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It's a blurry thing, like how Europe slowly moved from Feudalism to Capitalism over a period of time.

The Titan RTX is a consumer GPU, not a workstation GPU. The cards are designed for different workloads, so are not really comparable.

Alternatively, use caddy as a HTTPS server. It requests the certs from letsencrypt for you, for all domains that you configure it for.

.NET core works pretty well on Linux - I have an ASP.NET Core side project and work exclusively from a Linux machine. The other two maintainers work from Macs.

I half with you - when you have a money printing machine (a monopoly), it's easier to justify spending money on R+D.

But at the same time, we've seen a decline in corporate R+D since the start of the neoliberal era - the article mentions that this started at around Nixon's time. This is the period of time where Milton Friedman's ideas started to gain widespread acceptance:

>“there is one and only one social responsibility of business– to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game,”

Many organisations have taken the idea of "profits over everything", and interpreted it as "quarterly profits over everything". R+D labs don't result in quarterly profits. Much of the research ends up being profitable years down the track. So corporate R+D is killed off.

>It's hard for a local pizza shop to compete with this kind of thing and the sheer scale of Uber Eats.

I mean, Uber Eats is losing cash at a phenomenal rate. So, more accurately:

>It's hard for a local pizza shop to compete with obscene amounts of venture capital subsidised delivery

I'd suggest "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces". (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/)

I've found it very accessible. Largely, the way that they teach is to describe a system based on a set of assumptions, then slowly relax each of the assumptions one by one until you reach an example of a real system. That style of teaching really works for me.

If I could set the default for all apps to "block ad notifications", then yes.

Yeah, my initial thought was "why are you building all of these systems to remember random factoids?"

There are few things that feel utterly "against nature" than a parent outliving a child.

You can definitely use multiple desktop clients with one account, I have it installed on my home laptop and desktop

Seconding this - I've used it to teach myself a few subjects so far (a couple of subsections of Operating Systems and I've started on Computer Architecture) and their suggested materials have been good.

I inherited a pair of speakers my dad bought in the early 80s. They still work well, though the amp died last year and I wasn't able to repair it.

RCDs are common in Australia. In Western Australia, whenever a house is sold it needs to have an electrical inspection which includes checking if there are enough functional RCDs.

Not sure if that's a national requirement or not, but houses I've lived in in Victoria also had RCDs.

The parts of Australia with NBN (read: about 90% of houses in the country) have choice in ISP. I'm not sure of the split between all the FTTx options, so they may not all count as "high speed".

A registry key that is reset to the default every major update, no less.

Yep, same. I'm glad I'm not important enough to have to think about work when I'm not being paid.

My employer does this to provide 24h support:

- one shift predominantly in UTC-8 -> US West Coast

- one shift predominantly in UTC+8 ~> Singapore/Australia West Coast

- one shift around UTC+0 -> Europe

For 8h days, it works ok. I think that shorter days could work, if the shifts were split. There are also some offices outside of the 3 major time zones, which also fills in gaps.

Of course, dev availability is not usually 24/7 but there are two layers of support before issues reach dev.

This just reminds me of a short post:

Tech enthusiast: All my devices are IoT-ified! I can control everything via Google Home! I love living in the future!

Software engineer: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2005, and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it so much as makes an unexpected noise

I have to fly from Australia to the US and back around once per year (in cattle class). Usually around the 10h mark between MEL/SYD and SFO I just want to get off the damn plane. 20h sounds like torture, though maybe less so in Business class.

Unsourced, too.

My immediate thought too. It's definitely got that meaning in Australia.

I know someone who works in cybersecurity for an oil company, he uses shodan to double check if they have exposed anything to the big scary internet.

"It's fine when I do it!"

Maybe tautology is the wrong word.

I just feel like it's a bit ridiculous to downplay the environmental impacts of bitcoin mining by saying "it'll be fine when we have fusion!" because we don't have fusion today, and it's likely to be a very long time before fusion is commercially available.

Also, your initial comment said:

>By the way, the negative environmental impacts will be significantly reduced after ITER is ready.

ITER is not a commercial reactor. Even after it's construction is completed (expected to be, what, 2025?), we still have a long way to go before you can use fusion power to mine bitcoin.

Meanwhile, climate change is happening now. We need to be reducing emissions now.

I mean that's a bit of a tautology isn't it?

Once we have clean energy production for everything, bitcoin will have minimal environmental impact?

That's ignoring the fact that fusion is still a very long way from commercial availability.

You're saying that we just need to make fusion a reality in order for bitcoin to be environmentally friendly?

>Before: The energy from a hydro plants gets wasted when it is night time.

Hydro plants can usually turn off relatively quickly. They can be used as pump storage, which is an incredibly efficient way of storing energy - >70% efficiency [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Sure, but estimates for marginal energy costs for bitcoin transactions sit at around 150-250 kWh.

A 310L fridge [1] (random one I found) for context uses about 280 kWh per year [2].

I think it's pretty ridiculous to say that the average bitcoin transaction provides approximately half the value (in the best case scenario) as having the ability to refrigerate food for a year. I'd say "pissing away" is a pretty fair comparison.

[1] https://www.lg.com/au/fridges/lg-GB-310RPL

[2] http://www.energyrating.gov.au/calculator

With [2] you will need to put the model number in the "Brand or Model" box

NP-hard problems can be solved.

The Continuum Hypothesis [0] (which the authors are saying the learning problem is isomorphic [1] to) is not provable from the axioms of set theory. You can add "The Continuum Hypothesis is true" OR "The Continuum Hypothesis is false" to the axioms, and still have consistent mathematics.

[0] Continuum hypothesis is that the set of Integers (0, -1, 1, -2, 2, ...) is infinite but smaller than the set of Reals (Integers + Rationals + Irrationals), and there are no infinite sets with size smaller than the Reals, but larger than the Integers.

[1] not sure of correct term here - the point is that they have shown the problems are the same.