Miraste

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by Miraste 6y ago
What a false dichotomy. I don't see a problem with the way Microsoft handles it, allowing you to run unsigned apps but only after clear warnings about the consequences and a moderately obscured install button. People ignoring these war
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by Miraste 6y ago
Apparently institutional investors are just Kickstarter backers with more money.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Including the most important part of the AMD hype bicycle, backpedaling.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Normally the low power gpu is the integrated Intel one that's on all their consumer chips, so it's more adding one gpu than slapping in competing ones. Although it does cause driver issues anyway, hence the thread.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Can you give an example? How are the restorations damaging?
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by Miraste 6y ago
This is how path-tracing graphics engines like Blender's Cycles work. They fire rays from the camera and record whether they hit light sources, which allows simulating far fewer rays.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Usually, the best solution to putting Linux on a dual-GPU nvidia laptop is to stop doing it and go do something else.
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by Miraste 6y ago
They don't "just work" with Wayland, i.e. the future of Linux desktop.
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by Miraste 6y ago
It's not like a video game, but it's not a toy either. To get good results you have to direct it and be mindful of its limitations, but if you're willing to approach it as a human-assisted story building application rather th
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by Miraste 6y ago
Char-ism-a?
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by Miraste 6y ago
Eliza comes up a lot in these discussions. I’d like to know if would have the same results today, now that chatbots, video games, phone robots, etc. have given millions of people the mental model of getting responses from a box with no thou
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by Miraste 6y ago
Yes, I've just realized that, my apologies. I can't tell any more.
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by Miraste 6y ago
>I decided that reading anything from other times and cultures is just too regressive to be worth it. . . What can [they] tell us about human nature Are you serious? You don't think there is any insight into human nature in the work
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by Miraste 6y ago
While I agree with your broader point, kinesthetic learning isn't real [0], and modeling education on the idea of learning styles can be harmful [1]. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/0
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by Miraste 6y ago
If you look at iFixit teardowns, even the front camera modules are practically the full thickness of the phone, which is much thicker than a MacBook lid.
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by Miraste 6y ago
The ultrabooks that are priced to compete with MacBooks have even worse webcams than Apple uses, because they have even thinner lids and bezels. It's not a question of cost, it's the result of physical laws and design priorities.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Nothing you listed has a competent GUI. For a mass market product that is everything.
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by Miraste 6y ago
> Customers have responded with second-class compensation (favoring advertising). This is more the result of Android being the budget option. You make it sound as though developers have some grand scheme against Android. Devs do prioriti
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by Miraste 6y ago
>devs could do all of this stuff on Android, they just refuse to. That's not fair. There are good reasons Android doesn't have art production apps. The biggest is that Android users don't pay for apps like that and devs li
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by Miraste 6y ago
At least on iOS, native apps matter because Apple suffocated web apps by blocking a lot of functionality (APIs, PWA support).
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by Miraste 6y ago
"Underwater basket weaving degrees" is a great piece of rhetoric because it lets the listener project their personal most hated field in its place. If you think gender studies degrees are useless, I don't see the value in mar
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by Miraste 6y ago
It's also worth noting that even though Microsoft didn't need Edge to succeed to nearly the degree Firefox has to in order to continue development, the competition from Chrome was so intense they gave up anyway. Fields where even
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by Miraste 6y ago
This article[0] talks about how locals were shooting at it, although it doesn't mention the berms (talking to the sheriff must not have worked out). I think a hyperloop could avoid this problem by not locating in Louisiana. [0] https:
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by Miraste 6y ago
That was in private windows with no extensions. I tried it on my Windows machine with no extensions too, and it was 1.44 to 1.51, basically margin of error. I know MacOS Firefox has really lagged on performance improvements in the past. It
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by Miraste 6y ago
Without uBlock it's Chrome 2s, Firefox 3s.
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by Miraste 6y ago
I'm no browser architect--I don't know how the rendering engines compare, and of course it depends on the site and the extensions used. I did just time some popular websites, and confirmed my impressions. For example, nytimes.com
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by Miraste 6y ago
Firefox is faster than it was, but it's still the slowest browser. I've gotten literally 2x benchmark scores from Safari on the same hardware, and the subjective difference is large. Servo propelled FF from "unusable" to
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by Miraste 6y ago
Apple's fortunes were by no means sinking when they released the iPhone. You could make that argument for the iPod, perhaps. I've always seen OS X and the iMac G3 as the turnaround point, both of which play into GP's idea of
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by Miraste 6y ago
The shock wave travels faster than the speed of sound in the medium at rest, but not faster than the speed of sound in the moving medium around the wave. Longer and better explanation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a&#x2
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by Miraste 6y ago
Never panned out, they canceled it years ago. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-mach...

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