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by blihp 6y ago
If it doesn't currently, it will soon as it's being ported to the current release of Cuis which absolutely supports 64-bit.
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by blihp 6y ago
The main application would seem to be no longer needing to scan the spectrum for activity... you'd continuously be scanning (effectively) all of it simultaneously. A least one useful bit information you'd be obtaining from this i
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by blihp 6y ago
Actually that was very normal for a new Internet user of the time. In the early 90's there was no web as far as the public was concerned so Yahoo (1994)/Altavista (1995)/Infoseek (1994) did not exist yet. For users of the
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by blihp 6y ago
CC is geared more toward content/documents. People can and do use it for hardware, but it's not a great fit. In the article they talk about some of the challenges like the building blocks of most electronic designs (i.e. chips,
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by blihp 6y ago
That's just a cheap way to bet on the trade being played out by then: buy some deeply out of the money puts with a relatively low premium today (the further out of the money, the lower the premium... so you can afford to buy more) with
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by blihp 6y ago
No, it wasn't called. The broker would inform me, after executing the trades, (typically after the close on the day of the trade) that they literally could not borrow the shares and would send me a 'sucks to be you' message
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by blihp 6y ago
Hedge funds typically buy on margin so when they 'borrow' the 100 shares, they are only required to have a fraction of the amount borrowed in their account (either in cash or other securities) essentially to guarantee the broker d
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by blihp 6y ago
Not always true. I've had brokers force me to close short positions (esp in '08-'09) because 'no shares available' which forced me to buy at the market in order to close out the position. It had nothing to do with
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by blihp 6y ago
There are absolutely staggering amounts of waste in large, especially market dominating, companies. Mainly because they can afford it... for a while. The difference with most smaller, and even mid-sized, companies is that if they made eve
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by blihp 6y ago
Hasn't WD been doing their own silicon (at least from a design standpoint, they still use someone else's fab) precisely because the 'small percentage' ARM charges matters for their margins? In a world where we have ESP-
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by blihp 6y ago
Except for cost... which has been a problem for the BeagleBoard line of SBC's since the beginning. They actually predated the original Raspberry Pi by a couple of years but when the Pi came in at ~25% of the cost, they caught up and o
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by blihp 6y ago
No it wasn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnNVV5QNaA
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by blihp 6y ago
You vastly underestimate the production gap between those two drive types. There were likely at least a couple of orders of magnitude more 3.5" drives in use in their time than 5.25" drives were in theirs. I remember my last 5
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by blihp 6y ago
Since 2003: https://www.cnet.com/news/china-to-view-windows-code/
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by blihp 6y ago
It's usually a function of how much time/energy/money companies in a space put into generating the hype. There are teams of people at the better funded companies working to arrange interviews, plant stories, have influencers
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by blihp 6y ago
In some applications the turnaround time either doesn't matter or can be overcome. (i.e. with FDM printing it's pretty trivial to use 2..N print heads to get an increase of 2..N in part production) Also, this happens with virtual
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by blihp 6y ago
If you want minimal tweaking, I think you're pretty much constrained to Gnome and/or KDE as those are the two desktop ecosystems on Linux. Just install both and switch between them for a while until you decide which one is for yo
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by blihp 6y ago
I took it to be sarcastic. It was a spectacular fail as within about a year of the acquisition everything good they were doing had completely disappeared from view never to be seen again. That's not to say that DEC could have done an
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by blihp 6y ago
For the 'core' (i.e. non-interactive parts of the) language, that's still somewhat true. So for basic class/method definitions, collections classes etc. you could probably somewhat get by with the Blue Book. (with a mas
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by blihp 6y ago
Don't think for a second that employees 'are not afraid to convey such bad news'. Between the massive years-long hype, delays and bad press about crunch time around the title, not to mention being the most lucrative time of
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by blihp 6y ago
The big difference between Pine64 and the other (phone) projects that have come and gone over the years is that Pine64 really seems to have the manufacturing (including sourcing and logistics) side down. The other projects came across as s
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by blihp 6y ago
That would be a different argument and case. If Congress were to pass a law providing blanket immunity of federal employees, expect it to be challenged on constitutional grounds especially in a case where the damages were the result of mis
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by blihp 6y ago
Because people absolutely refuse to learn from history. The gravity of the situation is the same as it always is: OSS projects have created a hard dependency on a commercial 3rd party service because it was given to them for free. Free se
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by blihp 6y ago
My take was that they were primarily referring more to the costs associated with handling the overwhelming tech support requests from less/non-technical users rather than what sounds like occasionally selling specific items at a loss.
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by blihp 6y ago
Yeah, both projects have their challenges. It's been good to see them, as well as the Librem developers, working with each other to advance their respective projects where it makes sense. Just curious, what corporate backing are you r
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by blihp 6y ago
Definitely... that's part of the reason I chime in when this topic comes up. Having done both Linux and mobile development, I don't believe that the entirety of the answer is going to be 'just throw a more powerful SoC in th
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by blihp 6y ago
C++ apps tax the Pinephone hardware. It's just not very fast vs user expectations today. More generally you can't just recompile desktop Linux apps on mobile and expect much in terms of responsiveness/battery life. While
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by blihp 6y ago
In a sense it already has. I suspect the reason that Linux ARM support is as good as it is currently has a lot to do with devices like the Raspberry Pi. In 2010 (i.e. before the Pi) I was using a BeagleBoard-xM and things were both rough
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by blihp 6y ago
Profit margin expectations.
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by blihp 6y ago
Unless you're used to running on a low-end Chromebook as a daily driver, no.

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