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by bydo 10y ago
Many SSDs are built with extra, inaccessible, capacity, for wear leveling purposes (of course, I don't know of any SSD manufacturers selling unlock codes for the extra storage). Lithium ion batteries similarly degrade with use. Perhaps
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by bydo 10y ago
Kodak made more money selling film (and paper, developer, fixer, and so on) than from selling cameras. Toyota doesn't sell gasoline.
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by bydo 10y ago
Vorbis and FLAC may be distributed under very permissive open-source licenses, but they may also infringe on software patents, which is ostensibly why Apple has avoided them. They also may not, but under the current US patent system we can&
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by bydo 10y ago
Why call it the Triboro? Even leaving behind the negative associations (one assumes advocates of rail would not want to call to mind thoughts of Robert Moses), there are, err, four boroughs it proposes to connect.
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by bydo 10y ago
America's Cup?
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by bydo 10y ago
Unfortunately, opting out of driving is no guarantee of not being killed by an automobile. Roughly 15% of fatalities resulting from US auto accidents are pedestrians[1]. 1: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812124.pdf
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by bydo 10y ago
On that note, is there some valid reason Nix absolutely needs access to / to create /nix? Why can't it live somewhere else? I believe some parts can go anywhere, but /nix is hard coded for the rest, which I'm not en
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by bydo 10y ago
The install script (for Nix, at least) is written such that it will not execute if partially downloaded, so that is less of an issue. Though I do agree wholeheartedly that piping scripts to shell, sight unseen, is a remarkably awful idea.
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by bydo 10y ago
Issue 1: Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (toggle this off, obviously) Issue 2: iTunes being so terrible is probably the best argument against resolving Issue 1. I believe the default is not to automatically use Apple Music,
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by bydo 10y ago
It could be three words: mono no ki. Mono (as 物) is generally "thing," which doesn't really work, but we can assume it's being used as simply mono (in loan form, モノ), short for "monospace," here. No (の) is a pa
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by bydo 10y ago
>What can I do with AKASHA? >You can publish, share and vote for entries, similar to Medium and other modern publishing platforms, with the difference that your content is actually published over a decentralized network rather than on
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by bydo 10y ago
Well, that was also when Apple gave its guidance, which ended up pretty much spot on.
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by bydo 10y ago
Thanks; my mistake.
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by bydo 10y ago
I'm sure it's been possible for a while, but just wasn't really necessary. Hitachi's been doing it for a few years already, for what it's worth. http://www.storagereview.com/hgst_ultrastar_helium_6tb
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by bydo 10y ago
Bad press, but good riddance. I can't imagine Apple has much use for out-of-touch "activist" investors clamoring for short term growth and dividends while complaining about their lack of "innovative" new products li
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by bydo 10y ago
Not to mention that it shorts itself out on every plug/unplug. There's a reason this style of connector never took off for any other application.
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by bydo 10y ago
Considering that we've been doing this for decades[1], it's a bit odd to see this hailed as something new. Though it's nice to see low impact development[2] get some press. 1: http://www.millermicro.com/porpav
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by bydo 11y ago
Also the rarest IBM Model M, for keyboard weirdos.
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by bydo 11y ago
Boston is too expensive. Have you looked at real estate prices in Pittsburgh? You can easily get an apartment in a nice neighborhood for less than a bedroom in Dorchester.
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by bydo 11y ago
Dallas has the largest light rail system in the nation by length of track. New York, DC, San Francisco, and Chicago all have larger rail transit systems overall.
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by bydo 11y ago
Even on my laptop I had to open the web inspector up and delete them. Who thinks this stuff is a good idea?
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by bydo 11y ago
Here's one for New York: http://projects.newyorker.com/story/subway/ And Chicago: http://youarehere.cc/j/subway/chicago.html
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by bydo 11y ago
Note that the price in Denmark includes VAT, whereas the price in the US is before any taxes. Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point?
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by bydo 11y ago
From the book[1]: A quick grep gives us some stats: The kernel has 16.52% unsafe code, a 50% improvement in the last three weeks. Userspace has roughly ~0.2%. 1: http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/introduction/
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by bydo 11y ago
His TED talk, for one: http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...
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by bydo 11y ago
Is this really how Samsung's release cycle works, though? According to GSM Arena[1], they've released over 20 "Galaxy" phones since the S6 came out. Most of them I've never heard of, though the Note devices (release
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by bydo 11y ago
Despite the linkbait-y You-Won't-BELIEVE-What-Happens-Next title (spoilers: the executive is SVP of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji, in charge of microprocessor design), an interesting article. I worry that Bloomberg isn't sure
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by bydo 11y ago
You can get an entire functioning laptop for under $100 these days. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Asp... It doesn't run Windows 10 very well, with only 2GB of RAM and 16GB
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by bydo 11y ago
Or rather, will be, by 2020. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/congress-passes-p...
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by bydo 11y ago
From the article: >Apartments in New York City ordinarily can be no smaller than 400 square feet, but the city waived those restrictions for this development. >Small apartments are not new to New York. Thousands of apartments that pre

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