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by fidotron 1y ago
> You cannot compare the achievements of a student at an independent school to those of a student at a state school based on grades. State school and independent school are a fundamentally different educational experience. While I agree
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by fidotron 1y ago
My recollection from thirty years ago was a lot of people that were aiming for Oxford would have Durham as their backup plan. It's been hovering around there for a while although not so much in the the world tech people care about, for
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Somehow, I have the nagging suspicion that the laws of parliament and it's budgets have more to do with the state of British enterprise than the appointment of a sexually-predatory prince as a trade representative. And that you ar
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by fidotron 1y ago
The problem is the UK tech business scene positively drips in that particular sort of expensively suited sliminess, as the entire HP Autonomy mess epitomized. Other places have this, but in the UK it's like it has killed almost the who
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by fidotron 1y ago
This whole US investment round in the UK is dreadful, as Nick Clegg is noting. It's basically we give you money now so you end up paying us back twice and don't develop anything locally either. And we get your data in the mean tim
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Air-Guard – ESP32 Based Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection System(github.com)
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by fidotron 1y ago
I believe the curious developers are now almost all poking hardware, to greater or lesser degrees. The two big projects of Meshtastic and Home Assistant absorb a huge amount of that side of the ecosystem, but also things like OpenWrt. Web a
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by fidotron 1y ago
If Pi Clusters were actually cost competitive for performance there would be data centres full of them.
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by fidotron 1y ago
No, that's my point. Generally speaking places that view things in a bottom up way became Protestant. The others stayed Catholic.
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by fidotron 1y ago
A key question here is if installation of Google Apps can fail verification if the device is offline, or if they have some magic local public key chain of pre-authed all OK keys. DEVELOPER_VERIFICATION_FAILED_REASON_DEVELOPER_BLOCKED is ver
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Put another way - that would seem to be an effect, not a cause. Protestantism does seem to become the preferred variant of Christianity in areas of bottom-up power systems, such as the UK (at least wrt Magna Carta), which does make per
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by fidotron 1y ago
The BC250 does not use a PS5 APU, it uses another APU which has the same CPU core. By that measure the Cell in the PS3 and the Xenon of the XBox 360 were the same, or any AMD Jaguar device is a PS4. This relates to the Intel problem because
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by fidotron 1y ago
Evil Brits messing around in the US! Let's boycott the US, that will teach them! Your entire mentality is stuck in the third world: wanting to ally yourself to ever larger bullies without ever taking personal responsibility to stand up
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by fidotron 1y ago
Bluntly, Intel has corporate cancer, and it requires removing the actual cancers, not a sort of 20% haircut.
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by fidotron 1y ago
But what they've completely resisted so far is any non trivial modification. They turned down Acorn about the 286, which led to Acorn creating the Arm, they have turned down various console makers, they turned down Apple on the iPhone,
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by fidotron 1y ago
> If you wanted to acquire Intel you'd do it now. Intel still has to go through a lot of reorg (i.e. massive cuts) to get to a happy place, and this is what their succession of CEOs have been procrastinating over.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Possibly more curious than the investment: > Nvidia will also have Intel build custom x86 data center CPUs for its AI products for hyperscale and enterprise customers. Hell has frozen over at Intel. Actually listening to people that want
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by fidotron 1y ago
At one point it told you everyone on your friends list that had also got one - and in my case it was basically everyone I knew from work over the years. Literally the only people that used it more than two weeks were those working on VR. Ev
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by fidotron 1y ago
I need to pass all the user input events to a game engine, and get back the results into the webgl JS runtime side renderer. (The games at https://www.luduxia.com/ )
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by fidotron 1y ago
Two of the major contributions Ton made though are relevant. The Blender team did not always accept code or suggestions. This has been a running theme with several people I've known that felt their work and/or ideas were rejected
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by fidotron 1y ago
The entire style and structure of the user interface; it has that look and feel of European audio software like Cubase or to a lesser degree Ableton. Obviously Blender used to be famously quite different from that and basically all other co
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by fidotron 1y ago
You know, I am sure I remember that handle! I was "kid tripod", in the UK back then. Now I'm reminiscing about Yafray . . .
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is the truth, and it's not really much better in non-GCed languages either. (In reality my impression is the GCed wasm side runtimes are even worse). Some of the least fun JavaScript I have ever written involved manually cleaning
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by fidotron 1y ago
Just another voice to say what a hero this guy is. I don't think many people appreciate just how this wasn't the easy home run it might look like with hindsight - there was quite a lot of outright Blender hate at one time, and cer
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Cambridge Analytica Another American moral failure! Hang on . . .
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by fidotron 1y ago
> it doesn't hurt the point in the article Your assertions do not make something true.
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by fidotron 1y ago
So the poor innocent Swedes would have acted completely honourably without the US as an example. Utter nonsense.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Those did involve ex-Apple people, and there isn't proof that they are quite as good either, but they are the closest that anyone has publicly come. Qualcomm have never actually caught up with Apple performance wise since the introduct
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by fidotron 1y ago
The single least logical statement I have ever seen on this forum. > Is that hypocrisy? No It's not hypocrisy, it's illogical, and even immoral. You saw something being done by group A and decided you want to punish group B for
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's worth saying their magic ability to sync everything across devices has basically ceased to exist at this point as well, and now I wonder if it ever did. The software engineering standard at Apple has clearly tanked in the last dec

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