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by DCKing 7y ago
It's still a false equivalence. Comparing the comparatively higher energy costs of making reusable bags [1] does not compare to the systemic causes of the climate catastrophe. Arguably the behavioral pattern of using non-durable, non-r
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by DCKing 7y ago
> Furthermore, even over an encrypted connection it is not difficult to figure out which files you are downloading based on the size of the transfer2. HTTPS would therefore only be useful for downloading from a server that also offers ot
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by DCKing 7y ago
I have spoken too soon. Khronos lists the VideoCore VI as Vulkan compatible - latest Vulkan 1.1 compatible even [1]. Apparently compute shader support is being worked on for the VideoCore driver [2], which explains why it's missing fro
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by DCKing 7y ago
Most likely yes. There is very little known about the VideoCore VI's capabilities, but it doesn't look impressive. They state OpenGL ES 3.0 support, which to me implies that it doesn't even support compute shaders (introduce
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by DCKing 7y ago
The Raspberry Pi 4 is really impressive hardware for the price. In these CPU benchmarks with heatsink attached, it slightly edges out the Jetson Nano developer board, which retails for $99. Since one of the popular uses of the Raspberry P
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by DCKing 7y ago
The Orion program had this potential on paper. Nuclear bomb propulsion is a complicated thing, but we don't understand if it's a feasible propulsion method in practice, like, at all . Political will in this case brings us more un
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by DCKing 7y ago
Technically AMD's APUs (the Ryzen 2400G and other CPUs with integrated GPU of the Vega generation) do support it, but for some reason AMD has never enabled this in their discrete cards. Neither have they released a low end Vega discret
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by DCKing 7y ago
If you want a discrete GPU with the same featureset as a modern integrated Intel GPU - with basic desktop features such as 1) being able to decode modern video codecs like HEVC 2) prime Windows and (especially) Linux support or 3) modern vi
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by DCKing 7y ago
No it doesn't. It only applies if you operate within the EU, and if you do business with (the data of) EU citizens. I'm not sure what else you can reasonably expect there.
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by DCKing 7y ago
Ah, so PowerVR seems to be still a viable path even if this does not get overturned, and if Huawei can magically move to MIPS or RISC V in a reasonable timeframe.
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by DCKing 7y ago
I see a lot of people dreaming about Huawei needing to pivot to open source technology, but the overwhelmingly likely outcome here is that the trade dispute gets (partially) resolved to the extent that Huawei can operate as usual again. Dre
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by DCKing 8y ago
> That said, if Instagram is serious about not being evil, the only option is ultimately to secede from Facebook. As long as they are part of F Corp, all of these tactics designed to recapture the Big Tech moral high ground are doomed to
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by DCKing 8y ago
> The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback. It really isn't. The W3C at the very least permits a solution wher
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by DCKing 8y ago
Out of curiosity, is there any reusable alternative for Google's Widevine module? It seems both Chromium and Firefox use this, and all other open source browsers are based on them. Safari and Internet Explorer DRM would be tied to spec
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by DCKing 8y ago
I don't think that that Mandelbrot benchmark is single threaded. It would mean that this processor is much faster than Skylake in computational instructions per clock, which would be a huge game changer (and it clearly isn't). T
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by DCKing 8y ago
Those 4 POWER9 cores (16 threads with its 4-way SMT) will obliterate this ARM. Depending on the benchmark, this 32 core ARM box will do 1/2 the single thread performance and about 2.5x the multithreaded performance of my venerable Sand
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by DCKing 8y ago
I think it politicizes the early internet too much to call it a revolution in the political sense. The early internet was a place of experimentation with new communication, but I think it goes way too far to call it a 'movement'.
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by DCKing 8y ago
Contrarian viewpoints (i.e. "this is actually different", "this is actually not surprising") are very popular on Hacker News and upvote based internet fora. Many times they are actually low value, especially when they ar
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by DCKing 8y ago
1 and 3 are basically the same reason are they not? Yet corporations like EA and Ubisoft are still very successful despite having famously horrible reputations amongs the "community". Moreover, Google looks willing to fix any lack
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by DCKing 8y ago
With a tiling window manager, every window you open has cognitive overload. Which workspace, which location on screen, is it okay if other windows resize, or do I have it float even? Every tile you add affects the other tiles in some way -
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by DCKing 8y ago
I'm not sure an open source Nvidia driver is necessary for this. The problem mostly seems to be that Nvidia does not support standard interfaces all other open source and closed source drivers support. Nvidia was very late to the par
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by DCKing 8y ago
That's a die shot of the Apple A12, not the A12X (which has four big cores). Curious what the extra space goes to though.
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by DCKing 8y ago
I would argue that x86's dominance is actually Intel's dominance. Intel just has a very good tactical position in terms of high-performance hardware. Intel is a better source for hardware reliability, platform reliability, logisti
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by DCKing 8y ago
The article has its problems, but regardless of that, it seems clear that Apple has had the technology to launch desktop class hardware based on ARM for some time now. I'm not just talking about laptops - Apple's microarchitecture
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by DCKing 8y ago
The i7 6700K is also a SoC and includes a GPU (weaker than the A12X's) and many other components that are also included in the A12X. It doesn't have quite the same level of integration as the A12X, but characterizing one as a &#x2
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by DCKing 8y ago
No security team can defend against unknown or any degree of unbounded controllers. Everybody has a risk tolerance of some degree. Moreover, it seems you're stating that "no tolerance" should focus on having no CVEs in contai
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by DCKing 8y ago
I'm really not talking about defense in depth. There are vulnerabilities that are not relevant to any layer of defense, such as the hypothetical grep vulnerability I talked about earlier. Taking a risk-based approach doesn't get y
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by DCKing 8y ago
Well yes, we're talking past each other then. I'm coming from a perspective where I get the space to actually perform risk assessment and where that actually matters. I don't need to comply with a needlessly highly regarded
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by DCKing 8y ago
No I'm not. It doesn't matter whether an exploit is locally or remotely exploitable potentially . It matters whether it's exploitable for an attacker. For example, CVE-2017-5645 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Lo
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by DCKing 8y ago
Although I'm giving Snyk (at least their marketing guys) a hard time for this, their tool does the same. An awesome feature is that they can actually open pull requests with fixed versions (if available) in your repository to get this

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