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by bhauer 6y ago
Can anyone explain the Redis numbers, specifically the 3900X versus 5800X [1]? The 5800X is showing numbers easily more than 2x the 3900X. I understand this is a single-threaded test, so the additional cores of the 3900X (12C/24T ver
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by bhauer 6y ago
But this is partially missing the original point about proportional scrollbars , which is that they illustrate how large the scrollable content is at a glance. With hidden scrollbars or, as I believe you're describing, simply not eve
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by bhauer 6y ago
A big "Yes" to proportional scroll bars. I didn't have an Amiga, but rather an ST. The ST also had proportional scroll bars and for years, I could not understand why the major platforms (Windows, MacOS) did not. It was a p
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by bhauer 6y ago
This is great. I learned on Basic XE on an Atari XE, then GFA Basic (2, 3, and 3.5) on an ST. I still find reading Basic code to be considerably easier than most other "starter" languages. GFA was remarkable for its time, with i
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by bhauer 6y ago
I assume you mean a "Proxy as a Service" when you say "VPN," right? Without that focus, web sites would have a lot of trouble identifying IP traffic routed over a personal VPN from any other traffic. I suppose they co
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by bhauer 6y ago
I'd like to see someone run our framework benchmarks project [1] on M1 versus something like an Asus G14 (Ryzen 4900HS). It's not graphics, but the ability to run web frameworks is of interest to me. [1] https://github
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by bhauer 6y ago
That's a good point. And that must have been large enough to easily more than offset any increase in demand from the home desktop computing enthusiast. For my company, since we didn't want to use a bunch of money to buy new equip
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by bhauer 6y ago
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread [1], the data in the article shows desktop computing down significantly in Q3 2020. That came as a surprise to me. I would have expected it to be up since so many are stuck at home and desktop computi
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by bhauer 6y ago
Apparently not a whole lot since given the data they show, desktop computing was hit hard. I admit this came as a surprise to me. I had assumed, from a combination of the title and my intuition about 2020, that desktop computing would be e
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by bhauer 6y ago
> The reason that people went with Zoom is "because it worked." As other products improve it's hard to see what Zoom's moat is and why we should continue to pay for it. Ironically, I would say Google Meet defines &
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by bhauer 6y ago
With the prevalence of password management, users are only expected to memorize a very small number of passwords. For me, I have two key passwords I must remember: my login credentials and the key to my password manager. I don't know
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by bhauer 6y ago
Agreed, plurality voting has to go. St. Louis just adopted approval voting [1] which is even better than ranked choice voting (no need to rank and avoids the non-monotonic problem of RCV). So things are looking up! [1] https://
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by bhauer 6y ago
I use Samsung Pro Endurance microSD cards [1] in most of my Raspberry Pi 4s. My RPi devices don't see the wear and tear of my main computers, so I can't speak with authority on the matter of durability. But anecdotally, I have h
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by bhauer 6y ago
We do the same at our small company. We recently gave all the developers a budget to use to build a custom workstation. The only requirement was being able to do the work we need to do effectively. We also provided a few template configu
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by bhauer 6y ago
In a manner of speaking, yes. Netscape begot Mozilla, which in turn begot Firefox.
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by bhauer 6y ago
It does, based on a URL match. One of the links included a "www." hostname prefix in the URL and the other did not, so the URLs don't match.
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by bhauer 6y ago
But that wasn't an innovation. Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Mumble, they all work that way.
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by bhauer 6y ago
I have a vision of computing that I call "personal application omnipresence" (PAO) [1] where applications are singular instances that you interact with concurrently from any device. Notionally, it's similar to having multipl
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by bhauer 6y ago
Also, in most normal web pages—at least those not using hideously over-complicated scripting—just pressing your "forward" button (Alt+Right, for example) will navigate forward and restore the edits you had in the form.
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by bhauer 6y ago
For whatever it's worth, I use Samsung Endurance SD cards [1] in all of my Raspberry Pi 4s. While I wouldn't say any of them are subjected to heavy load, I've never had an SD failure in the ~1 year of usage they've each
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by bhauer 6y ago
Agreed. The maxim warning against "security from obscurity" is often reduced to an irrational comprehensive avoidance of obscurity. It's similar to the irrational avoidance of all performance optimization because Knuth warn
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by bhauer 6y ago
We plan to collect additional metadata from maintainers, including home page URL, source URL, description, and so on. Once that happens, we'll be able to provide the kinds of helpful links you want.
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by bhauer 6y ago
Brian from TechEmpower here. I don't want to take away from these results, but I do want to provide an important piece of context. This link is to a rendering of data from a continuous run [1] that hasn't received the type of sa
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by bhauer 6y ago
The new vision sounds like the old, current vision for the most part. I might be missing subtle changes in items 1 through 4. But item 5 is interesting: > New focus on economics. Recognizing that the old model where everything was fre
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by bhauer 6y ago
Not only that, but modern Google Meet is significantly more useful to my day-to-day remote conferencing needs than Zoom. Modern Google Meet's advantages: * It's nearly instantaneous to use. You can just bookmark any prior meetin
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by bhauer 6y ago
Completely agree. I want a computing model I called PAO, where applications are singular and available across all of your devices. If you're interested in a read: https://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
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by bhauer 6y ago
Maybe not much cross-shopping, but since we're talking simply about total units delivered, it's not relevant whether any single consumer is cross-shopping the two options. What's relevant is whether the consumers for each ar
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by bhauer 6y ago
> It’s not because of limited choices. But it’s the other way around. There are so many note-taking apps you could try but end up sticking to none. At least, that’s my story. It’s a perfect example of the paradox of choice. Either this
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by bhauer 6y ago
> On a related note, if there were a similar site for drm-free movie purchases, I’d be all over it. No joke. Call me old fashioned, but I love self-hosting my music collection and BandCamp is a key in facilitating that. I would do th
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by bhauer 6y ago
What we did (and continue to do) in the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks [1] is publish a set of requirements for our test types, provide a small set of example implementations on mainstream frameworks, and then solicit input and contributi

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