Can't say I'm excited about any of these options. I think we need a movie a bout hyperloop failing catastrophically to make the comparison easier. There already are lots of movies about AI taking over the world and a handful of movies where dinosaur experiments go horribly wrong. Haven't seen anything about a hyperloop disasters.

Would be cool though. Imagine a hyperloop getting stuck under the pacific ocean. If you open the door, the vacuum will kill you. If you somehow manage that, you're still under a bezillion tonnes of water, so good luck with that. If you still somehow survive, and make it to the surface, you're still bezillion km away from shore. The protagonist of that movie is going to need some ridiculous amounts of plot armor, or we're going to roll the credits after 15 minutes.

Even bigger than these?

• Yes, I’ve read the agreement, and
• I totally agree to all of it.
• I’m also over 18, pinky promise. 💖
• Also, remember me so that I don’t have to type my password again next week when I log in.

The tech industry is built on so many lies.

That’s the one. Thanks!

What’s the name of that method where you post the wrong answer and wait for the thousand corrections to roll in? There’s gotta be an xkcd for that as well.

You could try these:
!linux4noobs@programming.dev
!linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

Even the hyperloop?

The power efficiency difference between x86 and ARM boils down to legacy baggage in the instruction set. ARM doesn't suffer from that baggage, and that's why Apple was able to make their chips so efficient.

GPUs are a different story though, and I don't even know how you would compare the here. Maybe the voltage difference could explain some of that power efficiency gap.

Yeah, but what if people suddenly started spending money on it? Would you prefer investment bankers threw billions into that sinkhole or AI?

Well, that clarifies things a bit. If there's mould growing everywhere, it probably came from outside and went through all the layers. Clearly, the plastic wasn't hermetically sealed when mould was able to get everywhere like that. It may look sealed, but it obviously wasn't rated for anything beyond looking good.

I would argue that the mould spores got in during manufacturing. Those bags don’t go through an autoclave before shipping, so there could be anything inside. All they need to grow is water and heat, both of which can penetrate plastic. All it takes is a single spore to make a colony.

It’s an example of wasteful packaging that faced tough conditions. The tea wasn’t designed to survive mistreatment like that.

How can you know why that is? Looks like technological limitations and diminishing gains to me.

As a lazy admin of my own computer, I agree… for the most part. Running Debian allows you to be super lazy, whereas Arch will punish you for that. One update screwed up my GRUB because I didn’t bother reading the news. Totally my fault, learned my lesson.

This means that running Arch comes with some responsibilities that a super lazy Debian admin can simply ignore. Just read the announcements before updating and you’re good. Ignore them at your own peril.

It wasn’t a total disaster though. Just needed to fix my stupid mistake with chroot, and the system was up and running in about half an hour. Debian admins don’t end up with situations like that by being lazy. You would need to be actively trying to break your system to have to pay a price like this.

Other than that, my system has been running smoothly with hardly any interference on my part. The joy of a rolling release…

Docker would be the sensible approach.

Imagine if the new version of some package is only compatible with the old version of PHP, but now Arch is using the new one. The admin would have to keep the old version of PHP until the devs of that other package release an update. I recall reading something about pacman not supporting partial upgrades like that.

OP implied there’s a bank account with infinite money, and now you’ve introduced an infinite money sink. This setup will result in inflation running rampant, and wrecking the entire economy along the way. I guess we’ll just go back to bartering sooner or later.

LOL. Same.

Every now and then I find a comment where someone who clearly knows what they’re doing is deploying an Arch server in a work setting. Feeling confident with that decision takes something I don’t have. Maybe it’s experience, knowledge or something.

This is getting so stupid, it’s beginning to sound like The Onion. Why don’t they just start charging for reading posts.

Here’s an idea: Every day you get 5 Reddit Emeralds for free, and you can use them to read 5 posts. If you want to read more, you can get more emeralds from Common Reddit Loot Boxes. You can buy those boxes with Reddit Rubies.

You can get Reddit rubies from Rare Reddit Loot Boxes, and in order to get those, you have to use Reddit Diamonds. If you have 19 Common boxes you can also craft 1 Rare Loot Box. Doing so will also require 10 rubies.

You can also buy Reddit Diamonds with Superior Crypto-Augmented Money (SCAM), and getting those coins requires real world money.

Ok, so now that you have all these gems, you can put them to good use. Emeralds are used to read posts. When you comment, there’s a 50% chance that it will be deleted within 30 minutes, but you can improve your odds by spending 1 Reddit Ruby. For each Ruby, the odds improve by 10%. Posts have the same mechanism, but you need to spend Diamonds instead.

I’ve noticed that the search results are getting less and less relevant to what I’m actually looking for. I guess one day the search bar will disappear like the headphone jack of the iPhone.

relevant XKCD

Better not get vaccinated, because the vaccine kills you and covid is just another harmless flu anyway… oh wait.

Seriously though, antivaxxers already have some sort of psychological issues going on, so adding a literal brain injury to the list might not even make a big difference at that point.

Text written before 2023 is going be exceptionally valuable because that way we can be reasonably sure it wasn’t contaminated by an LLM.

This reminds me of some research institutions pulling up sunken ships so that they can harvest the steel and use it to build sensitive instruments. You see, before the nuclear tests there was hardly any radiation anywhere. However, after America and the Soviet Union started nuking stuff like there’s no tomorrow, pretty much all steel on Earth has been a little bit contaminated. Not a big issue for normal people, but scientists building super sensitive equipment certainly notice the difference between pre-nuclear and post-nuclear steel