gjsman-1000

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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Ha - no. Absolutely not. I don't know where this total myth came from that RISC-V is open source therefore implementations will be better. RISC-V is just an ISA (Instruction Set) that anyone can use, but what people use it in, and how
2. 2822.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Don’t worry - VVC found its way into the new Europe DVB Broadcast TV standard, as well as the upcoming Brazilian Broadcast TV standards. (As for America, ATSC 3.0 / NextGen TV uses… HEVC. Better than MPEG-2, I guess.)
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   OK then. Put your money where your mouth is, Apple, and send some checks to UPS, FedEx, DHL, Foxconn, TSMC, Samsung, 3M, BOE, Flextronics, Hitachi, LG, Micron, Molex, Nidec, NXP, Panasonic, Pegatron, Qualcomm, Skyworks, Sony, STMicroelectro
4. 2824.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   > $200B and a decade. Also do you think Taiwan is just going to let go of their biggest bargaining chip for a measly $200B? Not necessarily a decade. Intel is promising ~4 years for their fabs, and hoping to be online by 2025-ish if I re
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   I don't dispute that - but Apple is still on the line the most of any company if TSMC were to become unavailable (in sales, in products requiring TSMC chips, lost sales, Apple Silicon on all of their devices, so forth). Also Apple had
6. 2826.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Incorrect. Crimea was invaded in 2014. My point was that in 2012, it was 2 years before the invasion, and less foreseeable despite how quickly in the grand scheme of things it came afterwards.
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   > There was no alternative at the time regarding overall production. China gave them the option to be extremely flexible and efficient. Other countries like India/Vietnam is copying the Chinese cookbook. Yes, and no. Apple has done
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   To me, I think that Apple's reliance on China, and Taiwan, was and is an extremely risky and misguided decision. Imagine if Apple had developed a total reliance on chip factories built in, say, Ukraine, back in 2018. That's about
9. 2829.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   I remember when that came out. Shocking it's already replaced. Anyone who is still interested can buy one on eBay straight from Microsoft's eBay Outlet (which surprisingly exists): https://www.ebay.com/itm/255
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Yes... and no. The Windows Store works way better now than it used to, back in 2015. Now it's finally serviceable, but it's still loaded with junk that makes the iOS App Store look well-maintained. Discoverability is still poor (b
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I don't know why you would buy one, even if it were available, unless power-efficiency was a crucial component for a server. Can you imagine what you could get, on eBay, in a small form factor, for $600? I made off with a i3-8100T (abo
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Sure - if you need all 32GB for development work, it is a great deal. But, with a processor slower than a midrange modern Intel laptop, good luck using it to its full extent without feeling quite slow. So slow you might almost prefer a 16GB
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Technically, yes. If you look at the benchmarks, a VM of Windows on an M1 (base model) is significantly faster than both the SQ1 / 8cx Gen 1 and SQ2 / 8cx Gen 2 processors Microsoft included with the Surface Pro X (by like, 30%, i
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I have mixed feelings about how successful this will be. The 32GB of RAM is really cool for the price - but 8cx Gen 3 is still no M1. It's still significantly slower than an 11th Gen laptop Core i5. Probably not super fun to develop on
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    The constant swearing is also really professional. Swearing surely increases the likelihood of a purchase, everybody knows that.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Also great is the definition of a SIM card: “A SIM stands for security information management, and traditionally collects, monitors, and analyzes security-related data.” This writer has never worked in IT before and is wholly unqualified. E
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    This article has a competence level that rivals the PC building guide by The Verge. What happened? How in the world does any tech writer use the wrong definition of SIM, among other mistakes? Vice, if you are reading this, I could write you
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Extraordinary rendition is still a legal procedure, done in courts from both countries. China's alleged activities do not even talk or rely on authority from their own courts, let alone another country's.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    For those going, "well, what is the Chinese government going to do, compared to Facebook?" Or saying, well, Facebook does the same thing right? Well... potentially kidnap you and bring you to China, if you don't comply. They
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I'm not speaking about when you are alive, go ahead, donate. I'm only talking about the "Donor" tag on your driver's license after an accident - where, well, people have woken up who were considered "brain dead
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    For more horror: There are stories of people who were legally brain dead who woke up - see Colleen Burns, for example. She woke up just before her organs were going to be removed for donation (quite literally under the surgical lights). The
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I’m looking at this and thinking: Did the colleges have no forsight, at all? Why did they think admission tests existed? Did they honestly think, “wow, the tests are flawed, so get rid of them, problem solved?”
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Every community that has ever existed self-polices, and (I believe) this is basically insurmountable - the only thing that can be changed is what they self-police for . Even here, Hacker News, we shame incompetent programmers. We shame mis
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Clothing, I would argue, is one of the things that give a human dignity , and raise the human above an animal. Work is another thing that falls in this category, as does not raping each other (some animals don't care). This is somet
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Demilitarized Zone (for example, border between North Korea and South Korea). Edit @Brian_K_White: I don't either. Bad analogy.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    > Modesty was developed across multiple societies as a way of equalizing physical attractiveness. I would argue that this is forgetting how violent the world used to be. Most people were farmers, which meant most men were stronger than t
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    On the other hand, remember that these modesty norms have existed in many cultures (particularly colder countries), for millennia. Long before there was a "media" creating competition.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Well… if it is that easy, might as well make the sequences proprietary again (change them for security), but it should not cost very much after all to add such functionality. At least not nearly as much as Elon thought.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    That developer page isn’t really assuring with the version numbering. Was there ever an “iPadOS 4.0”?
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I don’t think YouTube will abandon VP9 anytime soon either though. They want AV1 for improving quality and lowering bandwidth - but VP9 and MPEG before it will stay a long time yet.