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7heo ,

Hi! Great post, good research with sources, great initiative, thank you. šŸ™

7heo ,

Yeah so, the amount of meals is correct. But thatā€™s about it. I mean, I canā€™t say about the taste, to each their own, but one kg of cow meat needs two dozen kg of grain.

Thatā€™s about as inefficient as it gets.

As for the leather, the industry doesnā€™t like products that last a decade, so it isnā€™t actually using the leather in such a way. Industrial leather boots last a year tops.

Finally, pet food is made out of discarded cuts of meat, the uglies, etc. But also lots of cereals, and vegetables.

So we could really afford eating less meat. It isnā€™t good for anything. Not for us, not for the other species (certainly not for the cows, that get often half assed butchered in a hasty way because of quotas and profit), and absolutely not for the ecosystem.

But I guess the taste is all that matters.

7heo ,

Exactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. šŸ˜¶

7heo ,

So, OK, Iā€™m willing to learn: please show me good brands then.

They need to resist to mud (thick mud, the kind with a ton of suction that will keep your soles when you try and move), seawater, rocks and sand, and pretty dense vegetation.

They also need to have steel toe caps, good soles (vibram or equivalent if possible) that donā€™t slip, and that arenā€™t too hard (wet stone is enough of a female dog as it is), and to go higher than my ankle.

The best brand I tried so far was caterpillar, but they lasted only 3 years. Thatā€™s a far cry from ā€œa decade or moreā€.

7heo ,

ā€œIā€™m afraid thatā€™s not a choiceā€¦ā€

7heo ,

Yeah, ā™”ā™”ā™”ā™”ā™”ian princes will be mad disappointed.

BTW, cool meta-use of removed internet censorship to illustrate your point.

7heo ,

Oh, I thought they wrote the *removed* text verbatimā€¦ My bad.

7heo ,

Glad to learn that HTTP/0.9 is still ā€œin use globallyā€ then. A bit surprising, but since itā€™s all about stretching definitions past what is reasonable, for the sole purpose of having the last word, letā€™s shoehorn anything into anything to the infinity and beyond!!! šŸ¤”šŸš€

7heo ,

If you need to provide tools that cross security boundaries then [ā€¦] a small web app is better [than sudo].

A web app? Effin really!!? šŸ¤Ø

7heo , (edited )

ā€œCanā€™t share item,ā€ was the header. ā€œYou cannot share this item because it has been flagged as inappropriate,ā€ read the body text.

FAFO.

Weā€™ve been fanfaring for a decade and a fucking half for people not to see ā€œthe cloudā€ as a miracle solution, and to use it carefully. Weā€™ve been warning that it is a blatant invitation to vendor lock in, that it is singlehandedly creating oligopolies, and that exactly this would happen.

Did people listen? No. Did they aggressively confront (or passive-aggressively ostracise) us? You bet your bottom dollar they did.

And now? Now they come around with surprised_pika.gif faces and whine to whoever listens that they are victims, and that they couldnā€™t ā€œpossibly have seen this comingā€.

No. They are enablers of abusers, they themselves abused anyone with even a modicum of common sense, and they brought this upon themselves a thousand times over.

FAFO. And at this point, reading such story fills me with the most powerful schadenfreude I have ever experienced.

ā€œWell well well if it isnā€™t the consequences of my own actionsā€ meme

7heo ,

The bourgeoisie is bad.

But the real problem are the billionaires.

Donā€™t mix the two, killing all the bourgeois will not help us now. Iā€™m not saying it should be off the table, Iā€™m saying it would be a red herring the billionaires would likely employ to save their asses.

.

Alternatively, tax all worth beyond 1 billion at a 100% rate, and kill no one.

Letā€™s see which happens firstā€¦

7heo , (edited )

There are 2781 billionaires. Thatā€™s it. 2781. Saying they are a subset of the bourgeoisie is like saying that saying that a blade of grass is a subset of a forest.

Technically, one could argue that a single molecule in a forest is a subset of the forest, but by any rational standard, a subset of something needs to exhibit similar properties. It needs to be relatable.

And compared to billionaires, the bourgeoisie isnā€™t different from any of us. They are pawns, they are poor, and they are negligible.

The actual bourgeoisie, as in the texts you probably have read, and take this concept from, is a thing of the past. It is gone. In our modern world, their wealth has to be extracted differently, but it has to be extracted too.

The discrepancy between billionaires and the rest, in wealth (US$14.2 trillion out of US$110 trillion - the Gross World Product, GWP - (or 12.91%); or out of US$184 trillion - the worldā€™s GDP in terms of PPP - (or 7.72%)), or in demographics (2781 people among 8100000000 (or, 0.000034%)) is making them a glitch.

To illustrate my point better (or at least try to), if we were to divide the entire planet according to that monetary value, each of those billionaires would own between 0.02ā€° (GDP) and 0.05ā€° (GWP) of the entire planet, on average. Thatā€™s equivalent to slices of the planet of 36 arcseconds (GDP) or 1 arcminute (GWP), on its entire latitude, and up to its rotation axle, per billionaire. Those would respectively correspond to slices 1.11km or 1.86km wide at the equator, or 789m or 1.31km wide at 45Ā° latitude.

So, they are not part of our system, of the stupid LARP we all decided to play. They are on the side of it, exploiting it and making friends with the admins. They are not different from 14 year olds who found an infinite money glitch in an online game and keep pressing the fucking button over an over as if it would stop their parentā€™s divorce.

Eliminating class distinctions will not eliminate the existence of the billionaires. They will still have the same wealth, and so, the same power, because their wealth, or power, does not come from their status, as it used to; or as it does in the literature you are very likely (given the Marxist Leninist roots of this corner of the internet) basing yourself upon. It comes a psychotic abuse of systemic glitches.

Almost none of the literature you can find on the subject of classes will account for this. It is all so outdated it is irrelevant.

More than irrelevant, it is critically dangerous. Saying that ā€œeliminating classes distinctions eliminates the existence of billionairesā€ is not just wrong: it is giving billionaires an opportunity to gaslight us further by pretending not to be the problem.

7heo ,

I only downvoted you because I very honestly find your rhetoric dangerously wrong.

I have nothing personal against you, but you unfortunately answered nothing of substance, so I will elect to agree to disagree, and stop wasting each otherā€™s time. šŸ™‚

7heo , (edited )

You know that repeating what youā€™re being told verbatim isnā€™t an argument, right? I have a hunch youā€™re not really clear on the meaning of the word ā€œsubstanceā€ā€¦ Parroting concepts defined in books, without the actual substance from the book, or without your own interpretation, is about as useful as a page number without a titleā€¦

So far, aside from vague conceptual buzzwords, you have contributed nothing else than ā€œI know you are, but what am I?ā€.

So, again, letā€™s cut short, this ainā€™t Mario, I donā€™t have several lives to try again. Thanks.

7heo ,

store.steampowered.com/points/shop/bundle/105512

:::spoiler ā€¦ OP faked the whole thing. :::

7heo ,

It turns out that ā€œWomen Who Code Closing - Women Who Codeā€ actually isnā€™t about Women that code a software called ā€œClosingā€, and Women that code in general.

In fact, what they meant to write was:

The End of an Era: ā€œWomen Who Codeā€ Closing ā€“ Women Who Code.

I know Iā€™m gonna get downvoted for this, but punctuation matters, and sadly, it has to be said. So here I go.

7heo ,

Maybe they mean it in the sense of ā€œforgeryā€. You know, as in ā€œlet people imagine what it is like to have friendships, by letting them make forgeries of their lives, but with friends in itā€ šŸ¤Ŗ

7heo ,

Fuck yea!

7heo ,

With a 52% percent mortality rate, this might well be the last such opportunity. One way or another. šŸ˜¬

7heo ,

Is it just me, or is everyone here commenting on a half article, the other half being behind a paywall? šŸ˜¬

7heo ,

I think we can all agree on thatā€¦ But without the entire article, one can only parametrise their answerā€¦ I was hoping someone with a full version could do an HTML dump. šŸ˜…

Or at the very least a markdown dump in here.

7heo ,

Is it using XLR?

7heo ,

archive.ph/39CAN

7heo ,

Damn, now I want part 2!! šŸ˜¶

(Thanks for posting!! šŸ™)

7heo , (edited )

Yeah, it is one of the least bad uses for it.

But then again, using literal tera-watts-hours of compute power to save on the easiest actually recyclable material known to man (cardboard), maybe thatā€™s just me, maybe Iā€™m too jaded, but it sounds like a pretty bad overall outcome.

It isnā€™t a bad deal for Amazon, tho, who is likely to save on costs, that way, since energy is still orders of magnitude cheaper than it should be[^1], and cardboard is getting pricier.

[^1]: if we were to account for the available supply, the demand, and the future (think sooner than later) need for transition towards new energy sourcesā€¦ Some that simply do not have the same potential.

7heo , (edited )

I think youā€™re overstating the compute power [ā€¦]

I donā€™t actually think so. A100 GPUs in server chassis have a 400 or 500W TDP depending on the configuration, and even if Iā€™m assuming 400, with 4 per watercooled 1U chassis, a 47U rack with those would consume about 100kW with power supply efficiency and whatnot.

Running those for a day only would be 2.4GWh.

Now, Iā€™m not assuming Amazon would own 100s of those racks at every DC, but they probably would use at least a couple of such racks to train their model (time is money, right?). And training them for a week with just two of those would be 35GWh, and I can only extrapolate from there.

So I donā€™t think that going to TWh is such an overstatement.

[ā€¦] and understating the amount of cardboard Amazon uses

That, very possibly.

I have seldom used Amazon ever, maybe 5 times tops, and I can only remember two times. Those two times, I ordered a smartphone and a bunch of electronics supplies, and I donā€™t remember the packaging being excessive. But I know from plenty of memes that they regularly overdo it. That, coupled with the insane amount of shit people order onlineā€¦ And yes, I believe you are right on that one.

Even so, as long as it is cardboard, or paper, and not plastic and glue, it isnā€™t a big ecological issue.

However, that makes no difference to Amazon financially, cost is cost, and they only care about that.

But letā€™s not pretend they are doing a good thing then. It is a cost effective measure for them, that ends up worsening the situation for everyone else, because the tradeoff is good economically, and terrible ecologically.

If they wanted to do a good thing, they could use machine learning to optimise the combining of deliveries in the same area, to save on petrol, and by extension, pollution from their vehicles, but that would actually worsen the customer experience, and end up costing them more than it would save them, so thatā€™s never gonna happen.

7heo ,

Do bullets kill soldiers?

Infantry soldiers in the open, yes. Soldiers in an APC? No.

Same applies to companies. A single sufficient bad review on a small, one-person company can take it out entirely. A single review of a big corporation? Not even one from a big shot like MKBHD.

This headline is dumb.

7heo ,

The thing is, devops is pretty complex and pretty diverse. Youā€™ve got at least 6 different solutions among the popular ones.

Last time I checked only the list of available provisioning software, I counted 22.

Sure, some like cdist are pretty niche, but still, when you apply for a company, even tho it is going to either be AWS (mostly), azure, GCE, oracle, or some run of the mill VPS provider with extended cloud features (simili S3 based on minio, ā€œcloud LANā€, etc), and you are likely going to use terraform for host provisioning, the most relevant information to check is which software they use. Packer? Or dynamic provisioning like Chef? Puppet? Ansible? Salt? Or one of the ā€œlesser onesā€?

And thing is, even among successive versions, among compatible stacks, the DSL evolved, and the way things are supposed to be done changed. For example, before hiera, puppet was an entirely different beast.

And thatā€™s not even throwing docker or (or rkt, appc) in the mix. Then you have k8s, podman, helm, etc.

The entire ecosystem has considerable overlap too.

So, on one hand, you have pretty clean and useable code snippets on stackoverflow, github gist, etc. So much so that tools like that emergedā€¦ And then, the very second LLMs were able to produce any moderately usable output, they were trained on that data.

And on the other hand, you have devops. An ecosystem with no clear boundaries, no clear organisation, not much maturity yet (in spite of the industry being more than a decade old), and so organic that keeping up with developments is a full time job on its own. Thereā€™s no chance in hell LLMs can be properly trained on that dataset before it cools down. Not a chance. Never gonna happen.

7heo ,

But use the widows version and the proton layer. The Linux version is horribly coded.

7heo , (edited )

I believe youā€™re missing the actual causality chain here.

While it is actually proven that vendors will degrade your experience artificially to ā€œmotivateā€ you to buy new devices, in the never ending pursuit of monetary gain, there is no such potential incentive here: you arenā€™t paying for new drivers.

And while others suggest biases, I do believe you are witnessing an effect that is at least partially real, if not totally, but not for the reasons you believe:

Most programs that leverage GPUs end up being GPU bottlenecked. Meaning that one can almost always improve the programā€™s performance by using a better GPU.

But then, why does a new driver not improve performance, and rather, simply ā€œbring a degraded performance back to previous levelsā€?

Well, that has to do with auto-updates, and the way drivers are distributed.

While, in a world where one would have to manually update everything, a new driver would almost certainly mean better performance for a given program, most programs in our world auto-update automatically (and sometimes even, silently). And the developers are usually on top of things wrt drivers, because they follow drivers updates closely, get early versions, etc.

Meaning that when a driver is updated, your apps usually are, too. In a way that leverage the new driver for more processing, rather than faster processing. But unlike your automatically updated apps, your drivers are updated manually.

And the consequence of such updates, when you are too slow to update your drivers, is a degraded experience.

Not because anyone artificially throttled your deviceā€™s performance, but because you lag too much behind expected updates.

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - Iā€™m a writer and itā€™s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now itā€™s got Windows and itā€™s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but itā€™s...

7heo ,

Devuan + xfce.

7heo , (edited )

Note: this comment is long, because it is important and the idea that ā€œsystemd is always better, no matter the situationā€ is absolutely dangerous for the entire FOSS ecosystem: both diversity and rationality are essential.

Systemd can get more efficient than running hundreds of poorly integrated scripts

In theory yes. In practice, systemd is a huge monolithic single-point-of-failure system, with several bottlenecks and reinventing-the-wheel galore. And openrc is a far cry from ā€œhundreds of poorly integrated scriptsā€.

I think it is crucial we stop having dogmatic ā€œargumentsā€ with argumentum ad populum or arguments of authority, or we will end up recreating a Microsoft-like environment in free software.

Letā€™s stop trying to shoehorn popular solutions into ill suited use cases, just because they are used elsewhere with different limitations.

Systemd might make sense for most people on desktop targets (CPUs with several cores, and several GB of RAM), because convenience and comfort (which systemd excels at, letā€™s be honest) but as we approach ā€œembeddedā€ targets, simpler and smaller is always better.

And no matter how much optimisation you cram into the bigger software, it will just not perform like the simpler software, especially with limited resources.

Now, I take OpenRC as an example here, because it is AFAIR the default in devuan, but it also supports runit, sinit, s6 and shepherd.

And using s6, you just canā€™t say ā€œsystemd is flat out better in all casesā€, that would be simply stupid.

7heo , (edited )

And Docker initially used Ubuntu. They explicitly and specifically switched to Alpine in 2016 for performance, to minimise the overhead.

7heo ,

Junior dev:

Straight out of uni, know the latest developments while having also studied long established standards and specifications (like POSIX, LSB, SQL, etc), full of energy, and ready to speedrun burning out any %

Senior dev:

Hasnā€™t learned anything substantial in decades, uses outdated specs because ā€œwho got the time for that, and legacy stuff works just as well anywayā€, copy pastes most of their work from stack overflow, is only still employed because of their inside information knowledge and the utter absence of documentation leading to a bus factor of one, and has perfected the art of gaming the system to the point of photoshopping a sloppy IDE screen over their WoW game whenever a picture of them ā€œworkingā€ gets taken.

Yeah, checks out.

7heo ,

Seeing that Iā€™m a senior dev, take it any way you want.

7heo ,

I feel cucked having google only get most of my traffic. I am an alpha male, I want them to get all of my traffic.

7heo ,

How about blackholing google to limit the damage instead? And you could limit it further by not using services that you know feed data to google.

7heo ,

Iā€™m not one for labeling music in genres, so Iā€™ll write my answer in two parts: the ā€œcanonicalā€ information, with artists documented as ā€œIDMā€ artists on Wikipedia, and the ā€œpersonalā€ information, which I think fits the so called ā€œIDMā€ genre, but donā€™t quote me on that, I wouldnā€™t really know. This is ā€œbest effortā€.

Canonical answer:

Orbital, aphex twin, and boards of Canada come to mind, but thatā€™s more for the curious casual reader of this thread, as Iā€™m sure you already know them. Also John Tejada, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Moderat, which are less known.

Personal answer:

I dunno if I would say that they fit in ā€œIDMā€, but I really enjoy the music of the artist Siriusmo. Also (in no particular order, all this could be hit or miss for you, so donā€™t dismiss it all because you donā€™t like one) Sasha, Kaito, Ernest Saint Laurent, Vessels, Barker & Baumecker, and pretty much everything under the labels monkeytown and Kompakt (respectively based in Berlin and Koln). Iā€™m not sure where the genre lines stop tho, so you might add Nick Warren, Phil k, Dave seaman, John Digweed, etc. to that. Labels renaissance (the British one) and Global Underground.

7heo ,

Thank you very much for this post. Iā€™m glad someone did the effort of getting some of those and presenting them from the PoV of a first time experience. I was curious.

However, Iā€™m not sure what you meant with:

BUT when I shared it with others, people in body reported less effectiveness due to thickness of skin and under-dermal stuff, so itā€™s better to test it if you arenā€™t skinny as a skeleton.

At first it sounds like you say that overweight people have trouble using them (which is logical, the device needs to touch the bones), but then you go on saying that it doesnā€™t work for underweight people? Iā€™m confused. Could you please elaborate a little? Thanks šŸ™‚

7heo ,

Oh. Yes, that makes sense. I read it too literally I suppose (ā€œbetter to testā€ as in ā€œbetter to give it a tryā€, while ā€œbetter to try it firstā€ was meant). šŸ¤Ŗ thank you! šŸ™

7heo ,

Notable flatulists: two Brits and a French. I dunno you, but they seem full of shit.

7heo ,

The essence of that article can be summarised in:

  • The Streisand effect is helping the news outlets that meta censored.
  • We can all move away from meta, and they will essentially go away.
7heo OP ,

Honestly, if the makefile is well written, I will take that any day. Good makefiles are šŸ˜™šŸ‘Œ.

They are extremely rare, thoā€¦

I guess the solution would be a declarative language that compiles to makefiles. So that people donā€™t have to know the nitty gritty of writing good makefiles, and can just maintain a file of their dependencies and settingsā€¦

7heo OP ,

IMHO the issue is two folds:

  1. The makefile were never supposed to do more than determine which build tools to call (and how) for a given target. Meaning that in very many cases, makefile are abused to do way too much. Iā€™d argue that you should try to keep your make targets only one line long. Anything bigger and youā€™re likely doing it wrong (and ought to move it in a shell script, that gets called from the makefile).
  2. It is really challenging to write portable makefiles. Thereā€™s BSD make and GNU make, and then there are different tools on different systems. Different dependencies. Different libs. Etc. Not easy.
7heo ,

store.steampowered.com/app/15560/

7heo ,

Me want. You should host a cooking show on aNONradio. šŸ˜‹

7heo ,

I had to read word by word to make sense of your drivel. At first, it seemed to be sarcasm, but reading ā€œout theirā€ convinced me otherwise. Lrn2English bruh.

For other readers that will find this comment: Iā€™d have written a logical rebuttal explaining why the concentration of wealth, IP laws, predatory financial institutions, etc. make this flat out impossible; and how fair, true capitalism died under Nixon, but it would here be like casting pearls before swine.

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