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by FlagsAreFun 2y ago
The current top results for single core performance are ~3,100 so it is, on paper, a substantial gain. The M3 in the iMac achieves around 3,053. However, Geekbench is not that great (imo) so it does not necessarily indicate what you can exp
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by FlagsAreFun 3y ago
I do find my Macs increasingly difficulty to use, but like many things, Apple would consider quite a few of these features 'lost' as upgrades or part of the natural evolution of platforms. For example, getting rid of kexts is prob
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by FlagsAreFun 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. My time with PCVR streaming on the Quest 2 dramatically improved when I upgraded my wireless network, to the point now where I only wirelessly stream except for very high movement games e.g. F123. I thoug
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by FlagsAreFun 3y ago
They did release the Zero 2 W, which is much improved from the first model: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
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by FlagsAreFun 3y ago
This is the same for e-scooter rideshare schemes. Much of the evidence points to escooter use replacing walking short distances, so environmentally it can be a net negative overall.
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by FlagsAreFun 3y ago
And meanwhile, more and more USFF PCs will roll out into second hand markets, which offer a much more compelling option than the Pi, unless idle draw is your main consideration. Its an unfortunate state of affairs, and I hope a Pi 5 can com
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by FlagsAreFun 4y ago
Android is not for everyone, just as iOS is not for everyone.
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by FlagsAreFun 4y ago
I find it fascinating to see what the Foundation is turning its mind to now it has a seemingly high-volume, reliable supply of its house-design ARM chip. I wonder if the future of Raspberry Pi products will be going even lower-end, rather t
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by FlagsAreFun 4y ago
If you’re interested in this odd Australian time zone, Lord Howe Island (10km long, population 350, hundreds of kilometres east of the mainland) also has its own time zone for half the year.
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WorldWideWeb, Part II(blog.iconfactory.com)
4 points by FlagsAreFun 4y ago|1 comments
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by FlagsAreFun 4y ago
The Australian Government also has controlled substances laws, you’d just be prosecuted under those if it was federal land.
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
It reminds me of rideshare companies, where even though the ratings are a 50-point scale, (0.0-5.0), in the end it is a thumbs up/thumbs down system where anything less than nearly perfect will destroy you. It provides a false sense of
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
I was unaware of the advanced menu, thanks for the heads up. Could have used this last week with my new Pi Zero 2 W
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
"Other" may be some local Time Machine snapshots, which are purgeable. It may also be an APFS snapshot, which is _not_ purgeable (indeed macOS boots of signed snapshots now)
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
Re: Photos - if you have a Mac you can run your Photos library off an external drive. I have a 1TB NVME SSD attached via USB and it runs perfectly fine. The Photos Library is just a big folder so it is always possible to get at the raw file
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
16GB of GDDR6 is pretty expensive - moving to 32GB for a 2020 device would be cost prohibitive on already expensive devices
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
I've noticed this with quite a few devices I own - they ramp their fans to 100% presumably as a safety mechanism to try to ensure there won't be overheating while normal systems may be non-operational.
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by FlagsAreFun 5y ago
AFAIK in my jurisdiction the QR codes are a simple number, which the app reports along with the names of the people who have checked in or you are checking in. The number represents all the data that UK code is trying to convey. Not sure wh
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by FlagsAreFun 6y ago
I've been keeping my eye out on the subreddit for a long time for something like your 50% - except with a function row. Really wish it were more popular
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by FlagsAreFun 6y ago
Apple make my favourite operating systems and some of the best hardware but are increasingly doubling down on dubious platform control. This is an unsustainable position going forward, and smacks of being not only arbitrary (see Steam Link)
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by FlagsAreFun 6y ago
I agree - I read this less as "you have time" and more as "I have time, and I assume my experience is universal so it applies to you." I hope this blog stays up for 10 years so the author can look at it then in retrospec
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by FlagsAreFun 6y ago
70% of many audiences, even of tech news sites? Sure. But of Hacker News' audience? I would expect many here could follow the basic setup tutorial relatively easily.
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by FlagsAreFun 6y ago
Does anybody have an idea how this compares to running RetroArch on an NVIDIA Shield (2017)?
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by FlagsAreFun 7y ago
My 2013 Mac Pro does this too - it's actually (at least in my case) a kernel panic.
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by FlagsAreFun 7y ago
This is simply not true. You can report any incidents via Crime Stoppers here: https://www.crimestoppers.com.au/give-information#block-view... . Each jurisdiction's specific reporting forms are different, but you can us
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by FlagsAreFun 7y ago
I mainly play video games at 60-144FPS. Panning shots in movies now look absolutely terrible and some shots have become basically unwatchable, looking jerky and unrefined. I feel like I'm missing a lot of information such as reading si
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by FlagsAreFun 7y ago
I once took in a 15" MacBook Pro to get a SATA cable replaced (my own fault for rushing an SSD replacement and ripping the cable). While they didn't ask for my password, they did make me sign a document allowing them to wipe the d
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by FlagsAreFun 7y ago
I have worked in the academic sector and been exposed to it for a number of additional years. Reading and disseminating research, and more importantly citations, are a key intrinsic metric for researchers, and a KPI providing extrinsic moti