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by scarygliders 3y ago
I've never spotted one in the wild either, but, y'know, I like to not be the one who first finds one out... the bad way. ;)
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Quite, I was thinking about doing so. I just scanned it with picklescan, which found nothing malicious. I just updated my original reply.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Hmmm. The model is a ckpt instead of a safetensor. Pondering on whether to keep proceeding trying this out or not... EDIT: a scan with picklescan[0] found nothing.. exciting. [0] https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan
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by scarygliders 3y ago
The amount of sheer bile and hostility towards Musk on this HN item alone says a lot about the hivemind at work here. Unsubstantiated claims abound. I mean, it's OK to dislike Musk - there are one or two things he says which I don&#x27
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I learned about punch cards, when I discovered my high school in Scotland, in the 1980's, had card readers that were lying on a shelf unused for years. It was the Physics teacher who ran a computer club I'd joined in the school. W
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Yeah I tested with Firefox.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I can get in via browser but not via the desktop client.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
According to my "smart" meter, my electricity tariff - which is variable rate - is currently 28.59 UK pence per KWh, which roughly translates to 0.33 of your Euros/KWh. Plus a ridiculous "standing charge" of 68 UK p
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by scarygliders 3y ago
You can have all the best and lovely EV tech. ever, but until and unless electricity prices come down, and "filling up" an EV with stored energy is cheaper than filling up an ICE or hybrid vehicle, AND you get the same range in an
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Beat me to it. tl;dr "Don't use Python/Cython or C/C++. Use Rust instead, it's better." is basically that article.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Elite: Dangerous has 400 billion star systems - that's star systems Each of those systems has at least one star, or black hole. There can be zero planets, or other stars or black holes, or a combination of stars, black holes, or plan
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I could. But I 100% take full advantage of Qt's signal and slot mechanism. Also, in many ways, GUI applications written in Python are not so much CPU bound, but Python GIL bound. If you're writing a Python/Qt application, you
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by scarygliders 3y ago
> For the second type of system, I can't remember the last time where I wrote one where I had in-process parallelism/concurrency with shared resources (even in langs where there's no GIL). It would just get too confusing a
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NASA Reestablishes Contact with Voyager 2(twitter.com)
19 points by scarygliders 3y ago|2 comments
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by scarygliders 3y ago
> Welcome back, Voyager 2. >@NASA > has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hour
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by scarygliders 3y ago
In a way, I do. Which is why I use self-hosted Gitlab ;)
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Agreed. Some rooms have so many user and so much chat history, that my own puny homeserver struggles to join them. I've tried all sorts of tweaks - from tweaking the PostgreSQL service, to using things like noatime etc. on the ext4 fil
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I've been on IRC since the 90's and was an Op for Undernet #Linux & #Japan for many years, used to run an IRC server for a small IRC network back in my London days, and also ran a server for the same little network in my Japan
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by scarygliders 3y ago
"suggest" "further research is needed"
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I think that most people wish to just carry on their lives without interference from nanny-state lovers who just LOVE to dictate to others how they should live their lives. Seriously, fuck that nonsense. If I choose to lead an unhealthy lif
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by scarygliders 3y ago
A different study finds otherwise. "The study found that, since MUP was introduced in May 2018, there has been no change in the proportion of harmful drinkers. A small drop of 3.2 units per week in their consumption was “not robust” an
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by scarygliders 3y ago
This is, to put it bluntly, bollox. A prime example of a "health tax" such as this is the Scottish Nationalist Party's tax on alcohol - in a bid to increase health by putting a minimum pricing on alcoholic beverages. The resu
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by scarygliders 3y ago
El Nino/La Nina are completely different phenomena from jet streams; the former are to do with sea water, the latter are high velocity streams of air in the high atmosphere.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
> how significant was Evi Nemeth's UNIX administration handbook to you? Never encountered it. I presume it was available in the UK, but my Unix courses in college didn't use it, and after college I started off as a CAD operator
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I have become the old-timer ;)
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Indeed it will but I just like to make /sure/ ;)
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by scarygliders 3y ago
In ye olde unixe days, I learned a habit. That habit was; # sync # sync # sync # halt When powering down ye olde unixe maschine. It was so far back I just vaguely remember I'd read that somewhere; possibly in a ye olde unixe manual, bu
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by scarygliders 3y ago
That too. One of my all-time favourite memes.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I always thought the old/current Thunderbird logo looked like an envelope wearing a wig.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Elite: Dangerous and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey - the latest versions of Elite - still use procedural generation in order to generate each one of the 400 billion star systems in their shared galaxy. The proc gen is also consistent and persist

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