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by zanny 6y ago
TDP is about as meaningful on CPUs now as nm is in fab tech. In practice the 3950x pulled up to ~225w running maxxed out avx2 workloads, ~300w if you overclocked it. The 3900x pulls up to ~190 watts at stock boosts. Both are called "10
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by zanny 6y ago
When you go down this rabbit hole enough though you realize how totally inept pretty much every government has been in facilitating standards and supporting infrastructural software throughout the tech sector since its inception. Projects l
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by zanny 6y ago
It seems the more unequal the society the more pressure there is on children to "beat the odds" to avoid languishing in poverty by being useful to capital in some way. In many European countries and other strong first world nation
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by zanny 6y ago
It would also suck more to write a kernel from scratch because you didn't want to follow a simple rule when using the most popular and well developed kernel in the world.
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by zanny 6y ago
It's tool use and language that differentiate us. Other species have one but not both. Learning is much more efficient when communicated rather than done in an isolated vacuum and all the knowledge in the world is useless if you lack f
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by zanny 6y ago
At least on KDE media focus is first come first serve. The first media player to start playing gets the media keys until it stops and then whatever else is playing or plays next gets them. The only unintuitive part is that maybe it should f
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by zanny 6y ago
This is why local politics is generally defanged and powerless. Ultimately you cannot make much meaningful change on the local or state level that is hostile to capitals interests . If what you do is anti-business, even if its in the inter
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by zanny 6y ago
Like the Chrome and Chromium relationship a lot of distros package VS Code as just Code for a version built by your distro without the proprietary extras.
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by zanny 6y ago
The US proletariat is anything but class conscious. It will self-sabotage any revolutionary movement long before it concerns itself with it's true oppressors. The propaganda machine that keeps 1/3 of the country simping for capita
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by zanny 6y ago
Then talk me down from my lofty vantage because looking at ICE internment camps and seeing women forcibly sterilized en masse is making it awfully hard to not conflate my WW2 history curriculum with the present day.
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by zanny 6y ago
Proportionality isn't one to one because half of Americans aren't republican and half aren't democrat. The problem is that polling data is absolutely awful at showing absolute support for the individual parties platforms and
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by zanny 6y ago
Obama didn't assume anything. He was a senator for 12 years (federally for 4) and had plenty of experience by that point to know how partisan legislative bodies are and how members will die for their parties perceived glory. I don&#x27
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by zanny 6y ago
Theres a sliding scale of it though. The disinformation and anti-intellectual campaigns are generally weaker in mainland Europe and as a consequence the governments are less broken. The US is at the point where 30-40% of the country would d
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by zanny 6y ago
Two things: 1. Once someone overcomes the upfront information barrier to piracy continued piracy has barely a convenience differential from using official channels. The user going to the steam page to enter their credit card and buy the gam
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by zanny 6y ago
At the same time retribution should not be the goal of justice, it should be rehabilitation. I'm totally against incarcerating anyone not posing imminent threat to life for a multitude of reasons but my most selfish is that locking peo
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by zanny 6y ago
The irrationality of it really comes off as some subtle cultural manipulation by real estate moguls to profiteer off renters. I get the pressure is historic to the homesteading and rapid settlement of the country over the last 300 years but
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by zanny 6y ago
If a socialist state fulfills its mandate to provide what it can for the betterment of its peoples condition than it would see many fewer cases of addiction than traditional capitalist economies with little or no socialism as a safeguard ag
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by zanny 6y ago
Stalin and Mao, and their successors, were totalitarian dictators. Trying to call the states they commanded socialist is as disingenuous as most other arguments in defense of capitalism. Its like saying the National Socalist German Workers
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by zanny 6y ago
Patents come off as the same problem charging fares for inner-city busses causes. A lot of places have realized that just operating, maintaining, and sustaining the overhead of ticketing, processing payments, and managing the many complicat
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by zanny 6y ago
Access control is a good idea, sandboxing on top of it is saying its too nuanced a problem so heres a kitchen sink of overhead. Linux has had some of the best software security through MAC (SELinux, Apparmor) and cgroups. The problem is tha
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by zanny 6y ago
"Leaders" told everyone to stay home. People, largely, listened for a while. When the money ran out (or never existed to begin with) and no support came to sustain the situation but the messaging remained "stay at home"
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by zanny 6y ago
The system is stacked against fundamental change. Its why for going on 200 years there has always been a movement to "fix" society through government that never actually seems to get much of anywhere. The only time, in the US at l
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by zanny 6y ago
Capitalism is fundamentally built on competition, it pits all participants against one another. It stratifies social bonds and breaks people apart because any cooperation represents unrealized exploitation. Its why people are so miserable e
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by zanny 6y ago
I did manage to get it working but it has a ton of issues with Youtube vp9 decoding despite Chromium's years-old implementation working fine. This is complex stuff. I spent a day last week trying to figure out why hevc vaapi patches fo
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by zanny 6y ago
Matrix has comprehensive encryption now and is decentralized.
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by zanny 6y ago
Getting paid less is a fine outcome assuming the NIT fulfills its purpose of guaranteeing a minimum standard of living. It means the worker has voluntarily participated in selling their labor, even if its for a lower price than they would h
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by zanny 6y ago
I don't think a minimum wage is ethically justified in a minimum standard of living society unless that value in progress through automation is justified. The arguments for minimum wage are always to insure it provides a livable wage
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by zanny 6y ago
All that old material isn't gone. PBS might not be streaming all ~4k episodes of the show but the Internet has made any media accessible if you know where to look. I'm surprised there isn't more data on what educational media
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by zanny 6y ago
Having any infrastructure controlled by a publicly traded corporation has enormous historical precedent to lead to the dissolution of that infrastructure for shareholder profit. Once Google feels comfortable with doing so not allowing arbit
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by zanny 6y ago
Being inclusionary isn't costless - historically the marginalization of trans (or other minority groups) gave the establishment / mainstream / cis in this case peoples power to dictate the material conditions of that group. T

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