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by qball 8d ago
Smaller node size means less voltage. Power is heat, and the amount dissipated is the square of the voltage- a processor that is reliable at less voltage means you can get a lot more frequency in the same heat envelope. Yet reliability decr
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by qball 9d ago
>Except it makes no sense because it asserts the primacy of reality over the private politics of the companies training the models That is exactly what normal human beings want our computers to do, and it's why the vast majority of
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by qball 10d ago
The high performing economies that didn't make it illegal to build are high performing because of that. This is why the highest standard of living on the planet, with the highest GDP over the largest population... is in Texas. The fact
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by qball 13d ago
Perhaps, but remember that people have taken cues from their most-used battery-powered device. In this case, their phone (or laptop). A degraded battery in these devices leads to things like random power-offs or dropping to 1% randomly (th
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by qball 14d ago
Which is why "just build your own infrastructure" is never a good faith argument.
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by qball 23d ago
Your child is more at risk of being abducted by the State than some random stranger. That's why they don't go outside. You can teach them to run from the panel vans; teaching them to run from the police (who were called by some K
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by qball 26d ago
Sounds like you had a pretty lame childhood to me, and in the 30 years since it's only become worse. Much like panda bears in captivity, it is unusually difficult to give a human being a life that resembles what it evolved for, which m
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by qball 26d ago
>while cotton underpants will vary in fiber content So can old shirts, those are bigger and harder to bury straight up and down, and have no identifying marks (underwear does have the rubber, which acts as a skeleton and frame of referen
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by qball 26d ago
Because cotton underwear is arguably the right answer: "Buy this item made out of this material, bury two of them in the ground" requires no further cutting or measuring, and most people would have to go to the store to buy a cut
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by qball 1mo ago
>the broader country Not really, though. Despite what even a good chunk of Canadians (or yourself) might think, the country doesn't end at Toronto. If the government wasn't worried about the effects, they wouldn't be in a
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by qball 1mo ago
>The Carney administration is on much firmer political ground I don't think so. Time really isn't on Carney's side either. Carney's new tariffs fall on those who, in aggregate, did not vote for him. The average Carn
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by qball 1mo ago
So long as the way to improve software is "just stack another VM on it", software will continue to get slower. Cutting edge development practice in 2025 was using a big JavaScript framework (not quite VMs, but they inherently stra
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by qball 1mo ago
>Apparently the old way was to build in unauthorized locations and then pay the fines as part of the operating budget. Yes, that's called a "tax".
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by qball 1mo ago
Just print more money and devalue the currency, which is how you currently budget anyway. That was the means by which relief funding was appropriated from the public in 2020, and it was a huge success. Most people don't even know that
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by qball 1mo ago
>It feels like we do not have the money to begin to prepare and fix things that need fixing to continue the life we have. Oh, you have the money. You just don't want to spend it, for that would shift the balance of political power i
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by qball 3mo ago
>The claim I'm making is that they are underprotected online. Yes, and not only is it wrong (they are protected sufficiently), but giving an inch to the same moral impulses and people that resulted in them being overprotected in the
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by qball 3mo ago
>Young people are barely living Yeah, I wonder what caused that? The most freedom they actually get is on the Internet, that's why they all hang out there.
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by qball 4mo ago
We hope the social redistribution that would have to be there to help those that fail, and those employed to teach them, is less expensive than every citizen forced to sacrifice 8 years of prime life time and tens of thousands of dollars. B
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by qball 4mo ago
Yes, and here "Canadians want" is used to say "the people within 100km of the St. Lawrence want". (That's actually part of the problem.) Claimed identity isn't a suicide pact and consent of the governed isn&#x
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by qball 5mo ago
>it's because chargebacks Sorry, but that's just bullshit. This is nothing more than your standard pseudogovernmental meddling in the "just build your own financial infrastructure" vein, and it's coming from for
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by qball 5mo ago
>A sign that we are approaching such levels would be nobody wants to enter those nations legally or illegally any more. That is already true of Canada, as it is no longer possible to live like a Canadian [in the way they were hoping for]
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by qball 5mo ago
It's LPC policy to listen to these kinds of lobby groups, no matter how unhinged they might be. A significant participant in a lobby group with similar aims, Nathalie Provost, is actually a sitting MP in Quebec.
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by qball 5mo ago
Because there's zero electoral accountability, and the voting bloc that insist it be that way are so obsessed with importing all the bad parts of the Commonwealth here that this will not change for the foreseeable future. That Commonwe
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by qball 5mo ago
Most parents are too afraid of the State kidnappers (and the Karens who call them) for that.
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by qball 5mo ago
No. Historically, this just ends up with Toronto and Montreal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver) treating the rest of the country as a resource colony. The pretense that consent of the governed is equally geographically distributed
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by qball 5mo ago
Legacy and marketing have as much to do with it as local variations in how bores are actually measured do. All the .38s and 9mms of the world are just slight variations on .36" round ball, .44 caliber pistols are generally .429",
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by qball 6mo ago
>It’s not even clear that Boomers are that much more likely to be NIMBYs Most Boomers aren't NIMBYs, but most NIMBYs are Boomers. This is a thing that uniquely threatens them because their home is their primary investment, so anythi
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by qball 7mo ago
Ignoring, of course, the fact you're already waking up in total darkness in Standard time. At least with perma-DST you at least get daylight once you leave work; with perma-Standard you don't get that either.
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by qball 7mo ago
>Prospective parents are saying "fuck that shit" and simply choosing not to have children. Or in other words, they've been priced out of the market. If there will be no sociofinancial niche for their children to inhabit th
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by qball 7mo ago
>it takes less power to move a lighter and smaller car A smaller car has less space for battery than an SUV. Because batteries are extremely heavy, that smaller car needs to be overbuilt compared to its gasoline counterpart, which furth

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