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by cesarb 3y ago
> The only issue is that s2idle drains the battery like crazy compared to S3. Properly working s2idle should use as little power as S3, but it seems to be much more common with s2idle that some piece of hardware is left enabled while it
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by cesarb 3y ago
> We don't need cars. Everyone has a horse already. This is not "cars versus horses", this is "fast cars versus slightly less fast cars".
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by cesarb 3y ago
> > is not compatible at all with AMD platforms > it's always driver support. Not necessarily, if it's an Intel module it might be a CNVi module instead of normal PCIe module, meaning it can only work on Intel platforms (
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Don't like Bitcoin's Proof of work properties, check out Ethereum. Ethereum's move to a Proof-of-Stake system was the best thing to happen to the cryptocurrency world, from an ecological point of view; however, that does
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by cesarb 3y ago
> If you start from scratch with a non-exchange wallet and get paid in BTC for something to it, sure. I believe the original idea was that, to start from scratch, you would just leave the Bitcoin software running on your computer for a w
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by cesarb 3y ago
> People say this all the time, but why don't they say that about videogames? or actual mining? The difference is that, for videogames or mining physical rocks, the power use is an undesired side effect, so the incentive is to minim
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be more likely to either tumble or settle on an edge? There's also the possibility that it behaves more like an airfoil, and starts generating lift once it's going fast enough.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> XP was likely the first memorable intro to windows for many developers in the home context . (emphasis mine) IIRC, there were two separate lineages of Windows. There was the "home" lineage which went 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, and
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by cesarb 3y ago
> You’re pattern matching on how the two modes work No, I'm going by my own experience. I've taken plenty of long-distance bus trips (I've just checked on a map site, one long-distance bus trip I've made many times is
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by cesarb 3y ago
It's so much of an implementation detail, that git didn't have packing at first! All it had was loose objects ("disk space is cheap"). Packing was later added as an optimization , but the object model is still the same.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I'm not sure why you think busses are more equivalent to planes other than holding more passengers. The more I think about it, the more similarities I find. For instance, both long-distance buses and large airplanes are usually bo
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Planes are substitutes for cars. Planes are more comparable to buses than to cars (unless it's a small general aviation plane). So a better comparison would be between the risks of flying and the risks of taking a long-distance bu
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by cesarb 3y ago
Since the theme is noisy feedback, I have to mention this old project: "Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring your network with sound" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20220930162655/peep.sourceforge.... )
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by cesarb 3y ago
Unfortunately, these performance monitors can make the computer use more power, by waking up every second to update the display, and therefore preventing the computer from entering deeper idle states. It's the same reason the default o
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by cesarb 3y ago
> At this point of desktop OSes, I see little need to migrate to the new OS [...] Going from text to rich UI, then PnP, security, multi-user, management, etc. were necessary evolutions, but now what, [...] People who weren't using c
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by cesarb 3y ago
The TPM 2.0 scare was a different one: that websites would start requiring the use of TPM 2.0 to prove that you're running unmodified Windows, which would make Linux users unable to access these websites (and even running legitimate Wi
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by cesarb 3y ago
> but the screenshot and presentation mode changing ones are just Super+Shift+S and Super+P For the presentation mode key, it used to be its own independent key, but Microsoft changed its mind and told manufacturers to make it send Win+P
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by cesarb 3y ago
Depending on the size of the keyboard and on the size of your hands, using the left modifier for that shortcut might need two hands instead of just one; it's very convenient to be able to quickly lock the desktop with only one hand.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> [...] an order to disable https://annas-archive.org through a DNS block [...] Visitors to the site are now greeted by the blocking page below in Italian. To me, this is the most worrying part: how did they get a valid certi
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by cesarb 3y ago
> [...] VMs are banned [...] Docker works but [...] I might be missing something, but isn't Docker on Windows or MacOS actually a VM running Linux (or, on Windows, perhaps it uses WSL2, which is also a VM running Linux)? How could y
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by cesarb 3y ago
That's more common than you think, because GitHub has the magic gh-pages branch which is used to publish to GitHub pages; that branch usually has no commits in common with the master branch.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> the notices keep saying the information is accurate under penalty of perjury, when clearly its not The part which is "accurate under penalty of perjury" is only that "the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It seems easier to get an EV charger off grid than a ICE refueling. Gasoline relies on refineries. That's because you're restricting the ICE to gasoline. I believe you don't need a refinery to produce ethanol from sugarc
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Also electric motors can run on DC efficiently (see electric cars). It's quite likely that the motors on electric cars (and other efficient electric motors) are actually using an inverter to turn the DC into multi-phase AC and pow
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by cesarb 3y ago
There's already a somewhat common standard for DC wiring in homes and offices, though it's probably not exactly what you had in mind: it's Power over Ethernet (PoE), which provides around 48V over standard twisted pair Ethern
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Comparison operations are basic primitives that usually store their result into a register. In one of the most common processor architectures (the x86 family), comparison operations do store their result into a register, but it's
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Nuclear works 24/7/365. Renewables don't. Wait, what? Other than solar (for obvious reasons), renewables can run 24/7/365, and that's extremely common; as an example, the Itaipu power plant has run continu
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by cesarb 3y ago
If they're hard paywalled (everyone gets the same login prompt), they won't be available on archive sites.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Whenever there is a story from NYT on HN (or any other large media outlet), the top comment is almost always a link to an archived version which reproduces the text verbatim. [...] And yet, whenever there is a submission about a book,
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Nobody is making solar panels "track the sun". It's very common for utility-scale solar to use single-axis trackers (the panels move from pointing east to pointing west through the day), unlike small-scale solar which us

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