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by dijit 8mo ago
> Jolla / Sailfish is a 13 year old project Realistically building a production quality database takes 10 years. Building a production quality game engine takes 10 years. They're building a mobile operating system and the har
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by dijit 8mo ago
Singapore? They were among the worst (and most expensive) datacenters I've worked with, but they were used because we were latency sensitive (game servers). Haven't heard of anyone deploying to Indo/Malay though, maybe I miss
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by dijit 8mo ago
Huh, you think the equator is better for datacenters? I've never heard that. I mean, there's a reason Luleå is a popular datacenter spot: access to hydro & wind- but also "free cooling"; datacenters create a lot of h
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by dijit 8mo ago
Reading charitably I think he means that it's a shortcut to gaining influence. In the boomer sense of "go to the store and ask if they need help". Trump "pushes" his way into things (because he's a disgusting b
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by dijit 8mo ago
Email as a technology is insanely crufty. It feels somewhat hacked together (because, largely, it is); and there are significantly more bots than people using it (which is somewhat self-fulfilling). But when I read the leaked/disclosed
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by dijit 8mo ago
Thanks for the benchmarks! I’d only add that its very common for gaming computers to be screaming fast- moreso than workstation machines or servers which are a bit more conservative with performance and emphasise correctness (slower cores,
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Don’t really care. We were stuck with Intel, its nice that we have better CPUs.
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by dijit 8mo ago
Location has always been a huge factor in these discussions. There are usually significantly less opportunities outside of hubs. It’s a cart/horse problem- because companies go to those hubs to hire due the talent pool.
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by dijit 8mo ago
Thats the issue with CPI, it tells a skewed story because it makes presumptions about volumes of things people buy. If Eggs go up 0% and Rent goes up 50%, CPI indicates a “25% growth” which is stupid.
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by dijit 8mo ago
It happens at scale. There's like a middle scale where you're not big enough that Microsoft will go out of their way to whitelist you, but you're big enough that your "send to junk" rate is just high in terms of abs
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by dijit 8mo ago
> I actually used a netbook when I was in school, it wasn't all that bad. The reputation problem was kind of baked in. Vista launched the same year netbooks did, and even though Vista was a disaster, "runs the latest Windows&qu
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by dijit 8mo ago
telling that this is flagged 1 minute into submission. Microsoft hardware was in the premium tier for sure (and continues to be: relative to others), but these days nearly all the OEMs have pretty bad warts across the line-up, even the su
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by dijit 8mo ago
I've been making this argument for a long time, and it's never popular. People want to believe in E2EE, it's almost like religion at this point. Protecting people is synonymous with E2EE, even if you cant verify it, and it
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by dijit 8mo ago
"most of the world" is doing a seriously large amount of heavy lifting in this sentence. There are many regions that are served by a single line, more than you think. Even "well connected" places have fewer cables than y
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by dijit 8mo ago
might be smarter to try mounting the drive on the path that backups use, instead of hoping that the software follows symlinks. That said, we're very much in "power user" territory now, and it does nothing to support the untet
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by dijit 8mo ago
oh no, absolutely- apologies for the confusion. Time "Machine" on MacOS continues to work (though it's clearly not as important to Apple as it once was). The issue is: if you want to back up a phone: it will take space from y
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by dijit 8mo ago
Lets be real, the fact that the Air is good for developers is.. honestly, great. But these devices are meant for home users. Not a tremendous amount of home users having huge gradle/go/cargo/node packages in my experience. Th
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by dijit 8mo ago
The aluminium chassis cannot be used for heat dissipation without risk of harming users. Which is why there is a "macbook air peformance mod" to add thermal-interface-material (instead of thermal insulation) to turn the chassis in
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by dijit 8mo ago
Yeah MacOS is better with Battery life compared to Linux. But, compared to W11? I guess it depends a lot. My Precision 5520 got an extra hour of battery on the 9cell varient. Thats about a 20% uplift from W11; but thats an old Xeon laptop n
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by dijit 8mo ago
I agree, Apple gets hit from all directions. It's expensive (though largely comparable to business machines) so people dunk on it being low value for money, People dunk on them for not taking risks, but when there's a reliability
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by dijit 8mo ago
Many people used low iPhone mini sales to point at the idea that small phones aren't popular anymore. They might be right, but the "Mini" was more like a return to the size of the 6 & 8; not the same size as the 5 or prio
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by dijit 8mo ago
the macbooks are crazy for battery life compared to anything else. But you can run Linux on an M2 Macbook. And there is premium windows hardware on the market, where Linux actually works better than Windows (notably business laptops like
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by dijit 8mo ago
the point is that the OS primitives exist.
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by dijit 8mo ago
nah he’s right. You might think it unethical but you have to play the same games the elites play if you want to be free of elites. I’m surprised he managed to get there though considering he previously mentioned he was unable to build any w
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by dijit 8mo ago
I think you're overselling it, the minimise? Sure. But I can't think of a single animation that added a delay to processing on MacOS. Compare to say, Windows, at least.
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by dijit 8mo ago
Yeah, I agree. But we have to rally around something .
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To be fair, most open source is like that. The most famous one I can think of right now is xz.
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Still, I would probably abandon the name for trademark enforcement reasons. It's low hanging fruit for them if they want to kill you. (this is also why the Pentium was called the Pentium instead of the numbers that processors used to b
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by dijit 8mo ago
Playing devil's advocate for consistency isn't racism. I'm not Israeli, not Jewish, this isn't my nation. I object to the reasoning. You're defending a position that doesn't actually care about Palestinian li
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by dijit 8mo ago
I am, let's leave my comment for the mods then.

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