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by Delk 5y ago
There's often a lot of nuance lost in translated subtitles as well, in my experience, often because dialogue written for one language can't be coerced into natural dialogue in a different language without significant changes. Keep
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by Delk 5y ago
I remember seeing a website years ago that supposedly ran on Minix on a 286. Someone had fired that up because... well, because. I don't think it was fast, nor did it probably serve any purpose apart from existing and possibly serving
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by Delk 5y ago
No doubt things are snappier on a present-day i9 than on an i7 from nearly a decade ago. It's also true that it's easy to get used to things and not see e.g. gradual degradation of performance with new and heavier software revisio
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by Delk 5y ago
I'm curious as to how Windows 10 runs that poorly for you, or what to you counts as an "absolute dog". I've got a laptop that's only a CPU generation younger than yours, and Windows 10 for general use works okay for
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by Delk 5y ago
I don't really understand why the Chernobyl or Fukushima disasters should be considered evidence of nuclear power being dangerous. The Chernobyl plant had severe design deficiencies, and the operators were apparently not properly infor
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by Delk 5y ago
Well, it can be a layer as well. If a game makes DirectX calls, and those calls are translated on the fly to corresponding Vulkan (or in some cases perhaps OpenGL) calls, that adds a layer. That is, unless the calls are AOT or JIT transpile
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by Delk 5y ago
Maybe they block entire domains, not individual pages? That wouldn't be affected by HTTPS at all.
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by Delk 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26555585
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by Delk 5y ago
I occasionally run into websites that deny access rather than complying with the GDPR, but that's fairly rare and happens perhaps a few times a year. Most sites I've seen have gone through the trouble of complying and implementing
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by Delk 5y ago
The batteries in a Formula E car, just for comparison, weigh 200 kg, according to Wikipedia. I don't know how much the batteries required to provide power comparable to F1 cars would weigh, but I'm pretty sure it's not less t
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by Delk 5y ago
> Childhood nutrition, single parent households, health of mother during pregnancy, culture/respect towards education as a virtue in the community and household, education level of parents and the time they have to play and talk wit
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by Delk 5y ago
I was going to say that the 8880 also did have some special parts, or ones that at least I wasn't aware of existing in other sets at the time. The ball joints used for steering and power on the same wheels (I don't know what they&
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by Delk 5y ago
I've personally opted to never use the expression "half five" in English because it seems able to cause any amount of confusion and misunderstanding among people from different linguistic backgrounds.
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by Delk 5y ago
Although I might disagree with the use of the word "fascist" here, I don't think that's an entirely fair comparison. Societies usually ban things that are directly harmful to someone else (or in some cases to the perso
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by Delk 5y ago
It seems to have an address width of 16 bits, there's no mention of a memory management unit, and the website lists its RAM size as 256 bytes, so I'm going to say no, regardless of speed. The RAM size is of course the most limitin
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by Delk 5y ago
> Unless you are trying to save a buck it seems 1TB is the standard today. I suppose part of the problem is that while getting a 1 TB SSD instead of a 512 GB or even 256 GB one may not be overly expensive (for a middle-class person in a
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by Delk 5y ago
It could be, but in most cases it's not due to RAM commonly being unupgradable in laptops. A larger amount of RAM might still be cheap to install in the first place, but that choice is not always directly up to the consumer.
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by Delk 5y ago
> My father, who barely knows how to operate a computer, has been using it for years without the need for support. How's this working with regard to discoverability? Asking out of general curiosity; I haven't supported anybody
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by Delk 5y ago
I'm not an expert on this, and I don't know how the power-saving states for AMD processors work, but my understanding is that at least for modern Intel CPUs the deepest power-saving states pretty much turn the core off. [1] Also,
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by Delk 5y ago
You shouldn't. IMO it's kind of understandable, at least on the individual level, that people don't know. I probably didn't know until I first travelled to Asia. However, it doesn't take a genius to realize that a m
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by Delk 5y ago
Good point. For some reason I didn't think about duplicate checking even though it's pretty obvious.
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by Delk 5y ago
Wouldn't ordering basically improve lookup performance at the expense of insertion performance? If you don't order the elements, you can just smash the new entry at the end of the list and be done with it. Of course that might sti
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by Delk 5y ago
Where I live, the authentication systems implemented by banks are also used for verifying user identity to various other services, including governmental ones. Basically, there's a common (government-backed) user identification system
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by Delk 5y ago
I would also be interested to hear. I'm using Fedora on my personal hardware where I don't remember encountering much (Linux-supported) software that wouldn't work. I had to tweak something to get e.g. the native Spotify clie
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by Delk 5y ago
I didn't read the title that way. You can have a (heuristic) solver that finds solutions to some instances of an NP-hard problem in reasonable time. That's not the same as claiming to have an algorithm that, in the strict theoreti
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by Delk 5y ago
What kinds of repair needs do you usually run into that require vendor's technicians? Is it e.g. electrical, or are they the stereotypical "everything is a computer" type of problems that everybody complains about in cars? Ca
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by Delk 5y ago
Eh. Sure it's takes a bit of effort but installing a Linux distro in a virtual machine and pulling and compiling some C code isn't exactly a massive project. It would have been a much bigger deal before the widespread use of virtu
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by Delk 5y ago
It seems the number of myocarditis cases in Finland has been in the order of a few cases out of a few hundred thousand vaccinated in the specific demographic, so perhaps approximately one per 100,000, give or take. That's still not far
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by Delk 5y ago
They're restricted in the sense that the health authorities stopped recommending a specific covid-19 vaccine for a particular demographic. That demographic -- young males under 30 -- are recommended and given a vaccine from another ven
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by Delk 5y ago
> So if you're a young male, the correct response to avoiding myocarditis (among all of the other downsides that come with actually catching Covid) is to get vaccinated with the Pfizer or J&J shots. This is probably also the rea

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