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Beat me to it.

Israel does not control the US the US controls Israel.

Something Joe Biden will proudly admit!

May 4 fell on a Thursday most recently in 2023, 2017, and 2006. That build screams 2006, but both the Core 2 Duo and the x1950 Pro wouldn’t be out until later that year, and there wouldn’t actually be a Core 2 Duo with those specs until 2008 (the E8500 with 3.2 GHz–as far as I can tell there was never a Core 2 Duo with a precisely 3.2 GHz base clock). So this would have been a build that was quite long in the tooth when this was made (assuming it was made through texting a buddy and not a janky meme generator).

Pretty neat research, actually!

Link to article

Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk’s grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.

That’s a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.

Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel “lecture” from the lead author (also the primary pooper))

Written a bit more explicitly (although I kinda handwaved away the final term–the point is that you end up with one unpaired term which goes to zero)

edit: I was honestly confused about how exactly this related to the question, but seeing the comment from @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de (not visible from Hexbear) which showed that the first sum in the image is equivalent to

the sum from n = 1 to ∞ of 2/(n * (n + 1))

made things clear (just take the above, put 2 in the numerator, and you get a result of 2)

Facebook (when that was still a platform young people used). I would obsessively scroll through it for hours each day, basically trying to look at and comment on EVERYTHING. On a whim, I decided to take a break from it for a month. By the time the month was up, I realized I didn’t miss it at all, and that was that. One of the big takeaways was that I thought that I was forming relationships with the people I’d comment back and forth with, but in reality these were people who I would never hang out with outside of school and barely even talk with in school (if at all); it was all just superficial, and I was better off spending time talking to my actual friends.

It wasn’t that bad, but in high school I mindlessly got into the habit of drinking a few cups of Coke each day (I think it started because I would get a 2 liter whenever I’d order pizza). I quit it pretty much cold turkey, and not only did I stop drinking it at home, I no longer order it at restaurants either, which is something I did ever since I was a little kid. The idea of just buying a bottle of soda and drinking it is straight honestly grosses me out now even though getting a can or bottle from a vending machine was something I’d do without thinking. The one exception is when I’m pigging out at the movies with a bucket of popcorn, but that’s pretty rare.

David P. Goldman is deputy editor of Asia Times and a fellow of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life.

What a fash-coded name for a think tank. Might as well call it the Center for Securing the Existence of Our People and a Future for White Children.

In text form:

Abstract

Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies. We document that these measures prompted a broad-based decoupling of U.S. and Chinese supply chains. Once their Chinese customers are subject to export controls, U.S. suppliers are more likely to terminate relations with Chinese customers, including those not targeted by export controls. However, we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring. As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, and experience a drop in bank lending, profitability, and employment.

Quote from conclusion

Moreover, the benefits of U.S. export controls, namely denying China access to advanced technology, may be limited as a result of Chinese strategic behavior. Indeed, there is evidence that, following U.S. export controls, China has boosted domestic innovation and self-reliance, and increased purchases from non-U.S. firms that produce similar technology to the U.S.-made ones subject to export controls.

If you’re watching consecutive episodes of a series you can always just download them to your phone before you head to work. Not really viable if you hop around a lot, though.

Seconded, that beast (well, one of its predecessors) got me through college on the included toner cartridge alone and it’s still kicking

Link to the report

Thanks liberal justices, very cool!

Apparently so

According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021–who knows where things stand now):

If you use the OpenSubtitles website manually, you will have advertisements on the web site, NOT inside the subtitles.

If you use some API-software to download subtitles (Plex, Kodi, BSPlayer or whatever), you are not using the web site, so you do NOT have these web advertisements. To compensate this, ads are being added on-the-fly to the subtitles itself.

Also, from a different admin

add few words from my side - it is good you are talking about ads. They not generating a lot of revenue, but on other side we have more VIP subscriptions because of it :) We have in ads something like “Become VIP member and Remove all ads…”

Also, the ads in subtitles are always inserted on “empty” space. It is never in middle of movie. What Roozel wrote - “I think placing those ads at the beginning and end is somewhat OK but not in the middle or at random points in the film” - should not happen, if yes, send me the subtitle.

If the subtitle is from tv series, there are dialogues from beginning usually. System is finding “quiet” place where ads would fit, and yes, this can be after 3 minutes of dialogue…

This is important to know, I hope now it is more clear about subtitle ads - why we are doing this, there is possibility to remove them and how system works.

so a scenario like in the screenshot isn’t supposed to happen. I guess if you really wanted to see if it happens you could grab all the English subs via the API and just do a quick grep or what-have-you

“Owning a car = freedom”

“You need a big truck/SUV to haul things” (it’s just a coincidence that people drove much smaller cars before a multibillion dollar deluge of advertising)

“It’s consumers’ responsibility to reduce plastic pollution by recycling, and recycling is effective” (whoever came up with this one belongs in the PR scumfuck hall of fame)

Original Phoronix article which has all the individual benchmarks—weird that they didn’t link to it

showing a maverick side

Supporting the status quo = maverick

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There’s a variable that contains the number of cores (called cpus) which is hardcoded to max out at 8, but it doesn’t mean that cores aren’t utilized beyond 8 cores–it just means that the scheduling scaling factor will not change in either the linear or logarithmic case once you go above that number:

/*
 * Increase the granularity value when there are more CPUs,
 * because with more CPUs the 'effective latency' as visible
 * to users decreases. But the relationship is not linear,
 * so pick a second-best guess by going with the log2 of the
 * number of CPUs.
 *
 * This idea comes from the SD scheduler of Con Kolivas:
 */
static unsigned int get_update_sysctl_factor(void)
{
	unsigned int cpus = min_t(unsigned int, num_online_cpus(), 8);
	unsigned int factor;

	switch (sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling) {
	case SCHED_TUNABLESCALING_NONE:
		factor = 1;
		break;
	case SCHED_TUNABLESCALING_LINEAR:
		factor = cpus;
		break;
	case SCHED_TUNABLESCALING_LOG:
	default:
		factor = 1 + ilog2(cpus);
		break;
	}

	return factor;
}

The core claim is this:

It’s problematic that the kernel was hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores (scaling factor of 4). It can’t be good to reschedule hundreds of tasks every few milliseconds, maybe on a different core, maybe on a different die. It can’t be good for performance and cache locality.

On this point, I have no idea (hope someone more knowledgeable will weigh in). But I’d say the headline is misleading at best.

Great, I’m so glad to hear that! Tartube can be a little intimidating with it’s sprawling menus and sub-menus, but when it comes down to it most of the core functionality is pretty accessible once you know where to look and can ignore all the hyper-specific options for power users.

1. No idea, to be honest. In the environment I tested this in (Windows 10 Sandbox) Windows Defender didn’t complain, and I’ve never had an issue with my actual install either. In fact, I just checked my installation folders on my PC and didn’t even find that executable (maybe it’s only used during installation?) although I do have it on my system for a different program. I only found one Google hit from 5 years ago on the glslang Github itself, and the user seemed to think it was a false positive for what it’s worth.

2. They are supposed to be there by default (they store metadata) but you can set up Tartube to put them in separate folders if you want to just have a nice clean folder with only videos or just not write them in the first place if you don’t want them. I believe the metadata is copied into Tartube’s database, so deleting them shouldn’t change anything (they’re mostly useful for archival purposes or if you want to do some processing with external tools), but Tartube references the thumbnail image files for display in the GUI so removing them will remove the thumbnail from the GUI like so:

This is pretty straightforward to configure, thankfully:

1. Right-click the desired menu in the left-hand menu and select Downloads -> Edit download options…; this will bring up the same dialog we were using before, but we are just editing our existing profile instead of creating a new one.
2. Click the Files tab, then the Write/move sub-tab.
3. Here you’ll see options to instruct Tartube to move each of the file types to a separate folder and/or not write them in the first place. Select whichever options suit your preferences and then click OK.

3. (hosted externally due to Lemmy sanitization bug causing less-than symbols to be HTML escaped)

edit: accidentally left out a line in the externally hosted markdown