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by DCKing 9y ago
If current trends continue, Huawei (through their subsidiary HiSilicon) will be the first to launch a product with the new ARM IP. The Cortex A72 was announced in April 2015, Huawei launched the Kirin 950 (4x Cortex A72 + 4x Cortex A53) in
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by DCKing 9y ago
> Considering the continued decline of classical PCs, I don’t think Apple can go all the way and design an Ax processor for high-end Macs. I think this is wrong. This is what the benchmarks say: - Apple A10 Fusion @ 2.35 GHz [1] / G
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by DCKing 10y ago
GNOME on Wayland with AMD or Intel graphics (can't tell you about Nvidia) is at least as smooth as Windows 10 or macOS. That's just graphical performance I'm talking about though. Unfortunately, that alone isn't quite th
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by DCKing 10y ago
Didn't know they migrated already, good on them!
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by DCKing 10y ago
I agree, that's why I use the Impatience extension [1]! I don't use anything GTK2 based any more as the lack of smooth scrolling support is really jarring for me, despite the fact that I still like Gnome2's basic design. [1]:
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by DCKing 10y ago
I get that this is meant as some sort of snarky reply, but you honestly made have to look up what dconf is. Vaguely recall using it a few years ago. No, I don't consider it more or less the same as editing config files as I don't
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by DCKing 10y ago
I dislike that people speak in such absolutes on this. You're expressing a personal opinion. In my opinion, Gnome 3 is amongst the best desktop shells I've ever used. It's focus on simplicity in the base, while including exte
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by DCKing 10y ago
As an end user, I like this news. Unity was never for me (I run Gnome Shell on all my distros, including Ubuntu), I was not particularly enthused by Ubuntu phones, and Canonical getting on track with Gnome and therefore Wayland means we&#x2
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by DCKing 10y ago
I think he means that they were not able to sell the idea to device vendors sufficiently. The 'market' he refers to are the device vendors, not the end users. If you make a mobile operating system but you don't make devices,
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by DCKing 10y ago
If you think that the blog's point was to openly discuss the arbitrarity of certain definitions, then you have read another blog than I did. Given the blog's obvious agenda, I find it a bit disingenious to summarize it like you do
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by DCKing 10y ago
This is very misleading, and it looks to be intentionally so. The author pretends that "cleared its orbit" means "cannot share its orbit with any sort of rock". But that's not at all how "cleared its orbit&quot
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by DCKing 10y ago
> There are literally millions of C/C++ programmers and projects writing secure reliable code. I believe that there are millions of C/C++ programmers that think they are writing secure reliable code. But these there is an ove
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by DCKing 10y ago
We've gone from arguing "the security issues for C are overrated" to now arguing either "security issues don't have solutions I like" or "real programmers should be able to deal with these things" (I&
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by DCKing 10y ago
I do get a vibe of tone deafness coming from such a reply. 1) You're stating that automated tools are a solution in a thread in a blogpost for a heavily scrutinized tool that has a zero tolerance policy for Coverity problems, uses Valg
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by DCKing 10y ago
There are many reasons why curl uses C, and should continue to do so. Yes, C allows a combination of portability, performance, and accessibility of your source code by others that is not matched by any language. And yes, C was a perfectly v
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by DCKing 10y ago
When it comes to blue light filtering, all I want is something with good defaults (for me) that works unobtrusively. My first days of using Night Shift has worked exactly like that. I don't particularly care about configurability of th
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by DCKing 10y ago
It doesn't matter what the TDP is. Home systems like HTPCs and home servers will run at their full power a very small amount of the time they're running. That means their maximum power usage (which is what TDP is supposed to indic
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by DCKing 10y ago
Poe's law I guess then, sorry about that. You didn't make it easy to see, judging by the serious responses you got!
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by DCKing 10y ago
I wish people thought a bit more critically when invoking NSA conspiracies in these matters. If the NSA was the primary cause, wouldn't it be much easier to simply silently exclude those specific unwanted updates from an otherwise r
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by DCKing 10y ago
> Android phones don't get updated because for the manufacturers ensuring their pile of hacks works with a newer version of android would represent a non trivial amount of work for the oem whom already has your money. The only way
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by DCKing 10y ago
This is not as true for the Mac Mini, not even the latest generation. Although not plug and play, the hard drive in these machines are serviceable with a basic kit you can buy off eBay and clear instructions from iFixit. The Mac Mini referr
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by DCKing 10y ago
I understand this blogpost is meant to point out that Apple is abandoning desktop computers and their various use cases. It's all very bad and we haven't had enough articles discussing this yet, why won't Apple think of us an
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by DCKing 10y ago
There are certain gotchas when importing a Xiaomi phone, one of which is being wary of replacing the software the distributor has put on it with official Xiaomi software. Clearly you didn't do that.
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by DCKing 10y ago
It's interesting what's going on here. They have gone on record before that they're not making a profit on their phones, and evidently their tactics are creating a bit of an internal mess. They've grown very rapidly. I i
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by DCKing 10y ago
Great! The reason I bought a Yubikey Neo over the Yubikey 4 is that I need access to the key on all my devices - computers and my phone(s). It's a way to do secure and user-friendly way to solve the key distribution problem to have a
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by DCKing 10y ago
Sorry to hear it. I've updated my post to make some of the wording more subjective. The halo effects are indeed quite strong in the first weeks (took my eyes about 6 weeks to fully adjust), but they have practically disappeared for me
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by DCKing 10y ago
I too longed for the day that I could have laser surgery. My eyes didn't particularly enjoy soft contacts, and I did not like wearing (even fashionable) glasses. But I held it off because of the downsides, such as relapses in eye presc
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by DCKing 10y ago
The thing is, had Apple announced the exact same thing but replaced the Lightning-connector with USB Type C, everything would have been sort-of-okay. Yeah, losing legacy support sucks but there's at least a decent argument to be made
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by DCKing 10y ago
The XKCD comic is showing its age. The comic mentions 1000 hashes per second. Assuming the entropy estimation is accurate (is it?), and it would take 550 years with 1000 guesses per second, that's still not very impressive. A single AM
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by DCKing 10y ago
It wasn't even the point of my post, but I'll bite: a digital cable means you no longer have to rely on the form factor/budget constrained DAC included in the device itself and can go for DACs of your own choice. That doesn&#

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