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by bzzzt 6mo ago
They are not so different: it's the same private/public money dynamic but money flowing in different ways. For consumers it doesn't really matter if it's a tax or 'mandatory levy'. For instance: in the EU it&#x
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
> A new EV can drive 400-700km on one charge. Only when it's one of the more expensive 'long range' models, weather is good and it doesn't exceed 100km/h.
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
Some countries literally subsidize gasoline, but even if your country does not it probably supports oil companies with tax breaks ('creating jobs'). There also are lots of untaxed externalities like global warming and exhaust poll
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
First advice when confronted with memory or stability issues was 'reseat the DIMMs' for years.
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
Yes. You're paying at least $9,99 per month which means that after the 5 or so years when the battery starts going bad you've already paid for multiple batteries.
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
I consider soldered-in RAM a reliability win. It's more shock resistant and a connector that doesn't exist can not fail.
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
There's nothing wrong with planning for a certain device lifespan, provided it's long enough. But there's a bell curve here: it doesn't make sense to plan for 20 years of support if 99% of the devices are broken or repla
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
Look at the supported formats lists. It includes so many parsers, mostly written in C, which means there probably are a few dozen ways to exploit the player.
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
I'm not sure there's much to be gained by mapping values. Maybe envelope time is comparable since seconds are seconds, but not every synth interpolates ADSR values in the same way (some use just linear or logarithmic interpolation
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by bzzzt 6mo ago
QEMM386 for DOS did not have a memory compression feature. Only one of the later versions for Windows 3.1 did.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Those things could save some lives of course, but it's a small drop. And then there's the issue of people trusting on those safety systems and driving more reckless than before. It also helps not to live in a country where everyon
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Building stable software for all varieties of PC hardware was part of the challenge of course. Lots of demos had problems with all kinds of hardware varieties. Lots of low-level optimizations also made their way into compilers that sometime
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
There's nothing to be gained by picking a winner, especially if it doesn't really matter because the important APIs are the same. Newer frameworks like Quarkus are specifically built for container usage and applications built with
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
> In Europe they started rationing fuels They are rationing in Slovenia to prevent 'gasoline tourism' (people taking advantage of lower taxes), not due to shortages.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
The innovations that mattered were seat belts and airbags. After that you have to correct for all the electronic gadgets that also actively distract or make drivers over-confident. Real numbers are not available, but governments keep mandat
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Spring and JEE (or Quarkus) are very similar, from the viewpoint of an application developer both have the same JAX-RS REST and Hibernate/JPA API's. IMO the kind of person who only knows Spring and doesn't understand modern J
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Why not? Put them in the ground instead of on the ground. Or put a heap of sand on them to absorb the blast.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Full frame DSLRs are heavy because of the big mirror box. Mirrorless full frame cameras are a lot lighter. An APS-C Canon R7 is bigger than my full frame Canon RP. Coupled with a light prime it's almost indistinguishable from a compact
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
That's not been the case here (the Netherlands) for years since the 'hidden loan' of the phone was outlawed. Yet everybody under 20 aspires to have an iPhone.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
While I agree the missing MST support complaint is valid it seems very far fetched to me it's a deal breaker preventing Mac adoption. Most people only use 1 screen, a fraction of people dual screen (especially laptop users) and only a
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Doesn't seem to prevent half of the world from buying iOS devices with equally inflated prices.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Not surprised. It's almost as expensive as a Tesla Model 3 in the Netherlands.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
It has to be less if they don't want to spoil the in-game 'insert disk 144' joke ;)
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
> That's the problem, isn't it? It does the write, it will read back fine right now, but the flash is worn out and then when you try to read back the data in six months, it's corrupt. SSD firmware does patrol reads and per
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Seems they are using kilometers of fibre optic cables, so they fly tethered and communication can't be disrupted. I'd hate to be part of the clean-up crew when that war ends. Broken fibre is nasty stuff.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
> Sennheiser provides replacements should you need them. Not anymore for my old 380 pro. Had to settle for aftermarket versions that feel a little softer but also sound a bit different.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Most flash memory will happily accept writes long after passing the TBW 'limit'. If write endurance would be that much of a problem I'd expect the second hand market to be saturated with 8Gb M1 MacBooks with dead SSDs by now.
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Just tried out a simple Java Swing popup and it uses 6Mb of heap so that's allright then ;). (on my machine it will reserve 160Mb of memory for thread stacks, code caches, buffers and GC but that won't be a problem unless you use
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Yes, and on many samplers too. The linked website looks like a 'lite' version of the slicer on my Elektron Octatrack ;)
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by bzzzt 7mo ago
Depends on the course I think. But 8Gb is more than enough to run a Java 'Hello World' GUI app or even something heavier. Students don't - as a rule - get to deal with millions of lines codebases.

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