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And/or he wants a greater glut of degree holders to drive down employment cost further.

ANSI art was usually separate IIRC, nfos had ASCII art headers but I don't remember ever seeing color in them

One of the University of Iowa B schools runs a futures market that'll let you bet on predicted event outcomes https://iem.uiowa.edu/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Electronic…

For a couple of years I had a Linux NAS box under my desk with like 8 Samsung 850 pros in a big array connected to my desktop over 40GbE. Then NVMe became a common thing and the co…

I have darn tough hiking socks that are 10y old and look pretty close to new.

It would have been really funny if they reported that one as: Severity: `

That's the point of the controller being a kit thing that can be built a bunch of different ways

You should see the book requests posted to communities like r/printsf now. We have genre readers that have evolved into "I only read material containing this exact set of tropes" i…

Meanwhile I'm over here jamming Micron 7450 pros into my work laptop for better sync write performance. I have very little trust in consumer flash these days after seeing the firmw…

That's a name I haven't heard for a very long time. Central Computer was a fantastic shop.

Now that Intel's on the chiplet train too I think we're going to see a significant reduction of AMD's lead there. IME Intel is a bit better at the whole power optimization thing wh…

Hey, it's the Ian knot guy! I taught myself the Ian knot like 20y ago and it's one of the best small life skills I've learned. My shoes haven't come untied since. I think I tried t…

I spent a year reading on my 10.5in amoled tablet, it worked really well for night time reading at low brightness with the night filter on and KOReader in dark mode. In some ways t…

You can always dump your licenses from the web interface, pull down the books with the Adobe fulfillment software and then strip the DRM using calibre.

Now that the new NTFS3 driver is out in the wild there's also not much need. The number of people who boot windows and need to access an ext4 partition is tiny compared to the numb…

Likely only if the rice was prepared with oil as mentioned above.

The multi-gen LRU swap patchset helped a lot with this issue but didn't entirely resolve it. I think it was merged a year ago or so and it's worth checking out if you haven't yet—i…

For some time now I've been spawning intensive multicore jobs with nproc-1 or even nproc-2 workers on my Linux laptops. It's too easy to end up with an unresponsive machine when yo…

My favourite plot twist in the entire series is our friend wih a need for speed in Excession. That book is one of my all time favourite reads.

I do most of my reading on a high end eink device these days and I still get excited when I can buy sub press epubs. Even their digital releases are great quality.

My 200+ fps quake 2 config sure did. If you weren't running 200+ fps for online quake 2 you were in for a bad time. Between a Celeron 333A running at 550MHz and a dual voodoo2 you …

I have two that I've been thinking about that I've been too lazy to cobble together myself: A page change tracker that A: pumps the page through uBlock origin before each snapshot …

Watching Dr John Campbell in the UK receive repeated YouTube warnings for simply unpacking publicly available COVID research papers and public health statistics has been really dep…

I've given up on SD cards for general purpose OS disk storage, I use small (≤16GB) SD cards for boot and small mSATA or m.2 SSDs in USB3 enclosures for everything else. Performance…

Similar sentiment: who cares about laptop fan noise when I'm already wearing noise cancelling headphones?