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by G3rn0ti 3y ago
In Germany the „Brockhaus Enzyklopädie“ used to have its place in every academic house hold. The 24 volume version filled an entire cupboard on its own, cost thousands but looked great with the volumes’ red shaded back and golden rims. Espe
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> Having to remember something like that violates so many design principles. While I am inclined to agree, this is the case for many languages. Python and JS for example IRC. When you receive a dictionary or an object as a function argum
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> So it's not a type its more of a language implementation detail Well, it’s used to distinguish between values that were passed into a function via „copy by value“ or „copy by reference“. Insofar sigils have nothing to do with type
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> And half the time it doesn’t work because the hash is actually a ref Perl still supports both „copy by value“ and „copy by reference“. For example: my @copy = @original; my %hash_copy = %orig_hash; my @processed = foo_func(@cop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act "A financial institution is not allowed to inform a business or consumer that a SAR [suspicious activity report] is being filed." Laws like this exist in many co
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I think they are required by law to do so. At least in the US.
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A US$2000 chrome os experience? But why? While I like ChromeOS and I believe it’s the perfect fit on low-end devices, I never quite understood the premium Chromebook market. Why would you pay so much for a device which you then can basicall
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A feature designed by the marketing department. Hopefully, we will be able to turn it off like Cortana.
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> I wonder if I can get the 16" laptop without a mainboard? I don’t think so. But will probably be able to swap its mainboard, too, and sell the original one. (That is at least when there is a second one available for the 16“. I don
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8088 were 16-bit CPUs, it’s just Intel had its memory bus limited to 8 lines.
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> After those reforms were loosened in the 1980's and 90's, they became routine. Correlation is not causation. 1973 marks the end of Bretton-Woods i.e. abolishing the Gold standard and, hence, an unprecedented expansion of the
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This will add another regulative legislation on top of a pile of existing regulation in the banking sector — no amount of government control can prevent bank failures. Recently, there was a thread of “dystopian surveillance” of employees in
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Eventually they will come up with this. You have to consider Framework being a startup and, hence, not being HP or Lenovo in their production and shipping capacities. In the mean time, go for a US keyboard and swap it for Scandinavian one w
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by G3rn0ti 3y ago
Like the Intel models, the AMD versions will come with an eGPU (the Zen 4 chiplet being the more powerful one). In both cases, it is possible to attach an external GPU via thunderbolt / USB4 if you need it.
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You will be able to swap your mainboard for the AMD one.
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If you have the language server installed remotely LSP mode works via Tramp, too: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/remote/ Best to add the language server to your application’s runtime anyway. But fo
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> laws of physics don't care about that As the figure tries to convey laws of nature do not matter if human action is able to offset their effects. In the last 100 years climate related deaths plummeted by 10x despite the warming tr
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A screenshot of the original graph: https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/OlbmTi1ZYEJS.jpg?o=1
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> The baseline is going up. I think that is debatable: https://m.facebook.com/photo?fbid=721067186044954&wtsid=rdr_... While I am not saying to ignore climate change, I do believe that the recent public narrative of
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by G3rn0ti 3y ago
I skimmed through the article and it kind of reminded me of „Transhumanism: The most dangerous idea“ [1] by Francis Fukuyama. Turns out Nick Bostrom —- the founder of the „Future of Humanity“ institute and who is mentioned several times in
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El Ten Eleven is a great instrumental band that is kind of famous in the alternative scene. Otherwise, popular instrumentals are all techno tracks that made it into the charts. Think of Fat Boy Slim, Jus†ice or Daft Punk. I’ve seen Jus†ice
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Regarding TPM’s security see also: https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-reportedly-issues-dmca-... „ specifically, Lockpick bypasses the Console TPMs to permit unauthorized access to, extraction of, and decryption of a
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> to check if your device is running an unmodified windows OS Remote attestation sounds secure in theory but its Achilles heel is that at the remote end sb will have to perform a judgement of what „an modified OS“ is. And any wrong decis
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You can run older Word versions (up to 2016 I believe) very well inside wine. It’s even easy to install (PlayOnLinux e.g. guided you through the install). No need for a windows license.
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Guys, I recommended the book because I believe it gives a rather good introduction to the fundamentals of money and banking, even though its title is designed to catch your attention. I am _not_ claiming it's the ultimate source of tru
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If you really want to upgrade, just try it out. Don't worry. MS' CPU requirements are somewhat arbitrary (presumably they want them to include spectre/meltdown mitigations) but they are not strictly enforcing the rules. This
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Even MS themselves explain how to bypass the TPM check on their support page (by means of a dedicated registry key „AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU“). [1] That tells me they don’t really expect to be able to enforce TPM security upon t
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Try reading this classic: „What Has Government Done to Our Money?“ https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money It’s a good introduction to banking, money and the business cycle.
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And almost no PC laptop copies that concept. The benefit is simply not that compelling unless you are designing type faces maybe. But maybe we boring PC people just can’t miss what we don’t know. Like Bentley cars or Champagne when we can g
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The future is RISC-V not ARM. The former will be everywhere, the latter only in Apple devices.

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