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by bzzzt 2y ago
Any modern computer system uses a lot of power for a few minutes after bootup. If you use the machine a few times per day you're wasting energy (and your own time) by turning it off instead of using sleep mode.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> Apple frequently stiffs people on the security bounty. Having seen the receiving end of a bounty program of a relatively small SaaS business it's shocking to see how many people are abusing such a program with irrelevant or plain
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by bzzzt 2y ago
There's a standalone version of Debezium nowadays which can publish directly to a NATS queue. No Kafka required anymore.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
It’s a big difference, but the battery of a new 2019 MacBook also got close to a work day. The M series should last a bit longer, but after 5 years it’s a gamble with batteries…
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> I have firefox open with a mere 60-ish tabs and RSS is already at 21GB. Isn't that just Firefox deciding to let things stay in memory because the memory is there? Anyway, Safari seems to run fine with 8Gb and will unload inactive
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Only if you insist on running software that needs more RAM, in which case you shouldn't have bought it.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
All hardware has limits. Which ones are you hitting every day?
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Depends on the application as well. Just try to start up Microsoft Teams.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Many of the Sierra contemporary games including the 'interactive fiction' that inspired them had sudden deaths, dead ends or living dead scenarios, mostly to pad play time probably.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
I don't think bandwidth is reserved. Thunderbolt3/USB4 is a 40Gbit link which can also carry display data. The USB-C stuff with dedicated lanes for Displayport is ignored then. There's no EGPU support on the M series, but eve
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by bzzzt 2y ago
I'm very interested in your use case where 40Gbit/s is not more than enough.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
In Europe, there's the MG5 EV station. Seems to be the only EV station wagon on the market here.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Maybe for some people a bigger car means safer. While there are some studies that say they are, the smaller EU SUVs are more likely to tip over in case of an accident, don't all have 4WD and are not as heavily reinforced as the big SUV
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by bzzzt 2y ago
There are more ways than using bluetooth to transfer digital audio wireless. Probably they are using a custom protocol.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Maybe not cheap, but back in the 80's there were the Tandem NonStop mainframes that used double or triple CPU's to check calculation results for correctness.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> I don't know any other company that does that. It's common in the car industry as well. Seems to be the reason my airbags are still in place after 10 years while a certain popular german brand here is uninsurable because it&#
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> We would need a platform spec so that application developers can publish, users can discover and deploy, and platform providers can implement against a shared spec. That's been tried with Linux Standard base, but it seems 'st
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by bzzzt 2y ago
IMO those Mac anti-virus tools are basically malware exploiting all kinds of loopholes and hacks to get their hands on everything going on in the system. It's a good thing Apple fixes those loopholes and it's not Apple's resp
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Locking down a system is also the way to prevent people from installing rootkits, fraudulent banking apps, bypassing the CSAM filter or defeating DRM. I think it's delusional to expect governments to blanket ban locking down computers.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> It is cross-platform as a big selling point but then people use it to write monolithic server applications where cross-platform capability isn't useful. Being able to locally develop/debug on Windows/Mac and deploy to Li
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by bzzzt 2y ago
That seems to be the issue with all kitchen appliances. I've had the same issue with kitchen scales. I like a digital display for small amounts, but had a few of those 'pretty design' scales fail after a year or 2 (no, it was
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by bzzzt 2y ago
That's not all bad. Someone who can replace a 25 cent encoder can enjoy a lifetime of microwaving ;)
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Seems you need to apply them about every month because they wear off so fast. And then you're looking at multiple $18 bottles per year...
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by bzzzt 2y ago
> Why am I not allowed to revive an old mobile phone with a new OS version? Why am I not allowed to revive an old device by modernizing its hardware driver? Why can I not bring an old video game back to life? Hardware is complicated and
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by bzzzt 2y ago
At least they are building a cheap option for a change, a hearing aid can cost between 500-1500 euros here. Seems like a market that's ready for disruption.
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by bzzzt 2y ago
If you have a Switch, check out "Game builder garage". It's a simple game engine with prefab components you can wire up to create different 2D and 3D game and has a big built-in tutorial so it's not as overwhelming as a
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Is there a specific piece of software or driver you got installed on all of them? I've owned 2 of 3 of your MacBook model years and 'sleep on lid close' was very reliable on all of them. Apple Silicon works even better, resum
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by bzzzt 2y ago
The issue is not for one person or company to fix. Just like it's impossible to convince all the OSS desktop folks to follow one displayserver/toolkit/UX paradigm it's equally impossible to enforce bug free hardware and
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Launch costs for a Falcon 9 are about near 70 million dollars now which is also the estimated production price of the rocket including launch. So it seems they are not making a big loss even when the first stage explodes on the first landin
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by bzzzt 2y ago
Ok, let me state it like this: Car repair consists of diagnosing a finite amount of components with known failure states and swapping them with known parts that are pre-approved and suitable for the car that's being repaired. Software

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