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by 1996 6y ago
On schedule, it would have been a coin toss: no RJ45, no serial, so little use to techs who don't want to carry a USB adapter. It's DOA in 2021: no USBC, outdated CPU, thicker than a brick. The replaceable CPU board might have bee
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by 1996 6y ago
> "wearing a mask during a deadly pandemic" is a really simple thing to do to demonstrate willingness to sign on to a social compact. Interestingly, I wear none, and use that for signaling: I find that I associate more easily w
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by 1996 6y ago
Exactly - people underestimate the wisdom (and the power) of organized crowds. Governments can be topped by crowds, which is why they try very hard to not become too unpopular. Institutional finance is just a percentage of what some people
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by 1996 6y ago
The US can raise antitrust objections to EU companies acquired by other EU companies. Legally, nobody need to obey the objections, but if the merge still happens, the new company might discover doing business in the US has suddenly become m
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by 1996 6y ago
Carefully read the comment to realize this "feel good" piece is written for a western audience: > "This article was clearly written more from ignorance than knowledge and is not based on knowledge of the actual culture in
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by 1996 6y ago
Does it work with chromium variants, like edge? What about for "collections"? Under the hood, it mustn't be so different from bookmarks.
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by 1996 6y ago
This, so much! But politicians have friends & famility working at DB and HSBC - so they'd rather show teeth and get votes by attacking the newcomers. Who cares if there's less illegal activity there? At least they won't h
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by 1996 6y ago
This is so true. Lots of pretenders, but no peers.
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by 1996 6y ago
> Institutions were selling naked shorts and will be forced to cover Serves them well! Play stupid games, ... I smile inside thinking WSB has enough power to cause a gamma squeeze and punish institutions speculating against a company ga
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by 1996 6y ago
In theory yes. In practice many things can be different. Carefully check what's happening under the hood. Hopefully, manual configuration of the PCIe will become more commonplace, as most bioses are badly broken each in their own uniqu
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by 1996 6y ago
Not even 1. You can't select by RGB value something too light (or too dark) for the accent color if Windows think it would be illegible. It's even worse if you have enabled transparency. I wish there was an override, because if I
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by 1996 6y ago
> call me Mr. Pig Hello Mr Pig, nice to meet a fellow pig :) > yeah, or risk mitigation. Haven't decided which is truer. Same thing to me. What do you "risk", except not making money? It all boils down to money. > ul
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by 1996 6y ago
> Most of our lab gear is 80s and 90s-vintage gear we've fixed up. You'd be amazed what a little analogue electronics knowledge can do here; people will throw out a device rather than replace the belts or motor brushes. We&#x27
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by 1996 6y ago
The author seems to keep making the same mistakes - the latest being on iPhones and BTC. Do I care that Android devices have larger market share? Not at all. Apple is on the high end, profitable part. Should you care that the crypto ecosyst
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by 1996 6y ago
> Unfortunately my BIOS doesn't allow to downgrade the RAM "clock" How deep are you willing to go? The RAM clock is controlled by the memory training algorithms. They use data from the XMP, which can be edited. The simples
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by 1996 6y ago
> I had to move SSD cards around so they'd use separate PCIe root complexes to avoid a PCIe <-> CPU data transfer bottleneck I am doing similar things. Have you considered looking at how to control by software the PCI lanes as
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by 1996 6y ago
You are funny maybe without intending to be. They all share the same "pointless" features: - lawyers: reason for hiring: the company doesn't get sued for breaking laws (boils down to reducing costs even if you only consider t
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by 1996 6y ago
Even if I'm generally pro-crypto and against HN negative stance on crypto, I upvoted you (and will vouch for your comments if needed) because buttcoin is an interesting community: they are educated on crypto, and their negative argumen
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by 1996 6y ago
Check jexer for TUI
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by 1996 6y ago
Yes, Firefox need to focus on a usecase. It may not be able to beat chromium right now, but a working IPFS and TOR right inside your "vanilla" Firefox would give a compelling reason to keep it, when you can install chromium/c
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by 1996 6y ago
It's ok if you don't like TUIs, but don't call them "poor emulations" of GUIs. They do different things differently, but they achieve great results in their own ways. The mc file manager or ranger more than stands t
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by 1996 6y ago
You might be able to code something, but clearly have no idea what are talking about and what are desirable properties (which you call inefficient, which I call aligning incentives)
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by 1996 6y ago
You were downvoted because you are tooting your coin, your argument is weak, and your examples meaningless. Your argument boils down to: not enough TPS, because bad technology. It's good enough for now and can always be changed later.
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by 1996 6y ago
> Not just through the letters, but little slivers of light under each one. My pet peeve too. I hate that, as it doesn't happen on Microsoft Surfaces. If it can't be fixed due to the different travel distance, give me instead a
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by 1996 6y ago
> Or am I worrying about this unnecessarily? You are. Provide a lot of amps. Each device will take just as much as it needs. So err on the side of more watts - it will even help your batteries charge faster. The only thing that can be di
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by 1996 6y ago
This is serious. A constrained environment helps me focus and think more creatively. The only think I'll never skimp on is storage. In 2018 I standardized on 2Tb SSDs in raid0. I'm currently upgrading to 4Tb (as I can't find
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by 1996 6y ago
> Some developers tend to overgineer and cause performance issues on slower computers. With an older laptop I can understand better how the app will be perceived by users. Exactly this. It forces me to optimize instead of taking shortcut
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by 1996 6y ago
Great for archiving on spinning rust (and even more so for restoring), as badblocks can happen and this embeds redundancy. For long term storage, I would recommend ZIP files + PAR2 over an EXFAT partition
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by 1996 6y ago
I have laptops with 64 and 32Gb of RAM, but I found my best work happens with 8Gb of RAM. I can't exactly explain how or why, but it seems to enforces discipline by reducing task (and context) switching - so much that I got myself anot
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by 1996 6y ago
I would pay good money for it.

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