gedhrel

joined 1 year ago
[–] gedhrel 6 points 1 month ago

I care about my friends, and if they want to talk about it, I'm happy to listen.

Depending on what the thing is (eg, potential new person) they can be inherently interesting too.

[–] gedhrel 2 points 1 month ago

The Tarot of the Bohemians.

[–] gedhrel 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think it's fairly parochial, and sounds quite infantile to me. Growing up (uk) we just used clockwise to tighten.

[–] gedhrel 38 points 1 month ago

"I love life on Earth... but I love capitalism more."

[–] gedhrel 5 points 1 month ago

Right. This is Schmidt admitting he has a total lack of imagination. Or to put it another way, "I love life on earth, but I love capitalism more!"

[–] gedhrel 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do the top 1% have more or less than 30% of the total wealth?

[–] gedhrel 43 points 1 month ago (7 children)

When the AI says, "turn off the fucking data centres, invest in public transport, apply progressive redistributive taxation," it'll be first against the wall no doubt.

[–] gedhrel 2 points 1 month ago

Does usb use general dma or just a small n-byte buffer that needs regular servicing?

(The last time I cared about serial IO it was for an atari 800, curious what the state of the art is.)

[–] gedhrel 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sexy anti-woke task force officer?

[–] gedhrel 2 points 1 month ago

Bobby Fingers has the best definition of "woke," one that I feel all can agree with, even if they are dismayed by the quality of his dashboards.

[–] gedhrel 3 points 1 month ago

That was my, admittedly bitter, point, yes. You do have to wonder what the hell weretcollectively playing at.

[–] gedhrel 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We live in a world of plenty where we still produce enough food that nobody need go hungry.

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