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by gargravarr 8y ago
Not always the case - my 2014 MBP Retina has an i7-4870HQ CPU. According to Intel's ARK, the CPU supports 32GB RAM. However, the maximum you could spec until this year was 16GB on any model. Even worse, I got my hands on a 2012 MacBook
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by gargravarr 8y ago
IBM and Motorola worked with Apple to make the PowerPC chips Apple used in their (i|Power)(Mac|Book) ranges for years. They called it the AIM Alliance.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I'd say the heat generation is the biggest factor in fast charging wearing out the battery - lithium batteries do not like heat, and base Qi generates quite a lot of it (have a Qi charger for my Galaxy S5). Can only imagine the fun you
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by gargravarr 8y ago
From what I've been told on here, Nintendo did implement USB-PD correctly, and correctly identified itself as a low-current device, but third-party devices ignore that and attempt to draw full amperage from the charger, which causes
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The way I interpret it is: since it's being introduced at the manufacturing plant, those installing the devices have no idea where the finished product will end up. Thus, these are not targetted attacks; they could wind up in the serve
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by gargravarr 8y ago
If both are going over the same physical interface, there could be tiny voltage drops to power the chip itself. The vague-as-ever article gives no indication as to how the chip would be powered, but such a small implant could conceivably le
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Some real doublethink going on here, with Bloomberg continuing to insist that supply chain attacks are real, yet seemingly accepting the denials of each company involved. I am really not sure what to make of this.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
You might think that a device whose first and foremost purpose for existing is telling the time, might, y'know, actually be capable of doing so?
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Dell Precision M3520. Good keyboard, good size, good complement of ports (3x USB3.0, HDMI, Thunderbolt, NIC, even VGA), excellent performance (i7 + expandable RAM + Quadro graphics), nice 1920x1080 screen too. Leagues above our standard XPS
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The trouble is, the sort of people who would buy a pre-hardened NAS are also the sort of people who would be suspicious of a pre-built unit. I know for sure I wouldn't trust anything off the shelf, I'd take the base OS and build s
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Could not agree more - I only replaced my MBP because it finally wore out, not because I wanted a new machine. There was so much on my machine that it would be a massive disruption to move it all.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
How does anyone have this many problems with so many laptops? I know every company is allowed to have quality-control exceptions, but it seems this guy managed to pick up every single one of them! Sheesh. I have only ever bought one laptop
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The article describes pretty much exactly how Concorde worked - it was faster, more convenient, but exclusive and expensive. You even sacrificed a lot of comfort for your trouble - I never got the chance to fly Concorde, but have toured one
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by gargravarr 8y ago
That sound you can faintly hear is the screaming of a million developers who maintain all the datetime libraries in the world.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I use the registration date of my car (which is 4 years older than me) since at least I can look it up.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
PS/2 is actually the better interface since it's interrupt-based. USB is polling-based, hence the latency issue. A lot of non-Apple laptops still use it for their internal keyboards and mice due to interrupts using less power. As
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The systems are controlling generators, which produce AC current. It's not unreasonable to think the controllers are monitoring the AC waveform, which has a frequency of 50-60Hz. Ergo, if the controller is checking the generator is pro
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Your objections to a USB-C dock are pretty justified: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9bwqt8/dell_tb16_... There's a number of Latitude models that support traditional docking stations. S
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The funny thing is, Google have previously lauded Yubikeys, commenting how all staff get one and how it's reduced phishing to zero. Yubico is already a reasonably trusted entity in the security space, and its products are made in the U
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Huh, I didn't know that. I thought AMD started competing with Intel by cloning the 286 and beyond. Had no idea it was for the IBM PC contract. I knew about 64-bit (Athlon 64, anyone?), but I've always heard x86-64 described as a k
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by gargravarr 8y ago
2 + 2 equals whatever The President wishes it to equal.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
What I'm having trouble understanding about the whole thing, and the author really misses the point by talking about Snap and Flatpak, is that the technical reason Dropbox are only supporting ext4 is apparently the use of extended attr
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I built my company's LDAP infrastructure using OpenLDAP from scratch. It's redefined my pain threshold in the process! OpenLDAP is a solid piece of software, no doubt, but there's one critical problem - most of the guides are
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I agree with the bias aspect, as soon as they mentioned Univention I realised it was a sales pitch. Feels like ambulance-chasing!
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by gargravarr 8y ago
All electronics can fail, and those failures can be unpredictable. A bad batch of capacitors can pop during the slightest surge of current. Age can also contribute. Car ECUs used to be built to be as simple as possible (which also cuts do
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Same, I had bad experiences with the early Athlons and bought Intels after that, never had any stability problems. But now I'm seeing douchey behaviour from both Intel and nVidia. I've been a big fanboy because of the performance,
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Reading around, the stuff R V Jones got up to during that period makes for some entertaining stories! E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Agreed on the Vulcan - having watched XH558's final flight, a low-altitude slow climb opening the throttles to max, the way the Olympus engines split the atmosphere behind the aircraft isn't just something you hear, it's some
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Usually available DIMM sizes, 32GB ECC DIMMs may come along eventually. May also be a power restriction, since (AFAIK) ECC draws more power, so at some point the DIMM may hit an upper limit (ECC running on each refresh cycle).
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Workstation-class machines seem to focus on executing multiple tasks in parallel and sharing resources fairly among them. Gaming laptops focus on giving one task 100% of the power.

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