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by seppel 2y ago
Schengen has independent of the EU status. Eg. you can move freely from Germany to Switzerland (without obligatory border check) but not between Germany and EU-member Cyprus (there is the obligatory border check).
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by seppel 2y ago
> They could not be making any money on advertising there, I assume? When they show an advertisement of, say, some asian company to a russian user, they are still making money, aren't they?
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by seppel 2y ago
> but its rarely gb at the same time. Thats the point. Its a dumping ground for stuff thats not used very often. But it has to be GB to actually make a difference. If your swap is not full of GB of data, then obviously you don't nee
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by seppel 2y ago
Firefox (and I guess Chrome as well) throws aways memory of unused tabs.
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by seppel 2y ago
> What if I don't have no more free DIMM slots but I already have 1 TiB NVMe and I am fine with my workload being finished slightly (or even noticeably) slower as opposed to not being able to do at all? Then you obviously have a wor
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by seppel 2y ago
> Given that the author works at a large company, that has millions of machines, and where any swap change has cost implications in the tens of millions pounds, I suspect the article is based on data, rather than vibes. Yes, but the auth
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by seppel 2y ago
> Swapping 32GB of memory in and out of an NVMe SSD is much faster than swapping 1GB out of a spinning disk so I really don't get that argument. This is true, but it still takes time. What kind of workload do you have where you swap
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by seppel 2y ago
This reads like something from the 90s. Buy whatever you think you need as swap as "more RAM" and call it a day. I'm running my desktop Linux without swap since maybe 20 years, and I never had any of this "pathological b
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by seppel 2y ago
What I wrote was a bit unclear: They want to avoid that you buy a low cost ticket and resell it to somebody else a day before the flight (because you either cannot make it or because you want to make money).
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by seppel 2y ago
The do that so that you can't resell your ticket.
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by seppel 3y ago
The "your username/password is wrong" message came in a timely manner. So someone transformed "some unforeseen error" into a clear but wrong error message. And this caused a lot of extra trouble on top of the incide
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by seppel 3y ago
> That said, getting there strikes me as pretty challenging. Automatically detecting a down state is difficult and any detection is inevitably both error-prone and only works for things people have thought of to check for. The more compl
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by seppel 3y ago
> If 0.01% of the transactions a bank processes daily need some form of human intervention Then these transactions will be delayed anyway. You could still process 99.99% of the transactions on Sunday. Visa, Mastercard, Paypal as operate
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by seppel 3y ago
X86 has ENDBR32 and ENDBR64 (end branch) for this.
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by seppel 3y ago
How can I disable this? The popup is super annoying.
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by seppel 3y ago
> I'd personally rather have the choice than not. There are browser settings since the invention of cookies to control which sites are allowed to set cookies.
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by seppel 3y ago
The EU is showning these banners on their own websites. So not even the EU is capable of creating a website without banners (because - even the EU - wants analytics and other bullshit).
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by seppel 3y ago
> And you clearly want to carry 3000+ EUR in your pocket than paying by card? Europe is safe, but I will definitely not walk around with that much cash on my person. I'd also rather pay the Macbook by card due to practicality, but
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by seppel 3y ago
> Oh absolutely, you'd never want to run such a program. However, it's existence is a useful mathematical trick. This was the beginning of the thread: If you have a non-constructive proof that P=NP, it still means you cannot so
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by seppel 3y ago
> ~50% of the world population are women yet 95% of the prison inmates are male. There are obvious differences on the extreme ends of the spectrum between males and females and the nobel price only considers extremes to begin with.
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by seppel 3y ago
> Running prediction markets is probably more free money than that. Building and maintaining research teams like that is not easy or cheap, if it would be then Good Judgment Inc. would be rolling in cash. You get your money from the pred
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by seppel 3y ago
> It's been shown that teams of such researchers consistently beat prediction markets on these sorts of topics. This sounds like free money.
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by seppel 3y ago
> Maybe if GHacks didn't comply with the legislation in such a user hostile manner, browser developers wouldn't have to waste time on such features. You need the same feature for visiting EU government websites: https:/&#
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by seppel 3y ago
The problem with SEPA is that is does not work at night or over the weekend and even during normal business hours it might take a day for the money to arrive (depending on some specifics of the banks involved). This is fine for many use cas
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by seppel 4y ago
> It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies. I just check some web pages from diffrent organs of the EU: https:&#
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by seppel 4y ago
I don't think you are missing something. I think this whole "GPT-2 is predicting only one word at a time" is a red herring anyway. Of course it can only answer the next word, because there is only room in its outputs for the
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by seppel 4y ago
> The old rule of thumb of 2x RAM was reasonable in the 90s, but after that, it should be 2x RAM or 512MB, whichever is smaller. This is exactly why I don't have swap for over a decade on my machines (since my machines have 16+ GB R
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by seppel 4y ago
The "content moderation system" is new, so I don't think it changed. What, however, changed during the time ChatGPT is live, is what kind of prompts it refuses to answer, because the topic is offensive/inappropriate. It
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by seppel 4y ago
> I cannot be super specific due to the nature of business strategy. How do you get customers if you tell nobody what you sell?
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by seppel 4y ago
Was there ever a missed approach due to a cell phone not being in air plane mode? How was the cell phone located? What would happen if the cell phone was in the luggage in the cargo bay? Sorry, but this sounds all very hypothetical. This th

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