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markhahn
·11 dni temu·discuss
we call that a shelf.
markhahn
·11 dni temu·discuss
the Executive is required to obtain consent of Congress to appoint principal officers; why not just require consent to fire them?
markhahn
·11 dni temu·discuss
There are lots of executive actions which require consent of congress. I think that would work fine here. Obviously, the point is for congress to have a means of overriding a corrupt pardon (not that such a thing would ever happen!)
markhahn
·11 dni temu·discuss
how about make it round-robin, so all 10k of them get a fair slice of traffic? ;)
markhahn
·11 dni temu·discuss
though shalt not wear garments of mixed pallettes
markhahn
·14 dni temu·discuss
If you can't hack it, you don't own it.
markhahn
·16 dni temu·discuss
has anyone found a paper with details?

also, I was expecting to see cfets mentioned.
markhahn
·16 dni temu·discuss
it would be interesting to know apple's true/inside attitude towards people putting linux on their hardware. they don't seem very interested in helping, but donno whether they actively sabotage either.
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
residents of the universe who recognize the US as a supply-chain risk.

no, actually, from the docs it sounds mainly motivated by the country's unique linguistic requirements.
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
why do you say the Swiss have no gpus?
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
these days, even completely mainstream distros (Fedora here) include ollama, which leverages a wide range of hardware and range of models. (it's generally useful to install a more recent ollama, though.) there are free coding harnesses too.
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
I'm curious how you test; could you explain? Do you have a set of factoids that should be subject to copyright, but are somehow literally (whole work) generated by the model in question?
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
I guess you mean assuming your data is stored somewhere in the clear (and whole).

I'm surprised there isn't a lot more attention to encrypted, distributed, erasure-encoded stores.
markhahn
·19 dni temu·discuss
any US tech? not even for specific purposes? yeah, if there was some kind of forcefield around the US, most of the world would have tech troubles at one level or another. but so would the US.

and really, the topic here is reducing a transgressive President from infringing tech activities elsewhere (used to be mainly about surveillance, but then trump happened).
markhahn
·21 dni temu·discuss
what's the problem with everyone knowing how a rep votes? their voting should be a matter of record, not any form of leverage. the dumpsterfire of campaign finance is completely orthogonal (and also both important and simple to solve).
markhahn
·30 dni temu·discuss
consciousness is a behavior. experience is remembering that you had a behavior.
markhahn
·30 dni temu·discuss
this fallacy is called "appeal to authority".
markhahn
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
huh? the linked document shows that bullet item as deleted.
markhahn
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
how about this: there has been a fairly short-lived, one-time event that boosted NV's revenue and allowed them extraordinary margins. nothing like that is goosing Goog or AAPL.

yes, I'm claiming that the NV-AI hype bubble will pop (which almost everyone expects to one degree or other).
markhahn
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
flash is a consumable, yes.

but flash endurance isn't a strong argument here. you probably have O(TB) of flash, and aren't going to produce PB of swap writes any time soon. if you do a lot of swapping to a small flash device, it'll happen sooner.

I'm typing from a quite old 4GB laptop, which swaps heavily to a 250G SATA ssd. sure, it's not great, but it also costs zero. currently 9GB of swap is used, and it's not really noticeable. if I open 20 more tabs, it can introduce pauses.

google says this drive was released in 2014, and SMART says POH is about 10 years.

SMART also says wear leveling count is 665 and total written is 165327189538 LBAs (78834 GiB, or 338 drive-writes). I'm not expecting it to die soon, though using a 4G laptop is a bit of a stunt these days...

the point is that a system that has sustained heavy swapping for years has not generates so many writes to worry much. a modern system with 10x speed and 10x capacity (and probably less RAM deficit) would have even less effect. even for QDR with it's few-hundred cycle endurance spec...