saltcured

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by saltcured 4d ago
My partial solution is to have the Android Zoom client on an idle tablet. Even though it is my office VOIP phone too, I power it off when I don't have meetings scheduled. If someone tries to demand screen sharing, I ask one of my cowor
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by saltcured 4d ago
On the other hand, you likely need more liability insurance with more wealth, at least in the range where this topic of affordable transport comes up. In an accident, your risk becomes not the cost to restore your ride, but the cost to defe
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by saltcured 5d ago
You forget the addicted humans who will do nearly anything to keep the stuff running..?
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by saltcured 6d ago
Until you run into that most stubborn, "my problem is the absence of this solution" type of stakeholder...
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by saltcured 6d ago
Add a slight trailing decay and I think the basic arrow motif could be intuitive for trajectory for any observer who experienced aerodynamics? Whether it is the evolved shape of a flying creature or an abstract depiction of a meteorite (or
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by saltcured 7d ago
But, when the (sad) alternative is that person keeps driving without insurance and the unfortunate victims are left with the full bill, I think the absurd insurance may be better than not?
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by saltcured 7d ago
Ha, my mid 90s 21" Nanao CRT cost more than my used car was worth. I went on to get some high-end CRTs with Trinitron tubes after that at work. But, as soon as I could get an LCD with DVI-D input, I never wanted to go back to a CRT. I
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by saltcured 8d ago
On the bright side, now we can have another comparison scale, for how many banana-copters worth of radiation a given item contains.
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by saltcured 9d ago
I think these practices come from more rural but also tropical origins? One part is purely practical, making it easier to keep the living space clean when you are coming in from the farm etc. Places with messy winters have similar concepts
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by saltcured 11d ago
I don't think "compartmentalization" does this topic justice. Note, I'm not accusing you, since I don't know your work. My post is about the general milieu and the rhetoric around it. This "compartment" te
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by saltcured 12d ago
It stumbled there, but I think the author was just trying to capture the chilling feeling of recognizing something already beyond your control. I also thought it was silly. It would be a bit like talking about Poe and then that time I was a
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by saltcured 13d ago
I said nothing about like or dislike. I only implied that implied psychological traits of a fictional character are not evidence of the same psychological traits in the author. It's merely evidence that the author is capable of observi
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by saltcured 13d ago
Hmm, what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art? It's one thing for a biographical analysis to look at the person's real life experiences and relationships. It's another thing entirely w
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by saltcured 18d ago
Yes, but a DMA controller sit out on the memory bus to do the same kind of work the CPU could be doing, controlling bus traffic between memory modules. I think the whole idea of PIM is to be able to scale up and do work locally within the m
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by saltcured 18d ago
I'm having a hard time imagining this SIMD replacement except for extremely narrow use cases. Are you suggesting the PIM would have a full blown IO controller and cache subsystem to fetch remote operands? I assume PIM is only going to
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by saltcured 19d ago
I think they mean a resource ripe for extraction. There is huge stored gravitational energy in that ice and water up so high, which is also exactly why it was such a disaster. Potential as in possibility, not as voltage. It's an awkwar
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by saltcured 19d ago
Hey, maybe the modern glamper needs a reasoning system to go with their conspicuous thermos cups and elaborate tent lighting?
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by saltcured 19d ago
Hmm, so "507 Insufficient Storage" when your station wagon can't hold all the tapes?
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by saltcured 20d ago
I'm aphantasic, but I can relate to almost going blind with inattention. Not like I now have a black visual field, but just losing awareness of what is actually in it, like it is some sort of matte painting put up during intermission.
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by saltcured 23d ago
Because other replies aren't really stating it explicitly, let me add... The water and power utilities are themselves large distributed systems. They need communications between elements just to function properly. They don't exist
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by saltcured 25d ago
I agree on the style and influences particularly in the trilogy. Yes, there are pulpy aspects and tropes. To me, there are strong dashes of beat poet and impressionism as well. This shallowness is a style, but I think the themes carry throu
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by saltcured 26d ago
They are not part of the image of the scene. They wouldn't be focused by the optics. The optics would just be a slight attenuation much like the rest of the camera housing, film reel, operator, etc. So really a summation of all the ex
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by saltcured 26d ago
These things were cool when coveted or adopted by the cool characters. The tech devices were also used as markers of uncool rich people. Symbols of excess disposable income, rather than carefully invested aesthetics. In the seedy areas, the
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by saltcured 26d ago
I don't think the novel necessarily implies this consciousness. It is left ambiguous. It could be an allegory for some artistic types who go on a sort of creative bender and work compulsively, nearly suppressing their regular personali
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by saltcured 26d ago
At least with Gibson, I think cyberpunk idolized actual punk culture. The coolness was found, brought, or arranged by these characters. The scifi backdrop wasn't inherently cool. It was often soulless and dystopian. The crass commercia
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by saltcured 29d ago
I remember reading, long ago, an assertion that most shielding ideas were counterproductive for astronauts. It was stated that most shielding would turn high energy photons into much more harmful showers of particles, worse than the origina
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I can empathize. I don't really care about the save vs export thing, as I have adapted to that and just go directly to export in the menu. But, as a long time but infrequent user, I really dislike the changes towards "non-destruct
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by saltcured 1mo ago
It was also a messy time where software did make a lot of difference to your experience of performance. I had a few of these apples to oranges comparisons that frustrated me, as someone who absorbed the 90s counter-culture message that MS a
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by saltcured 1mo ago
In our NIH-related project, we were offered both. For IAL2 identity proofing, Login.gov is only for US persons, i.e. validating US-issued credentials. Meanwhile. ID.me has support to validate foreign passports. So, if TreasuryDirect support
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I may be misreading, but I think the earlier post was about the LLM being used to edit (clean up) their writing. It's quite different than just reading a lot of text from other authors and passively absorbing diction and style. Instead

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