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  • Making the bed

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  • If those are the advantages then the same advantages could be accomplished by daily filling a cup with water, pouring out the water, drying the glass and putting it back in the cupboard. I'd argue the cup with water is far less effort and yields the same results.

  • CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI

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  • I'll just leave this here:

  • Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

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  • I don't use Brave, but one correction. From the article: "Brave sells Origin to strip added features—a $60 one-time fee (free on Linux). "

    Brave thinks its Windows and OSX users are suckers, not its Linux users apparently.

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • DenverCoder9 strikes again?

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    Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on how to decide which employees AI should replace

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  • So he's saying [paraphrased] "It wasn't broken, but I decided to 'fix' it anyway"

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  • I mean when, let’s say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness

    The likelihood you'll have any clue your going to die in such a short time as a month is extremely low. You're much more likely going to die in an instant through fatal injury or bodily failure like a heart attack or brain aneurysm. Lets say you live to 85 years old and are finally dying of something entirely predictable for old age like congestive heart failure or late discovered end-stage cancer. You're going to be long past having any energy or ability to do anything about without help.

    If you actually get some kind of clear guidance you're going to die from a prolonged (meaning not instant) ordeal, you'll likely be in hospice where they will give you amazing narcotic drugs in whatever massive doses you need so you feel no pain and are simply swimming in dopamine as your body gives out.

    The takeaway is, there's no point trying to spend your healthy hours trying to plan for something like this. No plan you can think of will be useful even in the extremely unlikely scenario, the conditions you imagine do happen.

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  • OSHA inspector: "No PPE. I'm filing this as a violation."

  • Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations

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  • Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre "ribbon" interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.

  • the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

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  • I'm confused on one main point from the author. Are these created projects for work or just personal? This answer changes the dynamic of the entire article.

    Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it.

    If they were personal projects, then there's nothing wrong. They were useful for a moment, or were fun to build, and if they've exceeded their usefulness, get rid of them. We do this all the time with hobbies, so why would it be a sin with personal code? Nobody spends an hour finishing a crossword puzzle and says "well that was a waste of time". We spend money on hobbies too, so if your hobby is coding and you want to spend money on an LLM subscription for your hobby, as long as you get value and enjoyment out of it, its fine.

    However, if these were supposed to be commercial marketable products, and that business resources were used they yes, clearly there is a lack of planning and resource allocation. Spending time and money building something which has no use can can't be maintained is a major business error.

  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • /shitty conspiracy theory

    ...or was the constant exposure from X-rays keeping all of our cancer at bay. And with the removal of that lifesaving treatment, we're all rapidly being overcome by our uncheck cancer.

    Look at the data and see when LCD TVs first entered the American consumer market. With the removal of CRTs, our cancer rates exploded!! Coincidence?! (yes its just a coincidence)

  • Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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  • It takes more than a name to deliver the result. MS Office365 also claims to be great for collaboration, and its a trainwreck to try to use it in that way.

  • Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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  • You're proving my point. They just started working on it 3 months ago. It will be a long time, if ever, before it is a Gsuite replacement. They even said they tried this a few years ago and abandoned it. There's a risk they'd do it again.

    So if there's another open source effort specifically focused on an online product, its a good thing.

  • Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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  • I like and use Libreoffice, but its a local application. This makes it fine for working by yourself and on your own hardware. Google Docs (Gstuite) is an online application with the best collaboration integration I've seen and works on nearly any device you can open a modern browser on. Yes, both products have a word processor and a spreadsheet, but they don't serve all the same use cases.

    If this new Euro-office can replicate the Gsuite offerings (that Libreoffice lacks), then Euro-office could be a great addition to the open source community.

  • Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API

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  • The actual paper (PDF) this is based on gives much better information than the article. From that we get some really key information:

    To allow FROST to measure SSD contention, the victim must perform activities that result in storage accesses to the same disk as the file used for contention measurement

    This can't ready your SSD. It can only listen in on the conversation between your CPU and SSD when something else reads it or writes to it. The whole FROST approach has a number of clever tricks to generate reads from open applications though. Further, it requires the attacker's code to be running in an active browser session.

    Also, If you have two SSDs, and your browser is on one, this FROST approach can't see anything written to or read from on the other SSD.

    Lastly, there's a mention in the paper about hardware based SSD encryption being vulnerable, there's no mention of Software Whole Disk Encryption. Given how the researchers are using the SSD timing exploit, I would guess that a software (not hardware) whole disk encryption might be immune to this attack because the patterns of timings would be different with encrypted data being written to the SSD (instead of the data being encrypted by the SSD when written.

  • More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

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  • something something tAx MoNeY

    Nice fake quote

    Idk maybe tax the fucking billionaires? Maybe instead of useless foreign wars spend it on schools? Tax the NFL? I’m just spit balling.

    Get out of here with that lazy answer. Saying [paraphrased] "Have someone else pay for it somehow" is the most throwaway answer to any cited problem. If you want to contribute to the conversation looking for a solution, then contribute. What you posted here isn't a useful or meaningful contribution.

    I'm not opposed to taxing fucking billionaires, but how are you proposing? Increase on capital gains taxes? Higher taxes on non-resident properties? Wealth tax on unrealized gains? That's a great conversation to have, but its pretty far away from school spending which is what we're talking about here.

    I'm not opposed to lowering defense spending, but in the USA you might as well try to boil the ocean than try to reform the Military Industrial Complex today. Short of revolution, that's not happening in our lifetime. If we have revolution, school taxation will be the last of our worries.

  • More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

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  • They seem to think that what I mean is that we shouldn’t use tax money at all. No.

    Incorrect. That's not what I think. I'm seeing if you've thought through the consequences of your proposed change and have a solution I can't see.

    I’m happy to pay for the same education for all children. A standardized education.

    Okay, so right now many schools are paid for by additional local income/sale/property taxes (these would be over and above any state or federal tax money that all schools would get). Those local taxes are passed by vote of the people in those localities. Under the current system, if "City A" has voters choose to tax themselves at a higher rate for better schools, then they get better schools. If "City B" has voters shoot down their tax increases, their schools pay the price and decline.

    I’m happy to pay for the same education for all children. A standardized education.

    I'm not trying to strawman you here. I'm trying to understand your proposal. Are you proposing to take the additional tax money generated in City A that they put on themselves and give a portion of it to City B to create your standardized education?

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Here is study referenced in case interested - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X2600051X

    First, I want to thank you for taking the time to engage on this topic, and also finding this great research paper. There's always room for criticism in a source, but overall this is a great analysis done by the paper's authors within the scope they define. I only have access to the abstract through the link, but may see if I can find the full paper from my library.

    Pros of the paper:

    • the WTW (Well-to-Well) metric the authors use does encompass nearly all of the energy/emissions from using the stated fossil fuel for transpiration. This is a great way to have an apples-to-apples comparison of the various sources of energy with regard to their pollution cost in vehicles of various types which is our core question.
    • For Diesel the authors factored in emissions including not only CO2, but also Particulate Matter and oxides of Nitrogen which is much worse from diesel emissions than other forms of petroleum compared to gasoline or methane combustion. I appreciate this level of detail from the authors. However, in just the abstract I can't see the formula for how they define a percentage of pollution on these other to inputs.

    Cons of the paper:

    • the WTW (Well-to-Well) metric starts at the well. There's no accounting for the exploration pollution associated with fossil fuels (or battery materials for that matter). As an example, the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster was the largest oil spill as well as the largest release of methane in history. Deepwater Horizon was not an active production well. It was an exploration well (which is the step before production). Therefore it wouldn't be included in the WTW metric, yet represents a huge amount of pollution that would not exist if we weren't using oil and methane.

    Also, to our question about coal derived power for EVs, we may have enough information from the authors to extrapolate the coal figure. Since the paper includes detailed analysis of methane generated power, we can likely get the efficiency and emissions numbers for that power source. This will let us use the author's methods for defining the percentage of efficiency for comparrison once we get the coal inputs. We can likely get the coal inputs from looking at an existing coal power plant and getting its ingested coal, CO2 cost for extraction of that amount of coal, then the published emissions numbers from the plant for the KWh of electrical energy generated over a set period.

    Overall, this paper, and your read of it is a fantastic contribution to the conversation. Thank you!

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Last I read the only time ICE beat EV in emissions was when electric came from coal fired plants.

    I'd be interested in your source on that as it contradicts my understanding.

    For the ICE vehicle did your source include all of the environmental costs associated with producing the gasoline or did it just consider the tailpipe emissions. Or worse, did it include all the Coal costs as a environmental burden on the EV, but exclude all of the petroleum value chain environmental burden (besides the tailipe emissions)?

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • And then the battery production/disposal of course…

    I'd guess the entire environmental damage of petroleum exploration, extraction, refinement, distribution, and combustion is greater than the entire environmental damage from battery material exploration, extraction, refinement, manufacturing, and eventual battery disposal when talking about a single ICE car vs a single BEV.

    All of the ICE vs BEV pollution metrics I have seen to-date include the environmental cost of the battery, but only include ICE tail pipe emissions and exclude the environmental cost of everything needed to bring petroleum to market.