Slartie

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by Slartie 8y ago
But a MacBook is not a smartphone. A MacBook is a laptop, which is a portable version of a PC, which clearly has x86 as the dominant instruction set today.
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by Slartie 8y ago
Last time they migrated from a niche instruction set to the dominant instruction set in the PC and server space however. That is not comparable to a migration from the dominant instruction set to a niche instruction set, which a migration f
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by Slartie 8y ago
I actually bought a license a lot of years ago because I had been using it for many more years already, always clicking that nag screen away, and some day I realized that I would be totally hosed on Windows if there was no WinRAR because it
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by Slartie 8y ago
You are probably right, but that comfort comes at a price, and the price can be seen right there in the original article: 2.6% + 10 cent credit card payment overhead. And that is considered "cheap"! By contrast, in the European Un
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by Slartie 8y ago
Yeah, and this one isn't any better in that regard. Was just examining it on a Mac, where it uses the same Windows UI style. One should think that malware authors would have already implemented some JS library of sorts for their fake p
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by Slartie 8y ago
As far as I heard, he is already heavily leveraged against his stock in multiple loans that total into the billions. And his side of that deal just lost quite a bit of substance due to TSLA shares losing value, with a lot more of largely em
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by Slartie 8y ago
He was perfectly fine to surrender his CEO position at Tesla (and any position of power in any other company he is in) in order to get rid of this "ability". He did not. Certain positions of power just come with the ability to rui
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by Slartie 8y ago
If it's not intended to be a decentralized system in the first place, the "blockchain" aspect is useless and turns from being a clever hack that allows to generate a certain level of trust from distributed participants, thus
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by Slartie 8y ago
And the US will quickly run out of goods that they can selectively tariff that will not immediately and harshly hurt the broad public in a clearly visible way. You already see that in this recent round - Apple gadgets being exempted from th
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by Slartie 8y ago
Yeah, going down this path usually leads to a tightly coupled, monolithic-in-practice system of "microservices" which are effectively developed and operated like the previous, monolithic system was, but with added overhead (both r
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by Slartie 8y ago
> Never seen a fob or smartcard that has memory which is written with every individual transaction. Actually every SIM card does this. At least when used by a phone to join a mobile network, a SIM writes some timestamp or counter to pers
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by Slartie 8y ago
And even in the niche of MMORPG games, it's just one variant of name for the (relatively) permanent groups that players usually organize themselves in. It's rather common in the fantasy/medieval-type MMORPGs where it actuall
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by Slartie 8y ago
Regarding bandwidth, since that is probably the most important resource required by your voice servers: do you strategically use the mixed-calculation-type pricing that some dedicated server providers offer (where you can get large amounts
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by Slartie 8y ago
I've never claimed that. My claim was that the real number of customers per IP is probably magnitudes higher than the 2.xx factor from these numbers. The magnitude of "hundreds" might be a bit overblown, but that does not cha
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by Slartie 8y ago
I've seen those numbers, but they are idealized and only of theoretical nature. They do not account for unusable IPv4 addresses due to subnet structures, of which there are probably some within the theoretical IPv4 space available to a
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by Slartie 8y ago
The outliers that surprised me the most are the big Chinese providers (ChinaNet and China Unicom) in the provider table. Despite them having much less IPv4 addresses than users, they appear to make no significant effort to get IPv6 deployed
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by Slartie 8y ago
Well, he definitely "coined" it as in "transform it into coins". Crypto-coins, to be exact, mostly of his own currency, which has seen a quite exorbitant rise in valuation, not in the smallest part based on exuberant hyp
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by Slartie 8y ago
Another Mattermost user here. When Slack came up, some of our development teams picked up using it, because it was free and didn't have to be installed and because of "it was that hot new thing from Silicon Valley that all devs us
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by Slartie 8y ago
The 16ms is for USB in legacy mode, where the BIOS does the USB stack handling and then provides the keyboard input via interrupt 60h to the OS. This is NOT how a USB keyboard should be attached to any OS, and it hasn't been for at lea
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by Slartie 8y ago
And the "wanting someone to sue in case things go wrong" strategy is typically a pipe dream as well - you're simply fucked and paid a lot of money for nothing in case things go wrong.
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by Slartie 8y ago
Can totally understand that guy, and I hope he follows through on legal action against Musk. Having a verbal fight is one thing, even throwing around "dirty" language is in some way acceptable among grown-ups, as long as both side
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by Slartie 8y ago
I'm not sure if it is that game, but if it was, they might very well be using the "Remote Play" functionality, which streams the game from the console to a PC or Mac. You'd definitely need a beefy eGPU to decode all thos
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by Slartie 8y ago
I'm wondering why they didn't include a 10Gbps Ethernet port into this thing. They advertise it to professional graphics and video artists - don't these groups usually have to move around quite a lot of huge 3D data, image an
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by Slartie 8y ago
Indeed, if they had a pharmacy counter, where one could get prescription medicine, they would be pretty close to the American pharmacies. I never thought about that... I think the reason why they don't is that pharmacies are pretty str
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by Slartie 8y ago
It depends on the kitchen size and your expectations. Your price range describes kitchens that we would never buy for a rental apartment, but only for a self-owned one or a house you bought. The more typical kitchens in rental apartments co
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by Slartie 8y ago
I'm speaking of Germany, but I think it is similar in other European countries. We consider a pharmacy to solely be a place to get medicine from, which is not allowed to be sold in other kinds of stores. They are usually located in sma
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by Slartie 8y ago
The encoding part may well differ, but having the same bitstream format and thus being able to use the same decoders for a very wide range of efficiency/time trade-offs has huge advantages. The necessity of using hardware implementatio
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by Slartie 8y ago
Contracts are not "useless", but they are also not "preventing" someone from doing something just because they impose a penalty. If you want to see proof: visit a court! Contracts motivate you to adhere to some previousl
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by Slartie 8y ago
I'd second this! I'm very much into making pan pizza at home, and I totally love when the pepperoni pieces get just a little crispy and curled up at the edges. This (as well as the cheese color) tells me when it's time to fet
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by Slartie 8y ago
Why would it even be okay at all for a piece of code that determines the seed for a pseudo RNG via observation of hardware events (a Geiger counter measurement, according to the article) to even access the date and time on a given system? I

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