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by vondur 4mo ago
In my area kids are doing street takeovers and assaulting people in cars and pedestrians. Laws have been passed to deal with it but there is very little on the enforcement side. Plus kids are riding around in effectively what are electric m
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by vondur 4mo ago
You can get a Miniforums PC with the Radeon 780m for $699 US, but I don't think the graphics performance is on par with the SteamBox. I'm not sure on the reliability of these tiny PC's either https://www.amazon.com
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by vondur 4mo ago
Interesting with the memory. It is 16GB plus an additional 8GB for graphics, or is it just 16GB with 8GB reserved for graphics?
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by vondur 4mo ago
Yikes, that's over 12 hours of videos in that series. Stuff like that scares me away from trying it out.
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by vondur 4mo ago
Homebrew is the default on Bluefin Linux since most of the system is immutable. I like it since I’m so used to it on my Mac.
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by vondur 4mo ago
For driving around town to do stuff, I'd say they are fine and would love to have one. I doubt they would be able to safely drive on our freeways here though.
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by vondur 4mo ago
I'm sure a large part of the problem is not using the SAT's as a filter on incoming students.
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by vondur 4mo ago
Don't forget the other episode "Quality of Life" with these working robots who data discovers have become sentient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quality_of_Life_(Star_Trek... I do miss the old TNG
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by vondur 4mo ago
Not really the case any longer. JAMF is pretty easy to use and it's way better to work with compared to Intune, which to me feels half baked compared to something like on Prem AD/GP/SCCM.
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by vondur 4mo ago
I guess I should qualify that, many professors are ambivalent regarding AI, but some view it as an existential threat to their profession. Most here are scrambling to figure out ways to work around it if not incorporate some AI into the cur
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by vondur 4mo ago
I don't think you can just appropriate the property that burned down and then build high density housing. I'd imagine the people probably want to rebuild their homes and move back. There's probably other land that can be used
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by vondur 4mo ago
Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI. However, the layoffs happened at some of the CSU's where enrollment numbers are drastically down. I think Sonoma State is having a really bad time getting students and C
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by vondur 4mo ago
Ha, you really believe that? You can't live in area without the permission of the Government. The current Chinese regime seems to be really going kinda crazy with their new leader. They've lost their more practical leadership sinc
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by vondur 4mo ago
Most teachers have strong union protections. It’s nearly impossible to fire one. Many districts now have a temporary period where they can be removed much easier. Once they have tenure it’s really difficult.
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by vondur 4mo ago
It is really annoying how the x64 CPU's seem to constantly ramp up and down seemingly at random. I've been trying to tweak the fan curves on my Ryzen 9950x to avoid this but haven't been successful yet. Next stop is lowering
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by vondur 4mo ago
I think the easiest way to solve this is to change labor laws to say if you work over 8 hours a day or more than 40 hours a week then you get overtime. Most companies aren't willing to pay overtime and frankly whatever is going on at R
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by vondur 4mo ago
>It is possible to have excess productivity? Isn't this what happened with the tech hiring during Covid? And also many of the big tech companies were hiring people just to make sure their competitors didn't have them?
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by vondur 4mo ago
You know, I think the experiences you are describing are the norm for non-tech corporate jobs. Now with AI as an excuse, management is now subjecting the tech positions the same as the non-tech workers and it stings. Tech people were previo
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by vondur 4mo ago
Isn't that how Facebook is ran too? Basically Zuckerberg's private company, that in theory is public?
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by vondur 4mo ago
Boy, not if you read the comments from people here. Every new version is *so* much better than someone else's and they have switched all their projects over to it.
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by vondur 4mo ago
Getting rid of the SAT was a huge mistake and many Universities are finally seeing it for the problems it's caused. The fact that so many students are getting into the UC system and not able to do high school level algebra is one of th
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by vondur 5mo ago
I think everywhere in the west was like that in the 70s.
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by vondur 5mo ago
It feels like these companies are constantly going back and forth on who has the best product constantly. It's such a dynamic time with how fast they are both working.
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by vondur 5mo ago
Tobacco is a crop that is experiencing declining demand. Neighboring Rwanda has built up their coffee export business, and Malawi could too. And as I mentioned it’s less harsh on the soil which is and added benefit.
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by vondur 5mo ago
Malawi needs to drop tobacco as their main export. Tobacco is hard on the soil and requires more fertilizer and acidifies the soil. Swapping out tobacco for something like a specialty coffee would be far better (and Rwanda has done that) Br
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by vondur 5mo ago
I work in a large public university system and we are also seeing enrollment drops across campuses. We are also seeing declines in enrollment in the K-12 education too.
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by vondur 5mo ago
This would be extremely hard to put into legislation that wouldn't affect just about every single site on the internet currently.
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by vondur 5mo ago
I think there is a "mansion" tax in Los Angeles proper, but La Crescenta is a separate city.
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by vondur 5mo ago
Wow, I just a saw a YouTube video of Flea's house for sale in the LA suburb of La Crescenta for sale. Super nice house. Strangely I also saw Steve Vai's house for sale in LA at the same time. Also super nice house.
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by vondur 5mo ago
I remember that Singapore caned an American teenager back in the 90's for vandalizing cars. It was a big event in the news at the time.

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