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by blihp 8y ago
You're probably better off waiting for 3rd gen Ryzen which sounds like it will be a nice all-around performance bump. Should be arriving in ~6 mo.
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by blihp 8y ago
If you roll up all of the 'huge advancements' (IPC, clock speed, all of it) over the course of 7 years, that's probably in the neighborhood of what we used to call the 'annual upgrade.' Ancient? Yes. Incomparable?
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by blihp 8y ago
Google has been accused of, and increasingly being found guilty of, a great many things: run-ins with the FTC (the Canadian pharmacy settlement comes to mind), to the DOJ (consent decree... companies rarely agree to these unless there'
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by blihp 8y ago
Only because they were legislated into wanting it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty... etc) Prior to being forced to allow third-party repair shops and parts, they would use every opportuni
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by blihp 8y ago
Yup. I figure that anything I need to return / repair has at least $40-50 in overhead. The current shipping situation amplifies however good/bad the deal you got was.
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by blihp 8y ago
It made sense when they were truly a developing country. But the issue is that entire businesses have been built on top of exploiting these rates. For example, a few years back I bought several specialized antenna cables for $2-3 online (
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by blihp 8y ago
If you're not doing it already, I'd highly suggest using every free moment you have during your contract work to network with the client, any other contractors, sales reps, account managers etc. you encounter there. i.e. don'
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by blihp 8y ago
But did you ever find it interesting/fun or was it always just a job? I suspect that the OP is trying to find a way to convey the fun they experienced getting into tech as a kid... either that or they're sadistic ;-)
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by blihp 8y ago
Only if they don't have friends. I have a family member who tried that and failed miserably: not only are the kids computer illiterate (from not having any positive/useful exposure to technology when they were younger) but now th
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by blihp 8y ago
For those of us who grew up in the 8-bit era, this has a lot of appeal since that's how we got engaged. But for most kids today, is this sort of ab initio approach really the right way to go about it? Based on my experience with a fe
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by blihp 8y ago
Joe, the only YouTube support person in the office this evening, accidentally hit the pause button on the YouTube service in his admin console before stepping out for a long bathroom break. Hey, it could happen...
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by blihp 8y ago
And that is likely to help you not at all if another party with controlling interest decides to try to screw you. See the histories of Facebook and Zynga for a couple of more high profile and recent examples. Back when Microsoft was found
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by blihp 8y ago
While there are a ton of snake oil salesmen/women out there, there actually are people who are non-technical bringing other real skills to the table. Sometimes it's general business, sometimes sales, sometimes they really do have
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by blihp 8y ago
Which all by itself seems like a class action just waiting to happen (i.e. the water indicator itself is defective resulting in hundreds of dollars or more in unnecessary repairs in many cases due to Apple repair policies)
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by blihp 8y ago
That's basically what the post is asking for. (i.e. as the pledge currently stands, probably not)
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by blihp 8y ago
It's an Open Markitechure? Only half kidding: Open <blah> sounds more inclusive and cool than CUDA <blah>
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by blihp 8y ago
It could probably be argued that the standard is ambiguous as what content goes where is up to the creator of it. However, I think as a user it's fairly obvious that using it for clickbait and teaser headlines/articles rather tha
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by blihp 8y ago
Only to those who aren't inquisitive. There are several old promotional videos that have been put up on YouTube, old screenshots and brochures have been put up on web pages, there were the recent 'bringing back to life' vide
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by blihp 8y ago
If by 'older posts' you mean early 2000's and prior, the open source Lisps weren't as many or as good as they are today. CCL is open source (back then it was closed source under the MCL banner), SBCL didn't exist
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by blihp 8y ago
Regulation another tool in the toolbox, but I don't think it should be the default tool to apply in many cases. It is pretty much the last resort: the market has failed (for any number of reasons) and there are no (dis)incentives that
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by blihp 8y ago
You're absolutely right and it does take time. Unfortunately, when dealing with macro-level issues like this, putting in place long-term incentives and disincentives in the form of fines/taxes/etc. has been shown to work far
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by blihp 8y ago
But raising prices on electricity would spur demand for improved energy efficiency. Consumers are notoriously short-sighted on things that don't impact them directly and immediately. We Americans used to love our V8 engines in our big
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by blihp 8y ago
Only obsolete x86 processors at this point (pre-P4 Intel, iirc) Pretty much until the early 2000's, PC processors essentially idled at full speed. There are probably some super-cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel, low-end ARM chips still bein
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by blihp 8y ago
There's no requirement that projects listen to feedback or provide support, though the most successful ones generally do. There are many projects that simply ignore user and developer feedback. That's often a reason people fork.
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by blihp 8y ago
No, there's no reason to do it in private. If you look around there are plenty of people who publicly fork code bases and work together independently of the original project with no drama. It could be they just want to go in a differ
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by blihp 8y ago
Our medical costs are so out of control it's not funny. Many years ago (i.e. last century) you'd go to the doctor and either they'd treat you on the spot or possibly prescribe something for most common ailments. And if that
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by blihp 8y ago
I'm not advocating any external enforcement action. Merely taking the position that if there's an internal conversation which goes along the lines of 'that vulnerability could have been really bad but based on what informati
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by blihp 8y ago
If they potentially expose sensitive data, yes. Again, if an organization is certain that it hasn't then I'd say no. Sure, certain is a high bar but there's absolutely no way for people to make informed decisions and&#x2
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by blihp 8y ago
Not forgetting any of that but none of that is really new Intel information in this generation. (note that current Ryzen top end is 4.3GHz though which is relevant from the standpoint that AMD is increasing clock faster than Intel... gre
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by blihp 8y ago
Unless they are 100% certain it hasn't been exploited, yes. The reputational and legal risk to appearing to not disclose / cover up an issue is far larger than the issue itself. That changes if they are absolutely certain it w

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