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by ece 5y ago
Lichess is great and they mention FICS in one of their blog posts as a great way to play too: https://lichess.org/blog/WrbfjyYAAMOualZ5/our-favourite-open... They also mention kfchess, which I didn't know abo
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by ece 5y ago
This seems perfect for editing/programming, but I'm wondering what the limitation is?
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by ece 5y ago
I have for a while now thought that the ethical source licenses are at least trying to do exactly what open source licenses are trying to do, just within a human rights framework. The SSPL and other source available licenses on the other ha
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by ece 5y ago
More than 3-4 hours of TV is considered unhealthy, and that number has been constant since the 90s. Why isn't there such a number for phones and computers? Productivity took the limits away, for the worse I feel.
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by ece 5y ago
Opt-in user targeting could still be fine (like offline loyalty programs), and it would be healthier than the current norm of opt-out through ad-blockers.
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by ece 5y ago
There is nothing stopping Google or Facebook from offering content-based advertising to advertisers, publishers and users--sidestepping any issues with multiple small ad deals. A regulator could demand it if they wanted, and together publis
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by ece 5y ago
I have the same reservation about ever more tracking increasing conversion, but I would guess in reality the equilibrium price might come as more people use adblockers vs those who would turn them off if they could be assured they weren&#x2
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by ece 5y ago
Super great to see new designs with RISC-V keeping up with tech, the BL602 and ESP32-C3 are currently available though, and I've been working with the Pinenut for a side project. I hope more RPi-like BL702 boards become more widely ava
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by ece 5y ago
Thomas/Alito get wrong that computer programs are an expression in every form, not invention in any way. Patent law does this too I'd reckon. They then refuse to do the work it takes to determine fair use in this field, which Alsu
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by ece 5y ago
Ops, I meant to say s/APIs/software projects/ are copyrightable, as the question of copyrightable APIs within software projects was sidestepped by the court. It's a lot easier to say what Google did was fair use than dec
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by ece 5y ago
Exactly this, the same protection that memers have in editing content (but not copying the full implementation), software engineers now have too thanks to fair use.
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by ece 5y ago
That's exactly why fair use exists. A teacher showing a movie in class is fair use, editing a clip for memes is fair use, making backups is fair use. APIs are copyrightable, but independent implementations are fair use, this is an outr
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How long will the coronavirus vaccines protect you?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ece 6y ago|0 comments
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by ece 6y ago
x86 is IP, Intel Foundry Services is new, and EUV has been embraced. I'm not sure you could ask for more other than execution.
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by ece 6y ago
This is great, and I plan on getting one to support the project. I do however wish there was a smaller screen one (perhaps EInk) with more 4G bands like band 71, and with Anbox/microG support to run apps like Signal. I would like to kn
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by ece 6y ago
This reminds me of seeing a part of the chip from a scanning electron microscope: https://youtu.be/1kQUXpZpLXI?t=169 But I wonder how successful these methods are are extracting keys from a TPM or other hardware keys.
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Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?(washingtonpost.com)
188 points by ece 6y ago|246 comments
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by ece 6y ago
I think people filling up drives and then making space as needed happens more often than one might think. It's probably most common on phones/tablets, but even I only do remote backups once a partition is 80% or so full, and at ti
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by ece 6y ago
I hadn't looked at enterprise drives before, but the Samsung 983 DCT is affordable and available, for M.2 110mm slots. It does user over-provisioning[1] (among other Samsung drives), and is a good option for those looking for more endu
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How to Breathe Better(slate.com)
14 points by ece 6y ago|3 comments
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by ece 6y ago
Over-provisioning is doable since more 15" laptops and motherboards are starting to have 2 NVMe slots, and you always could've gotten additional PCIe->NVMe slots for a motherboard. If you're still after endurance, low late
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by ece 6y ago
Thanks for the link, it's nice to see such results from 256GB SATA drives (No drive dying before 600TBW, and the 840 PRO going up to 2.4PBW, I have a 850 PRO in a laptop myself), but it would still be interesting to see similar tests f
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by ece 6y ago
There should be a benchmark for filling a drive 100%, then doing 4K random writes. I'm pretty sure this would kill any MLC/TLC/QLC drive at a few billion writes or less. It wouldn't kill Optane, which would probably rema
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by ece 6y ago
> Imageon, the handheld graphics division of ATI, was sold to Qualcomm in a paltry $65 million deal. That division is now named Adreno, an anagram of "Radeon" and an integral component of the Snapdragon SoC (!). It would be har
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Linus Torvalds on how AMD/Intel are changing how interrupts are handled(zdnet.com)
19 points by ece 6y ago|2 comments
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by ece 6y ago
Now, something to program a W65C816S[1] with, and you can go from spreadsheet to real hardware. [1] W65C816S is the 6502-derivative ISA used in the SNES, the modern version you can still buy has an 6502 emulation mode: https://en
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Where Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Went When YouTube Banned It(slate.com)
2 points by ece 6y ago|0 comments
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by ece 6y ago
I disagree, it's perfectly fine for a developer to say no, I can't be in a closed ecosystem for these reasons like Purism stated. We need developers and users to choose open ecosystems.
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by ece 6y ago
I would love to see desktop systems move to 4 channels. 2 DIMMs/channel can die as far as I'm concerned, lets have 2 channels/DIMM for laptops. Memory channel density needs to increase along with core density (wider and/
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by ece 6y ago
> ...The core-to-core latency within a quadrant this generation has improved from a worst-case 112ns to 99ns, about a 10ns improvement. Access to remote quadrants has been reduced from up to 142ns to up to 114ns, which is actually a 24%

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