dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 25 points 5 months ago

Australian here, this is how our voting system works. My method is literally putting the most repulsive politician last and then working my way up until I get to the least-repulsive.

Politicians dropped from the rounds can nominate another politician of similar views to give their votes to, so eventually the whole thing coalesces into politicians from three or four parties getting elected, but still gives the opportunity for minor parties to become major parties should the standing government of the day really piss people off.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

risk post-retirement mortgage pain

Hahahahaha, "retirement", that's a good one.

- GenX with a 700k mortgage.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is.

Just like the Xerox copier/scanners that helpfully kept scanned images small by reusing parts of the image elsewhere. Like, all these 6s on your scanned invoices can totally be replaced with 8s. There's just a tiny degradation in the overall image, it shouldn't be a problem!

Xerox should have just called it AI compression and people would have been throwing money at them.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It looks like your drive is going offline randomly, or at least, when it warms up a little. All the IO errors look like various subsystems trying to write to something that's not there anymore, which is why there's nothing visible in the logs when you look later.

Could be the drive, could be the drive controller on the motherboard, could be just that your nvme drive just needs to be taken out of its slot and reseated, could be something weird in your BIOS setup that's causing mayhem (bus timings, etc).

Personally I'd reseat your drive in its slot first and go from there.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's an underlying kernel under the kernels for each core that controls access to hardware. It has all the hardware drivers and maintains state.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TL;DR ; let me give you an alternative opinion.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services, so I don't have to be a hunter-gatherer. Cryptocurrency ends up either an being outright scam or rather difficult to exchange for goods and services in everyday use.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Well right now the barometer is running about 85 percent glad of our Westminster-style democracy, 10 percent secondhand embarrassment and alarm about the state of the US, and then of course there's the omnipresent 5 percent who think that everything the US has done l and is currently doing should be slavishly copied here.

That last 5 percent can generally defined as the opinions of the proportion of the population that, kindly speaking, have a few kangaroos loose in the ol' top paddock.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Some 3:1 glue lined heat shrink on the backs of each connector might do the job.

The glue melts during heating and with a 3:1 ratio you get quite a bit of glue forced in around the wires as it shrinks. It then sets pretty robustly once you get down towards room temperature.

You could try shrinking maybe some 6 or 10mm heatshrink over approx 25-50mm either side of the connector (with a bit of overlap on the connector) and see how it goes. Fully shrunk it's pretty chunky but it won't be any bigger than the connector.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago

But how can all the techbros say that AI is the future and everyone is using it if they don't forcefully cram it down everyone's throats at every opportunity?

And somehow this Futurama line feels painfully close to the truth:

Leela: Didn't you have ~~ads~~ AI in the 20th century?

Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago

In Australia, which has a similar legal system to the UK, there is a concept of "duty of care". Businesses are obligated to provide a safe environment for their workers and the general public.

At a certain point depending on the size of the business, this usually means having personnel in the business that can provide first aid and have general emergency training (eg being a fire warden).

Tesco is a large business and should have systems in place to manage their duty of care across all their stores. At the very least having at least one person in the building trained in first aid, so that people don't die from simply not being in the right position while unconscious.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

This is just the cost of doing business for Anthropic.

No particular material harm to the business. Declare the matter settled, everything is fine and dandy, and now they have carte blanche to rape and pillage the next ~~village~~ dataset.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I found with my QNAP NAS that even just sitting the case on a piece of styrofoam made it considerably quieter. A lot of vibration gets transmitted through the feet and whatever it sits on gets turned into a sounding board.

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