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by DCKing 7y ago
It's worth pointing out how extremely far ahead Apple seems to be in terms of CPU power and efficiency. It tends to go under the radar a bit because it's not easy to run your own software on an iPhone, and most apps on these thing
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by DCKing 7y ago
What is interesting here is that multiple news outlets are calling this "AMD's revival". As far as I'm aware AMD has always been kind of "second rate" in the mobile space - until now, apparently. There's n
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by DCKing 7y ago
Red Hat has committed to keeping Python 2 on life support until 2024 as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [1] so you can get security fixes for Python 2 until then if you use CentOS 8. Canonical will not provide long term support for Pyt
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by DCKing 7y ago
These measures don't imply that paying out dividends is "bad" at all?
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by DCKing 7y ago
As a total dummy on macroeconomics, I find myself having the positive take "hey, we were probably moving towards some recession anyway, might as well get it over with in one go". I'm saying this because the graphs go up again
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by DCKing 7y ago
This is a good list for differences between FreeBSD and Linux distros, but describing them as advantages FreeBSD has over Linux seems problematic to me. Except for firewalls and core documentation (but what about "community documentati
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by DCKing 7y ago
Well that's what I'm trying to say :) Touchpads on Windows and Linux are "fine" at best (high end Dells are good enough to get out of the way I've heard) and "terrible" at worst. On Macbooks they're c
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by DCKing 7y ago
Yeah, "nothing" is a really poor term to summarize "Apple made fundamentally superior choices in terms of hardware development, software integration and general OS input architecture in the past 15 years". I use both Win
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> The purpose of society is to ensure the well-being of the people. It is not economic growth. "Growth" is not the issue, but economic prosperity and stability is immensely important with respect to the well-being of the people
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by DCKing 7y ago
I thought this was true for N64 Virtual Console games, but most older consoles were using pretty much the same emulator.
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by DCKing 7y ago
I don't think "caught" really is the proper word to use, when they credited the PCSX-Rearmed project in the menu of the Playstation Classic. It might be considered somewhat embarrassing they didn't make their own better
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by DCKing 7y ago
It's worth noting that the Virtual Console SNES emulator doesn't really have a reputation for inaccuracy. For sure it's not as accurate as Higan/bsnes but by all accounts it's pretty decent. Of course it was made fo
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by DCKing 7y ago
You could argue whether the attack on Zoom is warranted. But don't start revising history to make your point. E2E has never meant that. There's no such "old notion". I can't find any sources saying HIPAA would use
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The point is that the term "E2E encryption" was never used for "there is TLS involved". Because that's not what end-to-end means. E2E encryption was always clearly defined as "only the two communicating parties
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> Does USA really prevented more wars since WWII than they caused? Absolutely. This is not just my opinion, it's also the opinion of historians and geopolitical experts. And moreover, it has historical precedent. The Roman Empire&#x
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by DCKing 7y ago
I don't think many people on HN believe that the US armed forces underpin peace. But that's your soapboxing, and not what I was trying to say or even my opinion. The utter dominance of America's armed forces has achieved extr
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by DCKing 7y ago
Not an American, but the United States and its allies - and actually probably even most of its enemies - derive enormous economic value and peace from its military control of the world, which it achieves by its navy controlling the world
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by DCKing 7y ago
The tricky thing about my comparing with influenza is that "it's just the flu". Even if an influenza infection would spread with comparable ease on a cruise ship (and maybe it doesn't), I'm guessing it would not be
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by DCKing 7y ago
Question for a virologist, but does it actually spread so easily between people? The article asks a loaded question, but is it "justifiably loaded"? Given the background prevalence of influenza it might be hard to compare, but doe
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by DCKing 7y ago
If it is all so straightforward, what is your explanation for no web browser on Linux officially support video acceleration? Not Firefox, not Chrome, not Gnome Web, not Falkon, nothing. Despite video players just doing it. Just possibly, co
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by DCKing 7y ago
All these security arguments are pure figments of your imagination. They are not based in reality at all. Wayland is trying to do less than X11. The things you mention are not solved at the display protocol level on any platform but X11. Yo
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by DCKing 7y ago
I don't understand your post, nobody mentioned security in this discussion?
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> In practice if all/most implementations are buggy, I think it's fair to lump them all together and say that Wayland. Fair enough. I think it's a bit unfair to label the collective failure of the Linux community/ecos
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by DCKing 7y ago
Did you notice I said "web videos"? I'm talking about web browsers. I'm aware that mpv and vlc and others can use video acceleration okay, but they don't have complicated browser UI problems to solve.
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The way I understand it: Dedicated video players can build around hardware acceleration. They display a video and UI they control. Web browsers have to show other people 's UIs, which can be dynamically resized, overlaid and otherwi
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by DCKing 7y ago
Gnome Web, Midori, Falkon and Konqueror are browsers that only run on the "free" desktop, and don't support VAAPI/VDPAU either. Google built an entire OS based on Gentoo, and the desktop Linux build of Chrome doesn'
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This is possible, but it requires application support. As a user it is therefore extremely painful and limited still. Standards and libraries for this have only recently become available, and only the first applications are adapting towards
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by DCKing 7y ago
You're not describing a philosophical problem of "what's possible", as all of these things are perfectly possible on a desktop with Wayland and broader Freedesktop standards, and many have working examples currently. Way
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You're completely misunderstanding what this is about. Hardware video acceleration is not about rendering 3D graphics. This is about being able to play web videos without causing you to lose CPU performance and battery life. This has
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by DCKing 7y ago
You're talking about something else. Hardware acceleration of 3D graphics is something completely different from utilizing the specific video decoding hardware in your GPU to decode web videos without hitting your CPU. Firefox has had

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