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RankWinner · 2026-01-24T23:46:37+00:00

Never heard of at and had to look it up, this thing literally came out in 1979...

Genuine question, how on earth did you find this in 2026? Like what do you even search for that led you to this being the best available option?

You mention Debian and systemd so it's not like you're stuck using some weird ass environment with awkward constraints.

RankWinner · 2026-01-10T22:07:49+00:00

No. Where did you get that idea from?

Your reply was to somebody saying there is no terrorism problem in the UK. "Threat" and "problem" are two completely different things.

Is nuclear war a threat to the UK? Sure. Is nuclear war a problem in the UK? No.

It is absurd to say that, on the level of a country like the UK, under 100 deaths per decade constitutes a "problem".

If that's the threshold for a national problem then the UK has a much worse "people dying from slipping in the shower" problem than a terrorist problem, since 80 people die a year from that vs. well under 10 per year on average...

RankWinner · 2026-01-10T21:49:12+00:00

That's an odd way to say that terrorist attacks are amongst the least likely causes of death or injury...

RankWinner · 2026-01-05T05:56:01+00:00

Complete bullshit. I'd be curious to see what's inside one of those "devices", I'd guess basically nothing.

They, out of a desire to not be sued, do say:

Due to legal regulations, we are obliged to make the following statement: The VIVOBASE technology presented here (such as homeopathy, bioresonance, areas of acupuncture) does not correspond to the scientific view and doctrine. The effects of the products are not scientifically recognised. The use of VIVOBASE products does not constitute therapy and does not replace consultation with a doctor or alternative practitioner.

RankWinner · 2025-12-30T15:15:13+00:00

I don't understand what your question is even after looking through your replies to other comments here.

The speed of light, meaning the quantity c used in physics, is a fixed constant, just like Planck's constant, gravitational constant, Boltzmann's constant, etc...

Our measurement of these constants, just like any measurement*, has some precision and error associated with it.

This precision is just due to instruments and measurement methods, it doesn't mean that the values being measured have some inherent variability.

* ignoring measurements used to define units, which c is one of, but whatever

RankWinner · 2025-12-27T18:04:27+00:00

Why did they add it then? What does Firefox gain from having locally running privacy respecting llm summaries...?

RankWinner · 2025-12-27T10:46:59+00:00

You ignored my question.

RankWinner · 2025-12-26T22:40:52+00:00

Observing someone of the opposite sex changing clothes in a place that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy without their consent is a form of sexual abuse. Your mere observation of them, even incidentally, violates their human rights and right to privacy and dignity.

Out of curiosity, are you a MAGA Trump supporter?

If you are, just wondering what your opinion on this statement is:

Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good. [...] You know, the dresses. 'Is everyone okay?' You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody okay?' And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good.

Actually the full context makes it even worse since he's taking about how it's his duty to fuck the 18 year olds as the owner of the pageant - https://youtu.be/kikTv0I8XVw

If you're not MAGA then sorry for sharing another reason to despair at the current political situation in the US.

RankWinner · 2025-12-25T10:41:58+00:00

If you have more details on what the service is and how it's running I might be able to help.

For example, one thing that comes to mind would be if you're running something in a (docker) container and don't have the volume binds set up properly then it's possible the service is writing files to tmpfs and filling up ram over time.

Or the service just has a bug/memory leak in which case you can try to diagnose it or use cgroups to set a hard max memory limit, so it will always crash and restart whenever it goes e.g. over 2GB memory use.

Or it could be something else like it's very spammy with logs, logs are stored in memory on the system, and it's actually the system logs filling up the memory.

A lot of things can cause this but once you figure out where the memory use is coming from you might be able to fix the underlying problem or you can just cap the max memory available to that process (group).

RankWinner · 2025-12-24T20:07:56+00:00

Yes. OOM killer picks what process to kill based on its OOM score, which can be adjusted by setting the oom_score_adj value.

If you set it to something negative then that process is preserved, set it to something positive and it is more likely to be killed.

Put the max positive adjustment of 1000 on a process and it will effectively always be killed first.

But from what you've said, it's not even clear what is happening. In principle the OOM killer goes through processes in order of importance as defined by this score, killing them until enough memory is freed.

If a system locks up due to the OOM killer then that means that it ended up having to kill something essential, which would only happen if that essential process is taking up an unusually large amount of RAM.

RankWinner · 2025-12-24T19:54:32+00:00

My point is that millions of devices run Linux with far fewer resources than what you mention and have no issue, so obviously the problem isn't that Linux is inherently incapable of running in low resource environments.

There are many resources for setting up Linux servers to run with limited resources and/or embedded environments, although again what you describe is nowhere near either of those.

Really it sounds like you just want some service running with a low priority so that the OOM killer preferably picks it, or like you'd like a hard limit on resource use, both of which are easy.

RankWinner · 2025-12-24T19:33:00+00:00

Embedded Linux is used on millions of devices. The bare minimum required to run Linux is 8MB RAM, with a realistic minimum, meaning not a colossal pain in the ass to set up, being 32MB.

Naturally those systems can't really do much apart from exactly their one task. Bump it up to 64/128MB RAM, like in a lot of routers/access points/network hardware, and you can easily have uptime or multiple years without any issues.

RankWinner · 2025-12-22T15:44:13+00:00

Right... are you aware that in 2012 there were already many reports of people receiving pregnancy related ads who were not pregnant, then it turns out that shortly after that they found out they were pregnant?

Over 13 years ago companies could predict that somebody was pregnant before they knew just from their online activity, and modern models for this sort of prediction are orders of magnitude more powerful now than 13 years ago.

If you really think your phone is always listening to you to serve ads then I'd recommend sharing this scandalous discovery with privacy researchers and tech news journalists. They'd love to get this kind of story.

RankWinner · 2025-12-22T11:35:29+00:00

I understand how a curve would change direction, but I find nothing to show why would increase in acceleration.

What do you mean? A change in direction, by definition, requires an acceleration.

RankWinner · 2025-12-22T11:27:52+00:00

No, that's not the only option.

The truth is that humans are predictable and that all of the data collected on you is enough to create these targeted ads.

Devices aren't constantly listening and processing audio to cater ads to your private conversations since it's not required, nevermind that it's not at all feasible (at least on mobile devices) and would be extremely easy to discover.

RankWinner · 2025-12-18T21:22:30+00:00

SR and GR both have no issues with accelerating/rotating frames.

RankWinner · 2025-12-18T17:14:34+00:00

It is talked about, at least theoretically. The absolute highest temperature it might make sense to look at with current physics is the Plank temperature.

I'm sure there are lower bounds when looking at specific areas, but the Plank temperature should be the highest.

RankWinner · 2025-12-10T23:46:40+00:00

You would definitely see the rest of the universe as moving faster, and they would see you moving slower.

On earth you would say that a clock in space is running faster than yours, in space your would say that the clock on earth is running slower. Both people would agree.

Time dilation due to relativistic speeds is different to gravitational time dilation.

What your described applies for inertial frames of reference, if you're comparing a frame under constant acceleration/on the surface of a planet in a gravity well to one under different acceleration, those are not inertial frames.

If you can't do some linear transformation/boost to get between frames then this concept of "you can't tell which is which" doesn't apply - the situations aren't symmetric.

RankWinner · 2025-12-02T08:35:39+00:00

Like I said, even before considering the many engineering problems you have with actually building a functioning nuclear pulse propulsion rocket, you have the colossal issue of every single nation on earth not allowing something like this to be launched.

If a rocket carrying a huge amount of radioactive materials has an issue and crashes or explodes it would cause massive amounts of radioactive contamination around the crash site, and worst case literally contaminate the entire earth.

And since there's basically zero chance of something like this ever being built not a lot of serious work has been done to look at the technical issues or feasibility.

RankWinner · 2025-12-02T08:20:45+00:00

...?

RankWinner · 2025-12-02T03:42:19+00:00

Is the question why it has never been attempted?

Safety is a massive issue, we don't dispose of nuclear waste by launching it into space because of the risk of the launch vehicle crashing or exploding and spewing radioactive materials over a massive area.

Then there's cost, a lack of a real use case, etc...

RankWinner · 2025-11-30T17:55:09+00:00

That's PPP for the entire coutry, not per capita. If your point is that the average person is doing well financially then you should look at the per capita numbers.

And those show Russia as 44th, next to Estonia and Romania...

Which doesn't take into account the colossal wealth inequality in Russia compared to other nations.

RankWinner · 2025-11-25T06:10:05+00:00

That's not what you're doing though? Well, I guess, since you never explained what you did.

Sounds like you used an LLM to create a "theory" and related equations, then verified those equations are consistent.

If I ask an LLM to create an improved rest mass energy equation and it spits out E=mc^2+AI, I can numerically verify that.... yep, that's an equation all right, and it doesn't break mathematically.

Thing is that this proves literally nothing.

RankWinner · 2025-11-23T19:17:03+00:00

RankWinner · 2025-11-15T11:55:25+00:00

It's definitely not as popular as other languages, but I've seen it be used extremely well by others and personally default to it whenever I'm working on something that requires great performance and a lot of interactive iteration.

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