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I was paranoid for a long time about things like SIP and SecureBoot but think of it this way. What is the likelihood that you are infected by a bootkit versus some 0day that affects your browser? My main beef w/ rootless/SIP/Gatekeeper and these types of technology is that you no longer own your hardware, you are a slave to the HW manufacturer.

nVidia is on its last legs, honestly. If this is the best they can come up with, forget it. What is the real world application/use case for this GPU? I doubt it would be used for autonomous driving - you could buy some cheap used Tesla P100s and toss them on a rack for a better price point IMO.

This form factor reminds me of the Commodore 64 and old school retro computing. Long live the user developer! :)

Yeah, I was surprised there is no mention of drift and technical debt. These are the things that make software engineering hard. Someone new will always suggest a rewrite, which is tempting but is almost always a trap and massive timesink.

Yes, I too am a fan of repdigits.

The neoluddite take is kind of like beating a dead horse. Smartphones are a tool; how you use this tool is entirely dependent on how disciplined your mind is. Not everyone who has their first sip of alcohol will become an alcoholic. It is the same for smartphones.

The article’s take on China is weird too; do they not have smartphones? The author probably wrote the article on a Huawei phone that the vast majority of Chinese people use every day.

> And she took on another heart—no longer minded toward earthly things—but ecstatically in the angelic dialect, sending up a hymn to God in accord with the style of the angels. And as she spoke ecstatically, she allowed “The Spirit” to be on her garment.

It seems that speaking to one would be quite a terrifying experience, especially if one were speaking in tongues.

Consider this: China can close their economy tomorrow and most of the world’s economies would crumble almost overnight. The supply chain of most developed and developing nations is primarily based in China. It would take decades in a developed country to build manufacturing capabilities at the scale China has currently.

My manager mentioned Hacktoberfest a while back. Honestly I’d never heard of it. When I went to check it out, I was greeted with millions of commits of whitespace. Now I dream of the whitespace. I’ve learned to embrace the whitespace. And it’s fellow companions, the humble carriage return and line feed.

There is also Vyadha Gita within Mahabharata. In it a sanyasi learns of enlightenment from a lowly butcher.

I'm reminded of the scene in the "Last Emperor" when the young Emperor Puyi is weaned at a much later age from breast milk.

Have there been any studies on long term consumption of breast milk, well into adulthood? If you think about it, breast milk has many minerals and important nutrients, including endocannabinoids like 2-AG.

It is the same in Japan, isn't it? Hikikomori, NEETs, those hiding in net cafes, etc. The culture will hide them from tourists and society at large.

It's a lot simpler on embedded devices. U-Boot for example is extremely simple and much more robust than GRUB or LILO.