Killing_Spark
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- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
Apply the ones in a star shape to distribute pressure evenly
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 3 months ago:
Not in this specific age group. Overall men are overrepresented, not by 90% but they are, but less so in younger people
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 3 months ago:
While I guess that’s true and it’s often surprising that the AfD is polling that well in the younger cohorts let’s not overstate their success. There are also a lot of people in that cohort very vehemently disagreeing with the AfD.
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 3 months ago:
That is such a bullshit point. “The youth” doesn’t want one homogeneous thing. The youth is just as diverse in opinions as other cohorts, maybe even more so. It is also more likely to be on more radikal Sides of the political spectrum.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
Make sure it isn’t just the Pomeranians. Some Pomeranians are definitely going to be in the mix.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Servo exists
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
You just have a chain of unprovable assumptions there.
Kid’s use slang -> they must have picked it up on the internet -> many people are illiterate -> the parents of these specific kids are not raising them right
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
Excuse me the correct slang here would be to hit someone with that “hawk tuah”
- Comment on Open-Source, Language-Agnostic Mutation Testing Tool Using LLM Agents 4 months ago:
You have written tests for your code and now feel safe because your code is tested. But test quality is really hard to measure. The idea seems to be to introduce “vulnerabilities” (whatever that means…) and see if your tests catch them. If they do that’s supposed to show that the tests are good and vice versa.
- Comment on CBT 4 months ago:
Cocknitive balls therapy?
- Comment on [Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over? 4 months ago:
I’m playing “curse of the dead gods” right now. I wanted to scratch that hades itch while hades 2 is cooking. Pretty good, different, more random approach to the weapons system.
and a very invasive mechanic around lighting the rooms with a torch and immobile fireplaces. By default you get hit harder in the dark but there are also modifiers to give you benefits in the dark to change up the tradeoffs
I’m not sure I like it as much as Hades it’s a bit clunky but I’d recommend getting it in a sale for sure
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 6 months ago:
I think it’s related to scars from cutting yourself. You can get addicted to that.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
You think a company run by Elon has an extensive software safety review system?
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
Contiguous storage is very fast in terms of iteration though often offsetting the cost of allocation
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
One example where that doesn’t seem to work is public infrastructure. There is just no way to make this profitable and simultaneously provide a service that actually meets the needs of the public in terms of availability and price.
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
There is one problem with this: what’s profitable and what’s beneficial for society do not necessarily align.
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
You’d rather entrust almost every aspect of your live to the benevolence of some people that do not have any oversight by the populous that they have power over by the means of controlling the capital?
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
I’d imagine it works the same as it does under capitalism but instead of pitching to a set of private investors the investment decisions are made… Democratically?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
I loathe tiktok but if someone had banned Reddit while I was still using it I would have been hella mad. On the other hand it would have been “How will I manage without unhinged shitposts mixed with ads” from the outside
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 6 months ago:
Honestly Beer should appear just as the background
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
You even dropped a few accidentally and nothing happened!
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
Didn’t the hole above Australia close again?
- Comment on xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness 8 months ago:
You’ll never want to taste anything else, that’s for sure
- Comment on Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage 9 months ago:
It’s also potentially skipping some of the parts that should be looked at. It depends on the training set.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
Seriously, the drinking part isn’t the problem, it’s the not drinking that’s hard for me
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
Pure Ethanol isn’t a solution it’s a solvent!
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood 11 months ago:
Ignore my dumbass that ignored the fact that the epoxy is, of course, just another plastic. You’re completely right!
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood 11 months ago:
Yeah and no. I guess if you call anything that’s long chains of Carbonhydroxyd chains a plastic yes. But taking wood as the basis material instead of fossil oil is a difference
- Comment on Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support 11 months ago:
Hi Not the guy of the above comment but I’d like to chip in :)
I don’t know about the cache, I think I heard something about this and the answer being basically that yes more distance just makes it slower.
About the multithreading:
If the cost of creating Threads is becoming an issue look into the concept of threadpools. They are a neat way of reusing ressources and ensuring you don’t try to have more parallelism than is actually possible.
As for usecases for servers with these many cores: shared computing for example VM hosts. The amount of VMs you can sensibly host on a server is limited by the amount of cores you have. Depending on the kind of hypervisor you are using you can share cores between VMs but that’s going to make the VMs slower.
Another example of shared computing are HPC clusters where many people schedule some kind of work, the cluster allocates the ressources executes the task and returns the results to you. Having more cores allows more of these tasks to run in parallel effectively increasing the throughput of the cluster.
- Comment on Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default 11 months ago:
You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.
That would still require posts or communities to reliably label their contents correctly right?
Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)
I strongly belief that if we all strived to get the maximum amount of alcohol into our bellies instead of the maximum amount of money into our accounts society would be much nicer.