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picofarad··on Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11
Debian-like without systemd: devuan. I actually use it instead of gentoo these days for VMs since I dont have to compile everything. Sacrilege, from me, gentoo user since 2005 or so.
picofarad··on Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11
You need to run memtest.
picofarad··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
This is a fallacy and needs a name.

I always read it so it is not a fallacy, just so I dont argue.

My change: "where are the people who are against X now that the proponents of X are posting"

However it only makes sense in places like HN that have a "tone".

I think arguments in general get downvoted, or at least not upvoted, so perhaps people (other than me) are less likely to give a different opinion than the current thread.

picofarad··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Jellybean start menu
picofarad··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
It is the most infuriating thing when I'm in a hurry and know what to click. Windows itself doesn't do this much, but, do websites love it. I bet its called hydration or something, that causes the layout shift.
picofarad··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
I think a lot of people don't really understand consent. Tech companies don't because to understand is to lose money.
picofarad··on TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
Under what law would one be charged?
picofarad··on You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021)
I never drank in public, is that hard mode too? I quit as well.
picofarad··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Origin of "puff peice", today I learned.
picofarad··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Always does mean always and unlimited does mean unlimited; I think the confusion here is marketing is lies, not language.
picofarad··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
36 million CSAM media removed in 2025? Why aren't millions of people in jail? Wtf?
picofarad··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Human body temp is nearly 100°F and a freezer routinely is around 0°F.

Can we stop arguing now?

picofarad··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
I experienced 3°F in the subtropics and it is probably about 100°F outside right now. Average winter temps of 35° with only 1-7 days of actual frost, usually around christmas. (Dec 25(December 25))
picofarad··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Wait till we learn what a fifth is!
picofarad··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
I use ad nauseam and pihole and I get nonesuch.
picofarad··on The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
I've heard the chances of being put on that list for that infraction is less that getting an STD from a toilet seat.

If you know people who say they've gotten put on a lost for peeing in public, you know someone who is a sex pest but won't admit it.

picofarad··on It's getting harder to focus every day
It's your yard though, you can stand in it whenever you want.
picofarad··on John C. Dvorak has died
Thank you for your courage.
picofarad··on Do we just want slaves?
I take it and use it as a shorthand for "where are all the first group when the second group is out in force" and vice versa. It applies to places with a tone and tenor.
picofarad··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Was it proof by contrapositive?
picofarad··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
The cost is too high. You can't have mph and kmh signs on the same road. So you gotta switch all the signs at once. Mile markers, exit numbers (are miles), distance to signs, all have to change.

I did the math on a comment elsewhere. Just google how many miles of interstate there are, and quadruple it, thats not even approaching how many signs you'd need for just the interstate. Signs run $25-ish, plus installation, which can cost >$1000. At the very least the km markers will need to be installed.

picofarad··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Yeah someone thinking they screwed up to the tune of tens of mlllions of dollars (or billions, someone said 2^30 error); this is different to an auto accident or something. Most people can't even fathom millions or billions of dollars.

I'm stressed thinking about it, like from a theoretical standpoint.

picofarad··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Does panjandrum mean chaotic rocketry, flahy but worthless in the end?
picofarad··on Dupes took over the world
They made a name over decades and now they're going to ride the name till the end of the company.

I really do wonder if MBA == evil.

picofarad··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
My LG rotates, so there's a driver for that. That's all I know for sure. I didn't install the drivers.
picofarad··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
My phone still doesn't have a calculator app. The thought of trying to add one that isnt wolfram alpha is anxiety-producing.
picofarad··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
People in these comments are saying the US flag just represents white supremacy to them now...

The media has really done a number on us, basically throughout the West. I don't know enough about other area's media to comment.

picofarad··on The lost joy of music piracy
That's not available in stores!
picofarad··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
I think I'm gonna try and find a study that had the 50 hour sleep cycles
picofarad··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
A bachelors degree should be a large jump in earnings. I think in the 90s it was stated that high school diploma was lifetime ~$600,000, bachelors was $1,200,000,and so on up to PhD at $6,000,000 lifetime median earnings.

So a bachelors degree should get something like 25-50% more money after graduatation than the median high school graduate.

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