dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Geoengineering is probably the only way to counteract things now.

But that involves fucking around with the bottom of our food chain in the oceans so there's obviously a good deal of reluctance to start down that path.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • Algorithm shows a preview of a chaotic scene where the content isn't easily identified.
  • You open / interact / linger on it to figure out what is happening before identifying it as something you don't want to look at.
  • Algorithm detects increased interaction and happily serves up more.

I play a little game with Instagram sometimes. I click on one (1) thirst trap bikini girl post in the search reel. Then I see how many times I have to press the little 3 dot menu and pick "not interested" on allllll the other thirst trap bikini girl posts that immediately appear.

I generally have to press "not interested" about 15 times before my feed reverts to only having bikini girl thirst traps once every 20 or so posts.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

English readily absorbs both the best and worst of all the other languages. If some other language has a word that really hits the mood of even just a small amount of English speakers - bam! - it's English now, motherfucker!

Add to this, it's chock-full of complicated and often hidden rules that can - or absolutely cannot - be broken, depending on context. No wonder people learning it as a second language have that permanently confused look on their face.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

The thing about the English language is that you can verb any noun you like and get away with it. Just like I did in the previous sentence.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago

You missed a thorn in your reply there in your first paragraph.

And as an aside, sprinkling them throughout your reply heavily reduces the impact of your message. It's a decoding stumble for most English readers who look at word shapes when parsing sentences.

So while it might be your thang - or perhaps you're Icelandic and they're just leaking through - it's probably better to stick with th if you want to get your point across.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's better, but it's still a mystery. Cs-137 sources should be rigorously stored, even in density gauges they are permanently inside a capsule with a shutter that turns the beam "on and off". It's not like you have a chunk of Cs-137 rattling around in a drawer somewhere (or worse, somehow in powered form that gets all over the inside of a shipping container) but that sounds like that's been the case here.

It's not the first time one of these sources has come loose though - there was a capsule lost on 1400km of highway in Western Australia a little while ago.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Cs-137 is used in industrial density gauges. You want to measure the density of a liquid in a pipe? A radioactive source on one side, a detector on the other, easy-peasy.

Now how the fuck a controlled substance escapes from its highly encapsulated and supposedly-well-tested-and-regularly-inspected compartment and gets into your food, well that's something else to ponder.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The smaller end is RJ12, the bigger end is RJ45.

The question is, what are you trying to do with it? RJ12 is/was typically used for telephone connections, RJ45 for Ethernet. Generally speaking, they don't mix.

If your plan is to connect a computer to a RJ12 socket on the wall, that's not going to work. If you've been told the socket on the wall is "the internet", you're likely going to need a modem in between that socket and your computer.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A lot of presumption:

will surely be

If the Rust version becomes popular

It probably will

the Rust people will start pushing

They will most probably also

Does not a solid conclusion make:

That way. the Linux userland becomes even more broken than it already is because now we have again two incompatible sets of...

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was talking more about unwrap causing a panic rather than calling the actual panic macro directly. Rust forces the programmer to deal with bad or ambiguous results, and what that is exactly is entirely decided by the function you are calling. If a function decides to return None when (system timer mod 2 == 0), then you'd better check for None in your code. Edit: otherwise your code is ending now with a panic, as opposed to your code merrily trotting down the path of undefined behaviour and a segfault or similar later on.

Once you get to a point where we are doing the actual panic, well, that is starting to just be semantics.

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