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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
No matter how much we love our little wretched hive of scum and villainy, it doesn't qualify as "hugely popular".
It's hugely popular with people who matter.
Objection. Nothing and no-one matters in any sense which is supportable by anything more verifiable than subjective internal states of individuals or at best subgroups.
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@dkf Some of us are more huge
lythan others.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
Our hundredths of thousands of users are well served.
Someone employed by @apapadimoulis is literally better at hosting websites thanHSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network
INB4 he's not hosting
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@topspin "Employed" is not the same as "hired".
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When they analyzed the ice, they found genetic codes for 33 viruses. Four of those viruses have already been identified by the scientific community. But at least 28 of them are novel. About half of them seemed to have survived at the time they were frozen not in spite of the ice, but because of it.
Ah yes, we needed more novel viruses.
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@Zecc Alright, who had that on their 2021 bingo card?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Zecc Alright, who had that on their 2021 bingo card?
I think half the world (have/had/will have/would have/had had/having had/could of) chosen "even more viruses".
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I think half the world (have/had/will have/would have/had had/having had/could of) chosen "even more viruses".
Better the devil you know...
There are worse choices, like for example extermination-event sized asteroid impact. (Bruce Willis is way too old for that shit these days.)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I think half the world (have/had/will have/would have/had had/having had/could of) chosen "even more viruses".
Better the devil you know...
There are worse choices, like for example extermination-event sized asteroid impact. (Bruce Willis is way too old for that shit these days.)
My money's on Von Neumann Catastrophe.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
My money's on Von Neumann Catastrophe.
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@dkf another successful prophecy by Illuminatus! as to a band name. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investments carry the risk of loss. I beg you to remember their attitude toward servants.
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lel. Serves them right, though.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
lel. Serves them right, though.
Can’t find the trolley problem thread ( ), so here goes:
Also at the spelling.
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So, apparently Amazon's MMO Game is causing people's GPUs to blow up.
May be affecting 3080s too. Not too much confirmed, as far as I could tell. Also, not clear if this is Amazon's fault, if it's the board's faults or if it's the users fault (underpowered PSU, ...). Apparently there were reports in the alpha already, so one can certainly blame Amazon to some degree for releasing to public.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
So, apparently Amazon's MMO Game is causing people's GPUs to blow up.
May be affecting 3080s too. Not too much confirmed, as far as I could tell. Also, not clear if this is Amazon's fault, if it's the board's faults or if it's the users fault (underpowered PSU, ...). Apparently there were reports in the alpha already, so one can certainly blame Amazon to some degree for releasing to public.
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Can’t find the trolley problem thread
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26544/advanced-trolly-logic/
with special mention of https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/16677/lesser-known-trolley-problem-variations
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
May be affecting 3080s too.
Bricking overpriced hardware? Oh noes!
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
Mostly agree. I can kinda see the problem being with systems that are out of spec otherwise (as mentioned, insufficient/shitty PSU).
I read a bit more about it. Some suspicions are about the game running/drawing e.g. loading screens/menus/... at full tilt (=think several 1000 fps). This obviously shouldn't kill the GPU (so, yeah, blame the card manufacturer), but it's also not exactly good practice from the dev. If there were reports about this happening in e.g. their not-as-public alpha ... well.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
Mostly agree. I can kinda see the problem being with systems that are out of spec otherwise (as mentioned, insufficient/shitty PSU).
I read a bit more about it. Some suspicions are about the game running/drawing e.g. loading screens/menus/... at full tilt (=think several 1000 fps). This obviously shouldn't kill the GPU (so, yeah, blame the card manufacturer), but it's also not exactly good practice from the dev. If there were reports about this happening in e.g. their not-as-public alpha ... well.
Could blame the bridge API if any, maybe. The card is in position to defend itself vs fuckery and should, but if some glue in between could cap nonsense like that, maybe the DirectX layer or similar, it's on the remediation list.
I'm not trying to avoid blaming the dev. They're just very strongly presumed to be an idiot.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
Mostly agree. I can kinda see the problem being with systems that are out of spec otherwise (as mentioned, insufficient/shitty PSU).
I read a bit more about it. Some suspicions are about the game running/drawing e.g. loading screens/menus/... at full tilt (=think several 1000 fps). This obviously shouldn't kill the GPU (so, yeah, blame the card manufacturer), but it's also not exactly good practice from the dev. If there were reports about this happening in e.g. their not-as-public alpha ... well.
It seems that EVGA 3090 cards are disproportionately affected too, but EVGA are covering them all under RMA.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
EVGA
It should be real hard to fuck up 132x50, even at 1000s fps. Is Unicode support in the spec now?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
So, apparently Amazon's MMO Game is causing people's GPUs to blow up.
May be affecting 3080s too. Not too much confirmed, as far as I could tell. Also, not clear if this is Amazon's fault, if it's the board's faults or if it's the users fault (underpowered PSU, ...). Apparently there were reports in the alpha already, so one can certainly blame Amazon to some degree for releasing to public.
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
I intended to reply pretty much exactly what @gribnit wrote.
Is the world coming to an end?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
So, apparently Amazon's MMO Game is causing people's GPUs to blow up.
May be affecting 3080s too. Not too much confirmed, as far as I could tell. Also, not clear if this is Amazon's fault, if it's the board's faults or if it's the users fault (underpowered PSU, ...). Apparently there were reports in the alpha already, so one can certainly blame Amazon to some degree for releasing to public.
Blame the manufacturer on this one, yo. I shouldn't be able to brick you through your API no matter what you let me tell you to do.
I intended to reply pretty much exactly what @gribnit wrote.
Is the world coming to an end?
By my calculations, yes. No idea when. And you shouldn't listen to me in any case, I can't even remember the names of all the text modes.
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Digital surveillance companies are a threat to society.
News at 11.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
How the one hand, this is how you make a GDPR popup if you care about the well-being of the people arriving at your site.
On the other hand, 22 "essential" scripts and 15 cookies? Really?
It even adds up to more than the rest.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
On the other hand, 22 "essential" scripts and 15 cookies? Really?
It's “essential” that they track who you are and what other sites you've visited.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
On the other hand, 22 "essential" scripts and 15 cookies? Really?
It even adds up to more than the rest.Only 22? It’s usually on the order of 200.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
On the other hand, 22 "essential" scripts and 15 cookies? Really?
It even adds up to more than the rest.Only 22? It’s usually on the order of 200.
One cookie per product team, or per individual if the teams don't even talk internally.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
you shouldn't listen to me
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
you shouldn't listen to me
This way I get all the positive results of warning you (the feeling of having tried to help, much better than the feeling of helping) with none of the negative results (e.g. any disaster that might befall you being averted).
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But that wasn't the end of it:
Deel said the car still seemed to be in functioning condition after the bear's exit, but the damage caused it to break down on his drive home to Johnson City. He said he had to leave the car at the side of a road, where someone broke in and stole the battery, catalytic converter and exhaust manifold.
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Canadian woman thought it was life-like:
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In Other Doggo News:
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Not really news, but I thought it was an interesting read:
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Not really news, but I thought it was an interesting read:
The internet never was a place to store information, but a place to share it. To treat it as storage is pretty much one step away from treating /dev/null as storage. You can fit endless amounts of shit there, but retrieval is gonna be tricky.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Not really news, but I thought it was an interesting read:
They are artifacts of a very particular circumstance
That describes the entire computing industry.
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But I gave up on reading and skimmed it. He just wouldn't get to the goddamn point.
From my vantage point as a law professor
Ah, that explains it.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
The internet never was a place to store information, but a place to share it.
I guess part of the author's point is that never mind what it was intended to be (and another part of his point is that it wasn't really "intended" as anything, it just grew organically in various directions!), the facts are that nowadays it's de facto treated as a place of storage in many cases. Which indeed doesn't work well, but it's interesting to have an archivist perspective of it.
I kind of liked the idea of their perma-link service that essentially does the same thing as the internet archive, but taking snapshots at the moment a link to the content is created, thus ensuring that the archived page matches what the link's author saw when he made the link.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
where someone broke in and stole the battery, catalytic converter and exhaust manifold
Next time, leave the bear in the car, so the thief will enjoy additional fun.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
He said he had to leave the car at the side of a road, where someone broke in and stole the battery, catalytic converter and exhaust manifold.
But not the radio.
(Because those are all now theft-protected, I guess.)
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.
What was it that started happening around 2013 but really blew up in 2018, and seems like it makes the brain devastated?
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Making vague statements in the form of questions?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
it just grew organically in various directions
Kinda like
law professorsslime molds.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.
What was it that started happening around 2013 but really blew up in 2018, and seems like it makes the brain devastated?
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Making vague statements in the form of questions?
I couldn't be too specific due to category.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.
What was it that started happening around 2013 but really blew up in 2018, and seems like it makes the brain devastated?
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Making vague statements in the form of questions?
I couldn't be too specific due to category.
I had not idea that systemd is that controversial.
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"Systemd flies in the face of the Unix philosophy: 'do one thing and do it well,' representing a complex collection of dozens of tightly coupled binaries1. Its responsibilities grossly exceed that of an init system, as it goes on to handle power management, device management, mount points, cron, disk encryption, socket API/inetd, syslog, network configuration, login/session management, readahead, GPT partition discovery, container registration, hostname/locale/time management, and other things. Keep it simple, stupid.”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023232
Bugs are annoying, but that's life. On the other hand, when you're an impacted user who's lost work, and researching the bug leads you to a years-old discussion in which someone is actively denying that the bug exists and refusing to fix it, that's infuriating. I don't think systemd's developers deserve the trust that maintaining a core piece of infrastructure requires; they don't seem to care enough about whether they've broken things.
It's hard to find a piece of Linux software more controversial than systemd.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
It's hard to find a piece of Linux software more controversial than systemd.
X11 vs. wayland?
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@PleegWat not even close.