scraptor

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by scraptor 2mo ago
Diversity win: this notation can't be easily understood by anyone!
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by scraptor 3mo ago
The specific proposal is not great but changing the rules is in fact the correct solution of the current rules lead to systematically bad outcomes.
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by scraptor 3mo ago
This time it has a major impact on the possible RNG outcomes even for a player who doesn't know about the bug, and it was caught much earlier in development before the permanent stability of existing seeds was guaranteed.
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by scraptor 5mo ago
So what's your excuse for why New York has equally bad internet?
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by scraptor 7mo ago
The idea was to transition from coal to natural gas while using solar and wind to reduce fuel consumption, thereby significantly reducing CO2 emissions. Any claims of hydrogen being burned were either lies to the public to get the gas plant
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by scraptor 9mo ago
More efficient to spend the same amount of money on shoreside panels with lower installation costs.
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by scraptor 9mo ago
Servers with ECC generally report zero recoverable memory errors until the chip starts failing, at which point there are increasingly many. Therefore the average server experiences zero cosmic ray related memory errors during its lifetime,
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by scraptor 9mo ago
So how are the special interest groups keeping their enemies out?
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by scraptor 10mo ago
The government will keep changing the rules until VW wins. Using tariffs, price floors, subsidies, whatever it takes.
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by scraptor 11mo ago
This only applies to steam keys sold off site, which is why the original comment specified non-steam keys.
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by scraptor 1y ago
Interesting to see the definition of moat change from keeping other companies out to keeping your customers in.
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by scraptor 1y ago
I don't hate journald because it's not plaintext, I hate it because it's worse than plaintext. Somehow journald manages to provide a database which is 40x slower to query than running grep on a compressed text file. I'm
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by scraptor 1y ago
sqlite resolves lock contention between processes with exponential backoff. When the WAL reaches 4MB it stops all writes while it gets compacted into the database. Once the compaction is over all the waiting processes probably have retry in
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by scraptor 1y ago
Subsidies is too technocratic, trump style is to just order utilities to keep the plants operational at negative profit https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/06/climate/michigan-coal-pla...
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by scraptor 1y ago
But enough about trump, let's talk about iran
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by scraptor 1y ago
When's the last time you made a motherboard purchase decision on the basis of firmware quality? Or rather, when's the last time a corporate purchasing manager got fired for buying motherboards with low quality firmware?
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by scraptor 1y ago
The client side toggle might be new since 2024 but the volume normalisation has been a thing for a long time.
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by scraptor 1y ago
I certainly don't see much value in AI generated papers myself, I just object to the claim that the mere act of reading a large number of existing papers before writing yours is inherently plagiarism.
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by scraptor 1y ago
Plagiarism is not an issue of copyright law, it's an entirely separate system of rules maintained by academia. The US Copyright Office has no business having opinions about it. If a AI^W human reads 100 papers and then churns out a new
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by scraptor 2y ago
The linux tools can't get it wrong, the kernel checks that the files submitted for deduplication are actually identical.
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Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)(yosefk.com)
1 points by scraptor 2y ago|1 comments
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by scraptor 2y ago
Relevant to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138190
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by scraptor 2y ago
That's the promise. In practice your SSD might kill itself due to a bug in the firmware and drop off the bus without warning long before the flash is worn out.
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by scraptor 2y ago
Of course the more forty year old rules you follow the more engineering it is. Using a better programming language that doesn't depend on organisational process for safety is not engineering - there's no standard for that.
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by scraptor 2y ago
This assumes that I already have "my" IRB. Most people who want publish an informal online survey do not.
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by scraptor 2y ago
Pray tell who would be creating the legal cost if the isp weren't collaborating? Copyright holders just have the inherent ability to impose costs on other people, no government support required?
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by scraptor 2y ago
ECC is supported on a random subset of processors (one of each performance tier) but the motherboard still costs 500$.
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Trackmania III – The Eyes(hallofdreams.org)
2 points by scraptor 2y ago|1 comments
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by scraptor 2y ago
Previous posts in the series https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853834 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879924 .
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by scraptor 2y ago
If your nodes disclose their affiliation that's fine but the client will avoid using multiple. If you try to do this in secret the tor project will attempt to catch you by looking for suspicious nodes that use the same isp and update t

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