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by sterlind 3y ago
Sad news. I started a wiki on Miraheze years ago, that became a fledgling community. It became inactive after a few years but I really appreciated the no nonsense, ad-free, vanilla MediaWiki hosting. They provided an important service for n
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by sterlind 3y ago
- Pressing notifications brings up the wrong pages. - Back navigation is very messed up and unreliable. - Images, videos and posts often take a long time to load, and often just don't. - No ability to copy/paste text from posts. -
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by sterlind 3y ago
The person in this video did quite a good job, I thought, of speaking with free word order and using Latin constructions elegantly. I think he did try to make himself more intelligible (focusing on proper nouns that are easier for Italian s
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by sterlind 3y ago
It wasn't just about waiting for better information, though. The restaurant infection in Washington, where the spread of the virus matched convection currents from the air conditioning, along with the super spreader events from singing
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by sterlind 3y ago
I don't like being lied or condescended to, just because most people can't handle the information. Also, it often backfires. Like, in early 2020, when the CDC said masks were unnecessary, then that N95s were unnecessary, it was gl
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by sterlind 3y ago
> Hmm, I’m not familiar with cdqe. A quick search reveals that it sign-extends the lower 4 bytes into the full 8 bytes. Ah ha! A flash of insight illuminates my grasping waddles. Could it be that kmalloc() is implicitly defined at the c
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by sterlind 3y ago
Yeah, they certainly buried the lede. She was 32-34 weeks pregnant, apparently. 34 week preemies apparently have a >95% survival rate, and barely meet the threshold for needing NICU time. I'm very pro-choice but like, at that point
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by sterlind 3y ago
I don't think he does, because his religious beliefs are accommodated: as a Catholic who believes God created him as male, he can select "he/him." The pronouns he uses were listed there for him to pick. The form didn&#x2
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by sterlind 3y ago
this is more like your boss ordering lunch for a team, and sending a form with options for meat, vegetarian or other. but rather than selecting vegetarian, you select other and put in a screed about how eating animals is wrong.
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Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit I think that qualifies at trivial.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Some communities may move wholesale to one of the Reddit clones. For instance, a clone of r/traa is rapidly taking off on one of them. For communities with strong cohesion like traa, people will move as a group, and obviously any attem
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by sterlind 3y ago
but ultimately that's what happened. they're charged with criminal conspiracy, but rather than alleging some specific plot, the prosecutors say that using Tor and Tails proves their clandestine nature, and that nature is incrimina
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by sterlind 3y ago
I read Industrial Society to my parents last year. They were both quite surprised that, rather than just being the schizophrenic ramblings of a crank, it made a lot of sense and raised good points. Uncomfortable, finding yourself in agree
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by sterlind 3y ago
How so? They were fighting against ISIS, alongside YPG, who the US government (and probably France too) supported officially. It makes sense they were surveilled at first - France wants to make sure volunteers aren't actually support
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by sterlind 3y ago
it's an interesting thing to share, but I feel like HN's original title policy falls down here. this is literal CCP propaganda, and while it's easy to tell once you're there it feels weird not to mark it somehow.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Ah, thank you for correcting me.
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It might require the full spike protein, not just the receptor binding domain which is what the mRNA vaccines include. Also, I'm not sure how the coronavirus proper gets into the brain, but it seems likely it's through infecting s
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm glad your mental health is better, but you come across as an unreliable narrator. I very rarely have my comments removed, and when it has happened, it's never because I posted interesting facts about Cavendish bananas or how V
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by sterlind 3y ago
Unlike Russia, China actually makes stuff domestically. Like, a majority of the world's stuff, even. So their supply chain is rock solid. Also, China's corruption is a lot more.. functional .. than Russia. It oils the machine, bl
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by sterlind 3y ago
yes you do. you can use DeepSpeed. it's only like 2x slower.
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by sterlind 3y ago
there's a scene in Lain where a junkie is wandering around, wearing chunky AR goggles, haptic gloves and a backpack full of computer, festooned with cables, gibbering euphorically about how wired in he feels. so the show portrays AR -
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by sterlind 3y ago
Compute. The NVIDIA cards have way more tflops than the Mac SoC. A simple RTX 4090 has 16,384 CUDA cores. The M2's GPU has... 38 cores, apparently? The M2 GPU clocks in at 3.6tflops, compared to ~100tflops for the RTX 4090. And this is
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by sterlind 3y ago
I really wish the aliens would hurry up and give us fusion power already, and maybe the cure to all diseases, a theory of everything and quantum computing while they're at it. I didn't need compact discs that badly.
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by sterlind 3y ago
That's voltage, not amperage. Just because it's a 120V receptacle doesn't mean you can draw large current. My laptop charger gets booted off the grid pretty frequently on a full plane.
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by sterlind 3y ago
> Most Reddit spin-offs of the past several years have been focused on minimizing moderation, which ends up attracting people who tend to get banned from other places before the site gets a chance to form its own identity and pick up st
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for the next 15 years.
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by sterlind 3y ago
but just like tuition, the overall price seems to be increasing across the (college) board, especially for the prestigious schools. this purchase decision stuff is not working.
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by sterlind 3y ago
targeting a specific ethnic group would be extremely challenging. afaik, ethnicity is actually responsible for surprisingly little genetic variation. maybe you could e.g. come up with a spike protein that's 25% better at binding an ACE
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but alcohol actually kills people, unlike weed. and causes actual long-term damage, physical dependence, etc. just admit that the reason your country permits alcohol and executes weed smugglers is because alcohol is part of your culture and
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by sterlind 3y ago
so is the idea that YouTube can take a list of rules, e.g. "don't say the election was stolen," and automatically flag all the videos that break that rule? of course, it'd have to be nuanced enough to distinguish between

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