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by MrRadar 8y ago
In addition to the benefits of getting working more working chips per wafer, don't chiplets also provide the benefit of being able to independently bin each chiplet, significantly increasing the effective production yield of high-cloc
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I think Classic MacOS/System 7 (from the same era) holds up pretty well too. It's been a long, slow decline ever since. Hopefully the trends will come back around soon. EDIT: I just remembered a video I found a month ago with a mo
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BearSSL – TLS 1.3 Status(bearssl.org)
2 points by MrRadar 8y ago|0 comments
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by MrRadar 8y ago
The current encrypted SNI proposal[1] basically boils down to putting an ECDH key share in DNS and then using that to encrypt the SNI. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-esni-00
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I wonder if this comes down to Linux being more adept at handling "exotic" NUMA configurations compared to (desktop) Windows. Even if the "server" editions of Windows could handle them Microsoft may have left that functi
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by MrRadar 8y ago
The key thing to understand is that the electricity market is unusual in that electricity can't be easily "stockpiled" the same way most commodities can be. This means it needs to be produced at almost the same rate it's
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by MrRadar 8y ago
In 1990 only around 3% of the US population had a passport[1]. These days it's up to 42% due to a combination of stricter ID requirements (particularly at the Canadian and Mexican borders) and an increase in popularity of international
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Mozilla's OpenSSH configuration guide is much more to-the-point: https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/openssh
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Tesla has the ability to make "normal"-looking cars because the brand itself signals the owner is environmentally-conscious. The "traditional" automakers could probably get away with the same thing if they had exclusivel
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by MrRadar 8y ago
They reminded me very much of the artwork that accompanied 17776: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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by MrRadar 8y ago
> These were 16 bit machines with either no or extremely limited (286) MMUs; just how many processes were you going to be multitasking with your 512K of MMU-less RAM? It's frankly amazing that Microsoft ever managed to get Windows t
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Speex and Opus bottom out around 6000-8000 bps. Codec2 starts at 3200 bps and goes down to 700 bps. The original target use for Codec2 is real-time transmission in the HF (shortwave) and VHF/UHF amateur radio bands where those are ab
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Codec2 is also fully open source and patent-free, in contrast to virtually every other ultra-low-bitrate voice codec (which are proprietary and have expensive patent licensing attached). He has a Patreon if you want to support him in the on
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LMARV-1 (non-FPGA RISC-V CPU) Part 2: Redesigning and Testing the Register File(youtube.com)
1 points by MrRadar 8y ago|0 comments
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I'm using IPv6 on Centurylink who don't even deploy IPv6 by default (they have a 6RD server but their default modem/router config doesn't use it and you have to dig on their site to find it) and IME after configuring 6RD
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by MrRadar 8y ago
While I she agree that 8-11 is an exaggeration, it is easy to get up to 7: 1 right turn lane, 2 though lanes, 2 left turn lanes, and then 2 more through lanes in the opposite direction. Those aren't common in areas with lots of pedestr
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by MrRadar 8y ago
The issue is that for some reason amp usually seems to block the content from being displayed until the javascript loads, which strikes me as the exact opposite of what an "accelerated mobile page" should do (almost like it was de
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by MrRadar 9y ago
It's quite possible that's the only version of the original source code that still exists. Many game studios didn't use source control even through the 90s and once a game was considered "done" there wasn't muc
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by MrRadar 9y ago
> The average age of a passenger car in Germany is ~6.7 years. From a US perspective that number is insanely low! The average age of a car in the US was 11.6 years in 2016.[1] The average US driver drives 13.5k miles (21.7 km) per year[2
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An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
20 points by MrRadar 9y ago|5 comments
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by MrRadar 9y ago
This is one of the reasons I'm confused that the coal industry isn't pushing EVs as hard as possible. A huge surge in electricity demand from EVs is one of the few legitimate reasons I can think of to halt the trend of shutting do
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by MrRadar 9y ago
> Isn't it far better to encourage bad ideas to come out of the shadows, where those who espouse them can do battle (and face defeat) in their name? In an ideal world I would agree. However, we are in a far from ideal world and our
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Maybe people buying new IPv6-capable devices at the end of the year during the holidays and then fewer buying them over the next few months? It's also interesting to note the difference between weekend and weekday IPv6 traffic (~18% vs
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by MrRadar 9y ago
There's a Firefox extension to add the rel=noopener attribute to all links (except ones to the same domain): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-touch-my...
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Because it's the most efficient way to communicate with the corporate headquarters and clients/customers? These places are fundamentally businesses and they have the same communication needs as any other.
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Huh? This is pretty much exactly like Mt. Gox. At first Mt. Gox only suspended people's ability to withdraw USD, like Bitfinex. Then they suspended people's ability to withdraw BTC (apparently people have been experiencing delay
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Mostly that if anything goes wrong their support tends to be incredibly unresponsive. Also make sure you're not using SMS-based 2-factor authentication with them since there's a long history of people getting their phone numbers
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Except that they do. Right now each Bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of energy as the average household does in a week (255 kWH according to https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption which is more than
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by MrRadar 9y ago
IIRC they plan to deploy the Quantum enhancements on Android but it may lag a few versions behind their availability on Desktop since they don't want to have to include both the Quantum and non-Quantum codepaths (so the Quantum changes
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by MrRadar 9y ago
Doesn't Debian follow the ESR releases for their stable branches? E.g. when support for ESR 52 ends they'll upgrade stable releases to ESR 59?

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