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by goku12 10mo ago
Thanks! Early computing history is very interesting (I know that this wasn't the earliest). They also sometimes explain certain odd design decisions that are still followed today.
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> I'd say over 70% of all computing is already been non-CPU for years. > If you look at your typical phone or laptop SoC, the CPU is only a small part. Keep in mind that the die area doesn't always correspond to the throughp
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> GPU compute units are not that simple Perhaps I should have phrased it differently. CPU and GPU cores are designed for different types of loads. The rest of your comment seems similar to what I was imagining. Still, I don't think
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I had a Xolo Tegra Note 7 tablet (marketed in the US as EVGA Tegra Note 7) in around 2013. I preordered it as far as I remember. It had a Tegra 4 SoC with quad core Cortex A15 CPU and a 72 core GeForce GPU. Nvidia used to claim that it is t
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I'm not familiar with that history. Could you elaborate?
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> I made this very comment here on Hacker News probably 4-5 years ago and received a few down votes for it at the time HN isn't always very rational about voting. It will be a loss if you judge any idea on their basis. > It would
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> Wind gusts were reaching 125 MPH in Boulder county, if anyone’s curious. That's some strong winds! What's causing such strong sustained/gusty winds that long? I'm hearing about this weather phenomenon for the first
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> I feel that I have nothing to hide Though you made the right determination later on, this is what you need to correct first. You don't have to be a murderer to have something to hide. Everyone does, no matter how innocent you are.
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That's not how it works. A larger codebase to scrutinize means that there's more chance of missing a memory safety bug. If you can keep the Rust unsafe block bug-free, you don't need to worry about them anymore in safe Rust.
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Varlink was created independently of systemd. SystemD just adopted it. It just wasn't that well known before that adoption.
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> For starters, it's the application that has to ask to be sandboxed Are you sure about this? My belief was that all flatpak apps run inside a bubblewrap (bwrap) sandbox. I just checked and that's exactly how it runs for me. &g
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From what I have seen, I believe that both types of aircrafts are controlled by the same ATC. Otherwise, the two ATCs will have to coordinate among themselves to create non intersecting vectors for each aircraft - which sounds needlessly te
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Even if the military aircraft could read the ADS-B from the commercial plane, they were flying with their night vision goggles on. It's very unlikely that they would have seen all the instruments and could very well have missed the dis
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That works if you can convince everyone to follow your advice. I try to do that by doling out advises, making a fool of myself at every opportunity. But the companies are much better at gaslighting the consumers into submission. For example
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Absolutely agreed. But the midair collision that happened at the Ronald Reagan Intl airport (DCA) in Washington DC in February doesn't really give me the confidence that they care that much. Especially given how furious the senior NTSB
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> Kudos to Kobo for keeping their system so open. These days it’s not that common This is such an underrated feature. I used to own a Kindle before, and now a Kobo Libra. I'm very pleased and satisfied with the Kobo - something I ra
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> 1. The civilian planes fly on pre published routes and communicate with air traffic controllers in plain text That's called a flight plan. It's just a declaration of intent, so that the ATCs know that you're expected. Th
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How considerate of them! That aside, comparisons with 'even' Iran or Israel is not very meaningful for US these days. Granted, both committed some very serious atrocities. But I don't remember Israel just arbitrarily blowing
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That's what I'm talking about. They'll gradually make it harder to use it without going online. May be by increasing the bootup times. Eventually they'll remove that option altogether. Isn't that what happened with
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Both examples you linked are people talking casually about the nature of Rust, rather than about the specific rule. That goes very much with your parent commenter's assertion that nobody takes it literally . The first example even sta
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Wouldn't that make it an announced war? I mean, technically a NOTAM doesn't declare the intention of a war. But one under the current circumstances is not just an unofficial declaration of a war, it's also an invitation to se
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An aerial refueler flying so close to Venezuela [1] can't have been there with the best intentions. I don't think that they're too keen on advertising their presence or whereabouts. I know that some here absolutely hate any s
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> ... and never, ever allow it to communicate over the Internet. I'm pretty sure they're working on solving that problem.
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> Makes me more and more glad that I never let my TV on any network.. Sigh! These manufacturers have repeated this so many times that it is probably in their corporate subversion manual now. This is no consolation at all. They first intr
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I see that we have already entered the post-apocalyptic scavenging stage?
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> You can buy a "smart TV" and keep it offline. For how long? Eventually, it will end up like Windows login. It won't work without an online account. In the meanwhile, they will soft corece you into adopting it by using pa
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Why does this page return code 410, (Author deleted this article)?
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by goku12 10mo ago
So if this one is a dictator, does that mean the next one is an emperor?
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> He just didn't like the font so he ordered it to be changed. There is your answer. He imposed his will - that's what dictators do. You have to be careful when the reason for any costly change is one individual's personal
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Not exactly related, but this is also the government that keeps insisting that the tariffs are paid by the foreign exporters (now that's a BS justification by any government that warrants widespread panic). It's all about narrativ

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