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by greendave 6y ago
And for productivity, there's always AppleWorks[1]. Well, I suppose one doesn't get a 37-year old computer for productivity, but just in case... [1] https://apple2history.org/history/ah19/
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by greendave 6y ago
The old Net+ errors[1] are still golden. My favorite: A file that big? It might be very useful But now it is gone. [1] https://8325.org/haiku/
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by greendave 6y ago
> Lahey saw Vescovo’s mission as a way to develop and test the world’s first unlimited hadal exploration system—one that could then be replicated and improved, for scientists. This really is the crux of the matter. It's easy to dis
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Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Under the Sea(newyorker.com)
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by greendave 6y ago
I'm very happy to see 16:10 screens becoming more common. It's also nice to see more modern 17" designs. Looks like Apple isn't going to be the only one with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports going forward (though too bad the 15 o
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by greendave 6y ago
> The Cupertino, California-based technology giant plans to bring back employees in phases to its offices, including the main Apple Park campus in Silicon Valley, over a few months, according to people familiar with the plan. Yeah, it&#x
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by greendave 6y ago
> The reason is straightforward – while we support a diverse, international ecosystem, most of our growth has already been happening in Europe. Makes sense to be where your developers/members are.
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by greendave 6y ago
> And with few legal barriers, employers who turn to this software during the pandemic may choose to keep using it even after work-from-home orders are lifted, he said. Unsurprising - why give up power once you've accumulated it. Re
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by greendave 6y ago
> Michael Knysze significantly increased throughput of memory allocation for large blocks by redesigning the memory allocator's "mcentral" data structure to reduce lock contention. The new allocation code is more than twic
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by greendave 6y ago
So far, they have double the fatality rate of LA county.
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by greendave 6y ago
Interesting data. Overall surprised at how few failures they saw. From an interview last year, it sounds like they don't use SMR drives[1]. I would be interested if there is any good source for failure rates of those. [1] https:&#x2
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by greendave 6y ago
> What you're given is a set of powerful but easy to understand, easy to use building blocks from which you can assemble—compose—a solution to your problem. It might not end up quite as fast or as sophisticated or as ideologically m
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by greendave 6y ago
> fTPM tampering is out of scope since the ME is the root of all trust in the system I'm wondering about this assumption. Hasn't the ME previously been shown to be fairly straightforward to exploit?
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by greendave 6y ago
> "We are addressing this matter using the same phased approach we use for other businesses which have violated the order in the past, and we hope that Tesla will likewise comply without further enforcement measures." Looks lik
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by greendave 6y ago
> We interpret these results as adding further evidence for human intelligence being naturally geared towards the efficient navigation of social systems. Seems to be a talking about a very specific type of intelligence, e.g. quite differ
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by greendave 6y ago
> 'Apparently someone at the CEO level leaked that this was gonna happen, so they expedited it.' > The employee tells DailyMail.com that more layoffs at Uber are expected. Leaks at the executive level + lack of trust by empl
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by greendave 6y ago
In terms of raw CPU performance, these look pretty good. For stuff like SPEC CPU, they're within spitting distance of the EPYC 7571 for single-core performance[1]. Multi-core is not as good though. Hopefully we can see them matched
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by greendave 6y ago
Perhaps it's worth reversing the question - what does he have to lose? Every stunt he's pulled in the past has been without serious consequence (defamation, stock manipulation, etc. etc.). Why should this be any different?
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by greendave 6y ago
> We know you’ll ignore the fact that you’re not us and we have enough engineers and resources to do whatever we like, but the decision will ruin your startup so it’s not like we’ll see your blog posts about your experience with $HYPED_T
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by greendave 6y ago
The idea looks exciting, but the details are less so. In particular, I have a hard time believing the CPU (4x1.5GHZ A53) and memory (4GB RAM, non-upgradeable) will be sufficient for a lot of the more interesting uses.
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by greendave 6y ago
> Critics are dismayed. Citing forecasts that COVID-19 deaths could rise to 3,000 per day in June, they say that reopening without better defenses against infections is reckless. The problem at this point is that there is little evidence
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by greendave 6y ago
> Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesl
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by greendave 6y ago
Junior college is a great option which far too many people dismiss.
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by greendave 6y ago
> The smartest people I know are mostly self-educated. They already know the secret: With an Internet connection and strong work ethic, you can teach yourself. > To sum up, don’t pay $30,000 for Zoom classes. Start a business instead
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by greendave 6y ago
I would expect so, but that's what benchmarks are for!
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by greendave 6y ago
Fair enough. But I would imagine the vast majority of those folks will be looking at $300-$700 CPUs in that case - going from a top-of-the-line CPU to a low/mid-grade seems like an unusual choice.
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by greendave 6y ago
Good looking laptops with excellent CPUs. It is a bit unfortunate that they don't support Thunderbolt though. The ability to add an external GPUs/PCIe cards widens the horizon a lot for desktop-replacement systems.
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by greendave 6y ago
> An independent panel was set up to scrutinise its plans and released a report suggesting some of its ideas were "tech for tech's sake", and potentially unnecessary. I wonder what could have given them that idea. > In
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by greendave 6y ago
I like Anandtech. They have some really great deep dive articles on CPUs and system architecture. Which is why this type of 'test' is just weird. None of the CPUs they compare seem to be in the same price bracket. Many aren&#x
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by greendave 6y ago
> Several C++20 features have been implemented: > P0912R5, Coroutines (requires -fcoroutines) Nice to see a bunch of C++20 features making it in. Coroutines seems like a big one!

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