derrickoswald

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

By the time Sergei had assembled a plywood board and a broom with a wooden handle, Dmitriy was turned into a human Melba Toast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is 100% a China and US problem - nowhere else in the world would these Wankpanzers be a status symbol. What's required is a re-education of the Nouveau Riche to make a better choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, living well. Happy mostly. Embodying values and dreams - as much as possible since some dreams would have needed to be started years ago to be realized - like my vineyard and my orchard. Mostly it was reinventing myself every five or seven years to follow the lucre (in software development world look for the bright and shiny new thing).

I was self employed for most of the time, and I can recommend that for those who have a pretty good work ethic. Having a goal in high school was also a key factor, since it led to a useful degree. I was also doing constant internal evaluation - like the feeling where you're going over your desired job description for a job interview - via a journal or a self help program like "The Red Bucket Strategy". So, in answer to how did this happen question: it was pretty methodical in using the steering gear you have to make course corrections all the time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There's this back story about the "LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V". The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson's] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A little saddened because I sold Bitcoin way too early. I wanted to get out, but if I had set the bar a little higher... Of course, if you had a crystal ball you could make a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

TL;DR; Three points:

  • my selected communities seem to provide adequate interesting topics - there's always one or two rabbit holes to go down
  • I have a voice - commenting here is transparent and not censored as much as Reddit
  • I think the average age of contributors here is greater than the sex and shit joke fixated twelve year olds on Reddit which is a good thing
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Graph A (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189) just has model year and not the actual year in the common era. I just assumed all of it was extrapolation from today, which shows a cliff in about 1700 years, so give or take 3700CE.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Is it just me, or does anyone else who sees temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (without a Celsius conversion) in a summary of a scientific report like this just automatically consider it an American fluff piece and click-bait to be ignored?

You should read the actual report https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189.

It might be my naive reading, but it seems that flooding the ocean with 4-5% of the gulf stream flow with fresh water from glacier melt (I think that's a lot) will cause a shut down in the year 3700 or so. Even I, as a climate change believer, think that's a little too far out there to be considered germane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Joplin with a WebDAV server (for me it's Infomaniak's kDrive) provides syncing across multiple devices and is pretty much transparent. You should just force synchronize when leaving one of the apps to be sure (kind of like the save button in most programs).

 

From an evaluation by Roy Longbottom, this interesting observation:

In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

In my mind, Veilid (https://veilid.com/) is trying to solve this exact problem.

It's only been public since the last DefCon, so it's a little raw at the moment. That said, it is also only a framework - specific applications need to be built.

See also their Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1077244355439509565/ and GitLab: https://gitlab.com/veilid/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Don't Look Up - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021

Sort of summarizes the total shit-show that current politicians and billionaires are responsible for.

 

BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.

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