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by AceJohnny2 6mo ago
They lost me at "our conductors are coax!". USB is designed around differential signaling, which is what twisted pair excels at.
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by AceJohnny2 6mo ago
> Not to mention that WindowServer seems to take 100+% cpu since the upgrade That's because some app is spamming window updates. It's been an ongoing problem for many releases. AFAICT, WindowServer 100% CPU is a symptom, not
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
> So ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports It's even more disgusting than that: "Tom Homan: ICE officers will not assist with airport security scanning amid TSA staffing shortage" https://thehill.com&#x2
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
> It is really weird not to care about the first impression that your manual makes on a curious reader. On the contrary, I think this is an all-too-familiar pitfall for the, er... technically minded. "I've implemented it in t
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
That's worth making a separate post! (and I recommend rendering it to HTML) But "bare" is part of the value of Cohen's post, I think. When you want to publicize a paradigm shift, it helps to make it in small, digestible
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
Eh. It's a matter of visible pain vs invisible pain. Developers are quite familiar with Merge Conflicts and the confusing UI that git (and SVN before it, in my experience) gives you about them. The "ours vs theirs" nomenclatu
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
no no don't worry! They have courts! They're following due process, you see! 24 years of the Patriot Act, and counting...
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
Translation is a form of AI-edition. Language translation is the origin of (the current wave of) AI and its killer app. English is not the main language of the world, and translation opens us up to a huge pool of interesting thinkers. I&#x2
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
There was a Mastodon post some time back (~1y?) where someone realized that the fastest RISC-V hardware they could get was still slower than running it on QEMU. That's not how it usually works :\ RISC-V is certainly spreading across ni
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
yes, and if I had a unicorn I would be happy. > Now if most of their customers did that If most customers did anything active we'd have a radically different society. The difficulty is getting people engaged to fight back against
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
Is this because of the CA Age-verification law (AB 1043)? https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
For your entertainment, look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona#Daylight_savin... Arizona, unlike the rest of the US, does not observe Daylight Savings Time (good!). However the Navajo Nation, whose terri
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
> That said, there are a number of Ars Technica contributors that are among the best in their fields I miss Maggie Koerth & Jon Stokes
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
there's an apocryphal story that when one of Apple's chips was nearing 10B transistors, marketing asked the chip folks if they could round it up to 10B for their copy. The chip folks were confounded, and said no they didn't h
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
But not 38 TOPS that Apple claims, with the weak explanation of > Apple’s “38 TOPS INT8” is computed as 19 TFLOPS FP16 × 2, following the industry convention of counting INT8 operations as 2× the FP16 rate. But the hardware doesn’t actu
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
(I am not a mechanical engineer) Are capstan drives a solution to some of these gearing problems?
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
"Our glorious oversight vs their barbaric surveillance" (I kid, mostly. While the US certainly isn't pure, its scale of surveillance intrusion is light compared to China)
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
> There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California You can remove the in California
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
I wonder how he figures that. I'm well paid and my CA taxes are 1/3 as much as my Federal taxes. Especially in the current regime, CA taxes are not first my point of complaint. This just reinforces my opinion that we shouldn'
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by AceJohnny2 7mo ago
I'm kinda shocked to see MicroCenter surge again. The one on Steven's Creek feels like a mini, less seedy, Fry's (I may be biased from Fry's terminal years). Nevertheless, it still took me 10 minutes to get the attention
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I'm reminded of the viral comic "I'm stupid faster " (2019?) by Shen https://imgur.com/gallery/i-m-stupid-faster-u8crXcq (sorry for Imgur link, but Shen's web presence is a mess and it's
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Offtopic: > "Click here to load ~19mb" Oh, how sweet... The front page of reddit (not logged in) is 11 MB, logged in it is 17 MB for me (variable based on media-heavy subreddits and ads). Facebook's login page is 8 MB. H
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
sure, but now it's giving me days old crappy posts with 3 votes from those subs as it leans wholeheartedly in the Dark Pattern of always feeding me something so I keep reflexively coming back for more.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
This is not true for the major social media sites that control the algorithmic feeds. (Facebook, Xitter, Reddit, YouTube...) While you may be able to add a small bend to the feed, it's really 90% in their power, not yours. I'm loo
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
FWIW, LWN.net has a form of this, where a subscriber can share a "guest" link for a subscriber-only article (All such articles become open a week later anyhow). It's bad form to share guest links on aggregators like HN, I don
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
This, by the way, is why Signal isn't federated. Moxie Marlinspike made the same argument. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I'm looking to use TCL for an embedded platform, as the scripting shell. Its simplicity and small size is key, as is its easy integration with C.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
> Good is really good at engineering great software was While they sucked at bringing products to market and sustaining them, they indeed used to have a good reputation at software engineering. However they are burning that up in the
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
While the current incarnation of Google Chat has indeed been steadily improving, Google has a lot, and I mean a lot , to make up for: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... (2021, as
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I agree with the post. As someone with... attention issues and a deeply cluttered space due to decision fatigue and "I'll just get to it later", having a blank slate is very useful for regaining focus. Otherwise, it's ju

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