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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 20:47:00 JST 
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CPU utilisation is a lie.
https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.h...
I've noted for years that a system reporting a 50% CPU load was typically somewhere closer to 65% thanks to variable clock speeds and multi-threaded cores, and here are charts to demonstrate it. And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 21:02:13 JST
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Has anyone ever heard an actual justification for the types that say 'um ackually, Super Earth is literally Nazism x10 and everything sucks and whatever says otherwise is PROPAGANDA' -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 21:02:12 JST
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@Need_More_Soma >Presumably -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 22:32:58 JST
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I wish this world the leftoid fears was real. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 21:25:57 JST
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Coinbase's CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explain...
Because he's an arsehole.
>"I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn't [have a good reason]. And they got fired."
And then Coinbase melted down in nuclear hellfire. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 21:17:48 JST
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@lethn No, I have seen other polls like this going back over a decade. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 21:17:43 JST
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@lethn That's because you have spent to much time online with whiteoids who seem to desire big booty latinas and petite asians and hate White women -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 21:17:42 JST
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@deprecated_ii @lethn And 5 minutes of real life experience seeing how white guys with asian wives are whimps who are hen pecked cures the other
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:58:26 JST
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 19:11:30 JST
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Battlefield 6 currently has zero players. The COD killer has failed amazingly. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 21:11:37 JST
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It takes the a team of three "professionals" to do what the average poaster does for free. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 21:27:36 JST
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Wifi destroys the environment.
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/is-wi-fi-bad-f...
This new from the same mob that pleaded with you to delete your photos as the English drought entered its second desperate hour. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 02:04:50 JST
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Indians actually think White women are turned on by speaking in Hindi -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 01:30:49 JST
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The CEO of GitHub says programmers must eithe embrace AI or quit.
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/github-ceo-thomas-do...
How nice that he gives us the option. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 03-Aug-2025 20:12:05 JST
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Why Johnny still can't read.
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wr...
Given the original book examining that question was published in 1955 my guess is because Johnny 78 and can't remember where he left his glasses.
But back in the Eisenhower years little Johnny couldn't read because teachers weren't teaching phonics, the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds.
Back in the core of the boomer years the trend was to jump too quickly from phonics to sight reading, recognising an entire word and its pronunciation from memory. If you were already a strong reader you were likely fine with this; if you were at all behind you would be left struggling.
Fast-forward a few decades and we find new generations of children who still can't read because they have been trapped by the once new trendy pedagogies. Molly Woodworth was a poor reader as a child and came up with tricks to help make it through lessons, though the tricks never worked terribly well.
When she looked at the reading lessons for her daughter Claire, she was horrified to discover that the tricks she created for herself, the same ones that didn't work for her, were being taught as standard practice.
>A couple of years ago, Woodworth was volunteering in Claire's kindergarten classroom. The class was reading a book together and the teacher was telling the children to practice the strategies that good readers use.
>The teacher said, "If you don't know the word, just look at this picture up here," Woodworth recalled. "There was a fox and a bear in the picture. And the word was bear, and she said, 'Look at the first letter. It's a "b." Is it fox or bear?'"
>Woodworth was stunned. "I thought, 'Oh my God, those are my strategies.' Those are the things I taught myself to look like a good reader, not the things that good readers do," she said. "These kids were being taught my dirty little secrets."
Why are teachers deliberately sabotaging reading skills?
Enter Ken Goodman.
>The theory is known as "three cueing." The name comes from the notion that readers use three different kinds of information - or "cues" - to identify words as they are reading.
>The theory was first proposed in 1967, when an education professor named Ken Goodman presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City.
>In the paper, Goodman rejected the idea that reading is a precise process that involves exact or detailed perception of letters or words.
Goodman still believed that when this article was written in 2019, the author requested and was granted an interview.
The problem is, Goodman was proven wrong fifty years ago:
>So, in 1975, Stanovich and a fellow graduate student set out to test the idea in their lab. They recruited readers of various ages and abilities and gave them a series of word-reading tasks. Their hypothesis was that skilled readers rely more on contextual cues to recognize words than poor readers, who probably weren't as good at using context.
>They couldn't have been more wrong.
>"To our surprise, all of our research results pointed in the opposite direction," Stanovich wrote. "It was the poorer readers, not the more skilled readers, who were more reliant on context to facilitate word recognition."
Or to put it another way:
>Goldberg realized lots of her students couldn't actually read the words in their books; instead, they were memorizing sentence patterns and using the pictures to guess. One little boy exclaimed, "I can read this book with my eyes shut!"
>"Oh no," Goldberg thought. "That is not reading."
Why did Goodman still believe in his failed ideas after all this time? (At the time the article was written, he was 91 and had just published a new edition of his book.)
Put as politely as possible, he is an idiotic kike:
>"Word recognition is a preoccupation," he said. "I don't teach word recognition. I teach people to make sense of language. And learning the words is incidental to that."
No, he really meant that:
>I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p//o//n//y/ says "pony"?
>And different letters say "horse"?
He dismissed my question.
>"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
Like a true jew he tripled down minutes later:
>In his view, three cueing is perfectly valid, drawn from a different kind of evidence than what scientists collect in their labs.
"My science is different," Goodman said.
And why is fashionable nonsense so entrenched in education?
Lots of reasons, one primary reason, is because jews want you to learn this way. It is actually how hebrew is taught. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 21:42:28 JST
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Seagate has started selling 28TB HAMR external drives.
https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-expansion-28tb-ex...
The bare drive costs around $570.
The external drive in a USB case with a power adaptor costs $330.
Why? Because.
Does it work the same? Yes. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 22:09:58 JST
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The future is self-hosted.
https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self...
The article says the opposite.
The article is wrong. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 02:30:22 JST
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What's up with Steam and Itch.io suddenly vanishing all those games and books and art and stuff?
https://archive.is/2LZ5T#selection-1701.0-1710.0
Proximate cause: Visa and Mastercard deciding they have to act as global fun censors.
Distal cause: Some random group of Australians called Collective Shout who have for years believed they have to act as global fun censors.
>As a result of Collective Shout's actions, in tandem with the payment processors, over 20,000 games, books, comics, and other creative works - confirmed via the Internet Archive - functionally ceased to exist on the site (though purchased content remains in users' libraries so long as it doesn't violate itch.io's new guidelines), imperiling the creators who depend on sales from itch.io. In addition to NSFW content, notable projects that didn't have the tag were caught up in the purge as well.
So we doing Shimoneta now?
>Whenever a platform announces a blanket ban on adult content, LGBTQ+ creators are almost always disproportionately affected, harming queer artists and invariably queer people.
This is true, because "queer" artists and "queer" people are sex-obsessed lunatics with various paraphilias. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 01:48:39 JST
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No longer a whore -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:26:00 JST
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Morning poast
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