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by rob74 7mo ago
They also write that Iran is "2/3 of Russia", when surface-wise it's not even one tenth, so I doubt that they meant that...
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by rob74 7mo ago
...also, Germany has 84,000,000 people, so definitely not half of Iran. > Having said that Iran could sink an american ship if the navy will become complaicent and will assume there are no threats. Also, this is an election year in the
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by rob74 7mo ago
IMHO naming characters after famous people is more likely to be considered an "honest" homage than naming a company after them...
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by rob74 7mo ago
Without being too familiar with the subject - another commenter referred to the "swiss cheese model": the O-ring design, the temperature etc. weren't the single cause, they were contributing factors , and the more contributi
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by rob74 7mo ago
...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.
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by rob74 7mo ago
Well, it turns out that it could scale up, it just needed more power than other architectures. As long as it was only servers and desktop PCs, you only noticed it in more elaborate cooling and maybe on your power bill, and even with lapto
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by rob74 7mo ago
Well, TBH it wasn't all FUD - hanging on to x86 eventually (much later) came back to bite them when x86 CPUs weren't competitive for tablets and smartphones, leading to Apple developing their own ARM-based RISC CPUs (which run cir
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by rob74 7mo ago
Another interesting episode "after the 486" was the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit, where Intel wanted to bury the ghost of the 8086 once and for all and switched to a completely new architecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by rob74 7mo ago
Por qué no los dos? If "-ium" makes nerds think of an element name, and others of a premium product, all the better. I'd bet both of these interpretations were listed in the original internal marketing presentation of the nam
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by rob74 7mo ago
A dungeon with glass doors and emergency exit signs? In that case, I can imagine at least two alternative scenarios: - "↑TIX∃" is not a mirror image of "EXIT", but some dwarven runes that mean something else entirely. -
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by rob74 7mo ago
One more similarity is how hard it seems to be to break up with an abusive partner: when I saw the "Windows anounces Recall - Linux increases its Steam market share by 25%" meme, I checked under https://www.gamingonlinu
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by rob74 7mo ago
Ok, I guess that explains the floppy shown in the 1995 "episode". Because floppies were already on their way out by 1995 - you still used them to copy data from one PC to another, but most software came on CD-ROM.
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by rob74 7mo ago
If you just want to say "like others", you could simply upvote one of the other comments? Anyway, looks like the telemetry has been removed due to popular demand: https://github.com/bjarneo/cliamp/commit&
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by rob74 7mo ago
As noted in another thread, it has since been removed: https://github.com/bjarneo/cliamp/commit/085734a86343a80176d...
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by rob74 7mo ago
Except that telemetry can give you more complete (and foolproof) information than what users report. But yeah, that could also be solved by having debug info that users can attach to their report, the app doesn't have to "call hom
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by rob74 7mo ago
Never mind an outsourced receptionist, some of those calls could be handled simply by the mailbox. Of course, some people will hang up once the mailbox message starts - but then again, some will also hang up once they realize they're t
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by rob74 7mo ago
Right, so it's time to dismantle environment/climate protection, worker safety/rights, employee protections etc. etc. like the Trump administration is currently doing over in the US, and make Europe great again?! (actually, M
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by rob74 7mo ago
That's probably for the best, really, prevents you from wasting your time reading lots of AI slop...
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by rob74 7mo ago
Is this based on anything real or just AI-generated slop meant to trigger angry reactions? It doesn't quote any sources for any of the stories, so as far as I can see, they're probably 100% made up...
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by rob74 7mo ago
At first, I also thought that rejecting collaboration excludes any kind of teamwork, but then I noticed the quotation marks - so they're apparently only rejecting quote-unquote-collaboration (as in "collaboration theatre": en
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by rob74 7mo ago
Yeah, that's what I did, eventually, but some people still need some software that only runs under Windows, or want to play games without messing around with Proton etc. etc.
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by rob74 7mo ago
Well honestly, that's the easiest problem to fix: just install any of the dozens of excellent and stable third party file managers. I for instance am (or was, while I still used Windows) a fan of Total Commander (actually, when I start
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by rob74 7mo ago
I'd love to share your optimism and trust in that country-that-shall-not-be-named's self-healing mechanisms, but its system is already centuries old and based on a sort of "gentleman's agreement" that each of the po
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by rob74 7mo ago
Well, if that's really the cause, then thanks CCC, I guess. For such a serious vulnerability which is probably non-trivial (not to mention expensive) to patch, is it really responsible to give only 3.5 months of time before disclosing
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by rob74 7mo ago
The question that comes up then is: how much traffic can Starlink handle until it gets saturated? I'm not sure it can handle even a significant percentage of the users that currently use wired connectivity. And if they see that demand
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by rob74 7mo ago
If you really have a loop that is reading from a database at 100ms each time, that's not because of not having optimized it prematurely, that's just stupid.
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by rob74 7mo ago
That thing in the lake in the China poster, is that some AI nightmare hybrid between a Japanese Shinto shrine and a Chinese pagoda (EDIT: no, it seems to be real: https://img.visiontimes.com/2022/01/hangzhou-ge3616
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by rob74 7mo ago
Aliens tried to contact us, but Trump's DHS deported them.
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by rob74 7mo ago
Yeah, maybe it's some kind of poetic justice for people who buy a tank-like car that looks designed to mow down unsuspecting pedestrians and cyclists, that can't be sold in the EU because of (amongst many other issues) a complete
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by rob74 7mo ago
> The term for the phenomenon, which can happen when there’s physical damage to the batteries, is “thermal runaway”. Battery fires also reach much higher temperatures than gasoline fires, making it easier for other parts of the vehicle

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