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T156 ,

One of the reasons why the 1/3rd pound burger lost to the 1/4 pound burger, was because people saw the 1/4, and thought that the quarter-pound was larger for some inexplicable reason.

I would be very surprised if there wasn’t at least some marketing suggestion focused around “number that looks big is better”.

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Anyone know how skipping breakfast contributes? It seems like it would do the opposite.

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Without knowing how, not really. If it’s a massive multi-device botnet, like Mirai, for example, that’s millions of indvidual devices across millions of addresses, so it isn’t so simple as just blocking a domain. Trying to block all of them might well just block legitimate users.

Request limits also wouldn’t work if it’s millions of devices making a few requests at once, and an overall limit would have a similar locking-out effect as blocking everything. Especially if the DDoS is taking up most/all of that limit.

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The ship goes too fast

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Backups all tied to the same Google account that got mistakenly terminated, and automation did the rest?

It didn’t matter that they might have had backups on different services, since it was all centralised through Google, it was all blown away simultaneously.

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From the sounds of it, they did, since they were able to recover the data from elsewhere.

They just lost the data they kept and stored with Google.

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It probably already is, or is part of one, since those investigating sexual exploitation would check traces in photos and things to get.an idea of location.

There is/was a website for the general public to contribute, if they knew of the locations in the photo.

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But that space usually isn’t. No company would make a battery with a tiny little protrusion where the headphone jack once was. That’d cost a lot more, and make it a lot more fragile.

They’d be more likely to leave it empty, or fit something else in that space, like a third speaker.

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Completely fine. There are multiple phones that have been out with waterproofing and headphone jacks.

It’s not that much more difficult to waterproof than the charge port.

T156 ,

Higher cycle life might also make it good for hybrids, since they cycle their batteries a fair bit.

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Also a little bit with it being advertised as “not an app”, when it turns out to be an app, and doesn’t have any special magic that makes it need that dedicated hardware.

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Fediverse is very tech inclined, like Reddit is. So there’s a higher proportion of tech Bros compared to places like Tumblr.

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Military would be fine, because they don’t tend to update very frequently, if at all. If it works, that’s the way it will stay, and the recent controversy wouldn’t exactly encourage them to do so.

What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

Same way the LLM debacle has currently gone, where people will just throw sensitive information into it with abandon. At least one major tech company has penalised workers for doing that with ChatGPT.

If there’s a group policy to turn it off, maybe, but Microsoft might just not have one, or it’ll need to be disabled every update.

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It’s arguably worse, since it seems to be more pervasive than crypto and NFTs were at their peak.

Crypto never really hit the mainstream, and even NFTs were still fringe. Whereas AI and AI accelerators are packed into basically every new phone and (Intel) processor.

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Because I was only aware of Intel (and Apple) doing it on computers, whereas most major flagship mobile devices have those accelerators now.

GPUs were excluded, since they’re not as universal as processors are. A dedicated video card is still by and large considered an enthusiast part.

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Making the world a better place doesn’t need to be some grandiose revolutionary affair.

All the little things you do while being alive would add up. Whether it’s hanging out with a friend, giving your pet some extra pats, or cleaning up your own space, and that would put you a good deal of the way there, if not be enough on its own.

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Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.

UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.

Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around (just look at the COVID economic stimulus packages). They might even spend more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.

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Note 9 owner here, and there’s definitely a little over the years (particularly where the status bar is), but it’s usually impossible to notice. You only pick it up with a blank colour where the difference becomes more apparent.

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If memory serves, that’s not an intentional feature, but more a coincidence, since if the driver thinks the cruise control is about to crash the car, they’ll pop the brakes. Touching the brakes disengages the cruise control by design, so you end up with it shutting down before a crash happens.

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The irony is that it’s arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

So if you’re watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

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Even then, 32GB might be cutting it a bit fine for production or professional work.

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Although RAM is vastly more durable than the flash chips of an SSD, so that wouldn’t make sense.

It might make more sense from a cost viewpoint, since flash is typically cheaper than RAM.

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The babies going on formula means that the mother’s milk supply dries up when the baby isn’t having any, and that they’re then dependent on it, since it is quite difficult to start producing milk again after.

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In theory, maybe. In practice, the bots might just pay and post anyway. If they can recoup those costs in the scam, it costs them basically nothing.

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It also makes him stand out more. Where regular/good Kirk has a spotlight on his eyes (like Morticia Addams), Evil Kirk has darkened eyes instead.

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Gives him dark eyes, as opposed to the bright/spotlit eyes on good Kirk? So you can immediately tell there’s a difference between the two.

Idk why but my shitpost-ridden brain instantly went “wait… d-did they make Kirk hot?”

Depending on your taste/sexuality, they arguably do that most of the time. The man seems to have shirts made of tissue paper.

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Could also have been to make the difference more subtle, since they’re different parts of the same person, rather than being two separate people like the goatee counterparts are.

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The loophole is that they aren’t paid that amount in maximum wage anyway. The actual wage is some degree of modest. They just get paid in bonuses and stock options, which don’t count for one reason or another.

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T156 ,

No auto-knife is complete without a Singlcldpy

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Photovoltaic

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Or at least, for introductions.

Probably fine once dialogue is established.

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Also that LLMs have a habit of churning out junk. Microsoft in particular, probably has some extreme restrictions in place after the recent debacle with Sydney/Bing begging someone to leave their wife, and all of that controversy.

They don’t need it going full Tay.

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F-Droid has allegedly had automatic/silent installs for a while now, although only on newer versions of Android (12+).

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Socrates complained that the invention of widespread writing would make people lazy and forgetful, because they’d just write everything down, rather than remembering it orally.

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Not exactly, ChatGPT is OpenAI’s GPT interface. Whereas CoPilot is Microsoft’s, and has a bunch of plugins and tweaks to suit their uses. The underlying model is the same, but not the customisation.

Think of it like different flavours of Android. Samsung, Google, and Nothing all have their own spins, even if they all run Android under the hood.

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Unclear, as I don’t work for Microsoft. But searching Bing isn’t part of the default GPT function set, that’s at least one proprietary one that they’ve specifically done up for their own uses.

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They might not be. We’re already starting to run into the limits of silicon as it is, and I can’t imagine that we can keep pushing it for another 3 decades.

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Also that housing is now an investment commodity, like stocks.

Why would anyone sell if they can just hold onto it and basically get free money, with maybe a bit of rent on the side?

Or just using it to store money safely in something that reliably appreciates.

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The computer is inaccessible, and if you did that, the best way to fix it, while also avoiding any other potential issues stemming from that, is just to reinstall the thing.

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The box what goes bang if you poke it wrong.

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I’ve found it to be okay. The plugin system is nice, but the lack of local file sync on iOS is quite bothersome, since I use a self-hosted sync instead.

It basically makes the iOS app unusable for me, and it would be a deal breaker if Obsidian didn’t just use markdown documents you can edit with a text editor.

Admittedly, I migrated from Apple Notes and raw text documents, so there isn’t much by way of competition.

I have tried a bit of the others, like abusing LaTeX for it, which worked okay, but had a few flaws, like when linking other files, and Trillium, which is interesting, but also uses an SQL database (without mobile support, which didn’t work for me).

Turtl was interesting, but when I used it, very beta.

Evernote was okay, but also suffers from the proprietary format. I dropped them after they reduced the device support down to 2/3, so no idea what it’s like now.

Onenote was nice with the pen support (only Apple and Samsung notes otherwise have that, as far as I’m aware), but I found it to be quite heavy, and a little unwieldy (in addition to being proprietary).

Onenote also has a strange quirk where it will gradually accumulate copies, so big notes will cause it to grow over time until it starts eating up huge amounts of space on your computer.

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I currently use BT Sync/Resilio, since it supports selective sync without fiddling with an ignorelist, but it does work, except on Obsidian’s iOS app, which supports only icloud, or Obsidian sync.

T156 ,

Interesting. I don’t use Samba, but a different app for syncing, and it’s much more of a headache.

Either Obsidian wants you to log into sync, or it helpfully makes a new vault on icloud.

There is not a third option, with their forums suggesting that they weren’t going to add one, due to iOS limitations.

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You really just think we’re gonna follow the most extremely stupid path so your “guns r bad” rhetoric makes sense. FFS, have some respect for what you’re arguing against.

I mean, we are talking about arming the teaching staff with firearms, rather than having a trained guard who signed up for the task, or addressing the root problems. You’re asking them to either shoot their own students, or other students at the same school. This is not an expected outcome for someone who wants to go into education or stay there because they care for the kids, nor is it starting from a sane position to begin with.

Its a school, not a military barracks in a war zone.

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Any attending authorities will surely not be confused by the situation, potentially worsening things through miscommunication.

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Yes. Normally, the OS “fixes” this by making a second, bigger recovery partition, but that only works if you have the space for it.

T156 ,

Slightly less obnoxious, but equally ineffective; vote with your hands, your eyes, your feet. Don’t let them steal your labor your attention your time your anything. You can be passive and hold a strike. You van be active and strike back. I think a mix of both would be a lot more effective than just one.

You can also strike without striking. There’s a huge fuss over “quiet quitting”/“work to rule”, where people are striking by only doing exactly what they’re paid for, rather than adding in the extra that has become the norm. They’re not adding extra hours or pulling extra duties.

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