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by Slartie 6y ago
That doesn't say too much. There is a single thread performance ceiling that all CPUs based on current lithography technology available just bump against and can't overcome. The Ryzen probably marks that ceiling for now, and the M
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<sarcasm> But...but...but he wrote a bit of PHP that uses ImageMagick to convert the PDF to a JPG! </sarcasm> At least he linked to the original posting by that Google guy who actually built his version from parts instead o
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by Slartie 6y ago
I don't think "there are about 20k people walking around with the vaccine, they had no serious side effects for months and the vaccine protects 90% of them" can be considered "no actual outcome". Also, this is a rel
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That's my "stack" too, which is why I once called myself "real full stack developer" once in a conversation. It was intended partially as a pun on the "full stack" term, but I said it only half-joking.
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>I also want to add that I want to punch an executive every time someone calls his discord space a "server". It's not a server. As far as I know, they don't even internally use that name, but call it a "guild&quo
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by Slartie 6y ago
This comment is spot-on. Discord hasn't been 10x better than competitors - before Discord, there were numerous competitors offering large group voice chat at better-than-Discord quality (not talking about Skype here, but Teamspeak and
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by Slartie 6y ago
Periods generally end sentences, and if that sentence convenes a thought, they do conclude the thought. I consider that to be the default mode of conversation, regardless of whether it's chat or mail or whatever. I like it when people
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by Slartie 6y ago
Your critique would be a lot more valid if you would admit that nuclear power proponents also usually "forget" about the systemic costs of nuclear power, such as the incredible costs of deconstructing old plants, the costs of stor
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The thinking behind this strategy is: there is enormous incentive to make the market perform well, which is why society will make the market perform well, with whatever means necessary. The incentive to make the market fail is much smaller
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by Slartie 6y ago
This Prime Day, Amazon tried to advertise cloth dryers of a certain brand to me via its AI suggestion algorithm - because I bought one of these dryers six weeks ago from Amazon. Of course I don't need any more dryers, thanks Amazon, I&
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by Slartie 6y ago
A substantial amount of iPhones are purchased by corporations for business reasons. They run one or two corporate apps all the time, which probably don't need much room anyway since such apps are usually designed to sync stuff with som
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by Slartie 6y ago
The "40 on three" thing is something I got very used to during US road trips, because most US pumps didn't accept foreign credit cards in order to pay at the pump. I tried it a few times, it basically only worked on one or tw
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by Slartie 6y ago
> they could bucket orders by e.g. second resolution and then execute the orders in a bucket in random ordering. This will give predictable ordering at second resolution but would make front-running or racing impossible as the sub-second
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by Slartie 6y ago
> But again, those benefits are self-referential: Fairness rules for Bitcoin serve Bitcoin and fairness rules for stock exchanges serve stock exchanges. Would the wider world be very much worse off if we had no Bitcoin or stock exchanges
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> Please help me, what real value does an investment like this yield for the economy as a whole? I see this situation to be very similar to the reason why the Bitcoin network burns hundreds of MWh of power per day. They do this because i
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by Slartie 6y ago
Interesting gas pump related differences between Germany and the US: - German gas pumps are mandated to have a vapor recovery system, which sucks out the poisonous air vapors from the tank as it is being displaced by new gas. US pumps don&#
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by Slartie 6y ago
Only if you assume features are equal in terms of necessary effort and value (they aren't) and never leave technical debt behind for later cleanup (they do) or at least leave behind the exact same amounts of debt regardless of the impl
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by Slartie 6y ago
Is the US also banning YouTube because kids did the Tide Pod Challenge and ended up in the hospital?
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by Slartie 6y ago
I strongly second this opinion. After playing SOMA (and being seriously frightened by it - you need to play it in the dark at night, with headphones, full immersion style) I was an instant fan of the studio and tried Amnesia. But the entire
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by Slartie 6y ago
TikTok as a whole is insanely overrated, at least in my opinion. I've really given it multiple tries, hours at a time, but it consistently fails to serve me anything that even remotely entertains me. My biggest gripe with it is that ha
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by Slartie 6y ago
I love this! Idea, execution, everything. This reminds me of the times when I encoded a binary database of several megabytes, with indices and everything, in the 53 integer bits of huge 64-bit floating point number arrays, because that was
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by Slartie 6y ago
Important fact not stated in the article: the ransomware in question entered the hospitals' system via the Citrix vulnerability from the beginning of 2020. This has been confirmed by the German BSI (the country's institution respo
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Amazon Music Launches Podcasts for Customers in U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan(press.aboutamazon.com)
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> No government will force that - there’s too much risk for malware and spyware as it is. Since when does any government anywhere on this planet care about "risk for malware and spyware" on operating systems? If they did, they&
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by Slartie 6y ago
I as a customer like the Epic Games Store. I even more like the GoG store. And I kind of like the Steam store, but least of these. When I shop for games, I never pay the list price - ever. Well, maybe once every few years when I buy a game
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by Slartie 6y ago
I think you are spot on, but that your explanation is only one half of the truth. The other is that a lot of people in this community despise "manual intervention" into algorithmic systems, as in lawyers and judges ordering Apple
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by Slartie 6y ago
You are right; probably I have to state the question in a more precise way, which would be: why is it such that this model seems only to be used in huge "enterprisey" contexts? The model of course depends on a certain modularity o
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by Slartie 6y ago
I always wonder why nobody appears to try a hybrid model between product and project development when it comes to satisfying large customers which need very specific customizations that often don't fit well into a product development r
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by Slartie 6y ago
Even on Windows it just takes a few hours of setting up a build VM machine from scratch, installing a few tools, to first full build. It is more inconvenient than Linux (as is all Windows building, indeed) but far from being hard to do. I d
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by Slartie 6y ago
> The overhead in handling cash, for some business sectors, greatly exceeds the transaction costs associated with credit and debit cards. What are these business sectors exactly? I assume we are talking about brick-and-mortar businesses

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