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pastage

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    Comment #49148196

    Last time I saw this an obscure single letter root password was still "secure", now days seems like almost all non-alphanumeric chars works. % is my new root password it still has …

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    Comment #49097587

    Do you not think there are ways to organize tabs that should be applications specific?

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    Comment #49097523

    They still need the protection and enablement of free trade.

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    Comment #49097500

    I think the Hormuz saga and how China just quietly stopped importing oil are signs that we are nearing the end of the "free trade as a service" from the US. There are so many aspec…

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    Comment #49097195

    > I care about Feels like you have my problem: "I can not be bother to switch from another app". When every one wants their e-reader with custom setup you get that long list of opt…

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    Comment #49097038

    > [a ripper written to look for sources] in memory after the computer had crashed I used this to reboot my machine faster, keep info in RAM and just continue were you left off afte…

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    Comment #49075185

    delete EDIT 2: I think they are non-toxic and inert. But I tried to find my source for this and I am failing badly. so deleting this comment EDIT: I agree they are very waste full …

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    Comment #48833748

    Make it joyful Read books yourself Make book an important part of your life Read to the kids Teach them to read early Little to no phone use early on

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    Comment #48816344

    Using "Race" like this is really bad in Germany and Sweden. As is pointed out in this thread [1] how we use words differs. TIL race has a different meaning in English and Swedish. …

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    Comment #48716092

    So total system cost per unit of memory is going up.. 2GB costs in 1985 was $2 million (from the graph), a cray-2 was $16 million (from wikipedia). A GPU server with 8xB200 today c…

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    Comment #48566836

    > It probably isn't a very important problem The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is…

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    Comment #48566813

    Interesting. I have never heard kernel modules being regarded as non-linux, not in 30 years of LKM. Further compiling a monolithic Kernel is rather straight forward, in this day it…

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    Comment #48457672

    You are right that there are many of us who prefer the package manager, there are so many reasons why a package manager makes your life wonderful. Debian has always been a proponen…

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    Comment #48422646

    > heavily pushing subsidies has not been shown to work Subsidies only come into affect after you have children. They can not work alone society has a much greater affect. They work…

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    Comment #48347634

    A quick search say that this is a standard feature you cache the prefill and load it at PCIe bandwidth so it should be about 0.2s

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    Comment #48290554

    That is a good question. The existing data center map above is commercial so creating a free version with a clear goal seems to align with why OSM was started. The social aspect of…

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    Comment #48275991

    > proprietary data It is just copyrighted data, that is harder to get a hold of. All the copies are available to anyone to use if they just read it. Copyright makes other uses comp…

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    Comment #48166996

    You answer your own post, almost everyone saw the US as an ally. That is the reason for trusting you, and why these posts are worrying. If we break economic and military ties, the …

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    Comment #48166760

    I do not think you understand, you have to start repairing things. You can not only be against something you have to stand up for something that is better. Your number of 90% suppo…

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    Comment #48121389

    The complete disinterest in international allies from the American public is troublesome. I recently was in a discussion about what kind of responsibility we can put on the residen…

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    Comment #48105629

    Physical attestations are hard to solve, I think it would be nice if all TPMs in laptops had this. Then the problem becomes how do you automate stuff that needs to be done.

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    Comment #48105583

    > it is easier and works better For me NFS is easy and works better, edit two files, enable NFS and update firewall. I had NFS running before SMB, and if I am at hobby level I pref…

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    Comment #48091892

    You could read about that in 1992 "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge. There is prompt injection in communication, in the book certain protocols for information communication ca…

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    Comment #47955447

    NetApp has NFS support and is widely used.

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    Comment #47903101

    While I have no problem blaming the rich. You are post here you are most probably part of those people who are skirting it at their leisure. Even I with a life long devotion to cli…