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  • For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

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  • It depends on the type of productivity TBH. Like, sure some productivity use cases need CUDA, but a lot of productivity use cases are just using the cards as graphics cards. The places where you need CUDA are real, but not ubiquitous.

    And “this is my personal computer I play games on, but also the computer I do work on, and that work needs CUDA specifically” is very much an edge case.

  • For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

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  • I’d say in general, the advantages of Nvidia cards are fairly niche even on windows. Like, multi frame generation (fake frames) and upscaling are kind of questionable in terms of value add most of the time, and most people probably aren’t going to be doing any ML stuff on their computer.

    AMD in general offers better performance for the money, and that’s doubly so with Nvidia’s lackluster Linux support. AMD has put the work in to get their hardware running well on Linux, both in terms of work from their own team and being collaborative with the open source community.

    I can see why some people would choose Nvidia cards, but I think, even on windows, a lot of people who buy them probably would have been better off with AMD. And outside of some fringe edge cases, there is no good reason to choose them when building or buying a computer you intend to mainly run Linux on.

  • Huh, crazy! Can't imagine why!

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  • Fun fact, the supreme leader has so far always been dead, the title only having been given to Sung and Jong upon their deaths, yet the title is officially the leader of the party, state, and army.

    Making it the world’s only Necrocracy (rule by the dead)

  • Huh, crazy! Can't imagine why!

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  • A Necrocracy if we want to be pedantic. As the highest title in government 최고령도자 (literally translating as “supreme leader” or “the best/most leader”, but can be taken to mean something like “the leader who is in the highest position”), officially it is in charge of the party, state, and millitary, and so far been only given to former leaders upon their deaths. Meaning that at any given time, the highest leadership position is held by someone who is dead, making it a Necrocracy, rule by the dead.

    A theocracy would imply some form of church like structure deciding policy, laws, and running the state, maybe you could argue the party is a sort of church, but the party apparatus is not appointing the leader, nor does it set policy. The party, state, and army in North Korea serve at the behest of the hereditary leaders, so practically it’s more of a monarchy.

  • Cast iron rule

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  • I mean, there are a bunch of American cast iron companies still making really good stuff, most are just kinda pricy, like 100 bucks for a skillet. Lodge is just notable for being super cheap, 20 bucks for a skillet, and having a very crude finish compared to the others.

  • Cast iron rule

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  • I mean, carbon steel is basically the same thing in terms of how you care for it.

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  • I mean, there are a lot of types of spray cooking oil I’ve seen. Coconut, olive oil, and soybean (vegetable oil) are what I see most commonly, and none of those have particularly high smoke points.

  • Cast iron rule

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  • Nah, you’re not gonna smooth that out with seasoning. Like, it’s the texture of the sand mold just like the rest of it, zero sanding or grinding on the cooking surface to smooth it out and this isn’t a “cheap import” kind of thing, the brand I’m thinking of, lodge, are made in America. Like, they’re functional pans, but the roughness makes them harder to use than something with a polished or even sanded cooking surface, stuff just catches on the nooks and crannies regardless of seasoning. Like a quick pass with a sander or grinder improves them immensely, but that’s not really something most people are going to bother with.

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  • There is actually a lot we don’t really know about the polymerization and how it layers and adheres. Particularly about how certain heating regimes and oil type effect it. There are a handful of papers about it, but there is a lot missing particularly about what effects the resiliency, porosity, and toughness of the layers. Best practice for what oils to use for seasoning, and how to best apply them and get them to form even layers is up in the air.

    We understand generally what is happening, but the specifics are poorly understood and not well researched.

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  • I mean like, the interior cooking surface is rough.

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  • Keeping the old tradional of cast iron misinformation alive.

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  • There are a lot of myths and legends around cast iron that are due to older circumstances that are no longer applicable. And spray on oil seems like a pretty efficient way to season given that it’ll apply a fairly light and even.

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  • Vintage, or nicely finished pans with polished surfaces or extra greebles and nubbins can be expensive.

    Something liked a lodge pan will be cheap but the bottom of it kind of sucks without being ground down ether by long usage or by tools.

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  • The thing is, cast iron cookware is a criminally under researched segment of metallurgy and food science. Like, most of what is known is just oral tradition and folklore. It’s mystical in a sense, we preform these old practices and rituals in an attempt to coax an outcome in to being, not based on rigorous testing or knowledge based conjecture, but on myths and ancestral knowledge.

    Like we can draw parallels from other areas of metallurgy to get a rough idea of what is going on but most of the modern research is for industrial uses (not cooking) and not for cast iron specifically because it’s not a super common material in engineering anymore.

    Some of these old rituals and practices were developed in specific circumstance that are different from the modern day, and from each other, leading to conflicting ideas and practices as different traditions run In to each other. Some old knowledge is applied incorrectly, like people saying you can’t wash it with soap because that will damage it, which is true in the context of an 1800s homestead where they’d be using lye and fat based soap which would strip away the polymerized oil coating, but most dish soap is surfactant based and won’t strip the seasoning.

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  • If you’re soaking it to get stuck on stuff out of it… well stuff shouldn’t be sticking to it that aggressively. and if you’re soaking it to keep stuff from drying on, well, just rinse it out before leaving it to clean later.

  • soulless and one ruleful

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  • Sounds complicated and finicky.

  • soulless and one ruleful

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  • The volume in the menu is more granular than you can get with the buttons.

  • Kamala Harris Says She Has “Concerns” About Trans Student Athletes

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  • Let’s say, you wanted to reward a politician for supporting your political beliefs, you can’t just… give them money now can you?

    But, you can help them get a book deal, and then when the book comes out you can buy a bunch to donate to libraries or something. This has the benefit of artificially inflating the sales numbers and getting it on a best sellers list.

  • Even the NRA is against Trump team plan to ban trans people from owning firearms

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  • You know, it always shocks me that people don’t get this. Like, the 2A people are the definition of single issue voters. Like… they only care about which party will give the less restrictive gun laws. If ether party said they’d make it so people didn’t need a tax stamp for short barreled rifles anymore, they’d win that voting block no question.

    Like, they’re not die hard republicans, they literally only care about one thing.

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    Forbidden candy-bar rule

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    Lab coat rule

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    Expedition rule

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    Moisturized Rule

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    Currency rule

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    Jug car rule

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    Advanced rule rage

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    Pizzakinesis rule

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    Time is a rule circle

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    True allegiances rule

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    World building rule.

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    100 rule

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    Long Connecticut rule