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by hdevalence 13y ago
It's not just about right rotation, it's also about architectural differences: the AMD cards have more ALUs to work with. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU...
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by hdevalence 13y ago
According to some documents I found with Google, one of those machines costs something like 100,000-120,000€.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I didn't advocate a delete button; I think it's a stupid idea. My point is that having aliases is not sufficient, and will become less so over time, especially as the prevalence and sophistication of algorithmic surveillance increases.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I agree with the bulk of your criticism, but this made me think a little: > Of course the current solution, of using anonymous aliases, makes a delete button unnecessary. I'm not sure it does, at least in practice. People can and will l
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I've had problems with fglrx where it crashes because you resize the window too quickly, and then it's done something really funky, so when you do CTRL+ALT+F_N it doesn't actually give you a shell.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> As of March 2013, Falcon Heavy launch costs are below $1,000 per pound ($2,200/kg) to low-Earth orbit when the launch vehicle is transporting its maximum delivered cargo weight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Is the raw data available?
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by hdevalence 14y ago
It was developed by the KDE project as KHTML. The reason that it's open-source is that it was Apple's fork of an existing free software project.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> I don't see what's wrong with that, asking the author if you can use his work is just good etiquette, I'm sorry if that's too much work for you. Yes, it is too much work; it's often not even possible. This is the problem of orphaned w
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by hdevalence 14y ago
How does "ranking" work for a sandbox game? The concept wakes no sense. Simcity doesn't have kill/death ratios or something. You can't have a global leaderboard, because there's no winning. It's not clear that "cheating" is even a problem.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
When you type into the chrome omnibox, it sends your keystrokes to Google to give you search suggestions. Just using those would be sufficient, and I don't think they really hide that it's sending your input along. If someone does a Google
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Yes, I am aware of the theoretical justification for IP. I'm just not convinced that it's as strong a justification as is claimed. I think that the current system, in general, provides monopoly protection beyond what is necessary to compens
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Or, instead of having the government grant monopolies on production left and right, and then using the legal system to create a market in these monopolies, we could..... skip this whole process, and let the free market operate properly from
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> The terms of the licence make it possible.... No, they do not. In fact, the example you gave is exactly the example given by the FSF to explain why this does not occur. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForN...
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by hdevalence 14y ago
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> GT is clearly inferior in build quality I've dropped mine (which does not have a case) from chest-height onto brick, down a flight of stairs onto tile, and onto the road while biking at a moderate speed (maybe 15-20 km/h). It has some
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Regarding 1: perhaps one could segment the players based on their scores --- the people I know who play scrabble competitively generally have a significantly higher average word score.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
I think it's a typo for "beam-racing".
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> The class of $300, 2lbs Linux laptops created fear for Intel and Microsoft instead. Thats why they are no longer sold. No, the reason they generally aren't sold is because consumers don't want them -- most consumers would rather have
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by hdevalence 14y ago
There's a nice article here: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ that explains some of the issues with JavaScript-based cryptosystems.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
I don't know if this is the book you're thinking of, but "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine has such arguments. It's a very interesting book -- I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the subject, whatever
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> Walk down the aisles of your local Best Buy and you'll be hard-pressed to find a phone, laptop, or TV that doesn't contain at least one of the rare earths. The elements are also key to all kinds of green technology: Neodymium is found
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by hdevalence 14y ago
> More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday What constitutes an "attempt"? What information is conveyed by the number "44 million"? None, really, since we have no way of knowing
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Re 3: Such signs are, in fact, required by law, at least in some jurisdictions (e.g., Canada).
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Rivers mean your justification algorithm is broken. It is true that the browser being broken isn't something you can change, but using CSS hyphens and falling back to something like hyphenator.js allows you to have justified text that is ba
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Say that multiplication by -1 is a 180 degree rotation of the number line. Then -1 * -1 is a 360 degree rotation -- which is the same as a 0 degree rotation. Note that saying it like this is non-intuitive, but the point is that it's actuall
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by hdevalence 14y ago
My Galaxy Nexus runs stock ICS and has fluidity issues, FWIW, and I'm not an Apple enthusiast. In particular, I've noticed problems switching in and out of the camera app, problems with the contact picture pop up, and with the music player.
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by hdevalence 14y ago
Sure, but compare your pipe speed today with your pipe speed ten years ago. I don't think that it's out of the realm of possibility that we will begin to see devices with no local storage within three years. Take Google Music, for instance