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Frezik

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  • Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable

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  • Sorta modern.

    There's been two big jumps in fundamental RAM usage during my time using Linux. The first was the move from libc to glibc. That tended to force at least 8MB as I recall. The second was adding Unicode support. That blew things up into the gigabyte hundreds of megabyte range.

    Edit: basing a lot of this on memory. Gigabyte range would be difficult for an OG Raspberry Pi, but I think it was closer to 128MB. That seems more reasonable with the difficulty of implementing every written language.

    We can't exactly throw out Unicode support, at least not outside of specific use cases. Hypothetically, you might be able to make architectural changes to Unicode that would take less RAM, but it would likely require renegotiating all the cross-cultural deals that went into Unicode the first time. Nobody wants to go through that again.

  • Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president | CNN Politics

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  • I don't think that's true. The only two examples of a woman trying to run for President have been against the same cult leader. He didn't even get the popular vote the first time (which a lot of people seem to conveniently forget), and he barely won it in the second example.

    The vast majority of America would be generically fine with a woman as President, even if they don't vote for her. The only thing lacking is a cult-like draw, and that's not something you should aspire to.

  • JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics

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  • Waiting to be Gerald Ford.

  • US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs

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  • Morally, yes. Legally, it's going back to the companies, and they'll pocket the money and walk away.

  • Look lady, I'm just saying...

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  • That's not the only reason it can't last. From Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascisim:

    For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

    And also:

    To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

    Since it can never be at peace, it constantly needs to create an enemy. The worst thing that can happen is defeating that enemy. It still has to have an enemy to focus on, or else people start to notice that the leaders have no idea how to solve actual problems.

    So it needs to create a new enemy, but to do that, they have to carve one out of the existing population. This means the "acceptable" people shrink each cycle. It doesn't take long before the "enemies" make up too much of the population to be sustainable.

    Another reason is the mechanics of cult of personalities. They rarely survive their leader. Mormon's and Scientology are often cited as examples, but they're the exception. There's thousands of little cults nobody has ever heard of that dissolve when the leader dies.

    Hitler had maybe three to five decades of natural life left when he took the Chancellorship. That's the longest it could possibly have lasted. Trump doesn't have that. He has maybe one decade left, and that's pushing it.

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Those could both be true. People feel like they need $125k more to be secure, but when they get it, it doesn't make them as happy as they thought it would. They need another $25k more to feel that way.

  • Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support

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  • It can be routed more efficiently and has generally lower latency. Though how much it matters in practice is debatable, and real world data has fluctuated.

    One thing it definitely enables is easier setup of home servers for games without NAT nonsense.

  • Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support

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  • Microsoft even sees it as a big mistake. They're creating APIs that won't require anti-cheat to be in the kernel like that. There shouldn't be any reason it needs to be in the Linux kernel.

    That said, "don't trust the client" is a nice thing to say, but it's basically impossible to make games work like that. There are certain protocol design considerations that are needed for fps games to work in multiplayer with somewhat laggy connections, and they're not completely compatible with "don't trust the client". If we all had the fiber optic connections and IPv6 that we were promised in the 90s, things would be different. The wack-a-mole game against cheaters is the best that can be done otherwise.

  • Look lady, I'm just saying...

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  • Fascist regimes never last 50 years.

    Before someone says "Franco", no. Even Orwell had doubts about Franco being a real fascist, and historians since then trend the same way.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Especially in this economy.

  • What are examples of "instead of making our own situation better, let's make the other's worse"?

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  • Almost any argument against public transportation or better bike and walking infrastructure.

    You can't improve traffic by adding another lane. People who were using other means of transportation start to move over to cars, and then that lane fills up and you're back where you started. This "induced demand" has been studied by traffic engineers for decades, and is very reliable.

    You can improve traffic by offering viable alternatives to cars. Even if that means taking up a lane for bikes, buses, or rail. The induced demand effect works in reverse, too. People see they're getting passed by the bus on their morning commute and make the obvious choice.

  • [NSFW] So I have a few questions about Data

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  • Not coincidentally, Data is seen as an autistic/adhd/neurospicy hero. He has friends but feels like an outsider. His friends do like him even when he misreads social cues. If he does have emotions, he's processing them in a mechanical way.

    So no, I don't think you're projecting anything that wasn't there already.

  • Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know

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  • How did Denmark end up being the bad guy in this? Volunteering for the role seems out of character, but who knows.

  • Bill to reopen government shuts down hemp industry

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  • One more fuck you from the Dark Lord, Mitch McConnell. He's apparently the one who snuck it in the Senate version, and knew the House would be in too much of a hurry to change it and send it back to the Senate.

    That said, I think he overextended himself this time. There's too many businesses that rely on the loophole, and too many people who got used to having a legal option for THC.

    Start making a big stink about it. There's potentially enough leverage here to not only reinstate the loophole, but to simply legalize THC straight up. The biggest issue will be making Mike Johnson fold, but there's enough Republicans in support that he'll give in if there's enough pressure. He's spineless in a reliable way.

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  • Astronomy still has imperialism problems. Best places for telescopes (radio or optical) aren't around white people. Sometimes they're more agreeable to the local population than others.

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  • Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he'd spew out another one of those.

  • Just how?

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  • I always try to park further back because of this. Then I still underestimate it and can't find where I parked.

    With motorcycles, it's almost mandatory to park further back. People will try to pull in, hit the bike, knock it over, and then drive off like nothing happened. If confronted, it's your fault for riding a bike.

  • The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable!

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  • They're both calibrated against a stupid wet molecule that carbon based life on this planet is addicted to.

    Introducing: the Nihon. 0Nh is the freezing point of Nihonium at 1 bar pressure, and 100Nh is the boiling point. Well, theoretical freezing and boiling points. Nihonium is one of those elements that doesn't stick around long enough to be studied. But we thought really hard about it, did some shit with particle accelerators, and we're pretty sure these numbers are good.

  • The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable!

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