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Blue_Morpho

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Does that mean we are 4 years away from another 1999 film year?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_film

Fight Club

American Beauty

Sixth Sense

Toy Story 2

Phantom Menace

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It's almost like, I don't know, Biden is helping. But both sides bad, amirite?

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What's the blatant falsehood? You are required to calculate taxes that the government largely already knows the answer. If you calculate wrong, you get a letter from the Government telling you where you were wrong which proves they knew the correct answers all along. If you don't pay that fine, the end result will be prison.

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The IRS doesn't actually check most tax returns

That isn't true. They check all tax returns based on W2, 1099's and other documents they receive from corporations that paid you money.

An audit is completely different from the automatic checks that make sure every bank record of interest and stock sale lines up with what you claimed on taxes.

If you miss any stock sale or any reported income, you will get a computer generated letter from the IRS for the amount you owe. If you pay too much by accident, you will also get a computer generated check back from the IRS.

I make a mistake every few years and get a bill with fine or a check from the IRS. I no longer stressed about taxes because I know they will correct it for me in a few months anyway. The fine is small because I've luckily never made a big mistake. I've gotten back large checks for years I forgot I paid estimated taxes and overpaid my taxes.

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I only know about what I just read on wiki, but it seems like Riel was not someone you would want in charge because he executed Scott just to show everone he was in power.

And what's Marrsi? The picture is Riel and the group were the Metis?

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I had always heard that Sartre was a great philosopher. I had read his fiction and about existentialism so I thought let me read what everyone says is his great work, Being and Nothingness.

After a few chapters, I wanted to punch Sartre just like the comic. It was nothing but non stop unverified suppositions about the nature of thought.

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The odd thing is Being and Nothingness is held up as Sartre's great work when it's actually utter trash. Like if Linus Pauling was acclaimed for his crackpot idea that Vitamin C cures all cancer and as a footnote it's noted that he discovered DNA.

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You can't sue Google. They don't have a number to reach anyone and their email is canned bot responses.

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If files on your hard drive are sold to advertisers, they don't need to bother with uploading screenshots.

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This is really nice for home servers. There has been a huge gap for years where the choice was a 16-64 core high watt monstrosity or use a 4 year old server CPU before every server went to high core counts.

8cores with ecc is perfect for my home use.

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Plex, Blue Iris, Minecraft mod servers for the kids. I'll often use the server CPU for video filtering/encoding home videos off of VHS tapes because the nnedi3 filter takes a lot of CPU.

Years ago I lost data on a nas because the ram wasn't ECC. So I won't buy/build any PC without ECC unless it's only going to be used for web browsing/gaming.

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Could be but finding a motherboard that has verified ECC is tricky. Most say works but not tested/supported so you're on your own to figure out if ECC fully works.

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The AsRock says ECC but not verified with Ryzen.

So you end up having to test it yourself like this guy and hope the version hasn't changed between when he bought the motherboard and now.

https://sunshowers.io/posts/am5-ryzen-7000-ecc-ram/

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I've read there is an id pin on Epyc cpus that differentiates them from Ryzen. Der8aur made it work by masking the pin on the socket.

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No content moderation means it ISN'T reading the screen.

It's screen shots saved to your hard drive just like when you hit the print screen key in Arch. It's a stupid feature but saying MS is stealing everything because of this feature makes no sense.

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Despite what Lucille Bluth believes, vodka doesn't bad in a few days after opening bottle. Milk goes bad quickly.

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Unless you are at an extremely expensive or extremely small restaurant, their sauces come premade in a bag from Cisco.

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So if you type cats but the item is called pets get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.

Google added context search to Gmail and it's infuriating. I'm looking for an exact phrase that I even put in quotes but Gmail returns a long list of emails that are vaguely related to the search word.

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It shouldn't even automatically fallback. If I am looking for an exact phrase and it doesn't exist, the result should be "nothing found", so that I can search somewhere else for the information. A prompt, "Nothing found. Look for related information?" Would be useful.

But returning a list of related information when I need an exact result is worse than not having search at all.

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Reminder:

Steve Buscemi is not a Brown Shirt.

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Wiki says M3 uses on package unified memory, so the GPU channels are also the CPU channels.

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Imo, the only solution is every device with an antenna must be legally required to put a manual off switch.

Cell service, wifi, Bluetooth, any future service. If it broadcasts it needs a physical off switch.

If I sold my car to a government official and they found out I had hidden a camera, microphone and GPS in the car, I'd get a visit from the FBI. Yet companies do it with impunity. Does the CEO of Subaru have recordings of Bernie Sanders driving in his car?

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If only I knew where.

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I'm not that nostalgic. Everything about my new car is better than my older cars. My 2023 minivan has a better 0-60 than my old V-8 Mustang while getting 2x the MPG. The only thing that is bad is the tracking.

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That's a good point. A Lemmy user claimed that happened to him with his Ford.

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I don't know why you care. It's still hearsay because as I said, it was another Lemmy claiming it.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9399531

Blue_Morpho ,

If educating and voting with your wallet actually worked, we wouldn't have needed laws to put seatbelts in cars.

You can't vote with your wallet when there is no choice. Companies will not willingly take the risk of reducing revenue.

Blue_Morpho ,

ATM's are a PC running an OS like Windows or Linux. They aren't a type of OS.

Blue_Morpho ,

Thanks to global warming, there are now luxury cruises through the Northwest passage.

So no, you won't have to cook and won't regret it.

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Which you should always follow by running the command to show the active processes.

The beards were in honor of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

Blue_Morpho ,

The internet is 'dead' anyways

It's Eternal September like it always has been. I'm enjoying Lemmy. Maybe your post was written by an AI, in which case, "Jolly good show!"

Blue_Morpho ,

I think it's a delayed development reaction to Amazon Alexa from 4 years ago. Alexa came out, voice assistants were everywhere. Someone wanted to cash in on the hype but consumer product development takes a really long time.

So product is finally finished (mobile Alexa) and they label it AI to hype it as well as make it work without the hard work of parsing wikipedia for good answers.

Blue_Morpho ,

Alexa is a fundamentally different architecture from the LLMs of today.

Which is why I explicitly said they used AI (LLM) instead of the harder to implement but more accurate Alexa method.

Maybe actually read the entire post before being an ass.

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It isn't hard but it is tedious because each of the ad settings is in a different location. Like taskbar has its settings which aren't configured in the Settings app where you can turn off the ads. Settings has places in search and another in privacy. Look at the OP image. It's 9 different settings that need to be found and turned off.

Blue_Morpho ,

ASRock makes high end server parts that Asus has no equivalent.

https://www.asrockrack.com/

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server

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??? You don't need a specific room. Quest doesn't need any beacons or wires.

I don't like Facebook, never had a Facebook account and refused to buy their VR until they removed the Facebook account requirement 2 years ago.

But the hardware is excellent for the price. Facebook is selling the hardware at a loss and making it up in software sales. So you are hurting Facebook by buying their hardware and using it with Steam.

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SteamVR is a software store. It has nothing to do with whether the hardware needs beacons in the room or wires.

You can play SteamVR racing sims at your desk. If it's a standing game, you push a button and then draw virtual borders on the floor wherever you are to define the play space.

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I don't think bankruptcy is going to happen. Despite economists' theoretical ideals, stock price has nothing to do with a company.

Tesla is selling cars at a profit whether the stock is $20 a share or $200. Long term the stock price should go to $20.

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MS has done shady things but Netscape's own top employees have written about how Netscape destroyed itself with the version 4 rewrite. Joel Spolsky has also written about how complete rewrites are always a mistake.

Their corporate side failed too. If you weren't fortune 500, Netscape wouldn't talk to you. I was spending $50k a year with Netscape and they wouldn't fix a bug unless I paid for an additional $75k a year support tier. ( The bug was Netscape 4 didn't support dialing with area codes! )

Meanwhile during the late 90's Microsoft devs put their personal emails in the readme.txts and would quickly patch any bugs or add features if you emailed them.

All the small isp's (which were over 50% of the market) gave up on Netscape because of this.

Blue_Morpho ,

AI will win if not now, then soon. The reason is that even if it is worse than a human, the AI can pull off maneuvers that would black out a human.

Jets are far more powerful than humans are capable of controlling. Flight suits and training can only do so much to keep the pilot from blacking out.

Blue_Morpho ,

But can they scream?

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If an f16 is remote controlled, it's technically a drone.

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He's taking it in compensation for his services. Prayer man is no communist.

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Biofilm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm

Develops on faucet aerators. You should regularly clean them.

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Clean running water doesn't mean that biofilm doesn't develop where air meets water. Aerators are a breeding ground.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/aerator

Blue_Morpho ,

Google has suggestions like bleach and a toothbrush. I like to unscrew them. You need a rubber jar opener at minimum and sometimes pliers. Use a tiny bit of silicone food safe plumbers grease on the threads so next time it's easy.

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Then give me a related analogy you would accept and I'll easily twist it into a misleading comparison exactly the article did.

How about this, "British Telecom develops high speed internet 1700x faster than previous Internet service technology. Availability is today!"

The above statement is completely true.

Comparing to home Internet when it isn't home Internet technology is misleading. Ignoring that there are already faster optical Internet speeds in other labs around the world is misleading.

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