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by __d 7y ago
I don't have anywhere near the same number of items in my iBooks app (only a few PDFs actually). Once a book is open, it's ok, but it just took 40s to open the app. That actually seems a little quicker than it has been, so maybe
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by __d 7y ago
If I'm buying fiction from an author I know and like, that I think I'd like to last for decades (and maybe leave to my children one day) I'll buy hardcover. That's maybe half of my fiction purchases. For authors or book
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by __d 7y ago
1 professional (Fastmail, own domain) 1 personal (POBox alias, forwarding to iCloud) 1 employer-provided (Google Business) 1 GMail (er ... GMail) 1 iCloud (not publicly used, but collects from POBox) 1 Yahoo (still!) I use all accounts from
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by __d 7y ago
Which will be great, just as soon as someone comes out with a competitive server CPU + chipset. Surely these are in development, but based on the ARM experience, it'll be at least 5 years from availability of reasonable parts to any de
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by __d 7y ago
Does anyone run proprietary software in a cloud context? The whole point is that the hardware becomes as flexible as the software, spin up, spin down, blow it away and deploy a fresh instance if something goes wrong. I can't see many p
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by __d 7y ago
PyGame Zero ( https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ ) might be worth a look? Its aim is to bridge between Scratch and PyGame proper.
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by __d 7y ago
Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu ) is an ok introduction to thinking like a programmer, although it might be a little too simple for a 10yo gamer ... I'm finding the leap from Scratch to Python + PyGame is kinda challenging
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by __d 7y ago
Librem One is nothing but a bundling of already-existing services into a branded product. You can use OpenPGP with your email, Matrix to chat, Mastadon for social, and OpenVPN for tunneling without becoming dependent on Purism. I think comp
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by __d 7y ago
Let's assume a police officer costs the state $88,0000 annually (including salary, training, healthcare, equipment, etc). So $88M is 1000 additional officer years. It's possible a camera and its installation will cost up to $500,
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by __d 7y ago
Thanks for posting Nick's article! I chased up some actual details from NASDAQ as an example: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2
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by __d 7y ago
That's how those who use Java do it: write their code to minimize allocations, and then configure the JVM with a GC threshold that's bigger than their whole day's allocations, and manually GC at a suitable time. Last I looked
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by __d 7y ago
In a little more detail ... To be competitive in US equities HFT, you need an FGPA with 40GbE ports hosted in a server (which needs to power and cool the FPGA, and deal with the less latency-sensitive bits of your system). You'll need
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by __d 7y ago
Right, so when I’m trying to process a network packet in about a microsecond (a reasonable target for financial trading software), Go’s GC rules it out. Many low-level, high-performance systems language tasks aren’t feasible in Go for simil
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by __d 7y ago
Yes. From about $100k to maybe $300k. After that I might be able to afford more. There's no doubt it could be an attractive product (assuming a bunch of stuff about how it works) but as a practical matter, living longer doesn't m
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by __d 7y ago
Interesting question. Obviously, a lot would depend upon the details. But as a first guess, about 10 to 15% of my net income.
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by __d 7y ago
My 2003 12" PowerBook had 2 x USB-A ports, 1 x FireWire 400 port, and 1 x mini-DVI port. My 2008 13" MacBook Aluminum Unibody had 2 x USB-A ports, and 1 x mini-DisplayPort. My 2014 15" MacBook Pro has 2 x USB-A, 2 x mini-Disp
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by __d 7y ago
You might also want to consider some additional risks that are often overlooked: Billing issues. What happens if the credit card you use to pay for everything gets hijacked, and you're trapped with a blocked card trying to clean it up
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by __d 7y ago
I agree -- a browser wasn't needed at the time. But without one, they're not practical for use as a desktop/laptop/phone OS today. And I also agree that a browser is not sufficient (as you cited, BeOS/Haiku, etc)
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by __d 7y ago
I wonder if the name is actually a part of the problem? It's been 10 years (more or less) and to a first approximation, Illumos has got zero value as a name. Some of that might be due to its murky origins, with OpenSolaris, OpenIndian
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by __d 7y ago
A browser engine is, I think, the main impediment to most non-mainstream operating systems being "useful" in a day-to-day sense. It's just a massive amount of work, with literally millions of lines of code required, whereas a
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by __d 7y ago
Modula, and then Modula 2, were languages primarily written by Wirth. But Modula 3 was a project at DEC's SRC with Luca Cardelli as the primary author. Both Modula 2 and 3 are worth looking at, and both are fully capable systems progra
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by __d 7y ago
I play it with my kid. But ... it's good. I wouldn't have played it with that motivation, but it's really well done.
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by __d 7y ago
I think the problem is that 802.11ac requires a non-free software blob? It supports 802.11n, for which a non-blob solution is available.
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by __d 7y ago
Did you find this firm? https://privatemachines.com/enforcer/
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by __d 7y ago
I don't know a suitable manufacturer. But I'm curious: do you care about the physical form-factor of the server enclosure? When you say "chassis lid", it makes me think you're envisaging a 19" rack-mount serve
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by __d 7y ago
No, because GMail works, and anyone who needs email can use it. Or one of its competitors. Yes, because your email is your identity, and that's a very good thing to own. Unfortunately, you can only rent domain names. But once you do
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by __d 7y ago
I think self-hosting is the wrong choice for most people. The effort you need to put in to first build out the system, and then maintain it, and all the while jump through the various hoops that are required to have Google, Microsoft, Apple
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by __d 7y ago
So when Apple releases their new Apple Display Air with 60GHz wireless Thunderbolt4, and the new MacBooks finally get wireless charging, we’ll reach the nirvana of a totally port-less device. With some more work on the keyboard, it could ev
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by __d 7y ago
Iridium orbits are ~780km (485 mi). Starlink lower tier orbits are ~340km (210 mi).
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by __d 7y ago
That argument can apply to any improvement in efficiency of a process. Admittedly any contribution of HFT to economic success (other than that of the traders themselves, of course) is probably fairly marginal, but more efficient markets are

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