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by bscphil 5y ago
> The best reason to choose fish over zsh is that everything works so well out of the box that you stop messing with it. This is such an incredibly odd perspective to me. I use zsh and have not touched my shell config in years . Messing
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I believe that GNU find is slow because it is specifically written to allow arbitrary filesystem depth as opposed to "open file descriptor limit-limited depth". I haven't benchmarked find specifically, but I believe the
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by bscphil 5y ago
Would it be any different? The amount of mining done is related directly to the value of mining and inversely to the cost of hardware; the "efficiency" of mining a block doesn't matter directly. If you made it 50 times hard t
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by bscphil 5y ago
> it would not change the fact that the BSD-licensed component is BSD-licensed. That's correct, as far as I know. But it completely misses the point. I'm not required under the BSD to provide anyone with access to the origina
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by bscphil 5y ago
> you just also have to offer the complete work to them under the GPL as well The "as well" is where your comment introduces a slight inaccuracy, because it suggests that you could offer the whole work under BSD if you wanted
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by bscphil 5y ago
You're pulling at straws here. If I'm writing a program under GPL, and I want to incorporate a component with a BSD license, I can do that and continue to license the entire program to my users under the GPL. If I'm writing a
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by bscphil 5y ago
This surprised me and so I wanted to check it out, but I think you're incorrect about this. I checked a number of shows shot in the last 15 years (The Expanse, The Wire, Schitt's Creek, Squid Game, Star Trek: Discovery, Foundation
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by bscphil 5y ago
Right, but everyone agrees that UHD is an enormous improvement worth buying new hardware for. You said "there are no technical problems or impracticalities" to high frame rates, but 2.5 times the uncompressed bitrate is a techni
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I think CGI is coming up on "effectively perfect" Then why does it still look ... like CGI? I've seen several of the biggest budget productions from recent years, and it seems to me like CGI is not getting any better. Ta
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by bscphil 5y ago
There literally are some impracticalities, though. For a Blu-ray player to support 60fps at 1080p, it's got to support level 4.2 of the AVC specification. Many (most?) players do not do this (and in fact some older models supported onl
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by bscphil 5y ago
There are a surprisingly large number of them. Even more when you include serious injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_and_television_ac... A woman was shot and killed by live ammo on a movie set about
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, for a highly upvoted comment OP is unbelievably presumptive and universalizing about human nature. The sort of dating culture in which such an account is even natural didn't even exist prior to 50 years ago or so. When I lived in
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by bscphil 5y ago
They're really quite different in my experience, but the difference is not one of availability so much as it is Python developers (mostly) following traditional software engineering best practices. I write almost all my hobby projects
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by bscphil 5y ago
If you need the latest available versions of the software you use, you should probably use a distribution that has that as a goal. Debian is built with the intention of providing stability, under the assumption that most of its users can af
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by bscphil 5y ago
The latter absolutely should get just as hostile a reaction. The only thing it provides you over the former is that it at least guarantees you that the author went to the trouble of creating a deb. Actually, it should probably get even mor
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Since GPU memory in the Windows Display Driver Model requires it to be backed by the host machine’s virtual memory Wow, this seems really unintuitive to me, especially on a OS that doesn't overcommit. Is it as unintuitive as it so
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by bscphil 5y ago
Assuming you're referring to the parent comment's 100GB drive (or even the 256 GB one) that's really not true. A quick `du -sh` tells me I have right at 100 GB of FLAC music, and I've easily listened to every single trac
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by bscphil 5y ago
If data is not encrypted with a piece of secret information (usually a password) with enough entropy to keep it secret in the face of offline attacks, then it is as good as not encrypted, period. The hope that your hardware design is suffic
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is what I would expect as well. Some kind of visual self-test, and if/when it fails, the driver gets an obvious warning and autopilot does not engage - you get some kind of clearly visible warning so that you can contact Tesla to
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by bscphil 5y ago
> In the case of Roblox, you can argue "but what about the platform?" but 5% is still a metric-crap-ton of revenue and is more than enough to keep their platform afloat (especially if they don't have to give 30% upstream t
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by bscphil 5y ago
Why is making 6% from your one funding source on an otherwise free-to-play product unreasonable? Do you think any markup of more than 5% is unreasonable? What about Apple's physical products? What about ... every retail store in exis
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is mostly wrong. It's sort of funny that the HN title leaves off the sarcastic ", actually" part of the title, because like many articles with that suffix it's pure Dunning-Kruger. Calling something a "starvati
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by bscphil 5y ago
Thank you for saying this, your personal experience here is just about the best insight we could ask for. Subjectively, there's an odd lack of current Apple engineers weighing in on threads here at HN relative to other FAANG companies.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Well said, and pretty reasonable numbers over all. The one point I'd add some clarification to is your .0001% chance of the vaccine having worse short term health effects. It's not that the number is wrong, exactly, it's that
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by bscphil 5y ago
> is precisely how music has been funded for hundreds of years and how classical/orchestral music continues to survive today You're quite right about this. That's why it's important that I'm strongly of the view
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by bscphil 5y ago
Vouched for your comment because I thought it was an interesting view. Not sure why it was downvoted. Why can't it be both? Suppose I buy t-shirts from Walmart. At the checkout counter, the cashier asks me to donate $5 to feed hungry c
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Paying the lowest price you possibly can nearly always means someone along the way was exploited No, I agree with that. But that's still engaging in charity, right? Voluntarily paying more for something that I could pay less for,
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by bscphil 5y ago
I have nothing against charity, but isn't that just charity under a different description?
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by bscphil 5y ago
Is that true for ... anything at all, though? Outside of computer programs, where you claim it is? The ideal food, the ideal movie, the ideal vacation, the ideal video game, the ideal body, the ideal sofa, the ideal tree... Choice arises be
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by bscphil 5y ago
I found it sort of funny, given that those links are apparently talking about modern web bloat, that I see a blank page when I visit them in a browser with JS disabled.

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