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by 4cao 6y ago
Not sure what the article says (doesn't open for me at the moment) but to answer the question: Access to Play Store apps can be restricted to certain countries. Such apps do not appear in search results. So it's possible for Tik T
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by 4cao 6y ago
This tweet from their editor-in-chief sheds some light on it: > Sorry gang, no RTX 3080 review today. The last week and a half has taken an unexpectedly large toll. I'm looking at getting caught up in time for the RTX 3090 launch ne
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by 4cao 6y ago
If they can't come up with any better products at the moment, they could at least ditch these National Geographic-themed compound codenames: Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Kaby Lake (named after a Portuguese footballer?) and now it's
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by 4cao 6y ago
The immediate reason might have something to do with the recent redesign of the Facebook website to make it more like their apps. But broadly it's because they can.
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by 4cao 6y ago
> You can login and access all features through the local browser UI 3 times without registering the switch through your netgear.com account. How generous, for a device that people buy (not rent) from them, and pay actual money for (no
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by 4cao 6y ago
"So, what have you failed at this week?"
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by 4cao 6y ago
There isn't much in terms of story in GTA Online but the classic GTA V (retroactively called Story Mode) is an elaborate satire on the contemporary American society, including the technology industry itself. While some of the jokes mig
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by 4cao 6y ago
There are official cheats in GTA V (not Online) too, entered by opening the in-game mobile phone (iFruit) and dialing a certain number, for example 1-999-MAKEITRAIN to change the weather. A full list is here: https://gta.fandom.c
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by 4cao 6y ago
There is some irony in a newspaper attempting to shut down free speech (parody is generally covered as such), and even more so considering it's a left-leaning newspaper yet they chose a very capitalist way to go about it (by hiring a l
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by 4cao 6y ago
> In the table on the page, why does "Foundry sale price per chip" decrease, while "Foundry sale price per wafer" increase I had the same question. Seems it's based on an earlier table in the same PDF (see my top
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by 4cao 6y ago
For some context, the table is on pages 44 and 45 of this PDF: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chips%E2%8... via https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/130643798880148684
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by 4cao 6y ago
From the abstract: > Our inferences result in herd immunity thresholds around 10-20%, considerably lower than the minimum coverage needed to interrupt transmission by random vaccination, which for R0 higher than 2.5 is estimated above 60
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> On eBay, you can already find hundreds of listings for the $699 RTX 3080 card for $1,200 to $2,000 and more. One thing I'd really like to know, and none of the news coverage seems to address this question, is why are people willin
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by 4cao 6y ago
And apparently GTA V will be re-released again for PS5 in 2021. [1] Meanwhile, a huge portion of the revenue must be coming from microtransactions. The total cost to unlock all the in-game content is estimated at GTA$700M, [2] while potenti
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by 4cao 6y ago
There are still some more profitable game franchises (notably Pokemon, Mario, and Call of Duty) according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media... But apparently no single "e
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Since 2018 it is also the most profitable entertainment product of all time, overtaking movies such as "Star Wars" and "Gone With the Wind" (adjusted for inflation). [1] 1. https://www.marketwatch.com/sto
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Grand Theft Auto V is 7 years old today(gamezone.com)
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by 4cao 6y ago
The pamphlet was published in 1661, yet it appears to have been largely ignored. Pollution continued unabated and even in 1952 the Great Smog of London [1] killed an estimated 10,000 people over the course of a couple of days, and made anot
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by 4cao 6y ago
I was always expecting something like this to be going on, so I'd never use any Web-based availability-checking tools but then I also tend to be a bit paranoid at times. Yet now it turns out not only is this established practice, the
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by 4cao 6y ago
This is a very good, if a bit windy, argument. There would have been no technological progress we were able to enjoy in the past decade or two without the foundations laid by the open PC platform, and the Internet based on open standards. T
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> Removed /etc/cron.d/e2scrub_all file (systemd related junk).
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> It’s only a matter of time until we get a DRM mouse that only works when online A VR headset is much like a mouse (with built-in screen and speakers), and there's already one on the market that will require a particular social med
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by 4cao 6y ago
I think there is an interesting question here but I'm not sure I follow the train of thought. First of all, I doubt that whatever happened relatively recently with regard to certain design choices in hardware and software is related in
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by 4cao 6y ago
> I found it how it was ridiculously good at finding car number plates, airplane numbers, and even yachts! https://www.google.com/search?q=рпв+2396&tbm=isch Interesting! It finds this ad listing where there is a phot
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by 4cao 6y ago
Direct link to the stream on (yes!) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFDQvIrWYM
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In the middle of a pandemic, similar restrictions apply to everyone. These restrictions are generally not based on citizenship but residency. Everybody is encouraged to stay where they are (or were, when it broke out). US citizens residing
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by 4cao 6y ago
I still use a TrackPoint from time to time (on the ThinkPad X220, not my primary computer), and personally think it's a way better experience than any TouchPad, no matter how large, could possibly offer. It works particularly great whe
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by 4cao 6y ago
Not really, it's used for example with OpenWRT too: site:openwrt.org "soft-brick" - 213 results
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by 4cao 6y ago
You should be able to extract the BIOS update .fd file with InnoExtract [1] or InnoUnp [2], and then use the BIOS vendor's flashing tools, which are usually available for a number of other platforms, including Linux. If this laptop has
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by 4cao 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305149

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