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by eviks 9mo ago
Hope the author has some garlic silverware lying around after such a revealing article
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by eviks 9mo ago
What AI great job!
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by eviks 9mo ago
This is a pretty common mistake - why not invest directly in trying to solve those problems instead of hoping to learn something by chance from different activities?
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by eviks 9mo ago
No, I'm smarter than that
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by eviks 9mo ago
Are you a Mac? Why are you asking me to waste time doing useless counts?
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by eviks 9mo ago
3. Doing useless work wastes battery life
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by eviks 9mo ago
No, we're using the built-in mac anti-malware app
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by eviks 9mo ago
Ok, what about the smaller half that do?
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by eviks 9mo ago
You literally cut off the quote before the actual point is explained and got hung on your imagined issue, of course it's Apple silicon systems. If you want to progress you might want follow the HN discussion guidelines and just explain
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by eviks 9mo ago
I've done more than that - after noticing high CPU use I investigated what those processes do, discovered services that I never need and tried to disable them. Now try to actually prove your point
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by eviks 9mo ago
You did dream, though not that you bought a laptop, but rather that you understood the comment.
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by eviks 9mo ago
> perf assumes you know how the OS works, and what various syscalls are doing. You just proved again that it's not optimized for reality because that knowledge can't be assumed as the pool of people trying to solve real perform
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by eviks 9mo ago
But it is, he's talking about real systems with real processes in a generic way, not a singular hypothetical where suddenly all that work must be done, so you can also apply you general knowledge that some of those background processes
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by eviks 9mo ago
> The fact that an idle Mac has over 2,000 threads running in over 600 processes is good news, and the more of those that are run on the E cores, the faster our apps will be This doesn't make sense in a rather fundamental way - ther
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by eviks 9mo ago
> I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to If you don't live in a mythical past, there was nothing "premier", so no categorical change in
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by eviks 9mo ago
Indeed not zero sum, but a negative sum game to waste money instead of even doing nothing, let alone building something useful.
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by eviks 9mo ago
It is not a hardly implausible figure given the wide range of human economic activity, that's a common flaw in economic thinking when small percentages of huge numbers seem realistic ("my business plan is modest and will achieve a
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by eviks 9mo ago
No, GDP is not revenue, it's lower
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by eviks 9mo ago
Great question, here is the link from the future:
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by eviks 9mo ago
Seems to be a dumbed down UI with less customization, but built with shiny new browser tech (Canvas, WebGL, CSS)! Also limited macros. No embedded Java
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by eviks 9mo ago
But how will we spam you if you don't give us email?
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by eviks 9mo ago
> will just get it by some other means, like having someone attend the class. Not really, they don't have sufficient time budget and a network of agents to do that as comprehensively as with a simple "google search" some b
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by eviks 9mo ago
There is no plausible deniability here, that's only relevant in a rule-of-law type of situation, but then you wouldn't need it as you can't be legally compelled to do that anyway. "We don't see any secret source com
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by eviks 9mo ago
You know the meaning very well, that's why it's common. Though your SI reference isn't that relevant: first, common doesn't need to follow SI even though it does in this case. Second, kilo is more ancient than SI.
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by eviks 9mo ago
No it didn't, look at your flash/hard drive labels. Also, there has been confusion since the beginning, and the core cause of confusion is refusing to use the common meaning of K, so insisting on that is just perpetuating said con
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by eviks 9mo ago
> Like how you ignored my point too? No, differently > If it was a hindrance, why did it win? Because reality is not as primitive as you portray it to be, you can have hindrances and boosts with the overall positive even winning effec
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by eviks 9mo ago
Sure, you can ignore that it was a hindrance just like you ignored ignored the previous point.
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by eviks 9mo ago
That just means your feedback system is trash if it fails to surface such an obvious and common pain point in user experience. Tough that's an extremely common state of feedback systems. But also, the general computer knowledge isn&#x2
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by eviks 9mo ago
> Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode What a weird comparison, one is free, another one is a premium app, of course a lot of people prefer some suffering over paying money
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by eviks 9mo ago
> There's plenty of competition for VSCode too. But there isn't, not if you include all the extensions and remember the price

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