rewmie

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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > There's still some real science out there if you want it. :) I don't think this is a correct way of representing things. Science is a process, and it does not depend on finding out something someone never saw before or bother
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > Oh no; less office culture. I might have to partake in local community culture! Office culture sometimes doesn't exist beyond convoluted PR stunts from HR. Fake smiling while congregating in front of the company's corporate l
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   I don't agree, at least in general. There are companies who leverage their workforce to get tax benefits and other benefits from countries, regions, and even municipalities. They leverage their worker's pay and disposable income,
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > (...) developers just don't do it because it's so difficult. I don't think this is true, or at least generalizable. I've been involved in a few tickets to turn problematic sync calls to async calls or background tas
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   The article itself illustrates this nonsense attitude by mentioning 60% latency drops but a) what does that translate in ms, b) were those savings relevant at all? A cursory glance over the article leads to some references to P99 latencies
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > Article claims that Fediverse (Mastodon) engagement is down Lemmy seems to grow quite nicely. Doesn't that count as fediverse?
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > Lockdowns were sold to the people as something that would stop the spread. If you can get every infected person to infect less than one other person on average, you can stop the spread of an infectious disease completely. At least in t
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > Lenovo X1 charges $170 to go from 8GB to 16GB. I have a Beelink miniPC that takes $70 to upgrade to 32BG of RAM, and that involves buying 2*16GB of RAM. That's 1/3 the cost to get twice the memory you mention in your case. Th
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   by rewmie 3y ago

   > You can probably extend that to your family, maybe a bit further, but at a certain scale it just becomes impossible (and undesirable) because of individual variations in occupation, lifestyle, risk and infinitely many other factors. An
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > That the Chernobyl exclusion zone has become an animal sanctuary is held out as an example of ability of ecosystems to tolerate low-level radioactivity. I'm not sure what's the meaning of that statement. Chernobyl might have
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > Besides the economic harm and potential developmental harm induced by closing schools for kids, I think lockdowns did incalculable social harm to society. Don't confuse correlation with causality. You had politicians abusing the c
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > Every Apple product post reliably brings this same tiresome comment. Most people don’t need (...) Why are you trying to argue that the baseline specs from 10 years ago are somehow still acceptable today in supposedly high-end product l
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    Thanks for bringing up the SSD problems plaguing MacBooks. From Apple's discussion forum. "If Mac M1’s built-in SSD died" - 2020 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > I can't imagine having more than a dozen tabs open, period. You tab hoarders will never make sense to me... Dashboards can easily take two or three tabs. The bug tracker is opened on a tab as well as the ticket page. You have a pu
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > That would be fair if OO/FP posts had always mentioned that the ideas were borne out of academia and don't necessarily easily apply in other domains, but that ship has sailed.. OO has been widely adopted because it maps almos
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > (...) but Firefox's Container Tabs is hard for me to imagine losing. Are you referring to Firefox's multi-account containers extension? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    This is a very poorly written article with a clickbait title. The word "fail" appears only once in the whole text, which is in the title description itself. This is what the article actually states: > Smythe expects, however, 8
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > I'm not sure why you'd classify everything up to destroying the skin as 1-3 and then label 4 as destroying bone. I'd wager that from a medical standpoint there is no functional difference between burning through fat laye
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > That's why you can even find C++ libraries use this idiom even though C++ obviously has `private`. It's about having a stable, opaque API. In C++ this is a popular idiom and a standard technique covered by multiple references
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    Thanks for pointing that USB-C supports alternate mode specs such as DisplayPort and HDMI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Alternate_Mode_partner_s...
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > YouTube videos about metalworking are how I learned there are several degrees of burn worse than 3rd degree. Isn't 4th degree the last stop? https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con... Aft
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > In my (admittedly limited) experience metal casting is a waste of time Don't you mean pastime? > It never goes right. It always has porosity. It very rarely even fills the entire mould. It sounds like a few sets of skills that
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > I guess I should point out these kind of insults are against the site guidelines. It's not an insult. It's a clear reference to the fact that your source does not support your claim, and it actually rejects it. > You are q
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > Unix tools aren't cross platform (...) I just pointed out there are Make implementations for Windows. And I'm not even mentioning WSL or MinGW. I don't know what else to say.
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > At this scale, if google (...) How many companies do you know who operate nearly as many servers as Google?
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > The latest report from Lazard on LCOE also gives similar numbers: I'm not convinced you read the doc you cited. In it, it clearly states that the levelized cost of energy for solar PV rooftop residential ranges from $115/MWH
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    So far in 2023 all CVEs reported on Linux had at most a CVE score of 0-1, which is also the score of all CVEs reported for FreeBSD. https://www.cvedetails.com/cvss-score-charts.php?product_id=... What exactly is your defini
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > (...) consumer roof-top solar is that it is the most expensive form of power ever created (...) Care to show the basis of your personal assertion? It's an extraordinary and unbelievable claim.
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > HTTP triggered cloud functions are my new favorite thing. What exactly are you talking about? Request handlers in HTTP servers? Function-as-a-service cloud computing services? Plain old RPC?
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    by rewmie 3y ago

    > It seems we are talking about different projects. Please point out a operating system that you feel has a better security track record than Linux.