Ooh wait 'til Musk realises he can improve US agricultural efficiency.

oh oh, I’m a below average arch user. I suspect i copied most of my hoome from debian or something.

I’ll rename it to Dickuments as a security feature.

Yes very possible in all the big western European countries.

Yes surely fake.

But anyone using MS OneDrive for personal stuff might want to check with some privacy advice - and I doubt MS are going to recommend doing that.

If MS is giving large increases in cloud storage and bandwidth for free/very cheap one wonders whether there’s anything in it for MS. Again MS might not feel the need to say.

I’m sure you’re just using “communist” rhetorically there, for various USA history reasons that I don’t fully understand.

But it’s important to point out that corruption isn’t the same as “communist handout”. There was nothing “communal” when the USSR did corruption, and nothing “communal” when the USA does corruption. It’s all just concentrating power in a few peoples hands with as few limits as possible.

Good luck to you though, if your political forces can’t stop the concentration of power then conflict and likely bloodshed might be the only option. And there’ll be a lot fighting to save the empowered, hoping for some crumbs to trickle down to them. I can’t believe that all the pro-gun rhetoric in the USA - that I’d previoulsy though crazy - begins to make some sense.

yep, value for money.
Importing is a waste of diesel fuel even without any tariffs - if you have decent domestic production.

Looks like some elitist crap to me. Who the fuck buys the “best” especially in something like wine thats replete with elitist bullsit and nobbery to exagerate perceptions of scarcity and create an “investment”. its a fucking consumable.

99% of the people in France can get perfectly good French wine for a handful of euros without importing from USA.

Coudn’t give a fuck about the other 1%.

Rat pogo stick.

Unfortunately rat consumers are notoriosly sensitive to the ‘not tested on animals’ logo, so is not as simple as attaching rat and observe.

Standard practice is to tape a large potato to the top part and check it bounces properly.

The datasheet should state the specific bounce characteristics to test against, but normally, it should bounce between 2o% and 40% of it’s length, when dropped from 40-50% of it’s length. I think the standard weight for the testing potato is 700 +/-20 grams. Again the datasheet might indicate a different range if it is specifically marketed towards a niche market like juveniles or the obese or something.

it’s a pointless statement to say if everyone did anything

I was agreeing with this part, except that I think OP statement was ‘hyperbolic’ not ‘pointless’; an exageration for rhetorical effect.

What I think is pointless is taking hyperbole (and most rhetoric) at face value and arguing about it. It is better to try to determine the underlying point being made (there probably is one if you look hard enough or enquire about it) and think about some more realistic scenarios.

I don’t think the original point was about <hyperbole> the vulnerability of the economy of mauritius due to overconcentration of the dodo industry </hyperbole>; or, the sustainability of a street entirely owned by landlords. Maybe someone wants to <hyperbole> make some Ronald Coase type speculation about how property rights could have saved the dodo </hyperbole>.

ok, nice and realistic. No hyperbole here.

Are you’re saying that if an economy has an increse the concentration of farming activity then economic ouput will deteriorate as fast as if it were to have instead had the same increase the concentration of parasitic activity? Very interesting idea.

Maybe I’m dense but the only way I can see that working is if the parasites become super-effective livestock and can be turned into food that is either more nutrious or has a longer shelflife than the feedstock.

obligatory bunk mcnulty do csi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs

And those from the fucking UK apparently.

Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.

Because one of them shot the sheriff one time?

The Three Stigmata of Palm . . . Dick

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I’d say the operational requirements.

A home PC mostly has max 1 simultaneous user (i.e. the “person”) - out of maybe a small pool of potential users - the availability requirement is ad-hoc. It offers many services, some available immediately on boot, but many are on call.

A server typically has capacity to provide services to many simutaneous users and probably has a defined availability requirement. Depending on the service, and the number of users and the availability and performance requirements it may need more communication bandwidth , more storage, faster storage, more cores, UPS, live backups and so on. But it doesn’t strictly need any of that hardware unless it helps meet the requirements.

In terms of software any modern PC runs an OS offering a tonne of services straight from boot / login. I don’t see any real differences there. Typically a server might have more always on serices and less on-call services, but these days there’s VMs and stuff on both servers and on PCs.

Most PC users would expect to have more rights such as to install and execute what they want. A server will typically have a stronger distinction between user and sys-admin. but again if a server offers a VMs it’s not so clear cut. That mostly comes out of the availability requirement - preventing users compromising the service.

They can’t if if they’re “difficult”.

That’s why scientists ( I assume they’re supposed to be the right hand side) claiming to measure “intelligence” should pick a more specific term for what they’re measuring.

If they use the word “intelligence” I’d be extremely suspicious about why they’ve chosen that word. I would assume they have a decent understanding of how the word is likely be interpreted by the other 97.5%, if not they need to get out and do some fieldwork.

That’s a problem and I remember talking about it in the 2000s when everything started to become user friendlieness. plug and play, just works and so-on, worst part is stuff being locked down and harder to jailbreak.

It’ll be fine though, I’m sure AI will install their OS for them, I won’t have a clue how it did it, but it’ll probably be better than I could do.

You’ll just add “without backdoors” to the prompt and it’ll be secure too.