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by hn_check 6y ago
"But certainly I would expect accounts would accumulate warning flags and at some point be banned." https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-style-rating-helps-bran... Though there seems to be a bit of a conflict with
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by hn_check 6y ago
A very common tactic during the period when video cards were improving rapidly was to buy a card, use it for six months, and then return it and buy the newer one. Rinse and repeat. For a while a lot of these electronics retailers had a zero
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by hn_check 6y ago
Absolutely, if management is entirely invested in it, and it becomes a mandatory part of the process (e.g. updating the wiki is a part of a release or new build), it can be a critical resource. The problem is that the organic nature of wiki
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by hn_check 6y ago
>"Ah, so worthless cynicism and condescension after all. I see why you made a novelty account for this. But I wonder if you see the irony in playing this sort of inquisitor?" You are irrationally hostile. My comments are not fo
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by hn_check 6y ago
>"I don't really understand your take-away except for a cynical "bah, nothing ever works so don't try." Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite platitudinal disclaimer in my post about how how
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by hn_check 6y ago
This is the problem with a good percentage of advice and life/career hacks on HN -- they're always spoken of in the early, idealist stage. Before the reality has set in. Before the downsides have made their presence known. I'
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by hn_check 6y ago
I've seen it enough to chuckle when I see it now. In any scientific or medical discussion it is rampant. People will cite things to support claims they are making, but the things they cite don't concur at all. They might be relate
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by hn_check 6y ago
Just as often person 1 says something, providing no citations (but living in a world where we know that anyone can support/debunk with their own searches). Person 2 comes along and posts a retort with a number of citations, properly li
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by hn_check 6y ago
There is going to be a finite number of people who are going to dedicate their computing resources (with the security, usability, and power consumption/heat issues that entails). I suspect that number is relatively small. It seems the
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by hn_check 6y ago
This is the critical aspect of the Sweden example: the people of Sweden are rational and everything isn't hyper politicized. Even though they tried a different approach, many still took reasonable precautions. There still were signific
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by hn_check 6y ago
"People who are into fitness don't need apps to track their fitness." Fitness apps are very common among "people who are into fitness". In lifting, running, cycling, and other realms. Your No True Scotsman claim doe
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by hn_check 6y ago
I'm pretty sure there is an "objective measure of success" in the most plainly obvious way possible -- sales. Versus the bullshitty stats like impressions or accidental click-throughs that dominate online advertising.
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by hn_check 6y ago
Best Buy rather than Apple store. Of course the most obvious explanation of all is that someone set up a domain redirect for the sole purpose of getting a front page on HN and Reddit. This domain seems to be very poorly ranked, yet here eve
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by hn_check 6y ago
I would assume the store devices (Best Buy) are locked to a small set of domains for obvious reasons. Further it seems that it's adding an extra m on the end on all but the first. EDIT: LOL, -10 on this post. This place is such a swamp
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by hn_check 6y ago
Corrections? LOL. "The A12X/Z has ~18MB of L1+L2+System cache." The A12X/Z has 256KB of L1 cache per core, 6MB of L2/3 cache shared by all cores. (256*8)+6144 = 8.2MB of L1+L2 cache. It has no L3 cache. I don't
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by hn_check 6y ago
Yes. And that is okay for the vast majority of consumers as well. Are there compelling PWAs on other platforms that are killer apps? Somehow Apple always gets called out here (despite being one of the first to support PWAs and to enable adv
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by hn_check 6y ago
"Apple fanboys never learn. Sigh." Just to be clear, you (and several others running the same playbook) are attacking Apple's entrant from every possible dimension, cherry picking specific micro-traits from various other syst
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by hn_check 6y ago
Amazing how quickly all of the goalposts are moving so people can desperately try to diminish whatever Apple does. Now it's die size? Or, odder still, die percentage . Firstly, the A12Z is 8 full cores. The "small" cores are
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by hn_check 6y ago
You're really veering all over the place to dismiss this (which is funny given that it was on the A12Z, and we know production machines will be much more powerful). Now this tiny (less than 1/3rd the die size of the Xbox One SoC..
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by hn_check 6y ago
https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=6070 It doesn't stutter whatsoever (you've claimed this in multiple posts, and I think you need to look at your playback device because the game is buttery smooth). And for integrat
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by hn_check 6y ago
It's remarkable how overwhelmingly negative the comments on HN are to everything Apple does. The top comment is always some "this is the final straw...I'm leaving the platform" screed (if you look back, those people ha
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by hn_check 6y ago
"The move towards "iOSing" the OS." People have been claiming this for literally a decade+ now. The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.
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by hn_check 6y ago
The comment was very literal in comparing the cache on the Apple chip to the Intel chip. And just to be clear, cache is "expensive" in die size. They aren't putting an order in for L2 cache to Samsung or something. That Apple
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by hn_check 6y ago
Why do you quote magical as if someone said that. Further, your point is that Apple chips are faster because of easily replicated reasons. Intel is charging hundreds of dollars for their chip -- you should charge them some consulting fees a
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by hn_check 6y ago
To distill your post- -the CPU will be a lot more powerful and faster, but it isn't really faster because it's like an accelerator or something. -if you actually use your computer get some vague "Linux desktop" or some
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by hn_check 6y ago
It's was a Pro monitor, but they explicitly said that the demos actually ran on the developer transition kit powered by an A12Z...
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by hn_check 6y ago
It's an integrated GPU so it isn't going to compete against serious dedicated GPUs, and no one should expect that. I imagine much like existing Apple devices (and Windows laptops) with dedicated GPUs it will switch as necessary. B
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by hn_check 6y ago
It doesn't seem weird at all, and the fact that they're sending out devices on the A12Z seems to be intentional sandbagging: they know that people are going to benchmark and the results will likely be simply comparable to current
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by hn_check 6y ago
Of course "voting" should be something you are accountable for. If you are pushing nonsense and banned content up, you become a part of the problem. Even on HN there have been many anti-science nonsense stories on the front-page w
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by hn_check 6y ago
This is an absurd argument that the far right is plying as if they have some constitutional right to push their hateful noise on every site. The internet is open. If you disagree with Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc, there are alternatives.

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