justin66

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by justin66 5d ago
Hey now. We turn against each other, too.
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by justin66 5d ago
> The "worst" RCP8.5 / SSP5-8.5-style futures (coal-dominated, ~4.4–4.9 °C) are no longer treated as plausible That's a strange way of structuring such a comment. The temperature increase and concomitant catastrophes
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by justin66 5d ago
Lazily researched comment. Pretty much anyone who isn't in sales can have "engineer" in their title. I'm sure there were plenty of "support engineers" in the Shopify number you cited, and I'm sure there we
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by justin66 6d ago
As a practical matter, I'm not sure the Mansfield amendment affected all agencies equally. My impression is that it affected ARPA (later DARPA) most profoundly. (pretty much everything I've read about this was in the context of AR
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by justin66 6d ago
> In retrospect it does seem like in the 1950s-70s the military was willing to fund some stuff that was actually not especially close to applications of killing people. There's no "seem" about it, what you're saying i
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by justin66 7d ago
Nobody is running i386 in production, I would think. It’s fun to imagine someone actually might be…
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by justin66 8d ago
They tell you it's a diagnostic procedure but if they see a sense of humor in there they just zap it.
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by justin66 8d ago
Yeah, but which one? Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that.
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by justin66 8d ago
Present and accounted for ^^
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by justin66 8d ago
Oh, sweet mystery of FreeBSD versioning. 15.1-Release already came out. (Yes. I know.)
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by justin66 9d ago
World class art museums have some staff on site 24/7, FWIW. > I wonder how many more hours of downtime The Archive would have experienced in 2025 if no one was ever woken up out of bed to fix it. (If anyone was) Wasn't 2025 the
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by justin66 9d ago
> a municipal library (which, I'll remind you, aren't even open the majority of the time and we all get by just fine), At least half of a modern library's lending happens digitally. But let's put aside the example of
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by justin66 9d ago
At this point I think you’re just committed to the bit but you cannot possibly believe what you’re writing, as it’s a blinkered analysis and truly misanthropic in its effect. A metropolitan library system employs hundreds of people in a var
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by justin66 9d ago
> a library worker doesn't need their computer at 9am so badly that they need an on-call IT worker (and presumably some kind of middle-of-the-night monitoring) to ensure it before they get in. A single worker probably doesn't,
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by justin66 9d ago
> Is it very important that they have someone to restore service at 3am? Depends on the service, but any effort to maintain this daft "gosh, what are they worried about, it's just the internet archive" line of thought is g
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by justin66 9d ago
They have plenty of volunteers. You can't run everything in an organization using volunteers.
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by justin66 10d ago
> the code to support them is gumming up the LLMs. I'm just going to take it out of the kernel Ouch.
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by justin66 11d ago
Harsh commentary on the pi is nothing new. I’ve been a user since the 256mb pi b, so I’ve developed a sense of humor about it. I look back with amusement (and annoyance) at episodes like the Spanish hacker who heaped abuse on the pi team on
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by justin66 12d ago
Jetson Orin Nano? Although I have no idea what those cost nowadays...
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by justin66 12d ago
I will never understand why someone would pay $45 for a Raspberry Pi when they could assault a passing child and steal their Chromebook.
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by justin66 12d ago
> no education software runs on them properly. Anyone ever forced to use education software knows that’s a bonus.
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by justin66 13d ago
I agree that it would have been trivially easy for him to give the museum a long-term future. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about what he cared about.
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by justin66 13d ago
> His sister (at his behest??) decided to lean into a smaller number of projects for his money. And didn't do any of the obvious things one might have done if they wanted to preserve the museum's existence, like finding a buyer
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by justin66 21d ago
This is definitely not the first printed edition to omit those chapters. There’s a story there and I don’t know what it is.
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by justin66 21d ago
The book entered the public domain since I looked into it. Fun!
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by justin66 21d ago
The last I checked, it was weirdly difficult to buy a copy of Last and First Men and be certain you were getting the complete book as it was intended to be read by the author. Oddly, this article is "adapted from Matthew De Abaitua’s
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by justin66 21d ago
I saw a photo of him sitting down in a very concerned about data centers interview and the thing that struck me was that his wheelchair was visible. This represents a change in his style. (if he thinks it's going to make him more sym
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by justin66 23d ago
Spending money is necessary but not sufficient to fix this sort (or literally any sort?) of big problem. I hope you don't think San Francisco having spent a lot of money on the problem (the $100k per person figure in isolation is decep
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by justin66 23d ago
My first thought is, I'm not certain their homeless are different in their behavior, but based on what little I know, I'm rather certain their non-homeless are. I'd expect disruption or damage to a public space of the kind th
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by justin66 23d ago
> I guess if you don’t have a massive population of antisocial people who destroy the public facility, you can provide them. It’s a shame we in the west surrendered that. What a weird way of stating the problem. There is too large a popu

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