meshenna

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by meshenna 4y ago
One I know of is the EU-funded LUMI supercomputer: https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumis-full-system-architec... "The AMD MI250X GPU is in a class of its own now and for a long time to come. The technical supremacy a
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European Open Web Index(openwebsearch.eu)
2 points by meshenna 4y ago|0 comments
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by meshenna 5y ago
Also see Olkiluoto 3 in Finland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#... "The main contractor, Areva, is building the unit for a fixed price of €3 billion, so in principle, any construction
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by meshenna 5y ago
Here's an issue with AppImages: they don't work with musl. Makes me sad.
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by meshenna 5y ago
Not a terminal, but might be of interest: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
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by meshenna 5y ago
> showing her how much you care by spending a bunch of money on something special If this is what the other person expects out of a relationship it's time to jump ship ASAP.
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by meshenna 5y ago
And SSH and IRC.
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by meshenna 5y ago
I can't even hear the difference between 128 and 320 :|
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by meshenna 5y ago
How have I not heard of this? Thanks for the pointer. I went a-googling and found Richard Bartle's paper. [0] [0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247190693_Hearts_cl...
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by meshenna 6y ago
> has exposed the incompetence of empty populism. I'd say it has exposed incompetence in general.
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by meshenna 6y ago
I saw this joke in a thread somewhere: Junior engineer: thinks they know everything Intermediate engineer: thinks they know nothing Senior engineer: hates computers
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Ktrl: A Linux keyboard programming daemon(github.com)
2 points by meshenna 6y ago|0 comments
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by meshenna 6y ago
Gentoo, maybe?
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by meshenna 6y ago
Happened to me a few years ago. Google account got terminated with no explanation. I used it for personal e-mail, watching videos on Youtube and to store personal files on Google Drive. I never posted anything anywhere public, including com
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by meshenna 7y ago
Right. The further away you drift from the median, the more difficult life gets in certain aspects. Drift far enough and it becomes impossible to fit in society at large, which is a huge penalty. This is true for all kinds of things, not ju
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by meshenna 7y ago
Likely it's simply because that's one of the few occasions in modern life when we're not being bombarded with external stimuli. A few minutes of silence and your brain goes: "Right, now's a good time to present this
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by meshenna 7y ago
A part of me is appalled, but another is amused and intrigued. "The street finds its own uses for things," I guess.
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by meshenna 7y ago
Solitude is preferable to fake relationships.
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by meshenna 7y ago
Willingness to be vulnerable is necessary in close relationships. Otherwise there can't be a (meaningful) relationship. But being vulnerable by default leaves one open to endless manipulation.
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by meshenna 7y ago
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
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by meshenna 7y ago
I think vaping is a genuine improvement, provided that the law treats it like it does tobacco, i.e. no advertising, age restrictions, etc. This is an anecdote, but in countries where those restrictions are in place, just about every vaper s
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by meshenna 7y ago
Yeah, I suppose... The post I was replying to just sounded to me a lot like something Epictetus could've said. As in, you shouldn't mind starving if you can't help it. Now that I think about it, my memory of Epictetus seems t
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by meshenna 7y ago
Isn't that just run-of-the-mill stoicism?
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by meshenna 7y ago
This is anecdotal, but I think the common perception is that voting just doesn't matter - politicians make promises to get votes and don't follow through after the elections. And it's the same politicians cycling in and out,
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by meshenna 7y ago
I'm Finnish. Almost everyone I know has lost all confidence in the political system years ago.
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by meshenna 8y ago
To get any reasonable performance benefit out of 32+ cores the code running on those cores would have to be >75% parallelized.[1] I know very little about threading and such, but that seems like it would be a difficult thing to do for ma
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by meshenna 8y ago
Methinks the title is a bit too strongly worded. At that price point Radeon VII is unlikely to win many customers over. If some of the recent leaks[1] turn out to be true, then we can talk about "edging closer to breaking Nvidia's
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by meshenna 8y ago
On the 10th anniversary of Baldur's Gate, Bioware put up a website that had quotes from a bunch of devs who worked on it. One of the people quoted said that the publisher, Interplay, kept rejecting Bioware's story drafts and ended