jkf
2d ago
Thank you for mentioning the built in raid - that's a feature on his system. I was thinking of a repair company,
DP Xeon (?) is pretty niche for a gaming rig -- it's more of a 'rule of cool' hobby project since about 2015, although I'm still pretty down with it myself. (not for gaming tho)
I think if you can get the BIOS to open (F12, [Del] or some other brand-dependant key on POST) there will be an option showing you whether the board's built-in RAID is enabled -- I don't know your husband, but if he is like me he would not have done this, and slapping the drive in an enclosure will be sufficient. This is all that most 'repair companies' would be up for anyways, and I think USB cages are like $10 on Amazon nowadays? My recommendation is to just do that yourself, unless you see some RAID settings in the BIOS or another system has trouble with the drive -- in which case you might be stuck troubleshooting the hardware a bit. PSU would not be my first guess -- presumably the system was working previously, so I wouldn't think sizing would be an issue?
jkf
2d ago
I'm not asking why there aren't more competitors in our 2 party system, I'm asking why there aren't fewer.
What makes you think that there aren't (fewer)?
jkf
5d ago
Just that... it's a really popular book these days, and the prose is surely distinctive? Maybe people don't actually read it, IDK.
NYT has a quiz to distinguish human and AI writing. I did bad (3/5), but in my defense, I think most of the human examples are awful, making the quiz harder.
4/5 -- I will take up your defense in that Carl Sagan being indistinguishable from AI slop is not that surprising...
I'm somewhat shocked that 50% of the NYT-ariat don't recognize the passage from Blood Meridian, nvm are unable to distinguish -- blame English teachers for promoting trans-lesbo POC slop over great American novelists of the 20th century I suppose?
jkf
8d ago
We barely have an army in the first place -- and the constitutionality of separation has been mostly confirmed previously. (if you are Quebec)
jkf
11d ago
Doing easy things is not a good demonstration of military prowess -- that doesn't make the hard things smart to do, but it would be impressive if China could take territory from India. (preferrably without getting nuked, but AIUI there's not a real MAD situation in play with India -- so I'd still be impressed if the Chinese got their hair mussed a little)
jkf
11d ago
"Tinpot" is pretty good for Carney but he hasn't started any wars yet! :-)
(Now if you want to talk about people who have the ability to get large amounts of natural gas to Europe, you are certainly dealing with a smaller set -- I'm not sure Trump's really in it either though so you might be stuck with the Ruskies after all...)
jkf
24d ago
I expect it's too hard, but I (and a lot of other people, but probably not people who want to pay) would like a somewhat compliant browser engine for Mac OS9 -- obviously this is pretty much exactly a Netscape clone, but a POC would be interesting and would get the model well out of it's training set, thus testing for 'thinking' vs 'parroting' quite well.
How about 'non-interactive render of arbitrary web page; will run on my MDD PowerPC, OS 9.2.2'?
jkf
25d ago
Can you typically tell whether an MLB pitch is a ball or a strike without seeing a replay/specialized camera view? I guess they have some electronic BS for this now too, but for me that's not necessary to enjoy the game!
I guess I don't understand the complaint -- typically it seems like people are saying that they can't see the puck at all -- but you are saying more like "90mph slapshots are hard to track"? That is true, but I'm not sure it's that big of a problem -- for another example, does it bother you when they bring out the chains to see whether a football team has made first down?
jkf
25d ago
Sick final though. Trading two teeth for the gold medal in OT is legendary.
I'm watching it right now -- yes I know what happens, I'm watching it anyways!
NBC doesn't serve hockey to Canadians apparently, but looking at footage elsewhere it's a hard shot that bounces out -- this is hard to be sure about sometimes even for the refs and players! That's why there's a goal judge sitting behind the net. In this case it looks like it might have bounced off some of the crap they've got stationed inside the net; in the past you'd mostly see the impact on the netting, but there's still the rear bars -- normally there's a noise though.
If you think hockey is bad you should try watching lacrosse -- crowd injuries used to be a major problem there for people who didn't follow the action. Now I think there is dumb netting all over the place so people can safely focus on their beer.
jkf
25d ago
jkf
25d ago
but I can't really see the puck being shot or going into the net in real time.
I'll put in a "nuh-uh" on that -- maybe only Canadians can see the puck? Certainly you lose track of it at times when they're fighting for it in the corners or whatnot, but out in the open being passed or shot it's just, like -- not hard to see? Easier than, say, a baseball in flight I'd say?
The "i know where the puck is even if I can't see it" thing is not that you never see it -- it's that you know where it is, so when it pops out onto open ice that's where you're looking. Maybe your TV is too big?
jkf
26d ago
Vscode was a breath of fresh air when it released.
Windows 10 was actually amazing on (pre)release -- I still have somewhere an install disk from one of the first Tech Preview versions that I wouldn't mind figuring out how to hack the time-bomb on. It ran great on old Core2 era laptops, and was generally unobtrusive -- I even put it on an original Intel (white) Imac, and it was miles ahead of Snow Leopard or whatever OS Apple decided to abandon those with.
Since then basically everything about the OS has gotten worse -- work put Win11 on my laptop, and it's not so much a new OS as a slightly shittier Win10 -- essentially just following the pattern of previous Win10 update versions.
It's like they have a competent team who builds stuff, and then hands it off to the enshittification team who fails (for instance) eliminate the remaining XP-era dialog boxes and fucks around with misfeatures and generally bogging things down.
jkf
1mo ago
That's the female scale! I maintain that my way is far closer to the way that men see the world; it is, in fact, non-trivial to tell the difference between a 9 (maybe even an 8) and a 10.
The neat part is that this... kind of reflects the male view on attractiveness pretty perfectly.
jkf
1mo ago
It's simply a question where the trivial autopilot "answer" is not the correct one and you need to actually model the system on a very basic level
Not necessarily -- they should have included some chudlier types in the RHLF training:
"Of course you should drive, are you retarded? Walking sucks man!"
jkf
1mo ago
Isn't a "10" more likely to be, uh -- 90th %tile?
Unless you are using the female scale, which as I recall is exponential to the point where a 90th %tile man is like a "5" -- men are much more linear!
jkf
1mo ago
If you rent a book on law from the library and take notes to help your case, your notes aren't protected?
I think this is true though? Why would your notes to yourself be any more protected than anything else you might write, like a manifesto or whatever?
jkf
1mo ago
The thing is, a >7.5T truck is probably a strictly worse tool for mass murder than a regular chud-mobile -- they aren't very maneouverable, and the gearing isn't great for snappy (and sustained) accelleration.
I know that a regular one-tonne pickup is not an everyday item in the UK as in North America, but I don't think that they're like banned or anything -- if somebody wanted to do Nice in a crowded English downtown, I'm pretty sure they could.
jkf
1mo ago
Lashed out at his mother and young sibling? Based on the mothers' social media she was more than supportive; I don't think this will fly. (which doesn't mean that it won't be tried I guess -- some people are pretty out of touch)
jkf
1mo ago
We don't fully know the nature of the victims quite yet, but I'm getting the impression that most of them (other than his mother and one teacher) were pretty young -- there's a twelve year old in critical condition at the hospital.
"I was bullied so I shot my family and a bunch of grade 7 kids" seems like a tough sled...
jkf
1mo ago
Strong chance that this demographic is also on SSRIs, so that hypothesis still has legs too, IMO.
jkf
1mo ago
Polling for the BIOS key should be the very first thing that the system does after POST pretty much, though -- if it's boot-looping at various points in the process, this should be possible.
What's the specific motherboard? As I said, DP systems are quite niche in desktop/gaming use these days but there are niche communities associated that may be able to help -- the boards are server-oriented and can be quirky.
If it truly won't enter the BIOS menu that's a pretty big clue in itself -- standard procedure would be to unplug absolutely everything from the board but one stick of RAM, a keyboard and mouse, enter the BIOS using onboard VGA (if present) and proceed from there.
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