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- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
Mathematically speaking humans are donuts.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I would more want context. As I know that I am not a charming woman (I believe the phrase was a hellfire demon on wheels) but even my husband (who has a 176 IQ) considers me clever.
Also I realize that we are all dumb about many subjects that are not our interests. And what people find charming can vary greatly.
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 2 days ago:
If you dig too deep into reality, you will discover that effectively 100% of the population is delusional on no less than 2000 subjects. They just have yet to be bitten on the ass for it.
And people take it very poorly when you start pointing it out; just like you and I will when someone else shows up to do the same thing to us. Historically speaking we lock people up for shouting things that have not yet been accepted by enough people. Like the earth is going to be eaten by the sun (true in a few billion years) or the sky is falling (it is more acceptable when you call it rain).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It hinges on if the vampire is allowed to be invited in by anyone (like the black plague was) or only by the owner of the house.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 3 days ago:
You can get a quality 1080p projector for about $120 (or spend more to get a 4K)
A proper speaker setup for $211 (this bit can go up to crazy prices if you go overboard)
An Intel NUC for $150
And a white sheet for $10 (get the highest thread count you can find)
You can get them at your local retailers pretty easily.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 5 days ago:
Reach out to local libraries, they might even setup interlibrary loans to give you access to even more.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 5 days ago:
Physical or ebooks?
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
25 years ago an 8P server had only 8 cores (even if you bought Alpha 21364s) And states needed whole buildings to host their servers. Scaling that down to a single rack is the progress that occurred.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
Constraint solvers for things such as Medicaid eligibility; OCR tagging for scanned documents; Anti-AI detection for uploaded images; but yes most state services are data entry and batch processing with web front ends.
Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores as Amdahl’s law showed back in 1967.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Creating a drive format is the easy part; getting it generally supported is the hardest part.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
No. A state government needs to support 1/10th of its population actively using its services. Say that state has 10M people; you will want 10k cores for all state services. an 8P server has about 1536 cores and you will need about 7 of them. So it still takes a whole rack even with the COBOL programs and applications written in C and Assembly.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
Ok; what application (which benefits society) requires data center level compute beyond physics simulations (which are better suited for quantum computers).
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
When entire state governments can fit in a single Rack, why bother?
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 1 week ago:
So elementary school teacher?
- Comment on It's the dream 1 week ago:
And a web connected camera in an Apple tablet that is just showing the home screen because that is super interesting as opposed to a book worth reading…
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 1 week ago:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=game.iso bs=4096
Good luck
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 1 week ago:
Here I was hoping the plans for a 3D metal printer finally came out and people could start 3D printing AR-15 ghost guns.
- Comment on New Shoes Blues 1 week ago:
Well can you run fast in your new shoes?
- Comment on Iron 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Iron 2 weeks ago:
misoprostol is prescribed for medical abortions and for Ulcers in horses.
- Comment on Iron 2 weeks ago:
Or throw $5 into a shared horse who is prone to ulcers. Suddenly no issues getting abortion access.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, some people just love throwing their money away into a fire pit; never understood why but nonetheless; the horrors persist and so do I.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 2 weeks ago:
Here is a market condition for Nintendo: no more buying of any of their products or giving them money for any of their services.
Boycotting until they no longer exist
- Comment on Handling malicious requests with fail2ban 2 weeks ago:
If you set it up wrong or the service fails to start; you’ll need to use a console to recover.
Most people don’t even know about serial console servers
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 weeks ago:
And that is why credit card companies get to rip off stores on every transaction; which makes them pools of money.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 weeks ago:
Well, can you survive 1 month without buying anything online?
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 2 weeks ago:
It also was vegetarian because it was corn pretending to be beef
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 weeks ago:
Well if we wanted to pressure payment processors. We need only stop using them for about a month. Just use only cash.
- Comment on Handling malicious requests with fail2ban 2 weeks ago:
Port knocking or gtfo
- Comment on robot slurs 3 weeks ago:
I would hope that they would be programmed with the type of morality, that they would choose to not denigrate themselves by stooping to our level of shitty behavior but rather treat us with the kindness and consideration that we all should have for our robot friends.