Laforet

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by Laforet 5y ago
Yes, you are quite right. I was referring to the ability to directly interact with the MSR
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by Laforet 5y ago
Yes, I assume the kernel has a predetermined list of microcode to be disabled when the flag is set. The same should be doable in Windows right now but the process seems quite tedious.
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by Laforet 5y ago
Staying on an earlier version is not ideal as some of the later microcode updates actually contain useful errata beyond performance-limiting mitigations. Really wish Windows had an option like "mitigations=off" in Linux.
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by Laforet 5y ago
CAT phones actually offer some utility such as IR camera and laser rangefinder beyond the brand appeal. I almost bought an S61 back in the day but did not because it had no VoLTE capability.
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by Laforet 5y ago
At minimum ECC will cost you an extra 12.5% for the extra bit of RAM. That part is not inflated.
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by Laforet 5y ago
Not here to defend Intel (their decision to remove ECC support from X299 chipset pretty much tanked their own HEDT platform), but I often wonder how much of the current disregard of ECC is the fault of the system integrators. As of now they
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by Laforet 5y ago
The new plant is fully constructed and permanently mothballed. They went as far as removing all fuel rods and shipped them back to the US manufacturer. Unless something drastic happens I don't think we will see it in operation ever.
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by Laforet 5y ago
According to the data presented, surgical masks are still highly effective even after converting the scales to linear. Add social distancing on top, it is almost as good as N95. And I very much doubt that N95 masks are effectively utilized
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by Laforet 5y ago
eBay has changed very little since then if that helps, however PayPal might as well be unrecognisable.
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by Laforet 5y ago
You don't even need satellite to track people, the FBI has been getting really good results with a small fleet of Cessnas. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveill... Not to ment
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by Laforet 5y ago
Taiwan is geologically active and as a result there are few viable locations to build a nuclear power plant. Ironically, the Taipei-Hsinchu metropolitan area is on very solid ground and would have been perfect for a nuclear power station if
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by Laforet 5y ago
You are right that fabs require a much higher grade of water but the overall quantity is much less. Yet with farmers suffering the worst effect of the drought it is very difficult for TSMC to expand production without looking like the bad g
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by Laforet 5y ago
TSMC reportedly uses over 50 million tonnes of water per year, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the annual 12 billion tonnes consumed by agriculture. https://highscope.ch.ntu.edu.tw/wordpress/?p=42837 In any c
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by Laforet 5y ago
Politically it would be ideal to keep everything in Taiwan as this greatly increases the stakes for a potential war. However there is a pressing shortage of electricity in Taiwan. Just yesterday there had been a major blackout as one of the
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by Laforet 5y ago
One certainly can be bothered by both. I can live without sideloading apps but expect some control on the version of app I prefer. Apple's decision to remove the option of backing up apps from the device was the final straw for me to
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by Laforet 5y ago
>the original post was a bunch of inflammatory nonsense The top comment was diplomatic and mine was not. I'm sorry if blunt words hurt any feelings. >Why are you making indictments instead of asking questions? Instead of refuting
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by Laforet 5y ago
>You're communicating with me as though I know what you're talking about and disagree with you. You came into this discussion with a very strong opinion. It's only natural for other commentators to assume you arrived at th
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by Laforet 5y ago
Well let's see: Metro Exodus: Originally slanted to release on steam in Feb 2019 with preorders starting in Aug 2018. Publisher suddenly announced the game will be EGS exclusive only 2 weeks head of this date with the explicit promise
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by Laforet 5y ago
Can you point out which part of my statement and the one above has been misrepresenting the facts? "Epic Exclusive on PC" does not translate well into "Available anywhere but not Steam".
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by Laforet 5y ago
I'm not sure about that. If I had an axe to grind I'd probably write something like "Epic paid so far 1 billion USD to bribe, coerce, directly incite and enable game developers and publishers to abandon previous commitments a
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by Laforet 5y ago
Publishers sometime elect to leave full episodes on YouTube either to collect passive ad revenue or just to entice people into watching more on a paid platform. For example, the 1st season of Man vs. Food can be found on YouTube in its enti
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by Laforet 5y ago
Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline. Namely, if an infringing file has multiple links pointing to it, is the platform obliged to take down
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by Laforet 5y ago
Sars reemerged twice between 2003 and 2006, once in 2004 from civets and once in 2005 from an accidental lab release. Another potential outbreak in 2005 was prevented by preemptively culling civets when a high titre of SARS coronavirus was
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by Laforet 5y ago
The quality of tap water in Shanghai is pretty bad even by Chinese standards - there is a reason why boiling water is the norm.
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by Laforet 5y ago
A large number of Chia's executive team came from Overstock.com, a company that's been instrumental in pumping up the value of cryptocurrencies both in 2013 and 2017. Sure they could pull this off again, right?
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by Laforet 5y ago
90% of it is just hype be from intensive marketing riding on the tail of the de-fi fad. Though compared to other "storage" coins it's backed by people with good track record and they have consistently worked with institutiona
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by Laforet 6y ago
Once upon a time you could actually buy goods and services like pizza and games with BTC, nowadays the most likely reason for an average person to buy bitcoin is to pay the ransom for their locked up computer. Without a legitimate use case
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by Laforet 6y ago
At minimum you need to have a special connector like USB in which data lines are disconnected before the power lines. Or a dedicaed pair of cables to detect the link state. Both will of course require additional support at both software and
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by Laforet 6y ago
Here is a counter-example. Dr Michael DeBakey, pioneering cardiac surgeon, suffered an aortic dissection at the age of 98 and refused surgery until the decision was made for him by the hospital's ethics committee. Fortunately the surge
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by Laforet 6y ago
There has been a similar story from last year when FDA red tape prevented certain types of pasta from being imported into the US. https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-in... To be fair this is

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