Dibby053

I'm skeptic.

United States. Population: 335M. Vehicles: 305M.

Germany. Population: 85M. Vehicles: 52M.

India. Population: 1428M. Vehicles: 79M.

China. Population: 1400M. Vehicles: 500M.

Ethiopia. Population: 121M. Vehicles: 1.2M.

Nigeria. Population: 230M. Vehicles: 13M.

Indonesia. Population: 279M. Vehicles: 23M.

etc.

2x efficiency vs a 2 year old chip is more or less in line with expectations (Koomey's law). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

Nobody is arguing that, but it's certainly less likely to go down or be lost than a typical direct download link. It's also easier/cheaper to self-host very popular repos with P2P, because it scales nicely.

Distributed hosting means there isn't a single point of failure. Even without DMCAs it's fairly common to try cloning a random gitlab or plain git repo only to find it's down.

That's pretty cool, but what would really be useful is making Linux boot from a Microsoft-signed .efi. I don't see why it couldn't be done.

Sounds interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what sort of computation requires synchronization across data centers? And why couldn't it be done with NTP?

Central banks fought the 2007 crisis by increasing the monetary supply of a receding economy, so I don't see how removing the intermediaries and having the central bank itself allocate the resources in a fair way could make things worse than they are now.

I'm not talking about letting people borrow at 0% to spend in food and utilities. What I'm thinking of is a system where the path from business plan to business isn't determined as much by the amount of capital one already has, which is what causes the usual corporate structures to be formed in the first place: those who assume "all" the risk in turn receive "all" the benefits.

That often doesn't reflect the real stakes at play. Investors can have a diversified portfolio (and often plenty of spare capital for more tries), while workers invest 100% of their work on the same company for years or decades. The co-op model is more natural but the dynamics of money make it more rare than it should be.

>in most cases where co-ops compete with regular capitalist businesses they go extinct

After seeing time and time again the success of workers of bankrupted companies pulling up their compensations and unemployment benefits to rebuild the company in a co-op model, I wonder if it's not the opposite.

"Money attracts money", and I don't think it's too crazy to think that if everybody had access to low-interest credit under the same conditions as the big players, this model would be the norm, rather than the exception.

Did it shot up (relative to neighboring states, I assume, otherwise it's not very relevant) because more Oregonians started doing drugs or because drug addicts from nearby states moved in?

Canary Islands has one of the lowest property taxes in Spain: 0.3% rural and 0.5% urban (+0.05% if it's unoccupied). Obviously not enough judging by the ~20% of empty houses. It's easy to blame tourists and/or immigrants but it's really their own government policies' fault.

The correct way to use tabs is to indent with tabs and align with spaces, that way everyone can adjust the tab size to their liking without breaking alignment.

Hopefully now that there is a website earning money from their chats more people will be willing to make dumps and share them for free.

The web has been filled with garbage books since its inception. Now it's Amazon, before that it was SEO-optimized e-book landing pages that showed up on Google searches for barely related topics. As long as there are people who buy them they'll keep popping up.

Thanks for the link. I think that 10^14 figure is the likelyhood of the disk error correction failing to produce a valid result from the underlying media, returning a read error and adding the block to pending bad sectors. A typical read error that is caught by the OS and prompts the user to replace drives.

What I understand by bit flip is a corruption that gets past that check (ie the "flips balance themselves" and produce a valid ECC) and returns bad data to the OS without producing any errors. Only a few filesystems that make their own checksums (like ZFS) would catch this failure mode.

It's one reason I still use ZFS despite the downsides, so I wonder if I'm being too cautious about something that essentially can't happen.

>storage [...] bit flipping

As someone with no storage expertise I'm curious, does anyone know the likelyhood of an error resulting in a bit flip rather than an unreadable sector? Memory bit flips during I/O are another thing but I'd expect a modern HDD/SSD to return an error if it isn't sure about what it's reading.

Chromium has chrome://flags, that's probably where the confusion came from.

I think rather than less sleep causing worse blog posts, both having a common cause is a more likely explanation. For instance stress, or spending too much time writing careless blogposts instead of sleeping :P

There is a significant number of empty houses in Ibiza because people and especially large landowners don't want to rent them because if the tenants can't pay and refuse to leave it can be hard to kick them out. Lack of renting options drives the property prices up, so there is no pressure to sell, and makes renting even more risky. It's a vicious cycle.

It would be interesting to see how the commit timestamps change around time change. If he has a job in a country that observes DST they would likely show an abrupt change.

>There's no evidence that people with higher IQs have more children than the middle and lower spectrums of IQ though. There was no survival pressure any time in the past 100 years that would explain it.

It's true if you focus on the mid-high end of the spectrum, but people with low intelligence have a very hard time adapting to modern society.

As a one-off solution you could switch to light mode and invert the display.

I have... Just last week, I saw on the news a still of an aspiring university rector giving a talk where all those terms (and "big data") appeared on the slide. Sadly I don't have any context because the news only talked about how he had been accused of running a fake paper mill. Unbelievable!

I'm pretty sure it's satire.

Interesting idea, but I don't know how I'd feel if someone sent me this.

>Think about being a PoC in the 1980s where every villain in mass media looks like you.

The implication being that all PoC have a common look? I find the unintended racism in this sentence pretty hilarious.

If you use Android, an interesting way Google may be collecting your location data - even if you didn't accept any TOS - is SUPL (Secure User Plane Location). It sends cell tower info to a Google server to improve GPS fix times, but many implementations needlesly include PII like the SIM card IMSI number. It can be disabled in settings>location, but it's enabled by default even in GrapheneOS. In my experience it doesn't affect the GPS fix times significantly.

A while back I copied from somewhere this script that does the job nicely.

  #!/bin/bash
  # Dependencies: tesseract-ocr imagemagick scrot xsel

  IMG=`mktemp`
  trap "rm $IMG*" EXIT

  scrot -s $IMG.png -q 100
  # increase image quality with option -q from default 75 to 100

  mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% $IMG.png
  #should increase detection rate

  tesseract $IMG.png $IMG &> /dev/null
  cat $IMG.txt | xsel -bi
  notify-send "Text copied" "$(cat $IMG.txt)"

  exit

Consumers won't pay for safety either, which is why we have NCAP and mandatory vehicle inspections.

All my life I've been told to stop trying to think for myself and just believe what experts say, and now this so-called expert in thought is telling me to think for myself? I'm confused.

There used to be a website that provided an easy way to derive bitcoin addresses from passwords. Random people would routinely send bitcoin to wallets with passwords like "123456", "correct horse battery staple", digits of pi and so on only to see their coins stolen by bots in a matter of miliseconds.

This is not as bad but people will inevitably use bad passwords if given the option so it's better not to make things too easy for them in my humble opinion.