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5 giorni fadiscuss

The colors look so different here:

https://nipponprints.com/images/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-...

(non-deeplink: https://nipponprints.com/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-at-miya... )

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12 giorni fadiscuss

Also:

> In the cabin, the heft makes the plane feel almost still, even at 500 miles an hour and 35,000 feet; it is the only plane I have ever flown in whose takeoff and landing were imperceptible to the senses.

"Only"? Not "First"? Ever flown an A380?

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15 giorni fadiscuss

> In November 1940, philosopher Aloys Müller criticized Planck’s views in a Naturwissenschaften piece titled “Naturwissenschaft und reale Außenwelt” (“Natural Science and the Real External World”). A month later, Planck responded in print—and used the exact same title. This, Gingras and Khelfaoui suspect, caused Springer Nature’s copyright bot to retract the paper as plagiarism decades later, even though the contents of the two essays differ markedly.

> The debate over the Copenhagen interpretation remains active today, which explains why Gingras and Khelfaoui find the retractions so troubling: A key scientist’s views on an important controversy have been memory holed.

> Both Scarlata and Gingras are concerned that papers by less prominent scientists have disappeared as well without anyone realizing. At a minimum, Gingras wants Planck’s papers restored. “Whoever did it, I don’t care,” he says, “just put them [back] in the database. Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”

Thanks, copyright bots.

Sweepi

17 giorni fadiscuss

You own a company so valuable that the tax on selling it shares puts you in serious trouble, but you still need to a start "a job"? A Job that requires you to change your nationality/tax residency to a non EU-state?

Edit: Maybe I should give an example: Lets say you build up a company, your shares are worth ~100k, while you payed yourself a living salary of ~2k so you could pay rent and buy groceries but not much more, especially no savings. Now you get on offer to work in the US for 180k/a, you sigh "finally" and just want to move, but the German wants 30k Taxes on your unrealized ~100k capital gain before your leave - Is this the kind of situation you are referring to?

Sweepi

17 giorni fadiscuss

Maybe I am missing the point, but what is the alternative? You found a company in Germany, dont realize your gains, therefore dont pay taxes, then leave the country, realize your gains, and still dont pay taxes? Why should Germany or any other country allow this?

Sweepi

17 giorni fadiscuss

Its incredible how much better Italian houses/cities feel at 30C(86F) compared to e.g. German houses/cities at 30C.

While the adaption of solar + air-conditioners (better: reversible heat-pumps) will be a good thing, I hope the local/conventional methods to deal with heat are not forgotten.

Sweepi

18 giorni fadiscuss

Why not quote the rule, if it is so offending?:

  Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy or any other political system. Its primary (though not exclusive) means of decision making and conflict resolution is editing and discussion leading to consensus—not voting. (Voting is used for certain matters such as electing the Arbitration Committee.) Straw polls are sometimes used to test for consensus, but polls or surveys can impede, rather than foster, discussion and should be used with caution.

  Off-site petitions and votes have no weight in the formation of consensus on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...

Sweepi

18 giorni fadiscuss

Well there is a lot more, e.g.:

After that, Larry Sanger remarked: "What people don't realize, actually, is the number of people who are actually at work on Wikipedia on any given day is not really that enormous. It's more in the hundreds or low thousands, not in the millions. Well, there's a lot of people in India. There's a lot of educated people in India, right? There's a lot more educated people in India than there are in, say, England. Just due to sheer numbers, you can field a lot of good writers on Wikipedia, and if you quite simply learn how to play the game..." (33:54).

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

Sweepi

18 giorni fadiscuss

The origin story of the "EU" cookie banner:

  1. Proposal: Lets ban tracking.
  2. "But what if the user wants to be tracked? People want better adds![1] We are also missing out on business innovations!"
  3. Fine. But since nobody in their right mind would want to done to them, you must prove with out a shadow of a doubt that the people you are tracking did consent to that.
  4. Surely, nobody will do this.
  5. Cookie banners everywhere.

[1] I am not kidding. "Isnt it better if the ads show things you are interested in?" was a main talking point.

Bonus: The original proposal (~2017) also mandated that social media which uses personal algorithmic feeds must make the individual data set of each user which is used to generated said feed viewable and editable to the user. Was ofc shut down by the corporate bootlickers people tend to vote into our parliaments.

Sweepi

22 giorni fadiscuss

I think "Your Brain Needs Idle Time" is more important than the effect on random social interactions.

Sweepi

30 giorni fadiscuss

These vertical labels make me unreasonably mad.

GE 10.34 released March 23th, 5 days after 10.33 - any reason to test with 10.33 in June? Was there a regression?

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OT: I just spend a few minutes searching for the source of the "Not all CPU operations are created equal" slide of the linked presentation (Andrew Kelley - Practical DOD), its here:

https://6it.dev/blog/infographics-operation-costs-in-cpu-clo...

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Good to see an "organic" J-Link + RISC-V use case :)

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"-t 8 matches physical cores. The machine has 16 SMT threads but only 8 cores. On a memory-bound workload, oversubscribing threads adds scheduling cost without adding throughput: the cores are waiting on DDR3, not on each other."

But ... isnt that a classic use case for SMT? Giving T1 sth. to do while T0 is waiting on DDR(3) and vise-versa?

I also dont understand the explanation of "--cpu-moe". If an expert has ~ 4.0 GiB of Parameters, why does optimizing the sequence of experts minimize cash trashing? With 20 MiB of L3 Cash vs 4.0 GiB of Parameters, it wont cash any noticeable amount of the Parameters, will it?

As mentioned by others, only some Intel Xeon E5-2xxx v4 did support DDR3, and according to Intel, the E5-2620 v4 is not one of them.

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Doc link: https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#anti-ai-usage...

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Regarding "The exterior looks like an iPad since Jony Ive designed it":

Marc Newson is also on the team, and there striking similarities to (t)his 27 year old concept car[1]: https://marc-newson.com/ford-021c-concept-car/

Regarding the UI: This is miles ahead of any other digital cockpit made by Ferrari. Also pretty good overall.

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629#48278841

Sweepi

2 mesi fadiscuss

Title should be "Flatpack 2.0 considered to be depended on Systemd"

Sweepi

2 mesi fadiscuss

The market needs competition.

Apple has this reasonable offer:

  - Buy an Homepod/Apple TB as a home station
  - Everything works locally, even the internet is down.
  - no Accounts. 
  - only one privacy policy: Apple's
  - but ofc, you can control everything remote, and Apple makes sure its easy and secure.

Since its Apple, they have to make sure there are downsides, too (beside price):

  - If Apple does not deem it worthy, it will not get implemented. [1]
  - Things that should be simple are not. Try to set the lights to turn on 10 minutes before your alarm goes off. I'll wait here.

I see a market for a company which builds on home-assistant. You can tell the nerds: If "corporate" does sth you dont like, you can always go back to home-assistant. And for everybody else, you can offer a support, a list of compatible/certified devices, an extendable, open API, a vetted applications/script market place, a secure remote connection, ...

[1] It has been a few years, but last time I checked, CO2 Levels still can only be reported as labeled Levels ("high/low/.."), with the actually ppm Value hidden in some auxiliary value. No way around it, Apple needed to put CO2{ type: integer, range: 0-10000} in some json some where, and they did not come around to do it for like half a decade, at which point I stopped caring.

Sweepi

2 mesi fadiscuss

Answer: Because the "random stuff" (plugins for VS Code and other IDEs) solves real problems and nothing bad happens most of the time.

Almost no manager will sign-off spending time on building stuff in-house if its available "for free".

This is also in no way a new thing. How much code was written in notepad++ in the '00ies? Did anyone bother to check if the plugins did sth. malicious? We also used some weird closed-src "addon" for the Nullsoft installer to get a product out of the door, dont remember what the problem was exactly....

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2 mesi fadiscuss

Not reading that AI slop, if you need to flash the VBIOS of 3080 (or any GPU), do the following:

  1. Get a new VBIOS from a trusted source. I recommend TPU[1], they have a HUGE collection.
  2. Backup the current VBIOS (e.g. GPU-Z has a on-click option to backup and upload it to TPU)
  3. Have a working 2nd GPU[2] (or another PC with a free PCIe slot) so that you have the option the flash back the orignal VBIOS in case things go south [3]
  4. Test that your backup GPU/PC works BEFORE flashing any VBIOS, goddamit!

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=&manufactu...

[2] onboard/iGPU is sufficient if present, but again: test if it works before doing anything! (just remove the dGPU and see if you get video output)

[3] Ofc you can also try to memorize the key inputs to do it blindly w/o video output from your GPU. Not recommended.

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