tomxor

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by tomxor 2y ago
Well, yes unfortunately, but the takeaway should be scepticism of the validity of learning institutions, something most of us aren't prepared to even consider at a younger age.
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by tomxor 2y ago
I'm ok with Skynet having the cognitive capacity of a nematode.
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by tomxor 2y ago
I have little experience with kernel modules. ZFS is the only one I have long term experience with on Debian. The only issue I've had with the kernel module aspect is VPS configuration, I use Linode and they used to automatically set e
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by tomxor 2y ago
They don't look tightly packed compared to the constraints of being inside laptops and phones where they are given millimetres to expand.
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by tomxor 2y ago
If that's Oracle's ZFS then it's not really comparable, it's essentially a very old closed fork. So on top of using a languishing outdated version you have another reliability problem (Oracle). It's a little bit lik
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by tomxor 2y ago
The irony is that you learned something. Failure is a very useful learning opportunity in understanding what affects the success of an experiment, so long as you analyse it and demonstrate that, which arguably is where you should have been
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by tomxor 2y ago
No, to be fair I use it for everything except root (which I prefer to backup as IaC, not that I wouldn't use ZFS, it's just not default so requires more effort). I use ZFS datasets to back everything except the OS, including DBs
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by tomxor 2y ago
Used ZFS on Debian in production for 8 years, yet to experience rough edges but always interested to learn.
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by tomxor 2y ago
:D thanks, you made me laugh. https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour-extras...
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by tomxor 2y ago
> Also, if you invent something so novel it makes a new market That's innovation, which is not the issue here. Creating new markets is usually win-win (initially), even with big tech leading the way. The more damaging issue is in ta
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by tomxor 2y ago
That sounds like the worst thing ever. So many good native terminals to choose from why ruin it with electron.
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by tomxor 2y ago
If they would simply tell us what part of Firefox is affected by the CCPA's definition of "selling user data", there would be no room for misinterpretation and this would be over. If it's as innocent as "Firefox h
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by tomxor 2y ago
Thanks. It is surprising. I suppose to be more specific, it demonstrates how the genome is composable in the extreme, which makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.
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by tomxor 2y ago
Not a biochemist... But, isn't there a problem with test coverage here? "cells in a dish" is not a full organism which requires cell differentiation, where more specific genes are expressed? Isn't some genetic code also
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by tomxor 2y ago
"Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from negligence" FTFY :)
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by tomxor 2y ago
> for those with good 4G connectivity, 5G makes much less of an improvement on the mobile experience than advertisers like to claim Complete BS. This misses the critical and common issue of user contention with 4G, which is the main reli
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by tomxor 2y ago
The issue is not with the "Java" trademark (also owned by Oracle), but the "JavaScript" trademark, which was issued to Sun in 1997. JavaScript was released in 1996... and not at Sun. i.e the Language and name both pre-da
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by tomxor 2y ago
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by tomxor 2y ago
> Do folks like you exist? Yes. Is the economy built on folks like you? No. Are you sure? If you ignore human constructs such as companies and organisations and quantify based on classifications that make more sense for aggregates of wor
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by tomxor 2y ago
Yes, semantic arguments are weak, but no, the author is not complaining about the term being offensive. Perhaps this is only a subtle difference because they are still suggesting people change their language. Clarified at the end of the pos
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by tomxor 2y ago
check back in 30 to 40 years. Also good luck measuring quality of life in the interim, and establishing a controlled baseline.
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by tomxor 2y ago
Still, it's at odds with the premise. A more compatible goal would be to minimise cost of nutritional value rather than cost of calories. Unfortunately this is very hard to measure, so the best we have is to gauge it by proxy.
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by tomxor 2y ago
Keep in mind this is a dangerous route to go down long term. Optimising for economic cost with the only requirement being "fill your belly" and "be palatable enough", tends to result in poor nutrition. This is roughly ho
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by tomxor 2y ago
Yes but It's just demos, doesn't have to be so purely Math.
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by tomxor 2y ago
Back in early 2000s it was a top choice if you wanted some kind of unixy box with a polished GUI desktop that "just worked", especially if you wanted a laptop. BSD and Linux were fine, but as a desktop OS they were a very differ
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by tomxor 2y ago
I tend to agree. Whenever I've removed artificial technical friction, or made a fundamental change to an approach, the processes that grew around them tend to evaporate, and not be replaced. I think many of these processes are a ration
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by tomxor 2y ago
Shameless plug, in 140 bytes https://www.dwitter.net/h/wikimedia
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by tomxor 2y ago
Came here to say exactly this. Oppenheimer was accutely aware of the ethical implications of the work, and struggled with it greatly. I've noticed this pattern more and more in recent years - for people to draw upon past events, techno
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by tomxor 2y ago
Is the gain in bandwidth for your wifi really worth the reallocation? This change opens up 1200 MHz of bandwidth between 5.925 and 7.125 GHz. > quite a lot of spectrum real estate Amateur radio is scattered all over the place, but exclud
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by tomxor 2y ago
This same relationship between emotion and inhibition of critical faculties plays a large part in the high error rate of justice systems around the world. In the extreme resulting in the bizarrely illogical "someone has to pay" se

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