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>I don't see how that's a meaningful distinction from people who have made the color beige their sole personality trait

I'm not really sure how to respond to that. It's intrinsically different. It's getting responses from people who don't care what their neighbour thinks about them vs getting responses from people who care in the utmost what their neighbour thinks of them. One is intrinsically likely to be more unfiltered than the other.

If you want to know what sentiment a community actually holds you have to seek out all types of opinions.

I'm not saying that I enjoy watching war footage, I'm saying that there's a severe dearth of it in conventional media, to the extent that for the first three days of the war I was saying to myself 'is this war really happening, apparently the tanks are rolling in, where's the footage?'

I looked at your other comments and they're usually quite contributory and positive, so with that in mind, what inspired this one today? Because it's just the very worst sort of annoying pedantry.

>on others you can find a lot of interesting stuff

There's value to be gleaned from /pol/ if you can stand the lunatics. The skychan threads sometimes yield some interesting conjecture.

4chan is currently the best place for realtime ukraine war footage and analysis, in my opinion.

Very well said.

>Bodybuilding.com misc & 4chan are super toxic communities.

They're places that provide access to actual human beings though. So many other online communities - especially ones with wide readership - are astroturfed into oblivion.

My take on it is that having to deal mentally with lunatics howling at the moon and screaming about the upcoming Great Replacement is the price you pay for access to actual opinions. That screaming horde is what keeps the astroturfers and consent manufacturers out.

There's always people who push to regularise and gatekeep the profession, and while they claim to have noble aims it's often simply because they're better at bureaucracy (and surrounding themselves with it for protection) than simply producing viable code.

I always view these pushes with a lot of suspicion given the nature of the people that tend to promote them.

It may surprise you to know that there's a similar culture that revolves around skins. That's why people buy them and trade them.

I don't know a lot about it and it isn't as clearly visible as sneaker culture but I know it exists, because I used to play that game and there were people in various discords and steam chats who were obsessed with skins to the point it was all they could talk about.

That wasn't really the point I was making.

I was making the point that goods which practically affect one's appearance in reality affect more than just one's appearance due to the nature of human personality.

>They're skins. They have no in-game effect.

This is true in exactly the sense that the brand and type of sneakers you wear has no-in school effect.

From looking at their examples, they don't populate the 'ref' field of the ortb2 structure.

There's an argument to be made here that the advertiser isn't being completely deceived because they're choosing to accept data without a 'ref' field which means they don't know or care - beyond keywords - what page the advert ends up on.

>The Great Resignation had to have taken a huge toll on regular enterprises.

The Great Resignation was people leaving jobs they didn't want (front of house/service industry/gig) for jobs they did want (career-track jobs) after those jobs resumed hiring again after the pandemic settled down.

Labor force participation went up not down due to 'the great resignation.'

I was thinking of sendfile() but I see now it's become a wrapper around splice(). My knowledge is a little dated to say the least.

>Maybe file serving can be hardware accelerated

Encryption aside a lot of file serving is accelerated. In Linux, apache has just called a kernel function (I forget what it's called, something unsurprisingly along the lines of socket_sendfile) to get data out on the wire, and that function itself is hardware accelerated by the network hardware through the large send offload v1 & v2 functions offered by the network card driver.

It's The Economist. Clickbait isn't really their thing. And everyone sensible in the knowledge economy already has a subscription.

Itanium had a decent service life and a reasonable install base. It didn't take off because of economies of scale and Intel not really wanting to introduce a big x86/x64 competitor.

The Itanium platform was totally unaffected by Spectre/Meltdown type attacks, you may note.

I lost all interest in replying. The replies I was getting were so odd I just deleted everything. It seemed like botreplies, weirdly automatic seeming comments that just didn't engage with what I wrote at all.

That's my take, you read it, I clearly labelled it as speculation and I have no idea what half of the replies even mean. I'll take my 'irresponsible' opinions away if people can't play nicely with them and act like adults.

That's a great article.

I do worry sometimes that something is up with CPU development, that we're tending towards more and more complicated designs with workflows that are very hard to analyse and simulate even for the designers themselves, but the actual workload execution ability performance per core isn't shifting upwards all that much, and then weird mitigations have to be applied that reduce that execution ability in practice.

Something makes me think that perhaps a different design paradigm should prevail, with particular attention paid to segregation of workloads and of core partitioning, perhaps an abandoning of hyperthreading and even to the extent of having 100% physical separation of cores and their caches.

But I'm very much not an expert in the field.

A little birdie inside of me every now and then wakes up and whispers 'is it a coincidence that these design paradigms are yielding so many vulnerabilities?'

Oh, it's the far end of their circuit? Okay, that makes more sense.

>Which over generalization is that?

"deplatforming Pornhub increased the value of bitcoin"

Because correlation does not equal causation, complicated-seeming math and control groups notwithstanding.

That #10 step isn't on Fiji, Fiji isn't 1ms away from .au

To expand a bit on what I said, I think if you have a circle of friends that you mostly communicate with online, and they're the ones that send you links and things, that group will be led by whomever has the strongest opinions. That person is likely to be the most extreme member of the group simply because extremists (relatively speaking) are more likely to hold and espouse views. A whole bunch of people don't really have strong views, they just bob along with the tide. So basically you end up being dragged by a lunatic in the direction of more lunatics. Then you end up screaming incoherently at someone who doesn't wear a mask and calling them a murderer and wondering why people think you're a weirdo.

That's one hell of a price-premium over aliexpress $1.50/meter strips.

Yes, they look very nice, two types of dedicated white LEDs alongside a RGB but wow the price...

Are they really worth it? If you're not working with prepress graphics and need a CRI-controlled environment?

250ml is a standard UK measure of wine.

175ml and 125ml are also UK standards but in a lot of places if you order wine by the glass you'll get 250ml.

>Viewpoints like these really do seem to be proliferating at a concerning rate.

The progressive left championing the benefits of radical and toxic authoritarianism while screaming frantically that everyone to the right of them is a fascist and that fascism is coming up fast.

The irony.

From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.

They think and believe that something is simply a scam.

Why would you expect them to enter into dialogue with the scammers?

>Of course, even more efficient would be to use the natural gas to make electric power that runs a heat pump. That could be 200% efficient end-to-end.

Or, as the gas is already being pumped to your home, use the natural gas directly to power the expansion engine of the heat pump. Noisy, though.

Or use the gas for cooling in the same manner that a propane-powered refrigerator does. Although I have no idea how efficient that would be.

US-centric advice.

>Yes, it would lead to Trump being in control, but that's entirely different from a bunch of yokels playing king-of-the-hill with the capitol building.

That's not 'entirely different' from 'a bunch of yokels playing king-of-the-hill with the capitol building,' that's the intended result of 'a bunch of yokels playing king-of-the-hill with the capitol building.'

I really don't understand the point you're making here.