NaibofTabr

Um, do you have some contrary evidence to present? Or is your position just “US bad”?

He’ll probably feel right at home in Klantee.

That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.

I’m not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it’s not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.

This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf

It’s very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.

Every obscure website was a passion project. Forums were mainly for people being enthusiastic about something.

Though as a side note, those forum discussions would go on for years, with possibly months in between new posts. Enthusiast forums were mostly small communities with only a handful of users adding content.

Here on the Fediverse we have similar small communities sustained by small groups of active posters, but it feels like most users lose interest in posts and comment discussions very quickly, usually less than a day.

I guess my point is that one of the aspects of the Internet of the 90s/00s is that it wasn’t immediate, and people tended to show more patience with each other and with the technology. Even an IRC conversation might stretch out over days or weeks, especially if you were talking to someone multiple time zones away.

Neocities: https://neocities.org/browse!

Webrings: https://www.brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

Usenet: https://www.spocket.co/blogs/what-is-usenet

Zombo: https://zombo.com/

Also:

Hmm, I think Windows and most Linux distros support mounting disk images directly at this point.

Literally just Right-click -> Mount

I’m not sure why you’d bother writing the disk image to an SD card and then using this hardware to mount it.

slugs

Yes, but it might gain other buffs to Charisma between now and 24 months. Charisma is forced to 1 at 24 months regardless.

Or pipe GUI output into another GUI function.

Or >> log.txt

Every person in every industry in a rush to replace the work of creative people with output from machine learning models can fuck right off.

Every consumer who is content with products made by such people can also fuck right off.

there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI

This opinion is contradicted by basically everyone who has attempted to use models to generate useful code which must interface with existing codebases. There are always quality issues, it must always be reviewed for functional errors, it rarely interoperates with existing code correctly, and it might just delete your production database no matter how careful you try to be.

Seriously, fuck Pearson. Garbage company.

Nice save, and a fantastic PSA.

Also I’m a big fan of sleeping on a problem as a path to a solution. I’m not sure how exactly that skill develops, but it’s definitely something that I’ve done a few times over the years.

“Why don’t people like our user surveillance systems? they’re so impressively good at invading your privacy!”

God, this story’s a tragedy:

Four years after Barco was born, his family entered the US with asylum, and were later given lawful permanent resident status.

Barco came to the US with his family at 4 years old.

Barco enlisted in the army at 17 and served two tours in Iraq. Barco was injured by an improvised explosive device during one of his deployments, and received a Purple Heart for his service in combat.

He joined the Army young, possibly as a path to citizenship (very common, and it’s basically supposed to be automatic if you complete a 4-year enlistment), ended up in combat in Iraq and got caught in an IED.

During his military career, Barco had filled out paperwork for citizenship, but his application was never processed for an unknown reason, despite his submitting it. His legal team says his former commander attests to helping him complete and submit the application.

Something went wrong with his citizenship paperwork, maybe it just sat on a desk forever waiting for some officer to sign it.

In October 2009, Barco was sentenced to 52 years after being convicted of firing a gun at a house party in Colorado Springs. He was suffering from PTSD. One of the bullets he fired hit a 19-year-old woman in the leg.

Barco is 39, he was born in 1986, therefore he enlisted 2003-04 at the age of 17. If he did a standard enlistment tour (4 years active duty, 4 years reserve) he would have still been in his reserve duty time in 2009 and should have access to military medical services, but… it can be hard to get real care for PTSD while you’re still in. Either his command wasn’t taking care of him or he wasn’t taking care of himself or both. When the shooting incident happened the Army just washed its hands of him, having failed to give him the citizenship he earned or provide adequate care.

Barco was released on parole this January after serving 15 years due to good behavior.

Maybe Barco had access to counseling in prison, maybe he just had time to think.

Upon release, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained Barco and took him to a detention center in Colorado.

Barco joined the military two years after September 11. He got out of prison into a very different country, one that doesn’t care about his service. He’s just another number for ICE’s quota, an easy one because he’s already in custody.

In September, an immigration judge denied Barco’s relief appeals, which included an application for asylum, and ordered for the veteran’s removal from the US without specifying a date.

[…]

Most families know at a minimum where their loved ones will be deported to when they are facing a removal order, but Jose’s family has been kept in the dark about his whereabouts and his destination at every stage of this process.

Finally, after using him up and abusing him, the state throws him away carelessly.

What a disgusting abdication of state responsibility.

He’s on third.

Maybe?

Yes.

well… fuck.