techjamie

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by techjamie 2y ago
I wrote a very simple script that did linear scaling between 36 to 70c, and it did a fantastic job of keeping my GPU at reasonable temps. It really doesn't need to be that complicated to function well.
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by techjamie 2y ago
Where I live the public defenders just try to convince all their clients to plead guilty and take the lower charge. Was sitting near a public defender with his client in the courtroom once and his lawyer just told him plead guilty and he&#x
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by techjamie 2y ago
With the exorbitant cost of changing out the batteries once they crap out, unless you planned to replace the car anyway by that point, it seems like leasing EVs would be the ideal solution. Drive it for the lease period, then when the time
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by techjamie 2y ago
The mind prioritizes information over where it obtained that information. It's a frequent cause of accidental plagiarism.
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by techjamie 2y ago
They basically give away the whole OS for free as long as you're willing to deal with some nag text and customization settings being disabled. I think you can do the same customization with third party tools anyway though. It never loc
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by techjamie 2y ago
As someone that blocks ads with a vengeance, I'll turn off my ad blocker when advertising companies turn off their privacy invasion, and stop running ads for criminals and scammers.
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by techjamie 2y ago
I once made that exact threat in my food service days, but it was to protect me from my manager. I was the assistant manager of the store, and for some reason my boss decided that she was going to pit the new employee against me. So she wou
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by techjamie 2y ago
Mobile app/game monetization are designed by people with Masters and Doctorates in psychology for a reason.
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by techjamie 2y ago
How many generations is "a few?" Contraceptives have been used for thousands of years, and people still want to do the boogie without the baby. The Romans literally picked a plant to extinction that was, reportedly, a very effecti
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by techjamie 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but an important part of why those lawsuits can happen is under the idea that you invited someone onto your property, therefore, you have a duty to ensure they're safe when they accept that invitation. Places open to anyo
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by techjamie 2y ago
Maybe the sheer amount that strings are getting iterated through makes storing length computationally cheaper? Unless you're using very optimized methods to work with the string, the majority of string operations involve a lot of itera
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by techjamie 2y ago
What doix said, but also if I tailor my workflow in the terminal, I can toss the same applications and configs onto my servers and use them the same way without installing a window manager and VNC onto it.
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by techjamie 2y ago
The problem is it never just stops at terrorists. See also: The US spying on every citizen, and international communication, in the name of maybe they'll find a terrorist in there somewhere.
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by techjamie 2y ago
They also know Australia isn't petty enough to ban Twitter over a video. Now India on the other hand? They absolutely are that petty because they're profitable as hell and they know it, so they can get what they want.
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by techjamie 2y ago
There is also an unfair comparison made in the article. > A quick PCMag test shows that 10 Chrome tabs on a Windows 11 PC with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of NVMe SSD storage take up over 2,000MB, or 12.5% of PC memory, so there's still roo
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by techjamie 3y ago
Seriously, what programmer is having a hard time finding " on their keyboard?
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by techjamie 3y ago
It's enough to get their lawyers after you and cost you a ton of money in legal costs to fight even if the legality behind it may be dubious. I'd say the recent Nintendo filing against Yuzu is a similar case for comparison. Is Yuz
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by techjamie 3y ago
> probably this is an emergent effect from the size alone and the bureaucracy such size sadly requires. One of the top complaints I've seen from former Google employees is that they have a ridiculous amount of bureaucracy involved i
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by techjamie 3y ago
Having kids would take my household from living very comfortably to struggling but still making too much to get government assistance. It's basically not even a question which one we're choosing. I'll keep my quality of life,