sophacles

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by sophacles 3mo ago
Not really. Why would people pay so much for the $brand_name.com, etc if there wasn't a marketing component to it?
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by sophacles 3mo ago
You may have already read it, but portions of this sprawling (and very very good) essay by Neal Stephenson get into the topic: Mother Earth Mother Board - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by sophacles 3mo ago
Nah, if you spend a few minutes understanding one, the rest are easy.
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by sophacles 3mo ago
The actual paper is written by archaeologists for archaeologists - just like all papers are written by people in a feild for people in a field. Your complaint is like complaining that a CS paper doesn't even mention that P = NP is stil
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by sophacles 3mo ago
I wonder why dark fiber was so cheap in the early 2000s when google famously started using it to link their datacenters? Not to mention that a huge percentage of the fiber laid in the 90s was never used. It was put in the wrong place or tur
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by sophacles 3mo ago
Nuclear and datacenter comparisons aren't the apples to apples type you're so fond of. Any safety measure that requires the humans to do the right procedures the right way for 10^5 years is not safety.
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by sophacles 3mo ago
Yeah and it's a myth that fracking makes water undrinkable. I'll bet anything you'd be the guy that won't drink a glass of the "perfectly safe, completely unaffected" water while making such utterly absurd clai
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by sophacles 4mo ago
And you regulate a militia by making sure all the bits work together, for instance by standardizing weapons and ammo. This is also a great argument for licensing - proving that you know how to properly work and use a gun seems like perfect
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by sophacles 4mo ago
A simple google search also pulls up explanations of the opposite. And plenty talking about how the grammar is extremely ambiguous. I actually like this ruling. I just think the absurd level of zealotry and bad/stupid/illogical re
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by sophacles 4mo ago
What an absurd thing to say. You just made my point - a well regulated militia vital to the amendment. So why in your vast wisdom are you opposed to regulations associated with a regulated militia?
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by sophacles 4mo ago
A well regulated militia would determine what types of guns, what ammo, what uniforms, what qualifies a member, etc. Besides the freedom of the State means that its not subordinate to another State. Not that random people get to shoot at th
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Which part of "a well regulated militia" is hard to parse exactly? The right to bear arms is the subordinate clause to the purpose of a well regulated militia. Since the purpose of that militia is clearly defined as "being ne
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Yeah! It was typed into a computer and never even put on paper. How can you say it was written at all? Further, can anything be "100% human writt even if it uses pen and paper? No of course not! Unless it is created by pricking a finge
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by sophacles 4mo ago
I'll believe that when I see tech companies bring up IPv6 integration before I do when setting up networking things.
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Ellipses where a comma would suffice? Definitely AI. Not even a good model.
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Rarely does one acquire dollars for the sake of having dollars. Dollars are power tokens, and the acquisition of them beyond a certain point is almost always accompanied by a motive.
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by sophacles 4mo ago
I was at the hardware store this morning. I bought a hammer. It sure seemed like a product... with the whole "being displayed on store shelves" and "available for purchase" thing. There were several different hammers the
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by sophacles 4mo ago
I get it. Some software had a couple bugs at first, as does all new software. And now some whiny people who have never, don't currently, and will never provide value to the open source ecosystem have spent more years whining and compla
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Yeah, it's sad that a few dozen very vocal people got upset that they would have to read the manual and maybe get rid of some of the hacky nonsense they cobbled together to get an equivalent experience to what default pulse provided. T
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Wierd. I like systemd. It's given me more stability and control over my systems than anything before provided. I like pulseaudio - it made the linux audio experience better than anything that came before it. I don't live in terror
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Well theres a few more: * coalescing jobs with control over the granularity of it. That means you can say "i want this job run on at 14:30:02 exactly" and I want these jobs run at 19:21 or so, 19:22 or so: and 19:23 and set your r
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by sophacles 4mo ago
My point was purpose built doesn't mean its the best tool for the job. As for the rest of the drivel: so what it was used for a long time. That just means it was pretty good. That doesn't mean it has to stay forever, just that a n
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by sophacles 4mo ago
I designed a tool for flying. It's only designed for flying. It is based on the principles of the brick.
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by sophacles 4mo ago
Total n00b here. My first linux install was pretty recently, in late 1996 or early 1997 (sometime that winter). I just don't get it. Like is the core sentiment "How dare they address obvious system shortcomings"? Is it "
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by sophacles 5mo ago
They've been moving their NOSes to a linux based platform.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
To quote the article: > Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action,
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by sophacles 5mo ago
FTA: > Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was no proa
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by sophacles 5mo ago
> Well, first of all I did enlist in the military and go to war in Iraq. Congratulations, you have experience in pointless middle east wars, and expertise at ineffective action which takes 20 years to utterly fail. It seems like the best
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by sophacles 5mo ago
> Do you really believe this? Anytime someone or some country does something, it only indicates that the specific action is taking place? > Here's one then: China has no intention of attacking Taiwan - it's just practicing i
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by sophacles 5mo ago
> If you want to phrase what that person wrote in this way "That person" was literally you. I replied to you and quoted you. Are you sure DBz is beneath you? > Now it's fair, certainly, to speculate that Iran had no int

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