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by brigade 13y ago
we're already practically bursting at the seams here on earth Not especially - developed countries have had declining birth rates for a while now, with several below the replacement rate. Plus you have to consider that both Antarctic
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by brigade 13y ago
I ran 'opkg upgrade' once and it deleted itself. I've run into lots of other annoyances with it (e.g. its database is rather slow), but that's the one that sticks in my memory.
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by brigade 13y ago
I never got why cmov was 2 µops (and thus 2 cycle latency) on Intel CPUs. On AMD (and modern ARM), it's 1 µop with 1 cycle latency and can be issued to any ALU. Which makes it a win for a single conditional mov in pretty much anything
664.
by brigade 13y ago
Has it ever been a renter's market in NYC? It seems that NYC's rental market has to have been deeply in favor of landlords for a very long time in order to create a market for these brokers to even exist.
665.
by brigade 13y ago
It seems rather silly that they don't charge their clients though, instead charging their victims. If they directly charged the landlords, maybe some of them would consider whether the service is worth 10-15% of a year's income.
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by brigade 13y ago
SSD isn't automatically faster than a traditional HD, as people using SD cards to boot ARM boards have found out. The SSD in the Chomebook for instance gets about 64 MB/s sequential read, 17 MB/s sequential write, 4 MB/s
667.
by brigade 13y ago
You're missing a couple steps in your timeline, specifically that the bug was fixed before Secunia's public disclosure, then Secunia ignored said fix, then claimed it wasn't fixed but provided no proof, then ignored VLC for m
668.
by brigade 13y ago
Of what to whom? VLC fixed the vulnerability themselves, and upstreamed the fix themselves. They do complain that Secunia didn't inform or issue an advisory on upstream projects - if VLC had not taken the initiative themselves to upstr
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by brigade 13y ago
> there isn't a single thing you can do about it. There are laws against most of the things neighbors could do to annoy you. Which means you can involve police and/or the courts, until your neighbors stop annoying you. If you&#
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by brigade 13y ago
> increasing supply as a way to make housing/apartments cheaper in SF Decreasing overall rent isn't a good goal, for much the same reasons as deflation isn't good. Rather the goal of building new housing is to control infl
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by brigade 13y ago
I don't think any culture really teaches how to help shut-ins, at least once it becomes a legitimate mental health issue. In the western world, however, parents will very quickly make their newly reclusive child's life miserable (
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by brigade 13y ago
You aren't required to use iCloud Backup to use iMessage. They're completely separate services.
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by brigade 13y ago
Only a very few niche services encrypt user data such that the service provider cannot read it, because then users lose everything just because they forget their password. And said services are explicit about this upfront.
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by brigade 13y ago
And the opposite approach means I only need to update glibc once and flash audio is broken.
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by brigade 13y ago
I don't know about Windows, but OS X certainly does have that [1]. It's simply called by a different name. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/develo...
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by brigade 13y ago
1) Well, the whole "games are cheaper as a digital download" sure isn't true while physical copies are being sold in stores, thanks to agreements to not undercut retailers' prices. Only when a game is old enough that phy
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by brigade 13y ago
It's almost like iFixit doesn't exist.
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by brigade 13y ago
It's not just oil subsidies that encourage private vehicles - parking is also massively subsidized [1], and of course all infrastructure is payed for from everyone's taxes. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08
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by brigade 13y ago
Shrinking feature size alone has had diminishing returns on efficiency for the last couple generations, and I haven't heard any indications that sub 22 nm would reverse that. Obviously it still increases your transistor budget, which i
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by brigade 13y ago
Neither - the 5GHz chips were rumored for a while, and the rumors always mentioned 220W TDP. Since the first half of the rumor came true, it's fairly likely the second half will too.
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by brigade 13y ago
It predates IMAP, which should say everything.
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AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says (2007)(seattletimes.com)
53 points by brigade 13y ago|3 comments
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by brigade 13y ago
Defense contractors pay a lot more, and once you have an active clearance you're in high demand. If they want higher pay, that's where they go.
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by brigade 13y ago
Grow up / go to school in Maryland or Virginia (probably most of Pennsylvania and New England too.) Personal experience suggests that most of the brightest CS/CE/EE/math majors there wind up either in three-letter agencies or (more likely)
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by brigade 13y ago
HN is kind of a silo that isn't at all representative of the population at large. In particular, programmers currently make more than enough money to comfortably live alone pretty much anywhere in the US. Even fresh out of college, most of
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by brigade 14y ago
any C library involving image manipulation is likely going to have code similar to what you've described ...which actually is exactly how I found out first-hand that it doesn't always work. If you only ever test on x86 you'll never ca
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by brigade 14y ago
The reason it's useful to explicitly "break the rules" like this is because it's important to know what assumptions you can in fact rely on, regardless of what standards bodies have to say about it. Given that compilers do break when p
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by brigade 14y ago
I really wish people would stop using Javascript benchmarks as a CPU benchmark, especially across architectures. The amount by which they vary between browsers on the same device should make it obvious they aren't a good general-purpose b
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by brigade 14y ago
Which indeed is why the implementations aren't going to be open source. The last I saw of the design, the intention was to put the entirety of decryption, decode, and display into a binary browser plugin and the HTML5 parts were only the
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by brigade 14y ago
No, that's stupid. That's equivalent to claiming telephone calls aren't private, because they're transmitted in the clear by third party exchanges accessible to authorized users. (email servers generally aren't publicly accessible, rather t

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