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New comment by patmorgan23 in "PlayStation Architecture"

patmorgan23 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:50:27 +0000

Yeah, any 8/16-bit pixel are t wasn't made to be viewed on a screen with that high a resolution. CRTs smoosh/blur the image a bit so you don't see all the hardlines.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)"

patmorgan23 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:07:51 +0000

Why are we comparing a programing language and a GPU. This is a category error. Programing languages do not do any operations. They perform no FLOPs, they are the thing the FLOPs are performing.

"The I7-4770K and preform 20k more Flops than C++" is an equally sensible statement (i.e. not)

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

patmorgan23 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:59:59 +0000

So why can't someone (probably the distro) build a utility that detects the hardware and installs the required kernal module?

We can have security and convenience.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf]"

patmorgan23 — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:22:32 +0000

It's absolutely brain dead that it applies to commercial and industrial property. (It's not good policy for residential either, but more understandable)

New comment by patmorgan23 in "I want to live like Costco people"

patmorgan23 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:15:10 +0000

Unless they pay for the express lanes

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Your Website Is Not for You"

patmorgan23 — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:32:46 +0000

Is your pricing on your website? That's a way to cut down on the wasted time

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

patmorgan23 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:39:57 +0000

You're being obtuse. Every point in the original comment is correct, you just disagree they're issues. The original comment also doesn't state they are issues just that they are differences.

• link local addresses

.Auto configuration addresses are in V4 but they are used entirely differently. Interfaces do not have link local addresses if they have a DHCP or statically configured address, in V6 it is extremely common to use a link local address as the gateway, in V4 this basically never happens.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow"

patmorgan23 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:45:30 +0000

Off grid doesn't make sense (computers ramp up and down extremely quickly which makes balancing an islanded DC challenging), DCs function a lot better if they can utilize the inertia of the grid.

Many projects are bringing their own generation, but still trying to get an interconnection.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow"

patmorgan23 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:40:23 +0000

If your local governments are funded by property taxes, Data centers can bring in new revenue while requiring few services. Which could be used to shore up stressed public budgets or fund other economic development activities to bring in jobs.

These projects can be developed and located responsibly, and every project is different. I don't think a blanket ban is good policy.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

patmorgan23 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:04:27 +0000

A leading web browser can not be built and maintained by volunteers.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

patmorgan23 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:28:59 +0000

Hosting cost and the network effects are the barriers

New comment by patmorgan23 in "The difficulty of making sure your website is broken"

patmorgan23 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:26:43 +0000

Slow networks != Bad networks. Bad networks could be slow, or drop random packets, or corrupt packets, or have jitter, etc

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Open Source Security at Astral"

patmorgan23 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:38:33 +0000

At least UV is still open source, it would suck to have to fork and foe there to be yet another python package management tool(what is this JS?), but we can do it.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "OpenJDK: Panama"

patmorgan23 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:24:31 +0000

Why are you mad they're making the language better?

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

patmorgan23 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:59:42 +0000

IIRC there are several of the "Blue Zones" where just bad government records. (People who had incorrect birth dates, or had already died and the government just didn't know about it)

New comment by patmorgan23 in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

patmorgan23 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:41:09 +0000

Do you think we became the dominant species by being independent loners, or by forming complex interdependent groups?

New comment by patmorgan23 in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

patmorgan23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:50:11 +0000

This. Sure there are still some applications that might be difficult to v6 enable, so either patch it or use one of the myriad of options to give it a v6 front end.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

patmorgan23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:47:59 +0000

Hmmmm maybe someone should come up with a SYSTEM to organize NAMES for ips, maybe using hierarchical DOMAINs.... Oh wait.

New comment by patmorgan23 in "No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations"

patmorgan23 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:05:57 +0000

The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int...

New comment by patmorgan23 in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

patmorgan23 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:12:53 +0000

For a major airport the answer is always no. LGA is in the 20 top busiest airports in the nation serving it's largest metro area.

If LGA was a small regional airport, sure one controller or maybe even no controls overnight could be appropriate. But LGA is not a small regional airport.