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by chithanh 1y ago
> Official support for animations, yes! While I welcome that there is now PNG with animations, I am less impressed about how Mozilla chose to push for it. Using PNG's magic numbers and pretend to existing software that it is just no
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by chithanh 1y ago
> Adding another compression form should be handled by existing software In an ideal world, yes. In practice however, if some field doesn't change often, then software will start to assume that it never changes, and break when it do
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by chithanh 1y ago
They do have, but I understand it is experimental and not public. Some speculate that it is intended for Valve Deckard. https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/commit/5833fa... For now, the Steam
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by chithanh 1y ago
I think the more apt (pun not intended) comparison would be to macOS? Trying to install macOS High Sierra from the Internet without hackery will lead to "the recovery server could not be contacted" error message, because certifica
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by chithanh 1y ago
The keyword here is just . They cannot simply order children to comply, there has to be same legal basis like there has to be for ordering an adult to comply.
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by chithanh 1y ago
It is known that soon after domestication, dogs evolved the ability to digest starch rich foods. In other words to subsist on human food waste. This is one of the things which sets them apart from their carnivorous wolf cousins. https:&#x2
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by chithanh 2y ago
> Back then it was just a treaty for free trade and movement, that's it Not at all. Maybe you are thinking of EFTA, not EU. Or you are just revisionist. EU was never just about free trade. Back when it was founded as ECSC it was abo
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by chithanh 2y ago
Yes, however you also want to distinguish correct from incorrect answers. You get that from the exams, not from year 1 textbooks.
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by chithanh 2y ago
> At this point I'm honestly wondering if they aren't just using the interview process to generate high quality validation data for free. Not sure if that is accurate, but one of the reasons why DeepSeek R1 performs so well in
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by chithanh 2y ago
Defending against movie plot threats has been found not a good use of resources already 20 years ago in the war on terrorism. https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/09/terrorists_...
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by chithanh 2y ago
It's called flat file storage and it has a number of advantages and disadvantages. I prefer it because it is more robust and performs well, even for large amounts of data, as long as your filesystem is reasonably fast and reliable. Thi
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by chithanh 2y ago
Sorry I noticed the reply only now. A similar thing to what you said about smoking in Serbia is observed with alcohol: Within a society, the earlier someone gets into contact with alcohol, the poorer the outcomes. https://pmc.ncb
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by chithanh 2y ago
To be more precise: It is not so much a (dose) threshold but how much margin/reserves your body still has. For example kidney injury is progressive, and by the time the kidney's functional reserve is exhausted, things will remain
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by chithanh 2y ago
? The second part of my reply was about cause and effect.
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by chithanh 2y ago
That is not now life expectancy works. You cannot take life expectancy at birth and apply it to adults by subtracting past years of life, because doing so ignores all the people that died in the meantime from related or unrelated causes. Ra
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by chithanh 2y ago
Smokers have higher suicide risk than non-smokers. It has been known for decades that smokers have a "smoker personality" which differs from non-smokers. In recent years some evidence emerged that smoking is the cause of this rath
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by chithanh 2y ago
In my understanding, the concern is not what outside attackers can do. It is what capabilities exist under Intel's control before they are reduced to some hopefully benign subset. And the understanding that we have is mostly limited
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by chithanh 2y ago
> The network stack, HECI stack, etc are all gone here. I think there is a misunderstanding. Intel ME is a hardware feature. Yes there is some flash memory which contains more code and an operating system, but what is stored in flash m
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by chithanh 2y ago
> Depends on how you define "booting". As mentioned in one of the linked tweets, ME was possible to exploit through early-boot attacks before the HAP bit was even checked. So non-negligible things happen while it "boots&qu
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by chithanh 2y ago
It is not possible for 3rd parties to disable Intel ME. Nobody but Intel themselves can disable ME. The most you can do is drop it to some kind of reduced functionality mode some time after boot (through the HAP bit, or hackery which overwr
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by chithanh 2y ago
It is known that people who consume sugary drinks are at higher risk of death from disgestive diseases, which is less so for people who consume artificially-sweetened drinks. So there may be a causal link. https://doi.org/10
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by chithanh 2y ago
tl;dr It's the acid. Drink only water. The issue is that soft drinks are generally bad for cardiovascular health, whether sugar sweetened or not. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2478 Plausible mechanism
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by chithanh 2y ago
> * Intel still has more employees in 2024 than in 2019. Instead of trimming fat, he added more fat. Intel hiring practices under Gelsinger were really puzzling. Did he think that by hiring thousands of random university graduates there
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by chithanh 2y ago
"didn't beat" puts it mildly. Every attempt Intel made at entering the smartphone business was doomed because they were years behind ARM. Paul Thurrott confirmed this with HP when discussing the Elite x3 smartphone: https:
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by chithanh 2y ago
> The reckoning still hasn't come, and should look something like a larger Japan property bubble pop when it happens While there are still risks for the economy from real estate, I think China has shown the ability to manage them. F
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by chithanh 2y ago
The "China collapse" claim is indeed not new, and it is as wrong as ever. The demographic situation is manageable, especially given how the generation entering retirement are factory workers, who are being replaced by automation o
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by chithanh 2y ago
Intel won't go down, US lawmakers are determined to prevent that from happening. Any government rescue will however cause Intel shareholders to lose their money. Which is presumably why investors aren't too happy about the current
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by chithanh 2y ago
Yes, 3D acceleration support is in mainline Linux and Mesa using the panfrost driver. I think VPU (video encode/decode) support is still partial and NPU (AI acceleration) requires an out of tree driver (rknpu2).
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by chithanh 2y ago
That was the situation in 2022 and early 2023. Since late 2023, ODROID-M1 is supported by mainline u-boot (odroid-m1-rk3568 target) and you can also use a mainline kernel (6.4 or later) which provides working USB 3.0.
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by chithanh 2y ago
ODROID-M1 with RK3568B2 is supported until 2036 at least https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44218 That a distro's principal maintainer steps down is unfortunate for anyone who is downstream from them, bu

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