SlowTao

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by SlowTao 1y ago
Demand is up and supply is increasingly getting more costly. Ripe conditions for this kind of behavior. When it comes to a lot of metals it is kind of amazing how some of the biggest mines of this stuff are some of the oldest. It makes sens
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep. You occasionally see alarmist articles about the rate of metal theft in places like South Africa, but this is an issue every where. Different rates but it is there. I say alarmist because, they aren't done to inform but most to sh
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Here in southern Australia we would endlessly see this one guy with his broken down leaf on the side of the road. If I recall it was one of the very first generation models and they did not handle our summers well at all. To be fair to Niss
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by SlowTao 1y ago
That was my first though. While not legal precedent, it does sort of open the flood gates for others.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
They have been playing the long game for decades, the speed up in recent times feels like they realised the windows was closing and they need to lock things down before many wise up.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I am still endlessly fascinated by how modern GPUs can handle stuff like UE5, raytraced lumin (whatever) but still struggle to do 2D rendering. I mean I get it logically, but it just feels so disconnected. Always neat to see this kind of st
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I mean, it is a hard line elimination diet. If you watch what happens with reintroduction, you can provably figure out where the issues are.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
When it comes to physical exercise, this is the key fundamental one. Yes, others things help but it is the foundation on which everything else rests. Alas, it can be taken away without choice, hopefully not.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
While it is challenging, looked at one a life time scale it is kind of a neat thing. It isn't a purely linear decline and that means while the later years kind of suck, you get a lot of decent time before then. Yes, we should try and w
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It is 7:29am here and already this is enough internet for the day.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I have heard the same thing from Grid based electrical engineers. The grids fails in theory but works in practice.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
The last good place is https://neal.fun
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Can compile the kernel at record speed! Fan speed support... nope!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Always to option to fork it. Linux Legacy? Linux 32? Linux grey beard!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I think the big thing was Steve did make a lot of great decisions, some of the best the company could at that time in those respective fields but completely missed on everything that Apple did. Portable media players, smart phones and table
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I have been both impressed and kind of disappointed in Satya's role. He made some hard and direct changes initially that has allowed them to coast very comfortably, but we have also seen Microsoft become very tame in some areas. I was
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Completely agree. This is a general issue with technology in general, if someone uses a new technology to their advantage and at your disadvantage, you are essentially forced to adopt said technology just to keep up. In that sense a lot of
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Bingo. They may not be as fast or feature complete but they do work.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I think it is more a case of, at least provide the option to have another OS. Chances are that nobody else will be able to make it work but having it closed off before even getting a chance to try feels a little unfair to those that buy the
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by SlowTao 1y ago
That is a fair point, this is a similar issue that Libre-boot went through a few years back. Yes, you try to stick clear of binary blobs as much as possible but at a certain point you just run out of hardware that meets that criteria.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
How long until they produce an generative AI version of Burt Newton to do new episodes of 20 to 1 based on some social media slop? Yep, not a great time line here.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, here in Australia the social media age restriction was pushed through by both sides. Two sides of the same coin.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I think both sides of this are fair. Power is interested in stability of itself, to keeps its back to the wall so that nobody can sneak up on it. But also political power has teamed up with corporate power/determination to create a far
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It was David Graeber that said we should be wary of places like The Guardian. They are a wolf in sheeps clothing. Used a lot of the more liberal momentum of the early 2010s combined with promoting some of the more left leaning writters to g
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by SlowTao 1y ago
In oz personally and yes, I warned folks of this a few years back, especially in the 12 months or so. Every time I was met with a fair bit of push back. They would argue back on technical merits, I was talking political, a politics doesn&#x
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by SlowTao 1y ago
That is also happening in Manhattan/greater new York. The land is still rebounding from the ice age and the coasts happen to be at the point where they will slowly sink. Ocean level rise is also an issue but the base geology accelerate
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by SlowTao 1y ago
You are right. I was far to reductionist there. "No wars have been more ruthless and ravaging than “just” wars, fought in “defense” of religion, honor, or principle. If war must be, give me rather a war to capture an enemy’s wealth an
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I have said that their benchmark to power a desktop with Google Maps in 3D. Anything beyond that was a bonus.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Reminds me of the desktop/server processor space in the late 90's. At least this time we have a dozen vendors that are all using ARM instead of x86/POWER/DEC Aplha/MIPS/IA-64 & ARM. More chance of surviving
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Intel dropping the XScale ARM was the beginning of the end. Their iGPU's where fine so long as the peak of usage was google Earth/Maps. But it was wildly under supported and they ended up missing the boat, that could go for a lot

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