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by bydo 6y ago
Image in the article says TSMC 28nm. https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pico...
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by bydo 6y ago
The Titanic is famous because of the hubris involved; it was the biggest, fastest, most luxurious ocean liner ever, that sunk basically just because its captain was trying for the Blue Riband on its maiden voyage (also, a lot of rich and fa
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by bydo 6y ago
It may be more that that's what the dealerships stock and push, but there really are very few other differentiators. The Crosstrek comes stock with a 6-speed manual instead of the Impreza's 5-speed (though 90% of them are sold wit
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by bydo 6y ago
His work, personally? Not his executive team, not his engineers, not the warehouse workers making $15/hour, the work of Jeff Bezos and only Jeff Bezos?
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by bydo 6y ago
For reference, this is roughly the same as the GDP of Kansas, or the market cap of Toyota.
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by bydo 6y ago
That was a weird time. They also charged some trivial amount (I think $2 or $3) to upgrade the wireless drivers for OS X to support 802.11n.
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by bydo 7y ago
What? There’s been one US president who was previously governor of California (Reagan) and one who unsuccessfully ran for governor (Nixon). No other political candidate from California has even been nominated. We’ve had seven presidents fro
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by bydo 7y ago
To continue this, “normal” is a technical term in photography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_lens
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by bydo 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of “PSD is not my favorite file format”[0] 0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5355708/psd-file-format#...
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by bydo 8y ago
Related, an excellent long-form New Yorker feature about another recent attempt: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-dark...
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by bydo 8y ago
The only third part SSD vendor I’m aware of is OWC: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-air/2013-201...
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by bydo 8y ago
Eminent domain exists and is frequently used in China (as in the US). Do the terms of this lease somehow exempt the US consulate from it?
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by bydo 9y ago
Westone makes a Bluetooth cable with the same connectors used on most Shure IEMs: https://www.westone.com/store/music/index.php/bluetooth-cabl...
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by bydo 9y ago
Sure: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/the-life-...
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by bydo 9y ago
You're looking at overall density but not actual population centers. Over forty percent of Maine's population is located in the Portland metro area. Over eighty (!) percent of Alaska's population is in the greater Anchorage a
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by bydo 10y ago
Docker for Mac uses the built-in Hypervisor.framework through xhyve. Still virtualizating Linux, though, so there's some overhead.
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by bydo 10y ago
See also: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/09/anarchists-...
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by bydo 10y ago
Are there any audio quality comparisons with other codecs at higher bitrates? Their chart[1] only goes to 128kbps, with a couple cited tests at 96kbps and 64kbps. 1: https://opus-codec.org/comparison/
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by bydo 10y ago
The largest city in Vermont has a population of 40k. If this development succeeds in attracting a population of 20k, it will be the second largest.
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by bydo 10y ago
Back in the day nearly every "port" was a full reimplementation, from the code to custom graphics and sound. Such are the perils of writing to bare metal.
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by bydo 10y ago
Romero discusses this briefly here: https://vimeo.com/148909578
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A must-read book? Go on, make me(theguardian.com)
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by bydo 10y ago
Somewhat related, an article on the Guardian about "cultural cantankerousness" and the rejection of popular things as a defense mechanism: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/24/wh
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by bydo 10y ago
Only on older hardware. Anything with an A9/M9 (iPhones 6S and SE, iPads Pro) works on battery power as well.
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by bydo 10y ago
Looking at the installation instructions, the Rhea claims to require some soldering. The Phoebe doesn't, but still requires disassembling the system. They also each only work on specific versions of the hardware (20- vs 21-pin), and wh
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by bydo 10y ago
Many, but certainly not all. Redbook audio (along with tons of grainy low resolution FMV) was more common in the earlier days of the CD-ROM, when creators were trying to justify the format, but hadn't figured out more interesting ways
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by bydo 10y ago
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/03/us/elections/t...
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by bydo 10y ago
Strange that this only has any effect in Beijing, despite the company being based in Shenzhen. Do China's lowest-level courts only have citywide jurisdiction? If US patent decisions only applied to the location a suit was tried in, I s
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by bydo 10y ago
For modems, for some models (not Verizon or anything to be sold in China, apparently). A lot less exciting than the headline sounded at first. Still interesting, but not as much as Intel fabbing the A10 would have been.
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by bydo 10y ago
The third-party Siri, before Apple purchased the company, worked on any iPhone running the version of iOS it targeted. After the purchase it was relaunched as an integrated OS feature for the 4S and no longer available for older iPhones. Ja

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