meshenna | 3 years ago | on: EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
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meshenna | 4 years ago | on: Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
Also see Olkiluoto 3 in Finland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
"The main contractor, Areva, is building the unit for a fixed price of €3 billion, so in principle, any construction costs above that price fall on Areva. In July 2012, those overruns were estimated at more than €2 billion, and in December 2012, Areva estimated that the full cost of building the reactor would be about €8.5 billion, well over the previous estimate of €6.4 billion."
meshenna | 4 years ago | on: Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
Here's an issue with AppImages: they don't work with musl. Makes me sad.
meshenna | 4 years ago | on: MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
Not a terminal, but might be of interest: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
meshenna | 4 years ago | on: Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
> showing her how much you care by spending a bunch of money on something special
If this is what the other person expects out of a relationship it's time to jump ship ASAP.
meshenna | 4 years ago | on: How Finland rebranded itself as a literary country (2018)
And SSH and IRC.
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: Apple doesn't care about album cover art
I can't even hear the difference between 128 and 320 :|
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: Humans display a few consistent behavioral phenotypes in two player games (2016)
How have I not heard of this? Thanks for the pointer. I went a-googling and found Richard Bartle's paper. [0]
[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247190693_Hearts_cl...
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
> has exposed the incompetence of empty populism.
I'd say it has exposed incompetence in general.
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: I no longer build software
I saw this joke in a thread somewhere:
Junior engineer: thinks they know everything
Intermediate engineer: thinks they know nothing
Senior engineer: hates computers
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
Gentoo, maybe?
meshenna | 5 years ago | on: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
Happened to me a few years ago. Google account got terminated with no explanation. I used it for personal e-mail, watching videos on Youtube and to store personal files on Google Drive. I never posted anything anywhere public, including commenting on Youtube. Since then I've been self-hosting everything I can.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
Right. The further away you drift from the median, the more difficult life gets in certain aspects. Drift far enough and it becomes impossible to fit in society at large, which is a huge penalty. This is true for all kinds of things, not just IQ. Personality traits, for instance.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
Likely it's simply because that's one of the few occasions in modern life when we're not being bombarded with external stimuli. A few minutes of silence and your brain goes: "Right, now's a good time to present this thing I've been working on." Same thing with showers.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
A part of me is appalled, but another is amused and intrigued. "The street finds its own uses for things," I guess.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)
Solitude is preferable to fake relationships.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)
Willingness to be vulnerable is necessary in close relationships. Otherwise there can't be a (meaningful) relationship. But being vulnerable by default leaves one open to endless manipulation.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: A person has died from a vaping-related condition
I think vaping is a genuine improvement, provided that the law treats it like it does tobacco, i.e. no advertising, age restrictions, etc. This is an anecdote, but in countries where those restrictions are in place, just about every vaper seems to be an ex-smoker, and nobody thinks vaping is cool or attractive.
meshenna | 6 years ago | on: The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
Yeah, I suppose... The post I was replying to just sounded to me a lot like something Epictetus could've said. As in, you shouldn't mind starving if you can't help it.
Now that I think about it, my memory of Epictetus seems to be really hazy, so I probably shouldn't try to discuss stoicism without doing some re-reading and thinking first.
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"The AMD MI250X GPU is in a class of its own now and for a long time to come. The technical supremacy and performance per watt were the primary reasons why AMD’s MI250X GPUs were selected for LUMI, explains Pekka Manninen, Director of LUMI Leadership Computing Facility."