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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   In the moment I doubt a top GM would notice. Everyone is preparing using state-of-the-art chess engines and taking inspiration, even from moves that would have been considered crazy a decade ago. After the fact, it'd probably be more o
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   The Nexus at that time were full of bugs too.
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Lots of people have complained about the fingerprint reader, poor cell reception, and recently the Android 13 update that killed their battery life.
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   The 5 is okay. After owning many Google phones since the Nexus era I think Google should really focus on making good mid-range phones and simply give up on the high-end entirely. It's not like they're really trying to sell hardwar
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Who run banks in the US maybe. The rest of the world has largely moved on.
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Anecdotally I found that recent releases of OpenJDK with Hotspot were a bit faster. Both on my machine and for web services. If you don't need native images or truffle, the huge installation size isn't really justified. There are
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Android and Chrome OS support DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS. DNS based adblocking is obviously not perfect, but good enough in practice.
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Here in Europe it's mostly big ISPs that deploy PON. From what I understand it only makes sense with a large customer base. Small ISPs typically have P2P deployments and use standard switches.
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   by hocuspocus 4y ago

   Plus incredibly easier paths to immigration on a skilled work permit and access to permanent residence. Like most EU countries.
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Mostly through family reunion which is completely irrelevant to the issue discussed here. The US has the most nonsensical immigration laws for skilled workers of the developed world. Even Japan or Korea are pretty straightforward in compari
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    I don't see the issue with the article's statement really. > However, time and time again, particularly with its flagships, there has been some kind of compromise. The Snapdragon 765G in the Pixel 5 is a compromise (if you paid
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Afaik modems do, it's the radio frontend that differs between continents. These differences are pretty slim nowadays and open market European phones will work in the US and vice versa. However the performance might be slightly degraded
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    The Tensor might be state-of-the-art on paper, it's still pretty average in practice. And the network performance in the Pixel 6/6 Pro is awful according to a lot of people, I'm not sure if it's the Samsung modem or the
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Recent electricity prices in Europe have proven that intermittent renewables backed by gas are way more expensive than nuclear, if it wasn't obvious already. Nuclear waste disposal is a red herring. It's literally a rounding error
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    You make it sound like way simpler than it is in reality. Tax criteria by canton: Displacement only: AG, FR, GL, GR, LU, NW, OW, SH, SO, TG, VS, ZG Gross weight only: AI, AR, BE, BL, JU, SG, UR Horsepower and gross weight: SZ, TI, VD Displa
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    This is what I've seen. It also makes sense from a legal point of view (at least here in Europe) and more importantly, from a practical one. If you're Here or TomTom you want to provide good data and you need OEMs to share theirs
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Car makers are typically on the conservative side, and they aren't really in a position where their own data would be particularly valuable compared to that of other players. What mostly happens is that data sharing goes both ways: for
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    I assume there's still a big difference between big companies that have a monorepo and extremely centralized and vertical build infrastructure, and the ones that don't, especially if they're very siloed. From what I see from
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    I came to the comments for the same question about non-linear smearing. I found more details and motivation in this article: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/06/01/five-different...
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Or iOS. But that's a bit moot. For instance my LG TV doesn't support Dolby Vision files outside a few very specific encoding profiles, there's no software fix for that.
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    I don't think piracy needs to come back, it never died. But I'm not expecting a significant revival of video players. Who wants to watch shows and movies on a computer nowadays? On most devices (TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, ... bu
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Note that the sad state of French nuclear is of course mainly due to internal incompetence (and mismanagement, Anne Lauvergeon should probably be in jail) and poor planning. However, the Areva-Siemens (and Alstom) quagmire, and the insane e
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Is that such a big issue when binary packages are available from pretty much every package manager out there?
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    > There has been a continuous pressure on costs everywhere at airports, which means the airports themselves have not much flexibility on raising fees to account for increased costs, and the companies providing the services like baggage h
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    It's very hard to come back to high-tier academia from a PhD in industry. Let alone becoming a professor. And clumping STEM together is always a bit silly when we're discussing such topics, not all fields are the same. The opportu
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    I see at least two huge reasons: - The Fed decides who can use US dollars and what you can do with them; stable coins provide ways to evade such mechanisms. - It wants to avoid spillover in case the cryptocurrency market collapses entirely.
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    3. is nice compared to most European cities, even the train to MUC is nearly 4x more expensive if I remember well. And I've missed the last RE to HbF a few times (EasyJet being late often) but the last S-Bahn runs surprisingly late. Sa
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    They definitely have some weight. For instance in a few countries they fight campaigns like Dry January. Fun fact: one hundred years ago the wine lobby successfully killed absinthe using bogus scientific claims, and today Pernod Ricard are
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    In Europe we typically use neobank (or challenger bank) for VC-funded fintech startups that offer mobile-first retail banking (sometimes without a proper banking license at first). They started appearing ~10 years ago. Direct or online ba
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    by hocuspocus 4y ago

    Visa and MC (and PSPs) are just covering their asses, they'd happily take your money otherwise. There's no technological fix for overreaching bills like FOSTA-SESTA.