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by awalton 10y ago
Err, no. This is 100% Microsoft trying to kill all Windows prior to Win10 by making it virtually impossible to continue to use the older Windows versions (i.e. by blocking updates and removing support for new hardware). There's nothing
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As long as its the old ironsides one and not an upgraded trashcan.
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Dear falcolas, If you really need to understand why car companies will not take your advice, you should look at their sales numbers. Car companies don't sell many cars in Montana. They sell a lot of cars in urban concrete jungles and s
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> Vulcan cannot be implemented on top of DirectX12 or Metal. Ehh I don't believe this for a second; somewhat more correctly, "Vulcan may not be able to be efficiently implemented on top of other APIs." I also believe that
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Oops, I counted in the wrong direction! I can't believe I missed that one >_<.
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[puts on VMware hat]. VMware's virtualization software (ESXi, Workstation, Fusion) has the concept of "CPUID masks", which can be used to mask off features to the guest from the host's CPU for this kind of work. Since it
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by awalton 10y ago
That's the real problem with most of the "Internet of Things" products - they really shouldn't have skipped the "Network of Things" step. So many of the problems with these products could have been reasonably a
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...right as the Republicans want to remove some of the protections afforded by GINA. [1] While I'm sure this helps 23andMe's business case, it's a seriously scary time to consider getting your genome sequenced right now. [1]:
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> Google isn't the destination. It is the destination, no matter how you try to reframe it. Google's just a destination that collects links to help you to get to other destinations, and pays for its service by showing ads. You
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> Don't blame corporations for working within the system they're presented. Blame an apathetic voter base. I can blame both. Ethical companies will not abuse a bad law, nor will they pay millions to lobby to break laws, or use
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> Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two. Verizon is the pipe we move data over - it's the road. "Google" is the service at the other end of the pipe - it's our destination. Verizon is
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I am actually a fan of this change, simply because the enclaves on Twitter have expanded pretty significantly, and communicating with the whole group is pretty hard in a single conversation tree... I think it's a bit awkward in the UX,
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> Never understood that argument, how is it different from your base salary, isn't it a similar mirage? Per year you get XX USD in RSUs vesting, you don't have to consider granted RSUs as being "yours". If you can&#x2
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The "Google compensation package" (not Salary) is making it a realistic option for Google employees to buy homes in the Bay Area after a few years of work. (Unfortunately thereafter, the RSU pyramid makes it really hard to leave
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> waterless ones are patented and without a water line you'd be locked in to higher priced products and/or have to spend a lot of extra money to run a new water line after the walls go up. Urinals have a very long life cycle, a
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> it's terribly slow and requires a lot of memory. ...and generates a solution that uses far less bandwidth, especially after thousands or millions of hits, which is the real point of the exercise. Cloud computing companies love t
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Unfortunately, logic and sanity fall apart when you talk to hardcore Linux users and they get on their tirade about FREEDOM!!!! Check out absolutely any systemd thread for more evidence. Freedom has a high cost - attention, maintenance, and
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In 2008, GINA was virtually unanimous in the House and Senate. What the hell has happened to this country.
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Unfortunately, after knock-down, drag out fighting over the matter, it was learned that the Justice Department of the United States is entirely spineless, and Microsoft got away with their antitrust conviction with impunity. Meet the new bo
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...then act like it? Update your desktop Macs, e.g.
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Adding another "It's completely possible" data point. I've done it at least twice (probably more, but I only remember the twice due to the "enhanced patdown" I received being a bit...touchy-feely...)
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> The opioid crisis is a product of, ironically, crackdowns on opioid abuse. This does not mesh with reality in states like West Virginia, where drug companies sent 9 million pills in two years to a town with less than 400 people - 780 m
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by awalton 10y ago
It's really hard to say they're in a bad situation, given the company's age, the newness of the technology they're flying, and the relative low cost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_an
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I wonder if articles like this will hasten non-app-store-apps' demise. Apple has already appeared to be quite itchy to lock down everything and weld the hood shut, throwing vendor kexts out of the kernel left and right and introducing
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> So how would you fix this, keeping in mind you are not allowed to touch the vendor driver's binaries in any way? I'd change the premise, since Microsoft definitely is allowed to enforce policy on vendor drivers through its W
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Why are you asking me as if it's my problem to solve? If you're trying to imply that Google can't do any better than robots taking things offline, then you're going to have to try harder - back in my day we had human mod
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> For what it's worth, the The_Donald subreddit doesn't brigade and the moderators do a lot of work to ensure that they're complying with Reddit rules. Lemme guess, if I respectfully disagree with you, I'll find all o
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It's more likely the channel was brigaded by r/The_Donald supporters or 4chan than YouTube actually doing anything. Their systems are so automated, stuff like this happens all of the time - the users wield an unseemly huge amount
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If my memory is good on the subject, I think it was because CVG was a much bigger Delta hub at the time that it was hard for them to turn it into a shipping hub and not disrupt passenger traffic. Now that Delta has vastly scaled back operat
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It wasn't so much that as it is really the only decent choice... Louisville International Airport (SDF, formerly Standiford Field) is practically ran by UPS and Bluegrass Airport (LEX) is too small for the kind of volume they want to p

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