arcade79

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by arcade79 10d ago
> I also pulled one of my sons twice from the same pond around that age Norwegian here. I rescued a girl one year older than me from a small stream/brook that had grown a bit larger due to rainwater when I was 7 years old. Also walk
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by arcade79 1mo ago
I know Google started deteriorating. It was in 2008 or 2009. Up until then Google would return 0 results if it couldn't find a document with all the words you specified. Then it started serving synonyms, attempted to correct spelling
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by arcade79 2mo ago
Anecdotal, I know, but I was ghosted by Google back in 2004-2005 or thereabouts. Back and forth with a recruiter, who promised me that she would book phone screens. Then heard nothing. Pinged her repeatedly. Nothing. A few years later g
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by arcade79 3mo ago
For me, it was kubuntu. Back in late 2005 or early 2006. The reason? They were always pretty good at shipping the latest KDE. I had grown tired of hoping someone would compile a new version for my preferred distro. So kubuntu it was, an
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by arcade79 3mo ago
I have no idea about this catalogue, however, looking at the article and how the image manipulation has happened - it looks very much like "repro" work back in the day. Anything that large companies published in/as magazines,
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by arcade79 4mo ago
My take: China is now producing cars of such good quality that companies are putting CT-scans of their cars online .. Been driving Tesla the last 9 years .. entirely possible that my next car will be a BYD.
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by arcade79 7mo ago
Uh; not the same as FreeBSD jails? But name conflict? That's just silly.
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by arcade79 7mo ago
Leaving Google was the best thing I did, some 10 years ago. It reduced my stress level dramatically. I had no idea about how stressed I was at G. The release, when leaving, was immense. Never ever, will I return to big tech. However, hav
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by arcade79 7mo ago
> And now we are at a situation where nuclear escalation has already started (New START was not extended). This is a massive understatement. Russia has announced, and probably tested, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9
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by arcade79 7mo ago
Given the rapid expansion of solar, and that it keeps accellerating, we're less than 10 years away from seeing a massive decline in demand for gasoline. I don't know the chemistry, and whether that'll make more hydrocarbons a
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by arcade79 8mo ago
Nice, the L4 cache seem to be a newish addition. Love the detail about two filesystems with >10 exabytes of storage.
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by arcade79 8mo ago
While reading this kind of articles, I'm always surprised by how small the storage described is. Given that Microsoft released their paper on LRCs in 2012, Google patented a bunch in 2010, facebook talked about their stuff around th
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by arcade79 9mo ago
Been a kubuntu user since .. 2006? 2007? Don't remember when kubuntu became a thing, but as soon as I tried Ubuntu, I went kubuntu. I believe it was 5.10 or 6.04 or something. :-) Am growing tired of Ubuntu though. Just not sure whe
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by arcade79 9mo ago
Well, there was Ender's Game, it came in '85. Usenet did exist at that point, though. Don't know if the author had encountered it. The Shockwave Rider was also remarkable prescient.
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by arcade79 9mo ago
I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. Going against the users like that would make me drop it like a hot potato.
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by arcade79 10mo ago
The interconnects already exists.
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by arcade79 10mo ago
> and it's not too difficult to make an opinionated and challenging chatbot Funnily enough, I've saved instructions for ChatGPT to always challenge my opinions with at least 2 opposing views; and never to agree with me if it se
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by arcade79 10mo ago
Grew up with Duralex Provence as the 'regular milk / water glass' here in Norway. Never broke one by accident. Excellent glasses.
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by arcade79 10mo ago
I don't know how folks did it elsewhere, or what the rules was. Here, a friend and I created ourselves a "bubble". My family and his family hanged out with each other. My kid was playing with his kid. We went on long fores
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by arcade79 10mo ago
Scary statistics from the US. Here's some anecdotal data from Norway (my daughter being the data, she's 11): - Walked in a different aisle at a store. My daughter started going to the store alone from she was about 7. - Talked w
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by arcade79 11mo ago
I'll note that phrack magazine predates the worm by 3 years. Wargames, the movie, predates it by 5 years. 2600 by by 4 years. Mitnick started having fun around 9 years earlier. I'm not so sure the Morris worm was the turning po
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by arcade79 1y ago
We had the right technologies in the past, but we mismanaged them. Email, Usenet and IRC was great. Email, however, went dogshit due to spam. From simply having the office mail-server, everyone went to Gmail and Office, who didn't alw
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by arcade79 1y ago
Sadly lacking a nice big table to lay out the metadata on.
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by arcade79 1y ago
All my random edits go through and stick around. Probably because they're relatively simple. A table with data up until 2020, and I update it with sources up until 2024? Never had it removed. I seldomly add much beyond such things t
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by arcade79 1y ago
What happens to the energy that did the useful work?
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by arcade79 1y ago
What I find truly insane is how we're "wasting" the hardware. I ran a mailserver for thousands of people on a 486 DX 33Mhz. It had smtp, pop3 and imap. It was more than powerful enough to handle it with ease. I had a Pentiu
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by arcade79 2y ago
I have a Tesla, and up until Elon did a hitler salute, I was more then willing considering that my next car would be a Tesla too (my main annoyance being that windshield wipers was enabled/disabled on the screen on model 3s). After the
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by arcade79 2y ago
It's a bit scary how much of what we "took as granted" in the 90s somehow "got lost and forgotten" by most people between about 2005 and 2020. /oldfart
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by arcade79 2y ago
The tragedy here is that expectations differ. I would expect my laptop to use my local DNS server if the VPN is up. My local DNS server is the one I have on my home network. The rest of my traffic, I would expect to go through the VPN tun
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by arcade79 2y ago
A lot of misunderstandings among the commenters here. From the link: "the total compute cost it would take to replicate the paper" It's not Google's cost. Google's cost is of course entirely different. It's t

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