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by Reelin 6y ago
> On Windows, using OpenGL directly will give performance problems and crashes _all the time_. Didn't the original (Java) version of Minecraft use OpenGL? It seems to have done well enough...
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by Reelin 6y ago
Regarding Android, yeah I get that it's optional (I actually didn't know that recent versions had made it mandatory). If you view Android as analogous to Windows though then I think it makes sense. There's lots of different d
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by Reelin 6y ago
> people have a hard time writing their ideas about designs & features down, because they don't know what they want From an academic standpoint, writing is part of the thinking process. If you haven't written it down, you h
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by Reelin 6y ago
Library Genesis contains lots (millions?) of fiction ebooks (among other things). It's available in torrent form. Not that I would ever condone piracy or anything.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> PlayStation True, but Sony has some sort of completely custom thing going on there so it seems that there's zero chance of standardization in that case. > Android until version 10 I thought Android got VK support way back in ve
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by Reelin 6y ago
That's a rather baseless and low effort accusation to make. The linked paper doesn't appear to me to make the claim you did. The combination group (the one from which you could validate the claim you made) is very small - only 486
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by Reelin 6y ago
Indeed. In context, something that would presumably continue indefinitely (border traffic and drug consumption) was being discussed. That would require permanent legislation and normalization of extensive government surveillance. In contras
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by Reelin 6y ago
> How is having a standard API to draw 3D graphics not a solved problem at this point? It seems like it mostly is? The problems described in the article appear to be due to a mismatch between how QT and Krita do things under the hood. Op
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by Reelin 6y ago
> if, in use, its thickness approaches the wavelength of your charge carrier Tangentially, a conceptually similar and equally counterintuitive phenomenon is attenuated total reflection. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by Reelin 6y ago
Approximately: IP addresses are allocated to a network operator by the IANA via an ASN. Most large streaming services block non-residential ASNs at this point. Sometimes they miss one here and there. Your best bet is with smaller providers
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by Reelin 6y ago
To elaborate on this a bit: * You only need two VPNs assuming you just want to protect against either of them linking your browsing history back to your identity and selling that information. * The second one must be paid for in a reasonabl
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by Reelin 6y ago
Huh. My apologies for the misunderstanding then. It's definitely not how I read that wording, largely because I'm highly skeptical that a viable alternative exists for any significant number of non-recreational opiate users.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> So the US has to go into the production business for cocaine, heroin, etc. Pharmaceutical companies already produce everything you could imagine and more. I can't stress enough how much of a non-issue this concern would be in prac
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Most opiate users for pain release could swap. I'm sorry but I have to call you out on this. It's complete BS - we simply don't have anything that's remotely comparable to opiates for pain relief. That being said I&
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by Reelin 6y ago
> not when the legalized variants are so much more expensive That's highly dependent on the particular product and regulation. There's not much of an alcohol or tobacco black market in the US as far as I can tell because the re
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by Reelin 6y ago
> it cannot (or doesn't want) to stop the traffic coming from outside its borders Openly turning that sophisticated intelligence apparatus against the citizenry is simply not politically tenable in the US at present. (Note that I sa
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by Reelin 6y ago
> You get used to it pretty quickly. You don't if you're writing low level algorithms. It's difficult for me to articulate the exact problem but I liked 1-based indexing until I needed to implement some algorithms that ope
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by Reelin 6y ago
I would think that ideally you would want E2E encryption that was on by default for everything. Then rather than turn it off, you would also want the ability to configure a server to effectively MITM everything (and the client to cooperate
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by Reelin 6y ago
In theory I agree with you. Or I would have, had I never been exposed to Twitter. Reddit has subs. Facebook is highly filtered by design. As far as I can tell Twitter is about as far away from a filter bubble as centralized social media cur
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Some boards list in the specs, but that's not a guarantee that it's actually working. You do realize that false advertising is illegal? Of course realistically that would be a very uphill battle to pursue but that doesn'
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by Reelin 6y ago
> at conditions that would generally be considered "non-flammable" if oxygen were involved instead "Generally considered non-flammable" doesn't even begin to describe it. From ( http://www.lateralscienc
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with port scanning or broadcasting to your own infrastructure that you pay for?
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by Reelin 6y ago
> and unlikely to work on anyone who keeps an eye on their running processes Rootkits are a thing. It would be perfectly reasonable for a criminal to intentionally use one to hide a process doing illicit things on their own computer from
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by Reelin 6y ago
The issue with multihop is that it's all from the same provider. In the event that they were legally forced to log their network by an abusive local government it wouldn't help you. It might be sufficient to frustrate an adversary
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by Reelin 6y ago
Fair enough. Relying on the sale of either x86 based systems or devices with a large form factor seems like a questionable business plan to me as well.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> You can justify anything by claiming you are "looking out for the future of humanity." You're right, you can. That being said, in context I dispute your low effort implication that what he did was wrong. As far as I&#x27
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by Reelin 6y ago
> PC market is minuscule compared to mobile, stagnating , slowly declining and has a long refresh cycle. Modern phones have 2+ GB RAM and an SoC that could easily be used in a tablet or laptop (think low end Chromebook). The PinePhone li
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by Reelin 6y ago
Sure it's uncharted territory and we've run into some issues but it's not all downsides. One upside of such easy communication is the unprecedented availability of knowledge. Discussions on topics for which HN has a significa
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by Reelin 6y ago
Run Linux ... on a device whose CPU has an unauditable security coprocessor? A CPU whose microcode is implemented in encrypted firmware? A device whose physical hardware can't be meaningfully audited without state actor level resources
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by Reelin 6y ago
Presumably a warrant can be obtained if criminal activity is traced back to a specific VPN provider. Of course that's already the case as far as I understand (ex LavaBit). I also don't see how VPNs would be affected since they al

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