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Perhaps more specifically, it's its intended feature, not some goofy side-effect. The whole game here is voter suppression, and this is just one of its many new implementations as heralded under this administration's plan. Can&#
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...no there isn't. It's just another boring retread of key escrow, and we already vehemently discarded that terribly bad idea in the 90s. But hey, as the world's about to destroy Net Neutrality and overturn Roe v Wade, why no
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Funny, almost everything in the market says the "killer graphics server" feature is extremely high performance, flicker-free video from frame 0 and HiDPI support. X cannot do either of those things, period. It just wasn't des
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Yeah but Reddit and Twitter both have realized their financial well-being depends on Monthly Active Users, and bots look like active users. They simply threw ethics away and gun straight for the capital. The only reason Twitter did this was
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It's not really a shame. The Kinect is out of date and never caught on, and there are much better newer sensors that play the same role for researchers and experimenters. If you'd buy a Kinect for hacking, you'd buy Intel&#x2
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The tl;dr is that unless you had an HPC workload with a NUMA box, you couldn't observe this bad behavior. Which means in reality, you could name approximately everyone that ran into this issue on a single list: top500.org.
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The problem is that basically Qualcomm is strangling the entire cellphone space. So what if you built a completely new, much faster, much better-in-every-way SoC... if you still have to pay Qualcomm for the entire chipset because they ref
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There was literally nothing wrong with the MBP2013 keyboard. This endless pursuit of making anorexic electronics by Apple will only continue inventing faults like these - there's simply a limit to how thin these things can go and maint
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> it's innocent until proven guilty Civil case. Preponderance of evidence is enough. And the defense standing over a shredder pushing stolen documents through, paying for the shredding of a hard drive in cash months after it was s
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> That may have been true, but the city’s own analysis shows it isn’t true anymore Alright, this is three times you've said and been called out on the same exact lie. You're going to need to provide some sources, or at the ver
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> Why would a free software developer deny others easy ways, or any ways at all, to configure their system? Because of the "drive-by contributor" problem. Come by, drop off a patch that solves exactly your problem, never show u
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Death to asymmetrical patent clauses! Huge victory for OSS.
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The new ones having much better local storage helps... it's honestly my second biggest complaint (behind the first, which is with my kernel version jack autosense has literally never worked correctly, so I have to manually toggle betwe
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Meanwhile everyone forgets Project Tango which has a similar sized sensor and structured light projector... The Apple "innovation" here is finding an application for it: basically Snapchat. (Because, and let's be really serio
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Cameras are definitely not good enough alone. Tesla's enhanced their camera systems with different models of automotive-range radar (most likely manufactured by Bosch; either the LRR4 or the MRR1).
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> Mastodon is not successful, at all. I don't know about your definitions, but in my playbook 800,000 users is pretty damned successful. Let me reinterpret your comment for you: "I do not want to believe Mastodon is successful,
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'Deprecated' means "stop using this", not "this doesn't work anymore", albeit the former usually implies the latter, especially over time. The Linux kernel's promise not to break userspace means lots
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> Now I’m In SF and I’d sooner come hang out with you in NYC than I would in Menlo. Just to put this in perspective, you'd rather go down BART to Millbrae (up to 45 minutes), go through airport security (an hour on average), fly 4 h
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Meanwhile they've some of the shittiest GL and graphics drivers on the planet. So much for vertical software integration. But hey, they've got proprietary replacements for GL and Vulkan, no need to be standards compliant or portab
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Why not reimplement it and prove the filesystem can be reimplemented sanely, and furthermore now has multiple implementations to test the specification against?
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> surely it would be extremely beneficial to have at least 1 open source filesystem that has good support across all platforms The comedy of this is that there are actually plenty of FSes common to all three of these OSes, they're j
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The problem is that companies can tangibly prove the benefit, even if it's minuscule (imagine if 1:10000 car ads will generate a sell at best, that's still better than no advertising), but the citizenry have a hard time proving
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Anyone who's played Pokemon Go or Ingress can refute this; their UI design is abysmal at the very best, the game suffers a million bugs and patches introduce at least as many as they fix, etc. A company ran by Software Engineers would
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I don't understand this perspective. It's similar to saying "Surely there's a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare." It's not like you're actively monito
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Or, another perspective, all of the Tech Wearables industry is pretty much DOA. Intel is hardly the first company to bow out of the space, and will likely not be the last. The tech simply isn't there. Smartwatches don't have enoug
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> I don't think I've ever spent less than 15 minutes with my doctor for an appointment. It's always going to vary wildly based on what you need to discuss - a shot takes a minute or two of lead up, being diagnosed with a c
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Adrenaline is a powerful endogenous drug...
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"Only the good die young" is a good sentiment to write a song around but reality and statistics don't back it up.
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Meanwhile people are still dying for lack of access to healthcare, infrastructure is failing, education is remaining poor... I agree with the slash the defense budget part, but NASA doesn't need 300B/y (and would have a hard time
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Take a look at the table in the article; most everyone who is calling their next process "7nm" is roughly on par with Intel's 10nm process that they just booted up to mass production. The nm wars are worse than the MHz wars

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