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vdaea commented on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution effectiviology.com/shirky... · Posted by u/walterbell

PaulDavisThe1st · 2 years ago

Failure to collect trash during a strike is not "becoming incoherent as [it] scale[s]".

Failure to collect trash under certain conditions is not a failure of a trash collecting system.

Inability to regularly collect trash is the failure mode we're concerned about.

vdaea · 2 years ago

>Failure to collect trash under certain conditions is not a failure of a trash collecting system.

Of course it is. If your phone fails to make calls under certain conditions, that is a failure of the system, and we try to fix it (for example by deploying more antennas, or by fixing software bugs in it).

If workers refuse to pick up trash, we can also fix that (ask Ronald Reagan).

vdaea commented on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) openrss.org/blog/how-goog... · Posted by u/stareatgoats

nerdjon · 2 years ago

Feedly is free depending on how many feeds you need.

But that is likely part of why reader shut down. Depending on how often it's pulling and how often you are reading, that isn't free to run.

Especially if you don't even use their app to read your feeds, you may never be able to see an ad.

Would rather pay for it personally so I know it's there.

vdaea · 2 years ago

Paying does not guarantee anything. It does not guarantee a more reliable service, it does not guarantee that they will hear you out when they change a feature or the design, ruining it, and it does not guarantee it won't shut down tomorrow. They will refund you, and you will have your money back, but you will have no service, and you will be back in square one.

vdaea commented on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) openrss.org/blog/how-goog... · Posted by u/stareatgoats

nerdjon · 2 years ago

I am glad at least that most sites continue to support rss feeds, whether or not they support it knowingly or if the software they use just happens to include it.

But I am not looking forward to when that changes, I like getting my news in a timeline manner from exactly who I want.

One part of the article bothers me a bit:

> Users were left with no RSS reader application, no comparable alternative, and no education from Google on how to continue using their RSS feeds without Google Reader. This led users to not only discontinue using Google Reader, but abandon RSS feeds altogether.

I may be misremembering but didn't Feedly step up very quickly? Even offering the ability to easily migrate everything over.

I continue to use Feedly today and it has been great. Maybe I just didn't really notice since I have always used a third party app on iPhone (Reeder) so I just repointed the app from Google Reader to Feedly and it was basically as if nothing happened.

Don't get me wrong them shutting it down was the start of me distancing myself from Google services. But I feel like there was very much an alternative that seemed to advertise fairly heavily on migration. Or am I misremembering the timeline a bit?

vdaea · 2 years ago

>I may be misremembering but didn't Feedly step up very quickly? Even offering the ability to easily migrate everything over.

Other rss readers were either much different (think cards design, or too much whitespace everywhere, or whatever), or they had premium plans they were telling you about all the time, or they had premium plans and a low limit of rss feeds you could add, or they had no mobile apps, or the mobile apps required premium, or whatever.

Nothing was like google reader: free, information-dense, and reliable. When google reader was killed, rss died for me.

vdaea commented on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures radgametools.com/oodleint... · Posted by u/firebaze

mips_r4300i · 2 years ago

Can I ask what mobo vendor? Do you know what power limits the BIOS was targeting that caused the error?

On my Asus/14900k, it was uncapping PL1/2 and I saw absurd temps and power every time anything even touched the CPU. I programmed PL1/2 to 125/253w per Intel ARK and everything normalized.

I did not do Prime95 at the insane default power limits but I suspect similar.

vdaea · 2 years ago

MOBO is MSI, setting was "cpu cooler tuning" which was set at 4096W and I had to change to 253W (the limit according to Intel)

vdaea commented on Poverty in Argentina hits 20-year high at 57.4%, study says reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/paulpauper

x3n0ph3n3 · 2 years ago

Hopefully we're about to see that all turn around.

vdaea · 2 years ago

You don't get to change a country's culture just like that.

vdaea commented on A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

lifestyleguru · 2 years ago

> Rainbow vacuum cleaner

There was a wave of this in 90s and 00s but in Poland. In my eyes parents signed a loan for "Mercedes of vaccum cleaners" for an amount of over 2k USD. Average salary back then was something below 700 USD. Fuck this American scammers. Eat shit and bankrupt Rainbow. Rest of the above were occuring as well. People were looking at the west with hope and sympathy, while the west came over with smiling brutal extortionist rape fest.

vdaea · 2 years ago

I don't understand this. Why did they sign up for a $2000 loan if they could barely afford it?

vdaea commented on Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive brave.com/leo-docsupport/... · Posted by u/thek3nger

Sabinus · 2 years ago

If Firefox could sprint some good APIs in they could get some incredible plugins going.

vdaea · 2 years ago

I don't know much about the WebExtensions api but it's likely the apis are already there.

vdaea commented on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures radgametools.com/oodleint... · Posted by u/firebaze

RetroTechie · 2 years ago

> I'd wager good money on the latter.

Don't guess, measure! The proper action here would be to change BIOS settings from their default / "auto" settings to per-Intel-spec safe ones. Same for RAM, and on systems with known good power supplies, CPU cooling, software installs etc. Then one of the following will happen:

a) BIOS ignores user settings & problem persists.

b) BIOS applies user settings & problem goes away.

c) BIOS applies user settings but problem persists.

Cases a & b count as "faulty BIOS" (motherboard manufacturer caused). Case c counts as "faulty CPU", and replacement cpu may or may not fix that.

No need to guess. Just do the legwork on systems where problem occurs & power supply, RAM, CPU cooling & OS install can be ruled out. Sadly, no doubt there's many systems out there where that last condition doesn't hold.

vdaea · 2 years ago

I have a 13900K. The default BIOS settings set a maximum wattage of 4096W (!!!) that makes Prime95 fail. If I change the settings back to 253W, what Intel says is the maximum wattage, Prime95 stops failing.

Still, I don't know if I should RMA. I got the K version because I intended to overclock in the future. And all of this sounds like I won't be able to. I think increasing the voltage a little bit makes the system more stable. I have to play with it. (Really, if someone can say whether I should RMA or not, I would appreciate some input)

Edit: decided to RMA. I have no patience for a CPU that cost me +600€