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by DCKing 8y ago
There were some rumors before this announcement that AMD would announce SKUs with 1 CPU die (6-8 cores activated) + 1 GPU die or with 2 CPU dies (8-16 cores activated). But AMD didn't announce any SKUs - seems they're a bit behind
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by DCKing 8y ago
Text heavy slide creation tools (such as LaTeX and Markdown based ones) are aimed to make slide creation easier, not actually watching the resulting presentation. It's not to say that you cannot make nice slides with those tools, but u
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by DCKing 8y ago
Only if you ignore the other part of my comment that circumstantial evidence of this more sensible system architecture does exist [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907317
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by DCKing 8y ago
It's still a common meme that on modern phones the baseband has full access to whatever it wants. The available evidence (which admittedly is very scant) and common sense suggests that this is not true, not in iPhones or common chipset
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by DCKing 8y ago
A Sega exec tried to push Microsoft to make the Xbox backwards compatible with the Dreamcast even [1], which Microsoft refused mostly because they didn't want to support online infrastructure for titles that used it. The original Xbox
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by DCKing 8y ago
Isn't monopolization an inevitable consequence of Pikkety's observed behaviour that capital begets more capital and it's increasingly concentrating in fewer places? Not only can concentrations of capital in private companies
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by DCKing 8y ago
It means making it more enjoyable to use for everyone, both for those that are more and less sensitive to the aesthetics. Everyone is sensitive to it to some degree.
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by DCKing 8y ago
Not everybody has the same sensitivity to this 'jarring' component of the Linux desktop, I'm well aware. But I think it would really help the desktop forward if the group that is sensitive to it would be catered to more, like
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by DCKing 8y ago
I agree. I would be using Linux full time if the experience was not so jarring all the time. Fonts and themes are off, stuff gets jumbled around, things are wildly inconsistent. You end up spending lots of time doing weird hacks to make eve
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by DCKing 8y ago
> Perhaps it is cynicism, but I'm pretty sure this is just Apple exploiting a competitive edge, and does not necessarily reflect his own opinion, he is speaking to benefit the company. Of course. This is how all companies work. I j
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by DCKing 8y ago
One thing Linux has going for it is a bunch of popular features for developers' desktops: * Electron apps - VSCode, Atom, Slack, almost every universal desktop app that gets released today. Individual ports of apps to FreeBSD exist, bu
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by DCKing 8y ago
The article is really over the top hostile. 'Flatkill', 'Fakepak', 'Red Hat does not care about security'. What intentions could the author possibly have?
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by DCKing 8y ago
Spectre and Meltdown are a problem for Android but it's a smaller problem than on PCs. The vast majority of Android phones use processors that are in-order, and lack the out-of-order execution necessary to exploit. High-end Android pho
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by DCKing 8y ago
Yeah, but it's not just about solving the problem "how do I install package X on a random Linux distribution". I agree there have been solutions for that for a long time. In fact, Snap at least does not even fully solve thi
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by DCKing 8y ago
The tone of the comments on news like this never fails to disappoint me. Sigh. The Snap store so vastly improves my user experience of using common apps I switched from Arch Linux (where 50% of the programs I had installed came from the AUR
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by DCKing 8y ago
Although I think Intel derives substantial value from x86 lockin, I don't think "doing things like Intel but with a different CPU architecture" really qualifies as a disruption of Intel's model. I'd say disruption o
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by DCKing 8y ago
AMD is not trying to "disrupt Intel's model", it's trying to outcompete them on mostly the same model. I have no idea what "disrupting Intel's model" would actually mean. But I would be fine if Intel is ju
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by DCKing 8y ago
Although I agree it's a terrible decision for Apple only to have Apple-specific graphics APIs, please note that: * Being deprecated does not mean that things will suddenly stop working. It will take a few more releases of macOS before
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Unboxing the Talos II: it's here(tenfourfox.blogspot.com)
4 points by DCKing 8y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 9y ago
Man, the Linux crowd really sucks. Why am I even reading these comments? I'm of the opinion that the Linux desktop has never been better, and I really enjoy using modern Linux desktops a lot more than I used to. To all those developers
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by DCKing 9y ago
I think OP might be referring to the fact that Android kernels disable most functionality required to run most standard Linux container tech. AFAIK it's not possible to run Docker even on rooted devices if they are running a (close to)
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by DCKing 9y ago
> That the W3690 is not the same uarch as the W3670 and W3680 is weird as all hell. Well that's the thing - they are the same thing! The difference between Gulftown and Westmere-EP seems to be entirely marketing, but this marketin
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by DCKing 9y ago
The support list [1] is weird. Gulftown (Core i7) and Westmere-EP (Xeon) are essentially the same chips yet only the latter is patched. The distinction between Gulftown and Westmere-EP actually was barely ever made until now. And Intel&#x27
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by DCKing 9y ago
Ugh, this keeps on coming up. Wire [1] already has both end-to-end encryption and cross device sync. It's not the only one to do that either. It's not a tradeoff. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_
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CVE-2018-1057: Authenticated users can change other users' password(samba.org)
4 points by DCKing 9y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 9y ago
Is there really any reason to believe that Btrfs has more risk of data loss than XFS or ZFS, at least on simple single or mirrored drives? Honest question - my home box runs a Btrfs mirror on openSUSE.
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by DCKing 9y ago
I've heard other variations of this story that stated that OpenBSD simply had the fix ready first, asked permission to commit it (without fanfare), and got it. As far as I remember from the discoverer's CCC talk, OpenBSD got the f
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by DCKing 9y ago
For those informing purchase decisions on this, it seems I was wrong [1]. Apparently the APU dictates the HDMI version, not the motherboard. Many AM4 motherboards appear to support HDMI 2.0 with one of these new APIs. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by DCKing 9y ago
Be aware for 4K that almost no motherboards exist at this time that can pair one of these APUs with a HDMI 2.0 output. Almost all AM4 motherboards come with HDMI 1.4 outputs that limit 4K output to 30Hz - probably fine for movies, noticable
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm flattered you assume I have this knowledge, but I don't. I would presume the key is derived from your sign-in information, but I honestly don't know. What I do know is that you don't have access to messages that happ

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