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by hyperrail 6y ago
The Edge team - first engineering alone, now both eng. and product - has been led for 3 years by Rajesh Sundaram, a Microsoft lifer who has never worked for Google. [1] And Chromium-based Edge has tracking prevention through filter lists, w
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by hyperrail 6y ago
I should clarify that Scalar does not require a VFS for Git server to work correctly, even though it can get significant benefits if a VFS server is available. This means you can use Scalar today with GitHub, but not VFS. Scalar also supp
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Yes, I do know the Windows os git repo uses GVFS. In fact, I shared my personal experience with git in the os repo some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748778 When I left Microsoft about half a year ago, GV
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by hyperrail 6y ago
I'm not sure that will ever happen [1] as Microsoft itself is limiting active development of VFS for Git in favor of Scalar [2] by the same team, which aims to improve client-side big repo performance without having to use OS-level f
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by hyperrail 6y ago
From the other side, I thought the Fortran code had too much syntactic ceremony. I haven't written Fortran in a while, but I was pretty sure that for illustrative examples like this, you could dispense with the entire MODULE declarat
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by hyperrail 6y ago
One interesting wrinkle is that traditionally (dating back to FORTRAN IV at least), Fortran compilers store matrices in RAM address space using column-major order, where consecutive elements are in the same column, not the same row. [1] Mos
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by hyperrail 6y ago
> major banks already offer a competitive digital platform. Did this improve a lot recently? Only 2 years ago, the Wall Street Journal described the inconvenience of Israeli banking this way: > Banking occupies a special place amon
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The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies(thecritic.co.uk)
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by hyperrail 6y ago
According to Consumer Reports, Mazda's non-touch-screen infotainment controls are actually not good at all: * https://www.consumerreports.org/infotainment-systems/how-to-... > Despite selling some vehicles wit
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by hyperrail 6y ago
The weirdest naming scheme for computers I've seen is the one used some years ago by my college: It named Linux workstations after Linux kernel committers' email usernames! There were the better-known folks like linus (Linus Torva
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by hyperrail 6y ago
To give context, this is a pair of letters sent/forwarded to the University of California system's administration by representatives of 2 UC system faculty committees, the Academic Council [1] and Committee on Academic Freedom [2]
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Concerns About Censorship by Zoom and Other Private Platforms [pdf](senate.universityofcalifornia.edu)
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Tesla Recalls 134,951 U.S. Vehicles Following NHTSA Pressure(autoblog.com)
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by hyperrail 6y ago
The pixel shaders feature is not in Windows Terminal 1.5, [1] the version you have installed, but it is in Terminal 1.6. Download and install Windows Terminal (Preview) from the Store if you want 1.6, or wait a month until 1.6 is published
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by hyperrail 6y ago
XR was deliberately weakened in cellular speeds - it had only 2x MU MIMO instead of 4x like on the XS. That might explain what you saw.
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by hyperrail 6y ago
I'd argue that Apple+Intel wasn't that far behind not-Apple+Qualcomm. And the gap was almost entirely closed from 2016 to 2018: https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphone-xs-crushes-x-in-lte-speeds... > Between th
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Here's Zoom's own public statement on the matter: https://blog.zoom.us/our-perspective-on-the-doj-complaint/ The statement also says that Zoom itself is under separate US federal investigations for its dealin
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Most older pages on docs.ms.com have been converted to Markdown, and yes, that includes the Windows C and COM API docs.* Here's the source code for CreateFile's doc page: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-a
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by hyperrail 6y ago
I wonder if Apple got the idea from IBM's OS for the late-80s AS/400 minicomputer line (today's System i servers). The OS/400 command language shell used its own rich knowledge of each command's syntax to present a
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by hyperrail 6y ago
> If you move from California to another country, and are subject to US Federal Income tax, and don't qualify for an exemption, the Franchise Tax Board still considers you a resident of the state, and as such, taxes you on your wor
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by hyperrail 6y ago
For what it's worth, I think the too-short title is pretty normal for HN. I'd blame its less than optimum informativeness on HN's cultural norm of short link titles, as reinforced by the administrators' moderation.
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by hyperrail 6y ago
From what I've heard myself in the past, I don't think Qualcomm is as far behind as you say, but I would not be surprised if it was. This puts me in mind of one time that I was ranting to a Microsoft colleague over lunch about how
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Some more details from Tom's Hardware Guide: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-pluton-processor... In particular, Microsoft says that the the idea of Pluton was pioneered in the AMD-Microsoft co-designed
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by hyperrail 6y ago
In reviews of the new M1 Macs as a whole, I'd like to see a comparison with Qualcomm's best: meaning the fastest current Windows ARM laptops. Up to now, their performance has at best only kept up with comparably priced x86 models,
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by hyperrail 6y ago
The new Edge's installer does not uninstall the old Edge, it just hides it. On versions of Windows before 20H2 (build 19042), you can bring back the old Edge icons by following these instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com&
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Neither Safari, Chrome/Chromium, IE, old Edge, nor new Edge have substantial HTML and CSS developer documentation on their own web sites. Their vendors - excepting Apple and the WebKit contributors - all chose to work with Mozilla inst
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Bruce Momjian doesn't mention it in the OP blog post, but the PostgreSQL core team consists of just 5 people including himself: https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ Keep that in mind when you no
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Right now, the link title is not even that, but just "Python 3.9". I wouldn't be surprised if it was an after the fact change; I've observed that HN admins never let "X Y.Z Released" or "What's New In
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Microsoft has used products from Semmle (the now-GitHub and thus now-Microsoft division whose tech is in GitHub code scanning) for a few years, and I've personally used it on occasion. From that limited experience, I'd say that fa
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A safety crisis inside Amazon's warehouses(seattletimes.com)
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