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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm sure if Jobs were alive to see the Cybertruck, he'd think that Musk has no taste.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
When such laws/doctrine have been widely accepted as settled for many decades, it becomes arguable that it's an instance of judicial activism by SCOTUS, and possibly a power grab to pick and choose on a case-by-case basis which la
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> And yet none of those items are out of reach of the average person Average person - not average American or individual from developed countries. I know of software that's well out of reach of even the average American. > The
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by sangnoir 2y ago
As a co-equal branch of government, the legislature has the right to delegate its rule-making authority as it deems fit and provide oversight to whatever individual or body they delegate to - or create said body through passage of a new l
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You expect the cost of a self replicating object to remain out of reach of the average person? Yes. What's the cost of relocating software, or a movie, or an audio file? Very close to 0 (a few cents at most), and yet observe how m
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The US has some of the highest rates of interracial marriages, relationships, etc. in the world This is a fairly recent development. As recently as 1995 (1 generation ago), the majority of Americans disapproved of interracial marriages
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I speculate that congress gets negative approval ratings as they are the proxy for the federal government agencies This is not consistent with the data (over time). Congress approval used to be much higher that of agencies, with more p
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Is that your most charitable take on my position? FWIW, I'm describing the status quo - how does that "remove democracy", and from where? That said... > It is a terrible reason to remove democracy. I'm speculating
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm willing to bet the FDA, SEC and other "technocratic" oversight agencies have higher approval ratings than congress. HN is not the entirety of the American Landscape indeed Edit: I just checked - Gallup has the lowest rank
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The supreme court recently curtailed the latitude of federal agencies have in making rules - they were aiming for the EPA, but the blast radius is huge. The effects of that ruling wil reverberate for years to come.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This made me think of thr differences FPGAs and microprocessors - with "more laters" being equivalent to "more gates"
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This argument would be more convincing if Houston didn't have any underground infrastructure.
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> Politics is definitely a factor. It's also election year. The state agencies didn't submit the emergency declaration work before the storm hit like they usually did in years past - this is not their first rodeo, so it can&#
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You've just painted a clearer picture than I did: the crux is that it is a supply-side problem.
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> My point was that a lot of older software, especially desktop apps, did not have such wild dependencies. Therefore this was less of an issue. Anyone who worked with Perl CGI and CPAN would tell you managing dependencies across environm
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You'd have a better time working with Windows 7 than a 2.x Linux kernel. I love Linux, but Microsoft has longer support Windows for its operating systems.
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> People make the argument that is a giant datacenter is consuming 50% of some local hydro installation, everyone else is town is buying something else that is less green. I don't think that's a cogent argument. It's akin
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I also want to set up a NAS on a mini-PC with some sort of attached external storage, but I haven't been able to get past this blocker You could also buy a PCIe to multiport SATA (RAID) card, but you'll also need a bigger[1]
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You can still have logs. What I'm suggesting is that vast amounts of unstructured logs, are worse than useless Until you need them, the you'd trade anything to get them. Logs are like backups, you don't need them most of
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Borrowing money becomes more expensive so companies will focus on their own needs (or surviving) rather than giving or outreach programs. All the (Big tech) companies - not just Apple and Nvidia - have higher revenues and profits now
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The Apple et al suit was many years before the post-covid layoffs: which I was referring to in my comment. That settlement favored Apple, Google and the other conspirators because they only paid out a fraction of what they would have paid
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Isn't running a NAS on top of USB storage very strongly discouraged? TrueNAS cautions against it. You're right, and I don't recommend USB as the only backup solution. I an old eSATA enclosure - not sure if that's
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I think people wildly underestimate how protectionist people - particularly educated software engineers and PhDs will get once an AI model directly impacts their source of wealth. I don't know what power you imagine SWEs and PhDs
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You can buy a DAS (Direct Attached Storage) enclosure[1], some even support RAID. If your Nuc is multipurpose, you could then run a virtualized TrueNAS guest (BSD or linux) in QEMU and give it control of the DAS block device for ZFS pools.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This is sometimes known as "walla". This tutorial is specific to Sound Particle (audio app), but the basics can be implemented easily from scratch. https://youtu.be/nigFrC2mORk?si=Cktdb3aTrIs5vUbB
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A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. The burden of proof is on you: happy readings, and good day.
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So the prior textualism was just tactical?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Chief Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing for the 10/3 majority on June 30, 2028 "Well, ack-tually, the framers did not place term limits and congress has unduly restricted his constitutionally protected right to participate in our de
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This is disinformation. There are multiple instruments for students debt forgiveness - he is using workarounds that SCOTUS did not rule against to achieve the same policy result. The supreme court shouldn't rule on policy like you sugg
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It also makes it easier for partisan rulings on a case-by-case basis. If defendant is on your team: allow it, if not, issue a self-contained ruling (or don't pick up the case at all if lower courts ruled against them). We have front-ro

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