cogman

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Iran has problems, for sure, however it's hardly the worst state in the region. In fact, on multiple occasions they've been willing to work with the UN and US to try and rejoin the international community.

The issue is both Israel and the US have acted like utter asses towards them.

Obama's nuclear deal showed just how willing they were to engage in diplomacy. Even after Trump killed the deal, Iran was saying they'd be willing to renter again.

And frankly, the reason for Israel's attack was almost surely because the Trump admin was again getting close to signing another nuclear deal.

There's way too much conflating of Islamic nations and their policies. Iran isn't perfect or great, but it is better than a fair number of the regions governments including many current allies.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly.

He could have seen another trial, but it'd be with a new jury.

Arbitration is usually faster and cheaper than setting up a brand new trial.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slow? Not necessarily.

The main issue with that much memory is the data routing and the physical locality of the memory. Assuming you (somehow) could shrink down the distance from the cache to the registers and could have a wide enough data line/request lines you can have data from such a cache in ~4 cycles (assuming L1 and a hit).

What slows down memory for L2 is the wider address space and slower residence checks. L3 gets a bit slower because of even wider address spaces but also it has to deal with concurrency issues since it's shared among cores. It also ends up being slower because it physically has to be further away from the cores due to it's size.

If you ever look at a CPU die, you'll see that L1 caches are generally tiny and embedded right into the center of the processor. L2 tends to be bolted onto the sides of the physical cores. And L3 tends to be the largest amount of silicon real estate on a CPU package. This is all what contributes to the increasing fetch performance for each layer along with the fact that you have to check the closest layers first (An L3 hit, for example, means that the CPU checked L1 and L2 and failed at both which takes time. So L3 access will always be at least the L1 + L2 times).

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

You're probably affected by this even if you didn't participate.

The thing about genetics is you can make reasonable predictions about individuals if you have data on their relatives. Heck, you can reasonably make regional predictions with genetic data that will be fairly accurate.

If any of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc took this test, then you are now at least a little exposed.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I literally had an econ professor years ago who directly told us "do not take a genetics test". This was before the ACA

The reason was simple. It's information that once a private company gets a hold of it, they will use it to hurt you. Whether it's a drug company that learns you're predisposed to addiction, so better to give you it people around you nice temporary discounts on addictive meds, or an insurance company that learns you're predisposed to cancer, so better to look for ways to deny or drop coverage.

Once these companies know a little bit about your nature, they'll exploit any aspect possible to increase profits.

This was not a progressive/socialist econ professor. Just someone who knows how capitalism works.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every CEO thinks like this. CEOs are so incredibly bullish on AI BECAUSE they want to replace people and not tasks.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=$(df | grep '\s/$' | cut -d' ' -f1)

(Omit the $ if you are using the fish terminal)

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Israel was founded on genocide.

Palestine wasn't unoccupied when the colonialists moved in and took over. The 1948 Palestine war was literally European colonialists committing genocide to establish a new government.

The fact that they are Jews and Germany has also recently committed genocide against them doesn't make their actions justified.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Came to say this. Tinfoil wrapping should work to keep your phone isolated.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

if you don’t need boosters.

You can always get tested to see if you need boosters. However, there's no harm to getting a booster and if your immunity level has dropped it's a surefire way to make sure you are protected for the next 10+ years depending on what you got boosted for.

Nobody is saying after getting the booster that you need to continue getting boosters for the same disease. 1 is enough to hopefully outlast this admin and insanity.

MMR, in particular, would be a very good one to get as Measles appears to be back in force.

I haven't gotten a booster in 20 years and I'm due. I plan on getting them all.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Truly some excellent adventures were had in those boxes.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Some stuff has to be consumed, like food. And that's a major problem with plastic. Plastic is being used to protect and preserve foods, but it's also being used as a cheap binding for shipments.

The right solution introduces an added logistic hurdle to send back packaging for reuse and to reprocess/clean that packaging.

There is actually a way out of this, but marketers hate it. It's standardized reusable containers and outlawing or severely limiting the use of plastic and inks for product distribution.

Sure, it'd turn our grocery stores into a warehouse-like feel, but it would also make it easy and possible for reuse and recycle centers to process and redistribute packaging with very minimal waste.

It'd also make it a lot harder for companies to play the shrinkflation game.

Standardization like this does wonders.

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