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Comment Re:Could this be solved by a wrapper? (Score 1) 120

IIRC, NVidia has required not upgrading drivers for older cards, and having multiple drivers on a system has not worked (at least on Linux).

If it is purely a library issue, great. If it touches the driver in a PhysX specific way (now or future hardware releases) it may make a big mess.

I am unsure how the author was able to run a 980GTX (requires v470 or earlier I think) and a 5000 series (assuming current release nv drivers) together in the same machine / OS.

Comment Re:Torque (Score 1) 70

ICE's (particularly turbines) don't have great torque at 1:1 ratio either. The solution was a transmission.

IIRC, electric motors are heavy due to the high density materials they use (incl copper). I don't know if the savings in copper / rare earth would make up for the addition of a transmission, but transmissions are probably easier to incorporate in a design than removing rare earths that have few source companies.

Comment Not "sees flaws", just an easy reproducible target (Score 1) 43

If it was a closed source target it would be hard to evaluate by multiple groups and no guarantees that issues found could be recycled back into the code (or even acknowledged by the author). Open source allows competitors to compare code-bases directly to make sure they are all using the same configuration / version, and ensures the taxpayer funding goes into something that can verifyably benefit everyone.

Why the assumption of doom-and-gloom?

Comment Re:the free market (Score 1) 267

The other issue is pure market forces are not great for farming from a US govermnet policy PoV

-If people cannot afford food, Bad Things Happen (I cite all famines in history as a reference)
-The US uses USAID as it's version of Belt and Road. This requires overproduction to generate surplus for aid. The tit-for-tat deals for aid should end up benefiting the whole of the US (including economic stability), but individual farmers are too far removed to make earnings back on it. Without the aid, food overproduction would tank value and drive farmers out of business (supply then drops, prices go up, and see bullet point above). This (at least in my head) is why US Govt can justify supporting farmers.

How it actually works, why we pay farmers to not grow food, and where the feedback loop controls are (if any), are the real topics for debate.

Comment Re:a reminder (Score 1) 154

If that was true, then why are regular people posting these stories? Doesn't sound like it's hidden away to me.

If it's not "hidden away" as it should be, that means the software isn't doing it's job. If not, it should be able to be changed out. Except you can't change it out without an entire distribution swap. Which, I believe, is the major problem with systemd--it requires a major restructuring of your operating system configuration to replace it.

If anyone has switched from systemd to something without systemd without a reformat, I would love to hear what it took. I believe this might be possible under Gentoo and possibly from Arch to Artix by a very savvy user.

Comment Re:Windows 10 with Ads (Score 1) 287

Buy a used tower workstation from HP or Dell from Ebay, put Linux and Octave on it. You can ssh in from crosh->shell on the Chromebook and have a lot more horsepower (and memory). Unless your colleague has a lot of MathWorks toolboxes and cross-compiled MEX files Octave can do the vast majority of what Matlab can.

I used to have a PCI-Passthrough Win10 disk, however it went away once Proton could play GTA5 and a host of other titles using BattlEye.

Epic Games (boo) and A+ new release games are the big obstacle, however the game landscape is much better than it was 4 years ago.

Comment Re: turbotax buying legislators anyone? (Score 1) 122

I'll do you one better. Set the deduction equal to the poverty limit and remove other deductions. No one below the poverty line pays taxes (including summer student jobs), no one cheats to avoid being slightly more than poverty (because 95-99% of income is deductible). The more you make, the smaller a percentage of total income the poverty amount will be.

If you want to donate, do it because it's the right thing, not for taxes
If you want to own a home, no tax cuts
If you want kids, you gotta pay for those too***

Everyone can debate what the appropriate income tax percentage can be on whatever is left.

*** This is sticky. How to treat kids equally with all the background factors of nature / nurture / locality is a much bigger problem and needs it's own solution first.

Comment Re: Texas does a lot of crazy things (Score 1) 357

I believe you are trying to have you cake and eat it, too

I agree EV's are not heavier than large trucks, but those large trucks are more likely to get the 10-15mpg vs. the 25 mpg of a car, so they pay more in taxes that way.

The responder is saying the EV weights as much (and damages the highways like) as a full size truck, but is taxed at the rate of the 25mpg car.

Comment Define "safely" (Score 1) 183

Are you protecting yourself from the internet, or anything that may still reside on the machine itself?

The easiest way to safe yourself from the internet and anything remaining on the HD is to boot from read-only external media and update the media separate from the questionable machine. I have Knoppix on a Kanguru USB stick with a physical read only switch. I can boot knoppix forensic toram no3d to be sure I'm not touching the local HD or the fancier video card options. ChromeOS Flex can also work here (fewer safeguarding options, but the browser gets updated much more frequently)

If you are protecting yourself from the computer itself you aren't going to have many options if the BIOS or a boot eeprom / flash / disk or memory controller is compromised. You can (and should) remove as much unnecessary hardware as possible that has these features.

Comment Re: Quit using the same logins and passwords for a (Score 1) 98

I tried this as well.

The failure mode Mr. Monroe didn't include is that as the password length increases, the probability of making a typo goes up. Since it is a password, feedback on whether an error occurred is limited to nonexistent.

This may not be a problem depending on the error rate of various people (mine can be high)

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