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by gorkish 2y ago
Funny that the sci-fi got it backwards. It seems rather obvious in hindsight that should it even be possible, we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Well either way, it exists, and the FDA is apparently going to say it's not harmful. I'm in the "nobody in my entire extended family has ever had a single cavity" club, so no dog in the race for me other than my strong s
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by gorkish 2y ago
They had to find a breed that is, on average, as intelligent as an average human. Animal model optimality, and all that. Border collies were too smart so they had to use beagles.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Your friend should take a look at Lumina. It's a treatment to inoculate yourself with a strain of s.mutans that does not produce lactic acid and will remain dominant against other strains. Depending on the root cause of his cavities, i
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by gorkish 2y ago
> The nefarious part is that Windows enables Hyper-V even if you don't actually use Hyper-V VMs and never will. It does not actually enable it by default but there are many settings or apps that can cause it to become enabled. Virtu
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by gorkish 2y ago
Yes; I know. But similar to tracking a wireless client by MAC address, it could be possible to enhance the system to assign single-use identifiers to flight plans such that it would be radically more difficult to casually associate tracking
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by gorkish 2y ago
So yeah I do deal with 10GBaseT sometimes. IMO its mostly an economies-of-scale issue. 802.3an is up against some physical limits, but there have been many improvements even since the first products hit the market. The newer PHYs used in th
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by gorkish 2y ago
If it takes 3 days to be noticed by an outside party, I dare say that whatever caused the issue probably isn't the first problem to fix.
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by gorkish 2y ago
No you are entirely correct; the registration data is already effectively anonymous for any entity that has chosen to care about it. To be honest with you, anyone I know who is wealthy enough to own a plane is already set up with a mountain
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by gorkish 2y ago
Anonymizing aircraft registration was, for the most part, already possible. I first figured this out when I started playing with ADSB reception many years ago before it became the trivial effort it is today. The first plane that I happened
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by gorkish 2y ago
10GBase-T has high power draw because the original ICs that implemented it were old; modern nbaset transceivers consume much less power at 10gbit than they used to. The problem is mitigated to a great degree by economies of scale and being
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by gorkish 2y ago
2.5G nics are 10gbit capable nbaseT transceivers that ship with 5gb and 10gb rates disabled to create lower end skus. It's a sick joke. The standard should have not permitted disabling the faster rates. Your average consumer cant reall
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by gorkish 2y ago
This comment is an offtopic rant about the bane of 2.5gbit nics. A discussion about how awesome and cheap 25gbit nics are (on iOS devices no less!) seems as good a place as any to bring it up. 2.5gbit nics are a boondoggle. They must cont
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by gorkish 2y ago
I guess my comments make it sound like I don't appreciate this type of work; I absolutely do. An old friend of mine[1] was responsible for the first 3d support in the vmware svga driver, so this is a space I have been following for lit
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by gorkish 2y ago
The entire argument you all are having is predicated on the assumption that the presence or absence of the DRM and/or the user's ability to defeat it in some way affects a user's ability to present a stream of the content. I
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by gorkish 2y ago
A soft-gpu driver backed by real hardware "somewhere else" is a beautiful piece of software! While it certainly has application in virtual machines, and may even be "optimal" for some use cases like desktop gaming, it&#x
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by gorkish 2y ago
In truth it's not; however if the software has to do extra things like, for instance, translate io calls to a virtualbox disk format that hyperv cannot natively support or do an extra memcpy on the video framebuffer to get their UI to
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by gorkish 2y ago
The use case is mainly interoperability with VirtualBox; they can still keep thier own disk/vm formats, guest tools, etc. and use HyperV as the 'virtualization engine'. Users that have workflows that call out to VirtualBox ca
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by gorkish 2y ago
In for a comment on the premise that led to this article: Broadcom didn't make vmware desktop apps free because they want you to use them; they made them free because they don't want to sell or support them anymore. They only stil
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by gorkish 2y ago
KVM will happily work with real virtual GPU support from every vendor; it's the vendors (except for intel) that feel the need to artificially limit who is allowed to use these features.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Today this is mostly implemented by having a guest driver pass calls through to a layer on the host that does the actual rendering. While I agree that there is a lot of magic to making such an arrangement work, it's a terrible awful id
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by gorkish 2y ago
> have lost much of the reason I didn't say they have no reason to exist. I indicated they are moving towards becoming UI shells around standard OS features and/or other commodity software, which they are. Look at UTM, for inst
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by gorkish 2y ago
When they say "Free" what they mean is these products are now the walking dead. They are on maintenance only support until any existing commercial contracts expire at which point they will be cancelled. In this case, I admit that
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by gorkish 2y ago
If you want to virtualize something with good performance on desktop windows you use Hyper-V; if you want to do it on mac you use Apple's Virtualization Framework; if you want to do it on Linux you use KVM. Desktop virtualization produ
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by gorkish 2y ago
Genuinely curious as to why? Is it just the name/brand? Do you intend to own it for very long? IMO you stack the mach-e up to anything that is price or feature comparable (ICE or EV) and it's nothing but alarm bells. The common at
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by gorkish 2y ago
This is a simple story that has been told since ipad v1. They just need to let you run MacOS on it in a VM and all will be right with the world. But they won't because they are greedy selfish bastards that do not actually have the user
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by gorkish 2y ago
If CM5 doesn't at minimum expose the PCIe x4, I'm going to flip some fucking tables over.
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by gorkish 2y ago
I'm gonna be extremely blunt given that I have you in my audience, large streaming media worker bee: It's not surprising in the slightest that you have a bias towards the effectiveness of DRM when your livelihood depends on it. Th
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by gorkish 2y ago
If you take the capitalistic lust of the corporate executive to its logical extreme, given the massive costs of the DRM tech you'd think that at least one of them would realize that they could make more money if they didn't have t
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by gorkish 2y ago
I posted elsewhere in the thread but it bears repeating, "The analog hole has gone fully digital." The generational loss from one recompression is effectively unnoticeable. What a ridiculous arms race!

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