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by smolder 2y ago
Yes, it is. Percentages don't mean anything in temperature unless it is Kelvin where 0 is truly 0. 1 to 4 degrees Celsius is not a 300% increase in anything but the integer representing temp. Try that in Fahrenheit or with a negative
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by smolder 2y ago
Discord has nearly finished killing IRC, so it must be time to enshittify!
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by smolder 2y ago
Reading the comments here seems to indicate to me people don't know a lot about the subject areas surrounding noise like acoustics and building construction, but I think that just reflects society more broadly. The amount of investment
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by smolder 2y ago
I tried to throw in some words like "mainly, most" to leave room for the many exceptions to my generalization, but perhaps it was a bit strongly worded. Even so, the point stands that people need a fall back plan to feel comfortab
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah, you can only make the furthest RAM chip in DIMM be so close to the CPU based on the form factor, and the other traces need to match that length. Distance is critical and edge connectors sure don't help.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's mainly people with generational wealth and robust safety nets that have the choice to take a risk for higher potential earnings. For most workers the risk just is too big, the odds of success too low, based not on their merit but
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by smolder 2y ago
I don't think your post here is substantive. You are only vaguely complaining about an ill-defined group of people, as is customary in political speech. If you wanted to discredit "numerous books" you should have named at lea
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by smolder 2y ago
They were always a bad idea. They only make sense in a world with limitless energy, even if every other design hurdle was cleared.
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by smolder 2y ago
I don't think they're confused about episodic vs. serialized shows; they're talking about the plot structure of serialized shows often having a change of direction at every season boundary instead of resolution of the existi
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by smolder 3y ago
*looks to be
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by smolder 3y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call humans robots, and I don't think compelling corporations to give out access to LLMs is reasonable, frankly. I do agree with you as far as the idea that people deserve a right to privacy that extends
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by smolder 3y ago
I think the better starting point would be that businesses have no right to share personally identifying information about their customers (short of court orders) and the carve outs go the other way. I should then grant the "identity h
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes. The data hoarding creates endless opportunity for abuse and only marginally improves the utility of things like advertising. The case of insurance providers having a microscope into everyone's lives is simply dystopian. As with po
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by smolder 3y ago
I'd say they haven't been very competitive with AMD in performance per watt/dollar in the ryzen era, specifically due to process advantage. (On CPU dies especially, with less advantage for AMDs I/O dies.) I'd agree
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by smolder 3y ago
The take away should probably be that while indoors for long periods, you should sit with a window nearby and within view, so you can focus on far away objects periodically. (I've heard 15 second every fifteen minutes or 20 every 20 as
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by smolder 3y ago
You're right, it seems I mistook some of what you wrote as unserious. Apologies. My take on robot rights is they aren't something we need to worry much about for a long time, since robots aren't alive or anywhere close to it.
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by smolder 3y ago
It's hard to tell because it's satire without a stance. They're at least as confused as the apparent targets of their satire.
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by smolder 3y ago
The way to do that would be with a chip & socket that has 4 independent memory channels (threadripper I think has eight now, but maybe used to have four?) and a many-layered motherboard that optimizes the routing and placement of each d
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by smolder 3y ago
+ Brominated vegetable oil (also banned in the EU)
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by smolder 3y ago
Meant to say "overconsume" rather than "overcome"
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by smolder 3y ago
I doubt simple sugars are a serious threat by themselves either. The dose makes the poison. Straight candy is bad for you but having sugary cereal or an energy bar occasionally is not an issue. Industrialized diets encourage us to overcome
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by smolder 3y ago
Your personal take is that of someone who hasn't been bullied or abused by officers of the law, I'm assuming. Consider that some people have, and they may want police accountability, with no desire to sow chaos.
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm not the previous poster, but the words "by someone elected" don't belong in your question. No citizen with a brain is going to select police to review their own behavior, even if they are selecting them to do policin
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by smolder 3y ago
Yeah, very many people can't afford a decent lawyer when they need one, and might not get one even if they can, in which case legality really is... aside.
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by smolder 3y ago
I get the impression this law exists more for political reasons than for practical application --not that it won't be applied. Floridian voters seem to like the police but hate taxes. Granting powers to the police to help them harass &
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by smolder 3y ago
They have offered to give away the key patent... I get the sense people aren't reading the story here.
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by smolder 3y ago
I think you'll pay high health insurance premiums regardless of whether anyone gets hurt because it's a parasitic industry and we live in a culture of bottomless greed.
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by smolder 3y ago
'What if'?. What makes you think this is even a possibility?
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by smolder 3y ago
Its extremely unlikely they would offer to open up the patent and then say "haha, fooled you!" once the law takes effect. It would do them more harm than good in the long run to lie to lawmakers & everyone else.
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by smolder 3y ago
This is pretty true. Sawstop adds more to the cost of a low end table saw than a low end table saw is worth.

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