chungus_khan

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by chungus_khan 1y ago
Really I think it got that rep mostly from people trying to run DOS games or shoddy ports from DOS to early Windows that still relied on a bunch of DOS stuff.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
TEPCO dropped the ball pretty massively too, although IMO it should be the government's responsibility to assume that power operators are going to and not allow them to.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Nearly 10 years ago a 2.6 TFLOP (FP32) GTX 660ti cost about $300 and had a TDP of 150w.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
A huge amount of industry all over the place ends up like this. The engineers produce the theoretical form of the design, and the tooling up process refines it into a practicable-at-scale reality.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The lesser of two evils is still collecting literally as much data as it can on you. And helping the Saudis with it too: https://theintercept.com/2014/07/25/nsas-new-partner-spying-... US Intelligence has too
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I can't speak specifically to the raspberry pi, but generally SOCs like it uses do work like that. Most customers are concerned with the chip's high-level capabilities and actively don't want to touch the lower-level stuff, a
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It's especially funny because the M1 Mac SSDs seem to perform at around the same level as current competition from what I've seen.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It is bizarre to me how many problems I've literally never seen before in my life some people on this site can come up with to defend Apple's decisions, especially things like this on a website which purports to be Hacker News.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The cautious configuration and total separation of the Tor browser is the whole reason it was created in the first place. There are an uncountable number of reasons why having it in a normal everyday browser is probably a bad idea. It sort
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And people with utopian perceptions of the present tend to have policies that ignore underlying problems until they boil over into revolutions. Fixating on how great the present is accomplishes nothing and appeals to almost nobody. A typica
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Even if the conclusion is that life today is better than in the past, so what? Congratulations. Their lives were different than their predecessors too. Is the whole point to self-congratulate, or should we recognize and address today's
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
> It isn’t progress to have massive grid outages because windmills froze How did Texans manage to screw up windmills? The ones across the lake from me work perfectly fine all winter long, despite much colder winters. I'm guessing th
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
> Obviously you must not be aware that Android is not the leading platform in terms of app sales. Both are still in the range of tens of billions of dollars. If one is worthwhile the other is too. Android is also by far the leader in nu
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
These are not coherent reasons why it would be different, they are assertions that you think it would be. None of them even speak to any difference between the platforms. Just saying that it will be isn't a reason. None of this has hap
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I don't think most people would. I think most sideloading would be by users making things that fall outside of what Apple allows on their store, like on Android. I see no coherent reason at all why things would be any different on iOS,
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
As I said, they tried and failed because nobody downloaded it. I'm not sure why you're suddenly bringing Epic's motives into a comment chain about the desirability of sideloading though? Epic is obviously looking to skirt sto
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Then why hasn't it happened? Android has always had sideloading and this is not the case. Just asserting it to be false isn't convincing.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The contents of the Play Store have nothing to do with Android's ability to sideload.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Then keep using the curated store? It only hurts if Apple's store can't compete with alternative ones. There's no such problem on Android because developers and users are fine with the Play Store. Epic even tried doing a side
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Why hasn't it on Android then?
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And after claims of Iraqi involvement in 9/11 and WMDs that never materialized, I'm pretty skeptical about unproven, geopolitically convenient news reporting.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And for good reason considering some of them lie about actually encrypting the data, or are very bad about keeping it safe. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitlocker-encrypts-self-en...
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
(and OpenBSD as well)
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And for that purpose it's nice, but as good as any other semi-modern laptop. Over quarantine I amused some coworkers by doing an entire day's work (not ML, but not stuff that's run locally) on an old VT220, with very little c
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
That isn't true. There wouldn't be a performance advantage to that at all (the limiting factors in storage performance have nothing to do with motherboard trace length, which has a negligible impact on performance in general), and
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
A lot of these straight up just exist so the creator has a sign to tap ( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRYYGcWV4AAF2E4.jpg ) when people try to file bug reports for unsupported oddball configurations.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
This seems like a fantastic use case for the ML hardware included on new-generation Macintoshes.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I would imagine it is high-performance within its own domain: soft microprocessors. There isn't much danger of something like this being used outside of domains where it is relevant, so just calling it "high-performance" gets
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
One change from previous FAT filesystems to exFAT is the removal of the second, redundant file allocation table. Disks are less unreliable now so it is less necessary, but there are still some scenarios, especially when the filesystem is in
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Google is the company that your info gets shared with. Google being the biggest ad company does not give them the right to surveil all that walks the earth.

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