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qjkxbmwvz ,

Jack Schmidt = Anakin confirmed.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah I always assumed “bug” was like “vegetable” — it’s a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are “true bugs” so maybe the analogy isn’t completely sound.

(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I’d prefer vodka in watermelons, personally!

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I assumed it was housing.

qjkxbmwvz ,

cpubenchmark.net/…/Apple-M2-Ultra-24-Core-vs-Inte…

Benchmarks are of course just benchmarks, but the single-core performance is better for the M2, and the range-topping M2 is about 2x faster than the i9.

Also, regardless of how something compares, if it is ever memory-bandwidth bound, then faster RAM should help. While most tasks may be CPU or IO bound, AFAIK there can still easily be memory bound tasks in real-world workloads.

I picked the i9-11900k for comparison since I think that was the last one to only support DDR4 (making it “DDR4 era”). Ryzen maybe faster in the DDR4 era though?

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“It’s more performant than the old SODIMM sticks, vastly more efficient, it saves space, and it should even help with thermals as well. All that, and it’s still about as repairable as anything we’ve ever seen,” iFixit concluded.

Yes, there was a perfectly fine, upgradable memory standard before. And many 486s were also perfectly fine, upgradable computers.

The fact that a new technology makes it so we can have our cake and eat it too — upgradability without any compromise — is a fantastic innovation.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Bioavailable — the e is a little odd.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Bioavailable — the e is a little odd.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

H|ψ> = E|ψ> + AI

Here, I have chosen the time-independent Schrödinger equation, to symbolize the fact that AI is the most important innovation of all time.

…

This is all bullshit of course. Everyone knows that the AI term should be included in the Hamiltonian anyway 🙄

qjkxbmwvz ,

I used to be older than my little brother.

I still am, but I used to, too.

qjkxbmwvz ,

To be clear, most science/advanced education in the US is conducted in SI units.

Also, a year is about pi*10^7 seconds, which can be useful for back-of-the-envelopes.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Does McDonnell Douglas count as Boeing?

qjkxbmwvz ,

Someone else pointed out Tailscale; I’ve had luck with free tier VPS+WireGuard.

I have an Oracle one which has worked well. Downside is I did link my CC, because my account was getting deactivated due to inactivity (even using it as a VPN and nginx proxy for my self hosting wasn’t enough to keep it “active”). But I stay below the free allowance, so it doesn’t cost.

That said: as far as anonymity goes, it’s not the right tool. And I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host to get away from large corporations owning my data…and relying on Oracle to do so. But you can get a static IP and VPS for free, so that’s something.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Minimum wage shouldn’t be a dollar amount, it should be a living amount defined in a reasonable and realistic way. (Probably should be region dependent, too?)

qjkxbmwvz ,

Buying Twitter was, arguably, a consequence.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Indica Joe >> Sleepy Joe

Doesn’t matter if this is a shameless grab for the gen X/millennial/Z vote, or a principled stand — progress is progress.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Was Jobs really a techbro? I usually think of techbros as being fairly political/libertarian (or some interpretation of libertarianism, at any rate), while Jobs was afaik pretty apolitical.

qjkxbmwvz ,

From article:

Paying people to develop features or fixing bug is fine, but when a huge number of contributors are paid by companies, this lead to poor decisions and conflicts of interest.

I think this depends on the structure of the project though. The Linux kernel has a huge number of corporate contributors, but it seems to be doing ok.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Can you post the syncthing logs, as well as the nginx logs?

I assume you’ve seen this: stackoverflow.com/…/refused-to-execute-script-bec…

Can you post your nginx config? Is it just this one with different variables? docs.syncthing.net/users/reverseproxy.html

qjkxbmwvz ,

I’d definitely take a look at the syncthing logs…

qjkxbmwvz ,

403 Forbidden doesn’t necessarily mean a bad login attempt. Are you sure that’s the error? My troubleshooting steps would be to access directly (no nginx), and look at the logs for a successful login. Then, look try to login with nginx, and look at those logs (both access.log and error.log on nginx, and any/all logs from syncthing). Find out where the two cases diverge and go from there.

Does syncthing have a domain name specified? If it doesn’t know its domain name it may work from IP directly but not via reverse proxy. Just a hunch.

qjkxbmwvz ,

This suggests nginx options to use re: hostname. Unsure of your nginx config…

forum.syncthing.net/t/…/13767

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Disregarding the question but commenting on the material, I don’t think this is generally true. In labeling something as forever upfront (e.g., marriage, which generally includes a “forever clause”), it’s only natural though.

Contrast marriage with a “summer fling” — the expectation is a duration of at most one summer. Not really considered a failure (which is kinda the plot of Grease, dated though that may be…)

There was a great restaurant near me (Michelin star), and it closed a while back — the owner was upfront that he just had a kid and wanted to spend more time together. I don’t think anyone views that as a failure. A loss for the community, definitely, but not a failure.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Would fit on dual layer DVD.

qjkxbmwvz ,

The freedom is great, and the fact that things don’t change out from under me is awesome — I can use a basic or tiling window manager while still running a modern system. Updating Windows or macOS = new “improved” GUI, generally speaking. KDE and Gnome also change, but it’s your choice to use/not use them, as it should be!

Started with Red Hat in the kernel 2.0 or 2.2 days, because I picked up a book+install CD at a garage sale.

Slackware on an old laptop got me through undergrad (desktop ran Gentoo, but I didn’t use it much).

Switched to Debian after that, with a little Arch in grad school btw (not a huge fan — to each their own).

Running Debian now (desktop, laptop, and SBCs), but my heart belongs to Slackware.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Congratulations! We were running laundry non-stop after babby was formed. The spit up, dear God…

qjkxbmwvz ,

We’re considering a new car (current car is an old econobox that’s been to the moon), and range anxiety does factor in for the “weekend adventure” use case. We live in CA, and something like a trip to Yosemite or Tahoe requires refuelling/charging. But these places can get inundated with weekend warriors (like us!), who are all on the same schedule. We’ve had friends who have had stressful incidents e.g. charging in Yosemite valley, or on the way back from Tahoe. Add a toddler in the mix and it gets even less fun.

Not insurmountable, but infrastructure and timing are still not as good as for dinosaur blood.

For 95% of the time though yeah — commuting, single-day adventures, or bopping around the city would be no problem at all.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Not a battery expert, but I think there are safety implications.

qjkxbmwvz ,

We live in a high CoL area, and in our experience the only financial line items from having a kid that matter are housing and childcare: we pay more on daycare than we did on rent before kid when we lived in a studio. Baby food is only used for a little while, and if you prefer, most of it is easy to make yourself.

And private daycare (or nanny) should be expensive, because caregivers should be making a living wage.

The only options I see to bring down costs are to exploit caregivers more than they already are (this is very wrong), to rely on grandparents for childcare, or to implement publicly funded daycare across the board.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Some false premises in this thread — corporations are not required to maximize profits. Even if maximizing profit was mandatory, this is a pretty subjective topic — is short term profit while pissing off your customers “maximizing profit,” or is sacrificing short term gains for long term customer loyalty “maximizing profit”? It’s not a rhetorical question, and I think you can find examples of both.

Corporations are also not all pursuing endless growth; in addition to “growth stocks” there are “dividend stocks.” Some companies aren’t aggressively pursuing growth, but are making profit, and the stock reflects this. It feels almost antiquated in the “to the moon” era, but these companies do exist.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

qjkxbmwvz ,

I hate it as much as the next guy, but I certainly don’t see why it should be illegal (and disclaimer — Debian on all my personal machines, macOS for work).

Should it be illegal for books to have a list of similar material from the author/publisher? Should food staples not be able to list recipes on the back?

I completely agree that pulling the rug out from under the customer should be illegal (i.e., effectively changing the terms of service for an already-purchased product), but having a shitty product shouldn’t be illegal IMHO.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah I think we’re in violent agreement to an extent — as I said in my last graf, if it’s effectively changing the user agreement, absolutely not ok. But if it’s a shitty product to begin with, then I’m just not going to buy it in the first place.

So yeah, Windows doing shitty things for users who have already paid for the product is definitely not cool. But for all users going forward to have a shitty experience? That’s… shitty, yeah, but I personally don’t think it should be illegal?

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah, I guess it’s a matter of what the analogy is to “page.” I would say my computer is the book, and the pages are the software. If some developer wants to make a piece of shit ad ridden software, well, great — but I won’t install it :)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I think it could be that this is a legal distinction — as in, they are victims not just in a colloquial sense but also “victims” in this sense:

The migrants applied for U nonimmigrant status (or a U visa), described by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as a visa “set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.”

But yeah, it reads a bit funny.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I think it could be that this is a legal distinction — as in, they are victims not just in a colloquial sense but also “victims” in this sense:

The migrants applied for U nonimmigrant status (or a U visa), described by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as a visa “set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.”

But yeah, it reads a bit funny.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I don’t think that’s true at all. I’m ok with systemd, but I don’t really like it, and find much of the criticism valid. At this point the reason I use it, and am more-or-less fine with it, is that it has become the de facto standard and is very well supported.

Which is also one of the reasons I dislike it — it is such an integral part of modern Linux systems that it can be hard to change, which reduces a lot of the appeal of Linux — flexibility and freedom.

qjkxbmwvz ,

the IRS considers rental income as regular income…it just goes in your bog standard income section.

In every imaginable way rental income is better financially than “standard” income

?

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We tried personally evaluating people for loans on their individual merits, and shocker, there was rampant racism and sexism. Having strict metrics, instead of relying on the whims of a dickwad loan agent, is a good thing.

The new system isn’t perfect, and yeah, it completely favors people who have parents who know how the system works. But at least it’s not explicitly racist or sexist (again, there are of course systemic issues that feed into it).

I get that it’s frustrating to, for example, need to have debt in order to qualify for more debt. But in other contexts this is pretty standard — it’s essentially “financial experience.”

But yeah. It sucks that you should pay expenses with a credit card rather than debit in the USA. Personally it doesn’t matter to me (I pay them off every month), but it sucks for merchants who get stuck with the credit card transaction fees.

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

In the US, I think you would be entitled by law to know the reason why you were rejected ( …m.wikipedia.org/…/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act ).

Does the UK have something similar?

qjkxbmwvz ,

even though the bank technically owns this shit

Nah, they just have a substantial lien against the property :)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I don’t hate it now, though I did when it first came out, as it borked my system on several occasions. I’m still not a fan, but it works so eh.

One borkage was that the behavior of fstab changed, so if there was e.g. a USB drive in fstab which was not connected at startup, the system would refuse to boot without some (previously not required) flags in fstab. This is not a big deal for a personal laptop, but for my headless server, was a real pain. The systemd behavior is arguably the right one, but it broke systems in the process. Which is somewhat antithetical to, say, Linus Torvalds’ approach to kernel development (“do not break user space”).

It also changed the default behavior of halt — now, it changed it to the “correct” behavior, but again…it broke/adversely affected existing usage patterns, even if it was ultimately in the right.

In addition to all of this, binary logs are very un-UNIXy, and the monolithic/do-everything model feels more like Windows than *NIX.

qjkxbmwvz ,

In some ways I think the filesystem is philosophically the exact opposite of systemd — I can boot my system with an ext4 root, with a btrfs /home…or vice versa. Or add some ZFS, or whatever. The filesystem is (with the exception of some special backup schemes) largely independent of the rest of the system, despite being of core importance.

On the other hand, I can’t change my init system (i.e., systemd) without serious, serious work.

qjkxbmwvz ,

What, the curtains?

qjkxbmwvz ,

As a social construct, I like that I can be anywhere in the world and know that around noon is probably an appropriate time for lunch, etc.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Maybe both? BSD for his server, Slackware for his desktop. Or something.

qjkxbmwvz ,

It’s from Phoronix. This is kinda what they do. It’s not worthy of the front page of the Wall Street Journal, but then, no one said it was…

qjkxbmwvz ,

I’m guessing Baby Got Back.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Same!

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