knz_

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by knz_ 5y ago
I pirate everything. Honestly, the only things I don't pirate are like 1-2 games a year that me and some friends end up playing together. For software I generally just run whatever FOSS thing I can find, and in the case of movies and m
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by knz_ 5y ago
The people working at these camps should be named and shamed.
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by knz_ 5y ago
Companies are already trying to flood the market with H1Bs to suppress wages and pushing people towards CS and STEM degrees in general. They don't need to do anything special, in 10 years the market will be flooded and you will be comp
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by knz_ 5y ago
It's more than $8000/mo take home. Anyone who can't afford to feed and house 5 people on that budget is probably a degenerate gambler or drug addict.
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by knz_ 5y ago
> (Edit: What I also came to think of is that GCC recently positioned itself in opposition to the FSF because of the "Stallman-Controversy". Is this a kind of retaliation on their part?) More like a necessity to keep the projec
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by knz_ 5y ago
There isn't any other way to do it. FSF showed their hand and lost.
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by knz_ 5y ago
Well, this is a problem that FSF created. They tried to unilaterally appoint RMS to the steering committee and were forced to renege when most of GCC's top contributors threatened to walk away from the project. If they didn't get
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by knz_ 5y ago
> What incentive would the US government have to lie about this though? The US government hasn't even made any statement. > They were funding research at that lab, I don't understand why they would want people to think lab
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by knz_ 5y ago
This is some propaganda for sure. ho chi mihn was a political prisoner and figurehead of the CCP state, similar to kim il-sung. The vietmanese state has been an extension of the CCP since the 70s. This isn't up for debate, it's ob
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by knz_ 5y ago
> If left to develop its communist government by itself, it could be like China today - a superpower that's going to overtake the USA by important measures. Ho Chi Mihm was a puppet of china. There was no 'developing on their o
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by knz_ 5y ago
> I don't know how you think that if GPUs were cheaper then miners would be buying less of them. It would increase supply by forcing fabs to scale (would take years anyway, but should happen sooner rather than later). > Miners ar
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by knz_ 5y ago
> I'd dreading Nvidia crippling deep learning for all those not paying X more dollars (as the situation already is for server farms). This already changed years ago when NVIDIA removed the last non-crippled double and half precision
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by knz_ 5y ago
> a) let's keep consumer grade stuff stable in price Consumer GPUs had far from a 'stable price' before the mining boom. GPUs have more than tripled in MSRP once you factor in that NVIDIA has moved lower-tier chips that pr
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by knz_ 5y ago
Even worse if you're trying to sync a file that might be actively changed while syncing - syncthing will reread the entire file as soon as only a few kilobytes are changed. On a file >10GiB this quickly leads to a death spiral of IO
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by knz_ 5y ago
The bad actors here should be expelled and deported. The nationalities involved make it clear this is likely a backfired foreign intelligence operation and not just 'research'. They were almost certainly expecting an obvious bad p
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by knz_ 5y ago
And I was pointing out that you just broke that very law by insinuating it was OK to call for Mike Pence's execution by a violent mob.
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by knz_ 5y ago
> but just calling for it seems like it can’t be enough. Speech that advocates support and action by terrorist groups is not protected by the first amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providing_material_support_
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by knz_ 5y ago
> Rocket lake being backported to 14nm is still not a good sign for actual production volume, I'm not seeing a good reason for thinking this is the case. Server CPUs are harder to fab (much larger die area) and they need to fab more
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by knz_ 5y ago
There's no reason for disabled people to be taking Ubers. Drivers are not trained nor willing to handle disabled passengers in many cases. They often have smaller vehicles for economy/poverty reasons that not equipped to carry whe
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by knz_ 5y ago
A bunch of 4chan kids signing a reactionary letter vs hundreds of respected names in the FOSS community. One of these groups has a negative impact on society as a whole, the other are hundreds of respected people working for free or reduced
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by knz_ 5y ago
It's nice to see some common sense on display. Removing him is the correct step. RMS is a known creep and very likely a pedophile, if his public opinions on child sex (and links to Minsky and Epstein) are anything to go by: > I am s
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by knz_ 5y ago
GCS isn't elective surgery.
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by knz_ 5y ago
Even worse is now that every diesel car and truck comes with extremely unreliable and expensive to keep operational DPFs in place of the defeat devices. Now people who live in areas that do emissions testing are forced to use less efficient
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by knz_ 5y ago
The person they hired to do this work (Kip Macy) is a massive POS. https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-landlord-hell-defends-te... Just in case there wasn't enough evidence that the people at Netgate are not good
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by knz_ 5y ago
No, they can't. When I was poor and working full-time for $15/hr the best I could get was a bare minimum healthcare plan that would have taken more than the free money I had after rent and food for the month -- and this was despit
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by knz_ 5y ago
> Has anyone seen joining unions actually cause positions that got stock to stop getting stock? Is this like an overwhelmingly common thing I don’t know about? It's an overt threat. Tesla has used it's stock compensation as a w
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by knz_ 5y ago
The original Zen architecture released in 2017 was not the best performing CPU on the market by any metric. It wasn't until Zen 2 and Zen 3 that AMD fully caught up.
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by knz_ 6y ago
How about no? I'm going to continue blocking ads and I will never pay to bypass a paywall around a video or blog post. I don't care how easy it's made, I have no interest in opening my wallet to yet another recurring expense
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by knz_ 6y ago
The entire development team would have walked if he stayed. Nobody wants to work with someone who hasn't done anything technically relevant in 30 years and can't seem to stop pushing his far-right views in places where they are ir
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by knz_ 6y ago
These services are not cheap at all. Many of them are tacking on over 10% in just service fees, and still expect you to pay surcharges and tip the driver on top of that.

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