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by tormeh 3y ago
Chemistry used to be a scientific spin on the Jackass franchise. Although to be fair often it was the assistants doing the taste tests - not the chief chemist at the lab.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Depends. In Japan you're only allowed to buy a car if you have a free parking space on your property. A police office will come by your home to verify that the number of parking spots on your property is enough to house all the cars yo
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by tormeh 3y ago
You can and should use atomics, just not in any kind of hot loop. Using atomics is fine but expensive.
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by tormeh 3y ago
It’s less about size and more about moat, though most businesses with no moat tend to stay small. If you have a moat you have less competition so you can and will extract more profit.
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by tormeh 3y ago
I think it’s more about attitudes to specialization and credentialism. People with tech degrees are supposed to do tech. People with business degrees are supposed to do business. A common scenario when a self-taught executive-level manager
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by tormeh 3y ago
Bad account isolation seems to be a habit at Azure. I'd guess any customer of theirs is fine with this. Maybe they would not express this sentiment out loud while any lawyers could be listening, but it's implied.
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by tormeh 3y ago
I think it's good security practice to run/install your games under a different user than the one you use for banking. It's a hack, but it's all we can do with the dismal state of desktop OSes.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Seen this as well in Berlin, as I've come to talk to quite a bit of Indians living here. Life here is better in many ways regarding safety, pollution, personal (cultural) freedom, etc., but in terms of (software) money India can someti
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by tormeh 3y ago
Isn’t it mostly environment variables?
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by tormeh 3y ago
Sorry, but what's the point? Why not just buy a Linux laptop and have everything work out of the box? Why are Linux enthusiasts putting so much effort into supporting hardware from companies that - at best - ignore Linux? This question
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by tormeh 3y ago
I think Rust is somewhat cumbersome as a language, but I also think the right tradeoffs were made. There are far fewer and far worse competitors in the high-performance space than in the general purpose space.
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by tormeh 3y ago
AMD's AI software efforts are so trash WebGPU will be the first API you can use to run PyTorch on consumer AMD GPUs, not because AMD put some effort in, but because people want to run PyTorch in the browser. AMD could have ported PyTor
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Why California Has So Many Problems [video](youtube.com)
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by tormeh 3y ago
Mandatory Wendover Productions video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngms6iRa14
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by tormeh 3y ago
I’m gradually developing a loathing for conservationists. Reading about these people blocking progress on the fossil-fuel phase-out is very grating. I’m sure they’re also opposed to nuclear power and other good things like happy children.
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by tormeh 3y ago
> capital of unemployment" and recently the housing problems and gentrification These are sort of mutually exclusive. Berlin used to be poor, but as of 2019 it’s richer than the German average. This is admittedly unimpressive for a
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by tormeh 3y ago
Compiler behavior is the only thing that matters in any language, as per Hyrum's law. A spec is a useful tool for discussing and building a language, but don't confuse the map for the territory.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Conservatives (big C) always favor the status quo. The opposite are the radicals, who do not. Then there are the reactionaries who want a return to the previous state of things. That’s generally how I think about it.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Nix Flakes are deemed experimental and explicitly not recommended in prod by the Nix project, afaict. Despite these warnings it’s widely used, but breakage is very much a possibility because it hasn’t gone through the Nix RFC process.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Conservatism is the word I’d use.
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by tormeh 3y ago
AFAIK the "AMDs drivers are bad" meme is outdated. Sure, their AI/ML software is garbage, but the graphics drivers are fine.
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by tormeh 3y ago
HN is quite money-oriented and economically liberal, although nothing beats Blind in this regard. Many FOSS developers don't like this. I think it has less to do with age.
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by tormeh 3y ago
It'll remind you of meetings, for example.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Satellite TV receivers are generally frowned upon in authoritarian societies, I believe.
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by tormeh 3y ago
If you employ hundreds of forum trolls at minimum wage it tends to get out eventually. Of course the US does psyops. It’s the trolling part that’s the question.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Yes, but are they actually forum trolls of the kind Russia employs? Do American soldiers have keyword alerts on Twitter and crowd out certain topics with inane bullshit?
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by tormeh 3y ago
Russia is known to have loads of trolls on the government payroll. I am under the impression that western governments don't do this but who knows...
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by tormeh 3y ago
I wonder why there's no option to render a bit outside the screen just to make these artifacts disappear. Cheaper than RT, and would provide for me the most noticeable improvement of RT
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by tormeh 3y ago
Individual actions make so little difference it's negligible. By preaching change in individual actions you're trivializing the challenges we face.
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by tormeh 3y ago
That merely says that there is no plan that the writer knows of to pull the plug on you. And indefinitely is a duration of currently undefined length, not infinite length.

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