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by black3r 4y ago
360 indeed uses hypervisor [0], but uses it only for security, to make the app signature verification run on a higher level. Windows on PCs also runs under hypervisor if you enable some security features (e.g. VBS/HVCI which are on by
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by black3r 4y ago
Sideloading on iPhones is already possible, but requires a Mac/PC and is limited for people without paid developer account (max. 3 apps, must reinstall every 7 days, there are windows/mac apps which do it for you automatically). w
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by black3r 4y ago
well yes, but not everyone wants to download 70GB movies, so blu-ray movies are often re-encoded for smaller filesizes (10-20GB 4K HEVC, 5-10GB 1080p H264 AC3 sound, 1-5GB 1080p HEVC AAC)
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by black3r 4y ago
It comes down to the fact that HEVC is supported by more devices. 1080p and lower resolution versions of pirated movies still come in H264, because that is supported by even more devices...
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by black3r 4y ago
That's kind of the point of splitting CS degrees into general undergraduate basis and specialized graduate level. In undergraduate you have to learn the basics of everything and can start to specialize on projects or bachelor's th
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by black3r 4y ago
HWE is not a rolling release, it's just backported kernels from newer non-LTS Ubuntu into an LTS version, releases every 6 months, so still very much a time-based release..., Ubuntu calls them "rolling" because when using HWE
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by black3r 4y ago
I just wish that PyPI would enforce binary wheels going forward (at least for linux x64/arm64 for people who use Docker, but ideally for all common platforms). They already supply the cibuildwheel tool to automate their builds, so it s
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by black3r 4y ago
Is there a problem with the package format itself though? There are lots of serious problems tied to distribution rather than package format which would make the experience way easier especially for beginners and people used to other packag
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by black3r 4y ago
The market's only thought about the OS is what features it supports. And lots of them are provided by 3rd party apps. Lots of people switch from Android to iPhone and back. People mostly just want to keep using their TikTok, Instagram,
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by black3r 4y ago
Applications. You can't take an existing Windows app and run it on Windows Phone, because the APIs are not there. You can take an existing Linux app and run it on Meego, because it's just a regular ARM Linux with a custom UI.
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by black3r 4y ago
stable diffusion is a work of researchers, not engineers, it's not a released product, it's an attachment to a research paper... researchers shouldn't need to know anything about releasing a software product... you see it her
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by black3r 4y ago
Just don't mess up your system. The tutorial linked works perfectly fine in a clean python environment. That XKCD is more about messing up your system by not knowing what you're doing but randomly following shitty tutorials which
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by black3r 4y ago
the thing eats 15GB memory on my M1 Pro with 32GB RAM... you're probably slowed down by swapping if you only have 16GB RAM...
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by black3r 4y ago
most of the cables I used did have that... but the "top" side was only ever usable with laptops... lots of desktops had the ports upside down, and other USB hosts like monitors, TVs, chargers, cars frequently have the ports sidewa
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by black3r 4y ago
iMessages aren't converted to SMS on Apple's servers side. It's a fallback on the phone's side. When you're on a WiFi but with no cell coverage, you can send an iMessage but can't send an SMS.
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by black3r 4y ago
At least you live in a country where you have the official shops available.., I still don't understand to this day what's the problem in having one e-shop that ships to whole EU, even if they didn't support all the languages.
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by black3r 4y ago
Python's pip is developed separately, but the main repository is operated by PSF (authors of Python), and python's source code nowadays contains the "ensurepip" module to install pip if needed and official binary release
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by black3r 4y ago
When Steam stops selling a game because of licensing issues and you bought it before, you still have it in your library and can download it from their servers. How and why is selling movies more complicated?
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by black3r 4y ago
The founder/CEO of this has already (co-)founded and sold 2 hardware companies: SandForce and Skyera, he probably has the right connections and can afford it.
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by black3r 4y ago
I love how they call the 180W variant "Low Power"
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by black3r 4y ago
Tried it on my 14" M1 Pro (10-core) now, got 264 on native Chrome and 286 on Safari. EDIT: noticed the author's comment saying extensions may lower the performance, so tested again in raw chrome and got 304.
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by black3r 5y ago
Developers often work on high-specced laptops and it's hard for us to even remember how using 4GB of RAM feels like. My first laptop I used for professional work had 16GB of RAM and that was a 1000€ laptop 9 years ago. That laptop stil
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by black3r 5y ago
discussion about this from 2014, when it was brand new and HEIF didn't exist yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704629
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by black3r 5y ago
slightly related: docker clone in 120 lines of bash - https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/bocker
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by black3r 5y ago
I still have my original SE, but I use it as a secondary offline phone precisely because the web and apps are no longer optimized for it. If I turn off data and WiFi the battery lasts for days and it's still perfectly usable for callin
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by black3r 5y ago
> Normal javascript works fine these days for a sprinkling of front-end interactivity. jQuery is not even necessary anymore. If you just need a sprinkling of front-end interactivity, you don't need a framework and you never needed i
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by black3r 5y ago
The issue is mainly with mobile browsers, as mobile data is expensive..., Firefox on iPhone doesn't have about:config.
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by black3r 5y ago
YouTube by default prefers newer, bitrate saving codecs over old ones if it thinks your CPU can handle software decoding them. On my 2017 Dell XPS 1080p and lower resolutions on YouTube play in software decoded AV1, only 1440p and higher pl
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by black3r 5y ago
Can we please stop with the 17MB GIF images used as demos? They use up lots of data immediately as you open the page, and are impractical, you don't know how long the animation is, can't forward/rewind, and you can't pre
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by black3r 5y ago
For me "cheating" is anything I would not be able to come up with on my own, if I played the game with no prior knowledge, repeatedly, in an offline environment with no external assistance available.

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