Valmar

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by Valmar 8y ago
> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting. No, we aren't. AMD's promise was fulfilled quite a while ago. They officially contributed, and work on, a FOSS driver for the Linux kernel, and also for Mesa. One of their
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by Valmar 8y ago
LOL! This is excellent! XD
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by Valmar 8y ago
> completely broken platform model Hardly. It works extremely well for Linux distribution maintainers, and for the FOSS projects that work with this model in mind. Within the FOSS community, the platform model is excellent. It doesn&#x27
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by Valmar 8y ago
Lawyers, I might guess, if this TOS is anything to go by.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Did you notice the '' quotes?
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by Valmar 8y ago
What about good ideas that are squashed by corporations, and are never known about by most of the public, because it might threaten their profits? This includes corporate influence on governments, so that the politicians act as their servan
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by Valmar 8y ago
7 nm... 10 nm... all marketing bullshit, at the end of the day. Only way to know is compare the raw, different aspects of nodes.
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by Valmar 8y ago
It's more one kind of apple to another. They're both process nodes, with certain minor-ish differences here and there. TSMC calls theirs 7 nm, Intel calls theirs 10 nm. Their performance characteristics might be around the same. I
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by Valmar 8y ago
The many, unpredictable, and very real, negative side effects of anti-depressants can completely outweigh any of the dubious positives, especially when it's impossible to tell which of dozen or so available marketed drugs will or will
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by Valmar 8y ago
For many people, they believe that it is the final solution, because that is how it is advertized by the drug companies and psychiatrists, and how it is marketed to many doctors. That is how most end up people treating the drug. The drugs
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by Valmar 8y ago
Not on their own, obviously. They must be combined with a decent helping of psychotherapy. Combined with psychotherapy, I'd say they're superior to drugs, because they don't mess with the body in hard-to-measure ways. A healt
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by Valmar 8y ago
> if they see evidence of improvement after 8 weeks, that's quite different from having no evidence of improvement at all. There may show that there are short-term improvements, but it says nothing about the medium to long-term effe
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by Valmar 8y ago
Makes a lot of sense to me.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Well, an obvious example is the NDE phenomena, majority of the time accompanied by an OBE ~ person's heart stops, they have an OBE NDE, and directly experience themselves explicitly outside of their lifeless body. This is an experience
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by Valmar 8y ago
If physics removes itself even further from philosophy... it will slowly become a cesspool of rigid dogma, becoming blind to reality. Physics, as it is, is already lost in a jungle of abstractions, becoming more and more divorced from the r
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by Valmar 8y ago
I agree. :)
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by Valmar 8y ago
> glucose store will empty relatively quickly, and once that’s used up the body will start breaking down the amino acids in muscle tissue and converting it to glucose. Not quite true. The body can convert fat into glucose, just like prot
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by Valmar 8y ago
Ummm... problem is, Windows is used by a ton of people. Break their workflow, and said peoples will hate you. So... UTF-16 in Windows Hell, and UTF-8 everywhere else that is actually sane.
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by Valmar 8y ago
How so? The numbers don't seem to have much relation at all with all of the real process node numbers.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Even Intel's numbers are just marketing, however. Everyone is fudging the numbers... SemiWiki has a good overview of Intel 10nm vs GF 7nm: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7191-iedm-2017-intel-...
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by Valmar 8y ago
Intel's nm numbers are also pure marketing, I believe.
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The Linux Kernel Boot Process – Linux-Insides at GitHub(github.com)
4 points by Valmar 8y ago|0 comments
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Progress on KDE's Plasma Wayland for 5.13 – subdiff(subdiff.de)
3 points by Valmar 8y ago|0 comments
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by Valmar 9y ago
LSD or any psychedelic, can make the user more sensitive the energies that we normally cannot sense. Non-humans seem more sensitive to these energies than we are, whether because their stronger senses allow them to notice what we cannot, or
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by Valmar 9y ago
Well, if you're comparing Linux and Windows' kernel specifically, they seem about the same, if everything we know about Windows' kernel is true.
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by Valmar 9y ago
Qt isn't quite the same as vanilla C++, however.
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by Valmar 9y ago
A pity that the Mir devs didn't really have any experience or deep knowledge of the Linux graphics stack... It took the X11 devs, many of whom were also involved in Mesa and Linux graphics development, literally years just to get all o
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by Valmar 9y ago
I wonder if there will be a successor to Wayland and X11 that learns from the mistakes of both? Can't always make wise improvements if you don't first make awful mistakes that weren't properly considered in practice.
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EU censorship machines are coming, could adversely affect FOSS contributions(juliareda.eu)
4 points by Valmar 9y ago|1 comments
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by Valmar 9y ago
Are those even hacks, though? They seem more like just how it is. Are these limits necessary? Maybe these limits are just part of the nature of how matter functions, rather than being mere hacks. We understand so damn little of this physica

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