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karteum
3y ago
By the way, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver : "Project Denver was originally intended to support both ARM and x86 code using code morphing technology from Transmeta, but was changed to the ARMv8-A 64-
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karteum
3y ago
Does it also work with browsers on Android ? (I always experience difficulties to backup my tabs...)
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3y ago
> Hardware companies just can't figure out a way to give us free OS upgrades and make money The biggest question is : why does it take so much efforts to design an upgrade ? Unfortunately Google never made it mandatory for chipset&#
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karteum
3y ago
You might be interested in this (in French, but you may try with google translate or other alternatives :) https://www.bortzmeyer.org/8240.html It is a very interesting explanation of debates around https://www.r
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3y ago
As far as I know, Jitsi uses SFU (i.e. not P2P, not MCU), so every device sends their stream once (to the server), which doesn't do any transcoding but only forwards the streams to each client. Therefore (just like multicast) you only
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3y ago
Looks very interesting ! The authors talk about Numba, but does anyone know how it would compare to Codon ? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576 ) edit: after trying quickly, it seems that lpython really requires t
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3y ago
I found this a few years ago (uses only a simple low-tech design, simple materials, and heat from the sun. I don't know how efficient it really is) http://www.gabrielediamanti.com/projects/eliodomestico/
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3y ago
> "The implementation should be simple too at less than 10K C lines, because I want wider adoption of this tool. Simple code is easier to learn and maintain. I'd like also to avoid any external dependencies for this project. A
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3y ago
Just to mention: there was this article (in French but you may use google translate) about fire hazards in disposals related to used lithium batteries... https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/energie-environne...
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3y ago
The word "stable" can have different meanings, e.g. stable behavior/stable interfaces. I am using arch/manjaro on my personal machine, but I installed Debian for some of my remote family members (who mostly just need fir
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3y ago
Maybe that's a stupid question, but : why can't its lifetime be extended again ? The article says "much of its hardware is decades old, which could eventually see the station become dangerous or even uncontrollable in orbit&q
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3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver : " Project Denver was originally intended to support both ARM and x86 code using code morphing technology from Transmeta, but was changed to the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruc
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3y ago
> Others have mentioned Fabrice Bellard's LTE code, but (AFIAK) it's not freely available. Don't take this as a criticism. Bellard has done some great Free software and it shouldn't be expected that he will release ev
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3y ago
Notice that it's not the only C++ web framework (which means there are some use cases) : see for example https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
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4y ago
> But replacing a Macbook M1 with a Thinkpad only makes sense if the Thinkpad is better in some aspects, not if it's just good enough. Otherwise you would just keep your somewhat better laptop and replace it later if you ever have
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4y ago
> It offers tangible benefits Yes, you listed them and they are valid, except > including long-term environmental sustainability Err... no not really ! The environmental impact of pretty much all consumer electronics is by (very) far
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4y ago
> I'm paying $5/mo. for that to not be that screwed (I have family who got locked out. It does happen.) But the article precisely addresses that: For example, in HN discussions people will often recommend Fastmail or Protonm
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4y ago
I also agree that we desperately need more attention on climate change. In addition to that, to my knowledge no art was actually damaged by climate change protestors (who mostly projected soup on a glass, not directly on paintings...)
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4y ago
This comment above is a good example of someone having stereotypes about RF administrations without actually knowing their field of expertise... It's not the matter of "unlicensed application don't pay license fees so adminis
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4y ago
I don't know the situation in the US and I don't think EU administrations require firmwares to be locked at the moment, yet I can tell that requesting locked hardware/firmware is a recurring debate within RF administrations s
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4y ago
Well, you are both showing that you know it is illegal, yet asking "what would be the consequences ?". Of course if you get caught you would both have your hardware confiscated and experience a very severe fine (and possibly worse
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4y ago
Also, as far as I understood, both GNU Gnash and Lightspark were using OpenGL for rendering. So I always expected that GPU would still bring some sort of acceleration for 2D path rendering ?
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4y ago
I though that there were some "GPU accelerated path rendering" already 10 years ago ? https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering (OK
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4y ago
Thanks a lot for your software and platform ! (that I have been extensively using since 2 years !). In particular I love the fact that you only need to use an URL to join. One suggestion though : the chat function is really limited (e.g. no
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4y ago
That's great ! Except > Amiga Forever Value Edition comes in a dedicated Windows version, which is easy to install and run. If you do not intend to use Amiga Forever on a Windows system we recommend that you purchase the Plus Editi
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4y ago
Yeah I also though the same : this justification is the wrong one (just configure your system or use a distro doesn't log on disk... e.g. OpenWRT doesn't log on NOR/NAND flash !). Regardless of logs, I totally understand that
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4y ago
> "People using the stimulator and their physicians could no longer access the proprietary software needed to recalibrate the device and maintain its effectiveness" How is that even possible ? I would have expected that there
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4y ago
From my experience, the mbox file from Google Takeout breaks some non-ASCII non-UTF8 characters from old emails you may have received (they are all replaced by 0xEFBFBD. No way to solve this). This issue does not happen when backuping email
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4y ago
There are cases where you might want to use Linux (for the hardware support, or for the userland) but without systemd: e.g. if you want to use musl libc, Lennard has said clearly he won't fix the incompatibility https://www.
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4y ago
Actually no it does not sound very good and I hope I'm wrong : I wish there would be some major discoveries that would still enable us to keep some degree of comfort / food safety / health safety (and a little bit of fun with
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