jocaal

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by jocaal 2y ago
in capitalism, the most important factor of production is capital.
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by jocaal 2y ago
That phone isn't a squircle, it is a rounded square. Those rounded edges seem to be inspired by google material design. Also phones have converged to the metal band, glass back before the iphone did it. Mobile phones are a mature techn
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by jocaal 2y ago
Mobile phones are a mature technology. There aren't any opportunities to differentiate designs. For cars, they all look the same and differentiate brands with headlights and grills, phones only have the camera bump to differentiate bra
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by jocaal 2y ago
> Walled gardens suck. Let me fix that for you. uhuhm. Duopolies suck.
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by jocaal 2y ago
The creator of this extension also makes DeArrow [1]. It replaces the clickbait thumbnails and titles with less annoying ones. I highly recommend it. [1] https://dearrow.ajay.app/
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by jocaal 2y ago
Correction, ARM chips tend to be designed for better performance per watt. The instruction set has nothing to do with it. For a long time intel and amd neglected the mobile markets. That is about to change.
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by jocaal 2y ago
> But I find an article that doesn't even address any other companies a little hard to swallow. Are other companies simply not able to "reshore" chip fabs? I urge you to look at the earnings of some of the most popular chi
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by jocaal 2y ago
What they didn't tell you is that these state-machines are differential equations as well. Again, the math is more important than the code. If you want to look more into it, just search for state variable control.
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by jocaal 2y ago
> It turns out non-programmers actually like graphical tools. Go figure. I'd rather say that visual tools are better abstractions than what text based tools can provide for those specific scenarios. Some problems are easier solved w
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by jocaal 2y ago
The people using matlab are typically experts in things other than programming. Matlab is for people designing antennas or control systems, where the math is more important than the code.
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by jocaal 2y ago
> better for edge AI than whatever is out there, so I'm looking forward to this What exactly are you expecting? The current hype for AI is large language models. The word 'large' has a certain meaning in that context. Much
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by jocaal 2y ago
> The memory bandwidth of 120 GBps is roughly 1/10th of the NVIDIA hardware, but who’s counting Memory bandwidth is literally the main bottleneck when it comes to the types of applications gpus are used for, so everyone is counting
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by jocaal 3y ago
Information doesn't have to be explicitly linked to a person in order to identify them. Search browser fingerprinting as an example. The best policy is really to not collect this information.
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by jocaal 3y ago
> I'm sorry, but I want to maximize my (and really all humans) time on this Earth, if that costs energy, that's the cost But by using too much energy, you are reducing the expected lifespan of future generations. I can't t
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by jocaal 3y ago
In my experience, whenever relationships get involved in business, things go sideways fast. You should definitely fight this, as other people have mentioned, get a lawyer.
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by jocaal 3y ago
> Given one of the things you can get on an app store is a replacement keyboard, "security" is, in addition to all the things you listed, "make sure there are no installable key-loggers". "This keyboard app requi
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by jocaal 3y ago
Through security enhancing features in the operating system, like not allowing processes to access other's memory spaces. Or prompting users to allow an application to use potentially harmful api's. What do you think is the role o
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by jocaal 3y ago
Making the assumption that the majority will always make the right choice is absurd. The real value in democracy is kicking out whoever is currently in charge every few years and you can indeed do that by picking the next person at random.
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by jocaal 3y ago
probably, I didn't really check it, but I found [1]. Rust has a lot of support for embedded systems, even from the companies that provide the chips, like Espressif. [1] https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal
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by jocaal 3y ago
It scares me how many people don't realize this. A language is only as good as the things it allows you to build. Swift can be a great language from a PLT perspective, but it is pretty much only good at making apple UI's. Anything
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by jocaal 3y ago
> And also to have the US stay in control, that was the deal post WW2. This is changing though, looking at how much EU countries spend in terms of GDP they are slowly closing in on the US a quick search said the EU spent 240B euro on def
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by jocaal 3y ago
Trying to design a perfect system is a pipe dream. There will always be interactions between components that weren't expected. The best we can do is fix the problems as they come and occasionally break some api's to build better s
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by jocaal 3y ago
> Every time somebody says "I don't want vendor lock-in", they flip it to "Oh, so you don't want safety?" Sometimes you need safety from the vendors. Linux is the only OS that doesn't use dark patterns
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by jocaal 3y ago
I use chromium on linux without proprietary codecs. There have been many times where videos didn't play for me, but these all worked.
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by jocaal 3y ago
> Android tablet but I'm still yet to find one with a decent pen and memory I don't have one, so take with grain of salt, but I've seen reviews of the Galaxy Tab s9 Ultra are pretty good [0]. Super expensive though. Also a
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by jocaal 3y ago
Musk is a great CEO because he is free marketing. Tesla would be a fraction of its size without musk, not because of technical merits, but because the general public loves (or atleast loved) his wacky personality and his links with high tec
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by jocaal 3y ago
> They'll be under a lot of pressure to roll out what they do there elsewhere. Japan is also in the process of making similar laws[1]. [1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-d...
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by jocaal 3y ago
You can easily access the chinese version of tiktok and from what I've seen, douyin has exactly the same garbage as tiktok. These apps aren't hostile for national security reasons. They are hostile for monetary reasons.
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by jocaal 3y ago
When my current phone dies I won't be buying a new one. I will be buying an LTE smartwatch. That way I get to keep a number and will still be able to contact family and friends. > How do you manage your digital life The hope is that
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by jocaal 3y ago
And then they will realize that the people complaining about big tech monopolies and their rent seeking behaviour were maybe not so crazy after all.

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