We should survey the linux_gaming community. That will give us a larger sample size that’s definitely representative of the broader trends

Sounds like SEE (single event effect) if it’s something fixable by software.

TID (total ionizing dose) is another flavor of radiation effect on components, but that’s a total lifetime effect where it slowly degrades. Using rad hard parts or adding extra shielding is the main fix.

SEEs are transient effects from high energy charged particles that can cause bit flips and latch ups in circuitry depending on where the particle hits and deposits it’s charge in the circuitry. Extra shielding can help prevent these as well, but they can also be mitigated in software, sometimes the fix is just error detection, or power cycling a specific section of circuitry to clear a latchup

But they gotta save us from eternal damnation, it’s for our own good, we don’t know any better (/s if it’s really needed)

If robo-cops were a thing already I’d be with you, until then I don’t see ICE losing their paychecks any time soon.

And I never said I trust that they follow the law, but I trust that they want ICE paid

True. But. Why would the current administration choose to NOT pay them…?

Just a bit of weed, edibles or a vape usually. No more alcohol for me any more.

I read your comment while doing that

And own and operate. “Invest” was just kind of an umbrella term. But unintentionally made them seem less fucked up

Company that invests in private prisons. Both times trump was elected, their stock doubled within the following weeks/months. Jesus that’s fucked

Not sure on Pennsylvania. But for North Carolina, my guess would be the research triangle helping boost it?

Good way to run a long term business, sure. Good way to win at capitalism, no.

Ok this is too damn cool. Will be checking it out soon, but moving to a new apartment this week so I probably shouldn’t dive into new distractions just yet…

I don’t like the Muppet movies…

Have you heard of fecal transplants? Same idea, different orifice

Not the person you were responding to, but… Did I read the article stuck behind a paywall? No, no I did not

Edit: ah I see the non paywall link now

Beautiful use of machine learning and machine vision, get out of here with facial recognition everywhere, give me shit like this

Ha, no, now they just get in the subways with big Bluetooth speakers and annoy people with that. Boom boxes phasing out didn’t stop people from being obnoxious if they want to

And a boom box. Sure, phones can play music, but not at the same volume or quality as a dedicated stereo system (quality meaning the frequency response, phones just physically can’t get the low end without a separate speaker)

So. Funny story. Back when I was incredibly new to Linux, I was trying to move everything from my downloads folder to somewhere else. So I navigated into the downloads directory on the command line and sent something like

“sudo mv /* ~/misc”

when I meant to type

“sudo mv ./* ~/misc”

Yea… That was a fun learning experience and hilarious way to utterly fuck everything on that machine. Luckily it was just an old laptop I’d installed Linux on to mess around and learn, no real damage done

I mean, I agree with you, I’d never pay for a Matlab license for myself if I ever decide to go the private engineering consultant route. Just sharing my experience that yes, it’s used in the professional world.