creshal

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by creshal 2y ago
> they are on a specific modern version of Chrome. For some value of "modern", usually "horrifyingly outdated".
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by creshal 2y ago
Lenovo produce extensive manuals for every Thinkpad, and they're designed to be fully field-serviceable, since that's what they're selling with their on-site warranties. The laptops aren't optimized for it the way they
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by creshal 2y ago
Regarding 2: That's the fun part! Manual consent isn't required for functional cookies, only for marketing garbage that doesn't help you at all.
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by creshal 2y ago
Laptops still occasionally do that. I'm kind of impressed that they manage to keep chugging even when the lack of airflow keeps them at >90°C for the entire time it takes for either me to notice that they turned back on, or drain th
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by creshal 2y ago
And now the homebrewers ruin appliances too with low quality IoT garbage.
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by creshal 2y ago
And apt/dnf/pacman finish major system updates in seconds on that sort of hardware, so Windows still underperforms by orders of magnitude.
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by creshal 2y ago
But does it? Nobody asked for it, it's not even meaningfully used by any Microsoft product and can't drive sales for them, its endless litany of bugs just increase support workloads.
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by creshal 2y ago
We could call it <frame>, or maybe <iframe> since all the cool kids use isomethings these days.
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by creshal 2y ago
> an IB switch is in the same ballpark as an ethernet switch with the same port speed And both price tags will make Elon's "someone's scamming me with a 'you're an enterprise customer' surcharge" sense
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by creshal 2y ago
> I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too Active Desktop was originally introduced for Windows 95: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
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by creshal 2y ago
> text rendering is done using the DOM. And most of the animations, and layouting. So "only" all the performance hotspots. > Every program on your computer is GPU accelerated in that sense. No, not really. At least not on wi
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by creshal 2y ago
It's a common problem, which is why it's also a commonly solved problem. Sublime Text has been GPU accelerated for over a decade, there's multiple GPU-accelerated terminal emulators for all the terminal-based editors, VSCode
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by creshal 2y ago
Works On My Machine (tm), your org's admin team probably missed a hidden checkbox that gets moved around between admin pages every odd hour (except on days divisible by 4, where it's missing entirely) (except during chinese new ye
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by creshal 2y ago
I guess the interesting usecase would be to combine this with other hardware accelerates and do DMA between devices, e.g., stream network data directly to a RAID without ever touching the main CPU, after some initial setup work.
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by creshal 2y ago
Mostly because we are an immensely ignorant industry jealously guarding what little scraps of knowledge we gleam. Theoretical computer science results get ignored for decades, until people like Carmack randomly sit down and read a book. (Th
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by creshal 2y ago
Jira is slow all the time . Sourcehut might, potentially, in contrived circumstances be at risk of becoming slow, but it's so well optimized that it's an outside risk, rather than a guarantee. Surely you understand the differen
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by creshal 2y ago
Even a million additional GA airplanes used for leisure trips won't ruin the environment as much as cryprocurrency and AI does, so I'm not sure why HN of all places suddenly discovers their concern for environmental sustainability
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by creshal 2y ago
A new job forced me to get intimately familiar with how fractally dysfunctional RHEL and derivatives still are, and the only thing more baffling than Redhat's self-sabotaging decision making process is why anyone would voluntarily use
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by creshal 2y ago
Now for the weird part: Redhat wrote both NM and sd-nd, and decided what servers really need is NM by default, and getting a server to actually use sd-nd is like pulling teeth on RHEL. Completely baffling.
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by creshal 2y ago
> During the last couple of years they have achieved in time all the product and process launches that had been announced with years in advance By selling defective products
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by creshal 2y ago
Unsupervised LLM go brrt
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by creshal 2y ago
The immediate winners will be Samsung and Globalfoundries, since they have wide arrays of foundries with different processes (including specialized ones for automotive/avionics grade components, dram, cmos sensors, etc.), spare capacit
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by creshal 2y ago
There's three speed categories as far as the EU is concerned: - highway - not highway, not city - city The 90-110km/h limits of regular roads tends to hit the sweet spot of engines more reliably than the 130+ of highways, a lot of
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by creshal 2y ago
> Even if you had to make the auto trip 400 km because roads aren't as direct, this comes to 51 kg CO2. What if there's a sogging great mountain range in the middle and I literally do need to drive 2-3x as far, because (rail) t
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by creshal 2y ago
> How much should it cost? Since the diagnoses are not followed up by treatments, nothing? > Is that too much or too little? It would be too much, if no students were admitted to those schools.
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by creshal 2y ago
How does it know what keys to trust? TPM?
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by creshal 2y ago
> Layoffs happen every single day It didn't use to be that way, which is what OP was trying to get at. Companies used to reward loyalty with bonuses that scaled by tenure, and tried to retain workforces that they spent considerable
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by creshal 2y ago
Because it means waves bounce off the bottom faster (less distance travelled) and much more importantly, with far more energy (square cube law works against you). So the waters far more choppy far faster, since you have 50% less water volum
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by creshal 2y ago
So it's overdue for Google to sunset it, now that it's at risk of being successful.
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by creshal 2y ago
As far as I understand, it is already mainlined, it's just not built by "desktop" distributions since nobody really cares - all the cool kids want dbusFactorySingletonFactoryPatternSingletons to undo 20 years of hardware perf

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