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by brigade 7y ago
I wouldn’t necessarily think that Best Buy or Office Max were essential, but they seem to be exempted as essential because they sell equipment to enable working from home
452.
by brigade 7y ago
If the game offers "borderless fullscreen" or "fullscreen windowed" then that's what you want. There are 3rd party utilities that can force it for games lacking the option, but I can't speak to how well they wo
453.
by brigade 7y ago
It's iPhone side; actually it's part of a settings reset: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205220#help
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by brigade 7y ago
It was the primary reason I gave up trying to make it work for my family - none of them regularly leave their laptop plugged in overnight, so there was rarely a time when both laptop and phone were charging at the same time.
455.
by brigade 7y ago
This has changed - now you can change the password for new backups with the iPhone passcode.
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by brigade 7y ago
It's also flakey as hell (just looked and my latest backup is over 3 weeks old), and relies on having a computer plugged into power at the same time as your iPhone, with enough free space. I've tried getting my family to use it
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by brigade 7y ago
AKA the Linux scheduler isn't intended for desktop environments and applications. Certainly that same observation drove the development of BFS / MuQSS, which unsurprisingly behaves better on his artificial benchmark than the mainl
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by brigade 7y ago
Ehh, S/N has improved so much since the 80's that the noise floor of today's low-end receivers are significantly better than basically all high-end equipment from back then, especially if you include the DAC.
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by brigade 7y ago
They didn’t load 32-bit drivers in a 64-bit kernel; rather they ran a 32-bit kernel that supported 64-bit userspace processes.
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by brigade 7y ago
It's not; full-range YCbCr doesn't exist anywhere in the "pro" or broadcast pipelines that would have been used for GoT. I think he meant to say that the limited dynamic range of 8-bit video manifests most obviously in d
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by brigade 7y ago
Interestingly, it’s also one of the few sources of comprehensive objective measurements of high-end speakers and other equipment. They’re just careful to never let the actual measurements influence the glowing prose of their main review;
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by brigade 8y ago
At the very least, they can’t violate IRS §7216 without your explicit consent, which they ask for with the default sync to their parent company. And for now that isn’t required to use their filing.
463.
by brigade 8y ago
My suspicion is that loops that need even a dozen registers are in general either not tight enough on modern CPUs that a spill is measurable (maybe they were that tight 10-15 years ago), or were optimized after 64-bit was common. Or maybe
464.
by brigade 8y ago
> Most Linux distributions consist of packages of vast amounts of unmaintained or mostly unmaintained C code Well, that's exactly the kind of code I'd expect to simply break when the compiler becomes able to prove new optimiz
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by brigade 8y ago
Blame intel maybe? 9th gen only has the 95W SKUs fleshed out; at 65W TDP the 8th gen parts still have SKUs with higher clocks. (as in there is an i5-9400 to replace i5-8400, but no refresh of the i5-8500, i5-8600, or i7-8700, which are all
466.
by brigade 8y ago
I think you misread av1C (av1's equivalent of avcC) as avc1
467.
by brigade 8y ago
Probably it’s for cables, in that a 1x2 cable can (I assume) be longer for cheaper than a 2x1 cable.
468.
by brigade 8y ago
Especially with APFS adding fast directory sizing, it's ultimately the responsibility of each individual filesystem driver to calculate directory size. And the driver is also the only code that can tell whether the last returned size i
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by brigade 8y ago
Scaling video encode to 112 CPU cores is hard. I haven't looked too hard into this encoder but the normal method to scale that high is to encode entire segments in parallel. (YouTube in particular supposedly does each segment single-th
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by brigade 8y ago
That would still need kernel support, so apps will randomly crash if you aren't using the latest patches (spoiler: some people won't be) Really, it's just a bad idea overall to have usermode visible microarchitectural differe
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by brigade 8y ago
2013, according to their environmental report - https://www.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/apple_environ...
472.
by brigade 8y ago
Rather than stepping in, the government really needs to step out of preventing infill development. AKA, the problem is created in a large part because of the government’s existing policies, thus they should change.
473.
by brigade 8y ago
Having optimized very tight C loops which included manually promoting int types to intptr_t to avoid sign extension, I'll say emphatically that avoiding needless sign extension had no effect on my micro-benchmarks on modern wide CPUs,
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by brigade 8y ago
For these machines, apparently incumbents are selected by default. Which in Texas are predominantly republican of course.
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by brigade 8y ago
If you're arguing species-level survival, really we're going to survive longer than that, short of a meteor strike or maybe nuclear war. Sure, 99% of the population might die, the equator could become uninhabitable, and we might l
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by brigade 8y ago
Threadripper CPUs might be price competitive with LGA1151 CPUs, but X399 motherboards start at more than the lower-end CPUs; combined you really should be comparing to Intel's HEDT X299 platform, which starts at about the same overal
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by brigade 8y ago
Eventually the kernel has to be updated, which you want to reboot for. Plus ensuring that the entire userland is running the same new versions of base system libraries isn't much less disruptive than simply rebooting. Anyway, ChromeO
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by brigade 8y ago
Also, none of the benchmarks in the article have anything to do with the CPU.
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by brigade 8y ago
Sufficiently low resistance wire; in particular, USB power over 60W needs >3A current, so a high-gauge high-resistance wire can cause voltage to drop below the minimum specs. Since everything 60W and below uses a max of 3A, that’s the co
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by brigade 8y ago
Unfortunately, low latency Bluetooth codecs are fragmented between AptX, which can achieve 32ms latency but isn’t supported by iOS, and AAC which isn’t generally supported by accessories, especially the low latency variant. So you’re basica

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