haroldp

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by haroldp 1mo ago
Yeah, sure but... if it's real fast, lets connect SSDs to it and have real fast swap. Whatever it is will be limited to the bus speed. And that's gonna be silly compared to RAM speed.
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by haroldp 1mo ago
> Yeah but DDR3 was faster then and still is now USB would be the limiter for both.
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by haroldp 1mo ago
> Sometimes you just need the space and not the speed. Your computer already supports that. It's called "swap".
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by haroldp 5mo ago
In one of TR's books (perhaps Rough Riders?), he mentions watching Lincoln's funeral precession as a child, from his family home in New York.
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by haroldp 7mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
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by haroldp 9mo ago
And, “They have been carried away by monkeys!”
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by haroldp 9mo ago
I was more thinking I could add it to my Asterisk server to honey-pot the spam callers into an infinite time waster cycle.
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by haroldp 9mo ago
> If AI evolves at the same pace, and replacing labor (robots) and services (AI), I am not sure that human would turn around? How do you think we can turn things around ? I see no indication that we are close to building a GAI, or that w
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by haroldp 9mo ago
I get what you are saying, and I don't think you are wrong, but it has been like 100 monumental changes in 200 years. The demographic shift of the industrial revolution was particularly painful, to be sure. But we seem to be pretty g
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by haroldp 9mo ago
> I was talking about the issues with comparing it to singular inventions like the cotton gin or jacquard loom Ok, appreciate the clarification. But in that time frame there have been a number of really tectonic inventions that changed
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by haroldp 9mo ago
There is likewise no indication that it won't. And if I am looking at a pattern where a thousand careers were destroyed by the advance of technology and were swiftly replaced by tens of thousands of new ones, it is not unreasonable to
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by haroldp 9mo ago
> Also that's a singular industry 200 years ago, 95% of the workers in my country worked in subsistence farming. Today, only 2% are farmers. The whole spectrum of labor has turned upside down and upside down again, in that time.
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by haroldp 9mo ago
Now that jacquard loom has left so many textile workers unemployed?
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by haroldp 11mo ago
I grew up in a small town in rural Alaska that would have been completely under glacier ice when Columbus landed in North America. In the time between Captain Cook exploring the area in the 18th century and the next western survey a hundre
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by haroldp 1y ago
Now ask the same questions about homeless people living in tents down by the river.
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by haroldp 1y ago
This was my thought too, but I figured I just didn't understand the problem. Why use git commands to backup when a file system copy seems like it would do? zfs snapshot takes less than a second on any size repo. zfs send transfers j
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by haroldp 1y ago
English was Joseph Conrad's third language.
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by haroldp 1y ago
> It's hard. Dense, convoluted, absurd. These are a few of my favorite things!
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by haroldp 2y ago
Same could be said for the SPLC.
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by haroldp 2y ago
I just got the new M4 iPad like two months ago, and my YubiKeys absolutely did not work, no matter what I tried. There are articles on apple.com and yubikey.com that explain that USB-C YubiKeys will not work with USB-C iPads because Apple&
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by haroldp 2y ago
Woah, you are correct. My YubiKey 5C now works with my iPad M4! When did they fix that?? Edit: Looks like it was iPadOS 18.2 released on December 11th.
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by haroldp 2y ago
> > This is just a big network affect failure. > What do you mean "just" ? You've made the, "If you don't like the oppression here, move to Somalia" argument. If you don't like the way that citie
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by haroldp 2y ago
> There is plenty of vacant unincorporated land that a group of people could get together and build whatever city they might want. This is just a big network affect failure. A bunch of zealots starting a cult in the desert isn't a
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by haroldp 2y ago
I think that is also what I am talking about. A big central store is more economically efficient, and as a result the consumer preference, in an economic landscape where Men With Guns have removed every option except diffuse suburban hous
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by haroldp 2y ago
I don't doubt that the change in regulation enforcement mentioned in the article precipitated the shift away from small grocery stores. But the effects of bad zoning have been building for 100 years since Euclid v. Ambler. And it obv
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by haroldp 2y ago
Walmart has been making around 2% profits for a decade. Do you think that Walmart is less than 2% cheaper than small neighborhood grocery stores?
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by haroldp 2y ago
> In reality, the inefficiencies matter a lot. Which is how big stores attract customers with lower prices, provided they already have cars to get to them.
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by haroldp 2y ago
Disagree. If most people lived in dense mixed-use neighborhoods where they could walk from home to 90% of the destinations they needed (work, school, groceries, restaurants, entertainment, dentist, etc) they wouldn't need to own a car
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by haroldp 2y ago
Prices went up in 2023 following a massive spurt of deficit spending by the government devaluing the currency, and major supply line disruptions and realignments. If sidelining Robinson-Patman is the reason prices went up, then why did it
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by haroldp 2y ago
This is very silly, and the evidence for it is in the world all around you. Walmart is cheaper for most things. If they did not in fact pass the cost on, then there is the idea for your startup business: a grocery supplier to small neighb

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