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by kup0 7y ago
The plague of advertising will always find a new home to infect.
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by kup0 7y ago
#1 - Solved might be a bit much, but mitigation is certainly possible. The matrix shows effectiveness, and the details below the matrix quite clearly explain and summarize the potency and mechanism of the effects. #2 - They do have ratings
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by kup0 7y ago
I have refused to use CCleaner anymore since Avast acquired Piriform. I used to enjoy their products. Avast is no stranger to dark patterns, nag screens, and other spammy and user-hostile activity.
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by kup0 7y ago
Chrome 69 is old news. I suppose the most significant recent changes happened around then, but this is almost nearly a year ago. A quick search turns up two earlier popular HN discussions about the problems surrounding these changes: https
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by kup0 7y ago
Do you mean in all areas of life or specifically companies / shareholders? A person cheating on their spouse would pretty commonly be considered to be doing something "immoral" Yet it would be ridiculous to make something lik
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by kup0 7y ago
Yeah I hear the use of (and have used) "jank" in this way
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by kup0 7y ago
It's less about single-core vs. multi-core, and even then, it's really not about quad-core vs more-cores. My thought pattern through all of this (and maybe I'm completely off base) is that, for instance, having a 4-core part
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by kup0 7y ago
In what world would going from 4 cores to 18 cores even remotely matter for web browsing? If you notice a difference in >4 cores for web browsing (and maybe it IS noticeable and I just don't realize it)... then the web's even i
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by kup0 7y ago
I'm curious if they're just catering to their most common readers. If they have a high percentage of people that use the site that use workloads where single-core performance or low-count-multi-core performance is most important (
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by kup0 7y ago
I agree, and that's really what I meant- considering it uses Electron (though it sounds like it uses it less and less from your description), it actually performs okay- especially considering how complex it is. It really isn't jus
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by kup0 7y ago
Not really all that surprising. i3 is Coffee Lake, i9 is Skylake. Even clock-for-clock, the process possibly improved enough for a slight IPC advantage to the i3. The 2% here is heavily weighted on single-core performance and the results ar
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by kup0 7y ago
I was so hoping that they had dropped Electron.. but nope. At least they’re focusing on performance, but the achilles heel will always be there. That said, as much as I dislike Electron, Microsoft has done a fine job with VSCode, so there a
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by kup0 7y ago
I wonder if this is also due to the fact that many desktop SSDs do not focus on 4k read/write performance. This is one big area where nvme SSDs seem to have an advantage, their 4k read/write is usually significantly higher than th
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by kup0 7y ago
Thank you.
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by kup0 7y ago
Thank you. We had all sorts of good times, so it’s good to have a reminder to focus on those.
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by kup0 7y ago
I now know what true loss feels like. Lost my grandmother (who raised me and was a mother to me) about six months ago. Things have felt weird ever since, but I'm handling it better than I expected. It might be a different story once I
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by kup0 7y ago
I find their profit strategies to be abhorrent with their nag screens, bait & switches, dark patterns, purposely confusing "free" wording, no-indexing of the real freefile page, and so forth. I think that is clearly unethical
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by kup0 7y ago
I used H&R Block this time around (I just picked a competitor, no real reason for specifically choosing H&R), because I ran into the same thing. The student loan interest deduction was free through them. Most competitors were offeri
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by kup0 7y ago
I have to use Tweetdeck, because not having a reverse-chronological timeline is such a dealbreaker. If they ever remove this ability from Tweetdeck, I will probably just leave. I'm already on Mastodon and more active there anyway, it d
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by kup0 7y ago
I felt the same way until I watched some videos (like those by blenderguru, for instance) and once I did that, it all started to make more sense. Just watching someone else use the UI helped me get a sense of the basics.
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by kup0 7y ago
Soon rPi4 will support directly booting from USB3.0 - a USB flash drive (or preferably, SSD) would be a good middle-ground instead of waiting for m.2
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by kup0 7y ago
Did they die pretty early on? Do you use USB port on a hub/PC/etc for power? If answers to both of those questions are YES, over the years in reading forums/comments/etc a common thread between them has been that rPi kil
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by kup0 7y ago
If a company puts out an ad, is that the speech of the assembled individuals? Which individual is responsible for the speech? What if the individuals within a company disagree with one another? There has to be some kind of separation of &qu
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by kup0 7y ago
Do drug companies' arguments that they are entitled to freedom of speech hold any water? I know people like to overemphasize the effects of Citizens United, etc But I am curious if they could solely win on a speech argument. If so, one
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by kup0 7y ago
I love the focus on the UI/UX and performance. Looks like a solid, highly-efficient application, something that is sorely missing (or at least hard to find) on Windows
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by kup0 7y ago
It's just a personal preference, I guess, but I use an iMac + a gaming Windows 10 PC daily, and then a Linux laptop occasionally, and to me there is no comparison. The Mac and Linux systems are much preferable to Windows 10. I'm n
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by kup0 7y ago
As is the majority of Gordon Kelly's writing for Forbes
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by kup0 7y ago
I use extensions like "Reader View" to get around the wall. If you click it quickly enough after the page loads you can usually catch the full article. Doesn't work everywhere, though. Outline doesn't work with NYTimes a
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by kup0 7y ago
I think Congress fails to properly police and regulate itself. I'm not sure what the answer is to that problem, but an unaddressed fundamental flaw of the Congressional system to me is that there is no incentive for them to even remote
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by kup0 7y ago
A great option I've found is to use the DietPi distribution that has Pi-hole configuration/install wizard built in ( https://dietpi.com ) After having various weird network issues and instability on a different OS with P

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