TomVDB

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by TomVDB 7y ago
We all have our own preferences. But whatever they are, that still doesn't mean that Apple failure with Siri as alleged reason to focus on privacy is relevant when the end result is better privacy.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It’d be interesting to review today’s lowest iPhone (a $450 iPhone 7) against similarly priced Android phones. My hunch is that you’ll still get much more !/$ for Android.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Why is that worth remembering when the end result, being privacy conscious is much more important than the reliability of Siri?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
40GbE is indeed crazy fast. Didn’t realize that you can have PCIe cards that do this for less than $500.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I know nothing about SAN, but I'm still surprised that it would be faster than a PCIe connected local SSD?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The question was not "who do you trust", but "who do you trust more ". Given that Google's business model depends on data sharing whereas Apple has made privacy one of their core features, I think the answer has to
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If it makes you feel better: they're hardly ever being driven...
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Please no. Instead of a clear script, the developer now has first has to wade through word diarrhea to extract meaning. > Then God appeared to wazoox and told him: "You will not spread your software on the face of the world without
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I find that the most efficient way to get a point across is to use lists/bullet points in your email. I have this very smart colleague who writes in long paragraphs and I always zone out somewhere in the middle. It's a terrible wa
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I think you're missing my point that I don't particularly care how it's done. I just care that graduating students can start their life with zero debt, just like they can in many other countries.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
From the US point of view, that's a perfectly reasonable position to take. (See also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975483 )
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by TomVDB 7y ago
There could be a sufficient amount of friction in the system such that it could be in any position when the air speed is zero?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I don't agree that you should restrict the number of people who are capable of attending college just because it overwhelms the market, but for the sake of argument, let's assume that this is the right thing to do. Even then, the
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> Indeed, it will make degree inflation even worse. I grew up and went to university in a country where you only paid a nominal tuition (~$500, and when it got raised to $550 students went on the streets to protest the injustice.) If you
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It’s fine to have some barrier, but the income level of your parents is probably the most unreasonable one. So let’s have free college and figure out some other barrier, please.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You can access documents all the way back to 2003. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this hole has existed that long.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You're not wrong, but all of that is a moral or unquantifiable point. And it doesn't change the fact that TARP didn't cost any real money.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
What is it that makes 5G cheaper than 4G? In the past, faster almost always mean a denser network of costly towers. Is that different for 5G?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> US leads the world in illegal activities and spying/stealing from foreign nations. That's one of those empty, non-falsifiable statements that don't do anything to further a discussion. Spying and illegal activities are b
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You were lucky! Putting so much force on those batteries, I was afraid they'd crack and catch fire.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Replace the battery. I did it last year on my 2012 rMBpro after it have been complaining about servicing the battery for about a year, and while it wasn't a walk in the park, it all worked out great. Tip: there are 2 ways to replace th
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by TomVDB 7y ago
While I love living in an open concept house, I totally agree with the points that you disagree with. We don't have a lot of guests all that often, so I agree if "a handful of times" is "between 10 and 15 per year."
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Family of 3 in a 2100 sq.ft. open concept house. We have one wall the adds separation between a family room and the dining place, and we're in the process of adding a hole in it (though the reason is increased light.) In general: we lo
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If an employers rescinds an offer, the employee could blog about it, resulting reputation damage for the employer. But who would the reverse be true? It’s not as if there’s a database of employees who have signed a contract but didn’t show
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by TomVDB 7y ago
There was a time during the golden dotcom era when my manager scheduled a monthly management meeting across the Atlantic, which required me and 2 colleagues flying all the way over for a meeting that lasted about 4 hours. Business class pla
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You could take that a great filter: if people explicitly lead you to their empty GitHub account, what does it say about their judgement?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
They are not for all kind of attacks. E.g. this new one can only be reproduced on Intel, not on AMD and ARM. If you want to ban speculative execution for everything, you need to make the case that it's a fundamental issue and not an im
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I know that some AMD CPUs a long time ago had exclusive caches, but for Ryzen, I'm pretty sure that both L1 and L2 are inclusive, and L3 a victim cache.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The shortcuts that we're talking about here are all pretty trivial in terms of performance impact and in terms of what it takes to fix the issue. Meanwhile, GPUs are designed to run thousands of threads in parallel, and orders of magni
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If ARM and AMD CPUs are not affected, then speculative execution in general is not the issue.

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