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Roguelazer

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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • I was on the bus yesterday and was watching someone copy numbers out of Excel, paste them in Gemini, ask it "what is the total of these numbers", then paste the answer back into Excel. I truly despair for the brains of some of the most AI-pilled folks.

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL's. I like Percona personally, but MariaDB is fine too.

  • How did we arrive at today's common word sizes?

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  • To answer your specific question: no. There have been and continue to be lots of CPUs that have things that could plausibly be called a "bit size" that aren't a power of 2. Note that the "bit size" can refer to a few things (the width of the bus between the CPU and memory, the native size of a pointer, and/or the native width of the arithmetic units). I'll give examples of each.

    On essentially every "64-bit" computer, the bus to memory is not 64 bits wide. For example, the Apple M4 ARM CPUs are 64-bit but have a 128-bit memory bus over which they communicate something like 43-bit physical addresses. ARM has always been this way; the original 32-bit ARM1 had 26-bit physical addresses.

    As to pointer size, the best example is probably the currently-being-developed CHERI architecture which is 64-bit arithmetic but 129-bit pointers.

    For an arithmetic unit example, the floating-point unit on Intel CPUs was traditionally 80 bits wide. These days, it's emulated on a 128-bit wide SSE unit but you still see 80 bits in code a bit.

  • My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?

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  • Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

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  • Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?

  • Question about price discovery and competition in american capitalism

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  • A startlingly high fraction of US businesses rely on a combination of tax evasion, accounting fraud, and wage theft to make the business work. Everyone knows this, but it's still sufficient reason to keep reporting minimal.

  • Gemini : How to wire a plug

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  • Doesn't this just bond neutral to ground? It's definitely illegal and will kill you if some other device has a short and makes ground hot, but at least it's not a suicide cord

  • Reddest vs Bluest american baby names. Note these are NOT the most common names. Just the names with the biggest red-blue state prevalence divide.

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  • So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in "blue" California or in "red" Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level...

  • Safeway workers at 250 California stores could go on strike Saturday

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  • Safeway gives them so few hours, will we really notice? I've gone to the Rockridge Safeway at times and been certain there were no staff there at all (self checkout only, meat desk closed, pastry area closed, nobody stocking shelves)...

  • Top employer in each state, 1990 vs 2024

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  • no, I'm sure the majority is in poorly paid roles: janitors, food prep, entry level techs

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    The average Windows user doesn't care about TPM 2.0

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  • The average Windows user might not care, but the average Windows license buyer is probably a corporate IT department, which tend to care about compliance quite a bit...

  • Ah yes, The Boston Tea Party familiar and complete phrase "No taxation."

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  • Capital gains and qualified dividends cap at 20% federally and 12.3% in the state with the highest tax rate, so the tax burden on them can never exceed 32.3% at infinite earnings.

    Regular income caps at 37% federally and 12.3% in California, so can get up to 49.3% at infinite earnings.

  • Ah yes, The Boston Tea Party familiar and complete phrase "No taxation."

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  • Oh, for sure, it's just the highest one for this particular math problem.

  • Ah yes, The Boston Tea Party familiar and complete phrase "No taxation."

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  • I got nerdsniped by this. If you're in the US in the highest-tax state (California) filing singly with the standard deduction and all of your income was earned, you'd need to make $1,308,404 in 2025 to see an aggregate income tax rate of 40%. This would put you somewhere in the 99.9th percentile of earners.

    If you instead make your money through already being rich (long term capital gains and qualified dividends), it's impossible to ever hit 40%.

  • Big Beautiful Bill Keeps Falling Apart, Will Pass Anyway

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  • Nobody in that coalition wants to think about their shit real life pulling in social security and living in a ticky tacky detached shitbox off a stroad in a suburb; they all envision themselves as temporarily inconvenienced mega millionaires whose biggest problem would be the capital gains tax rate if only those dang immigrants, brown people, women, and purple-haired hippies would stop repressing them. It's e the American way!

  • What is an example of an adaptation of a book where the TV series was better?

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  • California Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noem news conference in LA

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  • What's the best monologue you've seen on TV?

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  • DS9 "In the Pale Moonlight"

    So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it.

    Brooks' delivery makes you able to buy the subversion of every moral espoused in 40 years of Star Trek. I don't know if it would land as well if you weren't already steeped in the show, but it's incredible to watch the first time if you are.

  • Exhausted with CloudFlare Turnstile becoming the front door of every website

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  • Cloudflare actually does have a way to avoid seeing these, using a zero-knowledge proof backed by a hardware security module (they call it Cloudflare Private Access Tokens). As far as I know, Apple is still the only one who's implemented it and it only works in Safari on iPhones, iPads, and M-series Macs. Maybe some day other vendors will add support too!

    Of course, there are already scrapers that use arrays of real phones to do scraping/app automation, so widespread adoption of PATs would just push more traffic to be proxied through physical devices instead of headless browsers in AWS somewhere...

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    FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

    www.statnews.com /2025/05/20/fda-vaccine-framework-new-covid-shot-recommendations-vinay-prasad-marty-makary/