperature is too high. The absorp
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One catch might be that it hasn't been tested at scale. The results are extrapolations from lab testing in a controlled environment. There's quite a number of inventions and breakthroughs that looked great in the lab but never mad
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Getting the water out from the spongy material could pose a challenge in hot environments. According to the paper, they use heating (60°C) to extract the water. In hot environments, however, ambient temperatures get quite close to that alre
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by qayxc 4y ago
That would be too hard, it's a kernel that's actually developed with security in mind and is subject to active research (e.g. by DARPA).
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Simple solutions aren't sexy enough. Heck, proper refuse collection service (garbage collection in the US) would be a start. See this report: https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/21134&#x
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by qayxc 4y ago
The company operates in Africa, where all of the plastic is just lying around. Properly designed landfills don't exist in most of the world (Africa, Asia, most of South America).
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It's lying around in open dumping sites otherwise - which is arguably much worse.

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