lightedman

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by lightedman 3d ago
US Person is not a tax definition, it is a security definition. holds up access badge with US Person written on it Taxes do not care if you're an American or not, you're still paying them.
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by lightedman 4d ago
"How would you force the judge to do that?" You read my wording wrong - you wouldn't force the judge, the judge forces Google.
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by lightedman 4d ago
"I advocate for right-sizing your hardware to predicable workloads and not using swap at all." You do realize in the current semiconductor-short code-bloat-heavy economy we're in right now that your advocation would be prohib
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by lightedman 4d ago
Then you sue them again in small claims court for the damages of not having access to your accounts (to which other online services require/are tied to which are not Google-owned properties) and have the judge force your reinstatement
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by lightedman 4d ago
The moment Google removed 'Do No Evil' from their values the only explanation left is pure malice.
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by lightedman 5d ago
Or be a proper computer user and have a full drive on its own dedicated bus for swap. There is literally no point in time where a full swap drive is less performant or useful than swap directories or swap files (and swap files are a relic o
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by lightedman 5d ago
"No child would ever play with this ball. Have still seen this idea at least three times now despite the fact that if the reporter spent 15 seconds with the actual ball they'd realize it's a complete non-starter." No chi
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by lightedman 5d ago
Of course HN isn't going to stop advertising the very thing it's probably sunk a ton of money into. If you want actual technical discussion of other subjects, maybe slashdot is still around.
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by lightedman 6d ago
Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
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by lightedman 6d ago
Which process, though? Every human alive easily went from millions of cells to billions of cells to trillions of cells.
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by lightedman 6d ago
I am on IPv6 and I cannot access your site.
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by lightedman 6d ago
For an example of this that most anyone can find in nature, look up the humble agate (banded ones, most seam agates do not display the phenomena to as great of an extent.)
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by lightedman 7d ago
I was about to come in and say - orange groves are ALWAYS topped. I worked at the California Citrus State Historic Park, topping was done frequently. Same thing for most any orange grove from Cali to Florida. In fact, they're basically
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by lightedman 8d ago
If only it were not dog slow in performance metrics. Still not as slow as Open Office but man it's close. And that's on a newer Dell Pro Max with an Ultra 7 processor, 96GB RAM, and dual GPUs (Arc and RTX Blackwell.)
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by lightedman 11d ago
Probably the same reason it was written with explicit DOS support.
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by lightedman 11d ago
I'll provide a citation since I'm in this industry and watch it closely. De Beers currently has about 2 billion worth of diamond stock in its holds. This equates to about... 5-6 months of sales volume. It used to be worth more but
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by lightedman 14d ago
If you're in the USA you file in small claims where most lawyers are not allowed and you win there. bonus: You set precedent for other people to sue and beat Verisign down cut by cut.
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by lightedman 14d ago
"I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion)" It's a great insult, because it is usually used to describe someone whose viewpoint is basically a brainwashed and braindead pre-programmed one (e
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by lightedman 14d ago
Then you'd have standing to sue the hell out of Verisign for their lying on their document to ICANN and the damages you sustained as a result. Sounds like a win to me if you play your cards right.
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by lightedman 14d ago
The full sale over to GM happened in 2005.
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by lightedman 14d ago
My 9-3t was the year SAAB sold entirely to GM but SAAB was still doing all the builds. So, no, no GM anything in it. Not a single American part (which made getting OEM replacements a pain in 2020.)
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by lightedman 15d ago
My 9-3t stock could dust many modified Mustangs in a drag race. I never saw a 900 do that.
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by lightedman 15d ago
I'd be happier with a 9-3t (small t not large T) redo. But nooo, SAAB sold their auto division to GM in 2005.
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by lightedman 15d ago
That birefringence in corundum is why fluorite is used. Fluorite lenses low index of refraction across all wavelengths is also the reason for lacking chromatic aberration. Fluorite lenses are generally superior. For macro photography there
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by lightedman 16d ago
Depends on how cheap you go - most of the cheap ones that take images where the blacks look grey likely do not have an IR filter on them. Most quality phones will use a camera with IR filters on them - blacks look like blacks.
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by lightedman 16d ago
"On a related note, anyone wearing prescription glasses will be affected by chromatic aberration to some degree" Fluorite lenses FTW. Practically zero aberration. CR-58 pales in comparison.
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by lightedman 19d ago
As a studying geologist, I find such a simplistic reduction to be very absurd, there are many factors which influence how that released energy causes its damage. Are there physical impediments in the way? Are there breaks in the path of flo
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by lightedman 19d ago
This lake is currently halting any further rescue operations in the area, because the collapse of it threatens to unleash yet another very devastating flood. As these natural glacial reservoirs have no usual natural outlet, when they go, th
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by lightedman 19d ago
We're in the era of 4k and 8k monitors. That character limit only occupies a tiny fraction of any modern screen. So odd a site dedicated to future technology companies isn't even caught up with modern display techniques, let alone
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by lightedman 20d ago
The sheer amount of land mass that moved triggered seismometers all over the place. One seismometer registered a 5.2M. To put this in perspective, on the surface of the earth, quake energy does not travel very well. For this to make a seism

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