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New comment by lazylizard in "'I thought, what the hell have I done?': the people who moved abroad for love"

lazylizard — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:35:47 +0000

ah my favourite question to my friends who told me they were getting married -> "so a 2yr phone contract feels like a long time to u? how about 20yrs?"

New comment by lazylizard in "Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security"

lazylizard — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:35:20 +0000

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1162502034051...

New comment by lazylizard in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

lazylizard — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:16:21 +0000

backlit keyboards are an ok idea..

New comment by lazylizard in "Trump considering taking over Strait of Hormuz"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:39:55 +0000

what does that even mean? does it mean iran will stop shooting at ships passing thru the area? because usa has taken it over?

New comment by lazylizard in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"

lazylizard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:09:49 +0000

i am not sre, merely sysadmin.

and somehow i have this impression that gpus on slurm/pbs could not be simpler.

u can use a vm for the head node, dont even need the clustering really..if u can accept taking 20min to restore a vm.. and the rest of the hardware are homogeneous - you setup 1 right and the rest are identical.

and its a cluster with a job queue.. 1 node going down is not the end of the world..

ok if u have pcie GPUs sometimes u have to re-seat them and its a pain. otherwise if ur h200 or disks fail u just replace them, under warranty or not...

New comment by lazylizard in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:21:38 +0000

singaporeans can read that. in singapore. we can access the rsf.org website too.

New comment by lazylizard in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:16:41 +0000

those votes have every chance of changing everything.

its a first past the post system.

but fact is they always have majority of the popular vote. i dont think it ever declined below 55%. and at best they get 60+%.

there's always a large proportion of singaporeans who want the change. just never enough of them, yet. and maybe there might never be, if most singaporeans are happy with things as they stand.

New comment by lazylizard in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:09:43 +0000

the modus operandi is to live and work, and maybe raise and educate ur kids in singapore. and go jb kl bkk hcmc jkt or wherever else to play.

New comment by lazylizard in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:04:52 +0000

and theres no shortage of well educated malaysian chinese running away from bumi policies...

New comment by lazylizard in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

lazylizard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:58:30 +0000

wrt the age demographics...

1.theres a constant supply of malaysian chinese who want to migrate to singapore. they're the best, cos they're culturally similar.

2.failing that,a few taiwanese or china chinese can also be allowed to immigrate. singapore is small, and china is huge. only need a few..

wrt living costs.. if u stick to govt subsidised housing(hdb),(public) transport,(hawker) food and healthcare, u shld be spending less as a % of income than the rest of asean on those things. but singaporeans want more, and leave in droves on trips overseas at every opportunity....

New comment by lazylizard in "The Chinese planemaker taking on Boeing and Airbus"

lazylizard — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:01:02 +0000

bombardier sold most of their aircraft models though? the regional jets (to airbus, yes?) and the turboprops... and only make business jets now?

even embraer at one point wanted to sell their ejets? boeing backed out of buying or something?

and fokker and dornier are gone for good while the japs terminated their mitsubishi spacejet..

New comment by lazylizard in "Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier"

lazylizard — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:14:14 +0000

i thought now is the time they start going about cutting prices as AI subtitling reduces their costs..

New comment by lazylizard in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

lazylizard — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:39:53 +0000

u can not-tax the first property...

New comment by lazylizard in "If you tax them, will they leave?"

lazylizard — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:04:05 +0000

i thought most economists would agree that consumption should be encouraged and savings should be discouraged. and that'd be how progressive taxes work? people tend to save more and consume less as their incomes increase?

New comment by lazylizard in "Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

lazylizard — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:01:10 +0000

wait. the tests are done on paper or done on computers?

New comment by lazylizard in "The coming war on car ownership?"

lazylizard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:23:41 +0000

from a pedestrian's point of view. as soon as the self driving car is like safer than the most dangerous bottom 20% of drivers..i want those drivers off the road. and i believe, from google's numbers, we might be there already, if not better.

New comment by lazylizard in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

lazylizard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:01 +0000

once upon a time i had a boss who asked for a "super admin" account to "trump" the domain administrators..and a "master key" to decrypt any file , in case the user lost their key.

New comment by lazylizard in "The behavioral cost of personalized pricing"

lazylizard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:41:32 +0000

is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination very different from buying things off ebay? why would salespeople even exist if there was perfect information?

so people want efficient markets and price discovery..but only when it results in them paying lower prices? otherwise the law should step in and preferably set prices by fiat or magic?

ok my personal take on buyng knick knacks in chatuchak is.. assume everything is cheap , thats why i come to thailand, i can afford this...

New comment by lazylizard in "SmartOS"

lazylizard — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:16:34 +0000

rather deeper rabbit hole than installing 3 x proxmox, i think..but it exists...https://warewulf.org/

lots of other stuff will do the "boot from single image" part...say...https://fogproject.org/

New comment by lazylizard in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

lazylizard — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:10:54 +0000

i dunno why i keep imagining something like ipfs could help something like the internet archive...