idiocrat

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by idiocrat 4mo ago
There seems to be a typing mistake. The embouchure should have diameter of 2.8-3.2 centimeters, not millimeters. Perhaps that can be done DIY from an PVC pipe with an hot air gun or a gas burner to soften and shape the end. "Participan
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by idiocrat 6mo ago
For me the dots appear as white on a grey terrain. Impossible to see. Win Firefox 148.
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by idiocrat 1y ago
Do we still need program source code? One idea would be not to have the code as the result of your prompt, but the result itself. Why not to let the environment do everything integrated, according to your prompt? Else you have the disconnec
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Maybe the "query optimization works because sql is set-oriented"? The types of operations in SQL are limited to sets, therefore allowing certain optimizations.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Good that there are also non-EU instances of searx. Here is an extended list: https://searx.space/
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Yes, what you are saying is fair enough. I can imagine technological "divorces" will happen more often going forward, as the polarization between the G7 and the BRICS++ members grows.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
And then the next paragraph of the wikipeida: "In Chicago, Frederick Stock was forced to step down as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Orchestras replaced music by German compose
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by idiocrat 2y ago
This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment "The Justice Department attempted to prepare a list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of
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by idiocrat 2y ago
A quick thought: You could try to peek into the new world. They are not calcified (yet) and thus growing quickly, covering half of the world population. Surely they could appreciate your extended experience.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
I would be for the employees returning to office, if they could make Windows UI flexible and customizable. After all, there is at least some minimal efforts to modernize the Win11 UI: it seems not impossible (after many years of trying) to
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Finally a valid reason for those 1000W platinum PSUs. Their highest efficiency is at 80-90% utilization, but the efficiency drops off when underutilized.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
> Learn your DB server. Check the query plans often. You might get surprised. Tweak and recheck. Oftentimes the well-designed queries behave unexpectedly, because the column statistics are not updated or when the data is fragmented for b
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by idiocrat 2y ago
The 5 years estimate is off by 3 years?
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Sorry to be sarcastic, but obviously there is no money to make with planting forests to capture same amount of CO2 from the air. "Saving Amazon Forest" has been memory-holed. The technology will save humanity.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
As with usual exponential growth -- do not blink. The exponential growth is that you see nothing for long time, until it is too late. Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurge
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Can they pick up the two poor stuck guys on the way down?
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by idiocrat 2y ago
I have a friend who loves climbing tall mountains. He sends me pictures where he is on a mountain summit, pointing his "made it" fingers (or even his ski poles) into the blue skies. I pray each time that he does not getting hit by
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Talking to an electronic assistant is so antiquated. It feels unnatural to formulate inner thoughts into verbal commands. An ubiquitous phone has enough sensors/resources to be fully situationally aware and preempt/predict for eac
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Thank you. I found this by chance two years ago. Just a 3 days of Mg supplementation (2 grams/day) was a life-changing experience for me and fully cured my RLS.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Can you try to use a memory-mapped file, so the tree is always stored to disk, without a need of de/serialization?
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Life is short and limited and you will die sooner than you think.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
On responsibilities: In my previous company the product website system was over-engineered and urgently required 50 people on-call every second night, because always something was not working. The company has lots of cash, so they kept addi
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Because of the fAItigue the mentioning of AI will go away, but the orweillian precrAIme is here to stay.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
> Moncrieff argues that drug companies, doctors and psychiatrists benefit from this situation because it’s profitable. I recently discovered low dose lithium for myself. (self-medicated OTC lithium orotate, 5mg 2x daily) This has greatly
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by idiocrat 2y ago
I wish to know more about this time-capsule country. Currently the country seems to experience an extraordinary construction boom (modern apartment buildings). All we have are 20 years old pictures.
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Driving forward in Android drivers(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
103 points by idiocrat 2y ago|9 comments
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Somebody said: just live long enough to live forever.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
On the other side the US Apollo rock samples from the moon are now lost somewhere in dusty warehouses, disinterested, neglected and unaccounted for. There was an incident few years ago, where a couple had stolen some moon dust, spread it on

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