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by loudmax 4y ago
He had the same problem in AMD+Windows. Things finally got better on a beta version of Windows. If he hadn't been using Linux, the entire experience would have been completely mysterious. Microsoft releases an update and problems mag
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by loudmax 4y ago
Depends what kind of competition you're looking for. If we want competition for PC software, we should support anything but Bing.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Actually that's the only problem I have with DuckDuckGo. I don't have much trust in Google, but I have less trust in Microsoft.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Wouldn't it be better to bury plastic in landfills? Keep the stuff out of the ocean, but I don't understand the harm in landfills. Put that carbon back in the ground where it came from.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Well TSMC's 5nm fab is also obviously a huge factor, but the performance difference is largely due to the ARM vs x86 ISA as well as all the optimizations that Apple has put into running MacOS well on their chips. Microsoft will certain
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by loudmax 4y ago
I tend to agree with your point about voluntarily buying devices to allow corporations to spy on ourselves. Nobody is forcing you to get one of these things. At least not yet. I don't think the danger is that the government is going
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by loudmax 4y ago
16^4 / 3^4 = 256 / 81 That is interesting. Not as close to pi as the 22/7 that we were taught in middle school but maybe those exponentials were more meaningful to the Egyptians.
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by loudmax 4y ago
> USA has all the concern for human lives and "democracy" Well yes, a lot of Americans (and Europeans and Asians, and even Russians) value "democracy". They also value things like "freedom of expression" an
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by loudmax 4y ago
The first laptop that I was truly happy with was my Acer Aspire One I bought in 2008 for $250. It had a 9" display, so slightly bigger than this GPD, but pretty close. With Gentoo Linux it was fast, and with Compiz wobbly windows it
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by loudmax 4y ago
I don't know that it's elitism so much as not an interesting problem to solve. Like a lot of software, it's straightforward to automate the easy parts of an installer. But for it to work reliably, you have to account for so
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by loudmax 4y ago
The Arch Linux install on my ThinkPad X230 is about twelve years old now. For most of the time it was my primary laptop, until a couple of years ago when I turned it into a sort of home server with built-in KVM and battery backup. In contr
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by loudmax 4y ago
Part of the problem is that the fact that you have the money and inclination to pay for Premium makes you that much more attractive to advertisers. That goes for just about any medium, not just Spotify.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Also see the absolutely absurd episode of Dexter's Laboratory "Dexter and Computress Get Mandark!" It was written and narrated by a six year old fan of the show and hilariously brought to life by Genndy Tartakovsky and crew.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I was actually impressed at how well Stadia worked. My impression is that they did an excellent job at the technical implementation. A lot of games don't require millisecond response times or amazing graphics and Stadia would have ha
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by loudmax 4y ago
If ordinary Russians look out at the world and perceive that they and their culture are despised and hated, they'll rally around their xenophobic leader. If Russians look out at the world and see a consensus that their leader has impov
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by loudmax 4y ago
Seconding Perun, especially with respect to understanding how the war in Ukraine is being waged.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I'm pro-choice but I disagree with your comment. There is an enormous moral gulf between an abortion early into pregnancy and abortion late into pregnancy. There absolutely are misogynists and hypocrites among the pro-life/anti-c
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by loudmax 4y ago
I'd love to see a system where where you could inject nuance into upvotes or downvotes. Say, one set of arrows for agree or disagree with the conclusions, and a separate set of arrows for whether the comment was respectfully or rudely
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by loudmax 4y ago
I believe we get a lot out of living in a world where dictators aren't able to invade their neighbors.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Fans of the Practical Engineering who would like to support the channel should consider pre-ordering a copy of Grady Hillhouse's book "Engineering in Plain Sight": https://practical.engineering/book
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by loudmax 4y ago
> I fear for the day when someone comes knocking on my door because my government-approved surveillance doorbell has been offline for too long. Don't worry, the plutocrats will come knocking on your door long before the government d
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by loudmax 4y ago
Who do you trust instead?
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by loudmax 4y ago
I kind of agree with you, these pictures do look like more of the same. But that's okay, the real exciting stuff isn't going to be pretty pictures, it's going to be what astronomers and physicists are able to learn by peerin
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by loudmax 4y ago
As those coal plants pump out sulfur and carbon dioxide, we all own their choices.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Putin is counting on Western Europeans to place their short term material comfort ahead of their long term security.
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by loudmax 4y ago
In the long run we can look forward to more exotic technologies like grid scale battery stations and small nuclear reactors. But in the short run the objective should be to use renewables when possible and fossil fuel only when necessary.
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by loudmax 4y ago
The issue is that open source distributions don't have access to the level of testing and quality control that the proprietary desktop duopoly do. Microsoft and Apple can spend millions of dollars to make it very unlikely that a syste
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by loudmax 4y ago
These things aren't mutually exclusive. It isn't the case that money saved on weapons research would necessarily be spent on something positive, like cancer or green energy research. I do value nature and human rights, and someti
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by loudmax 4y ago
> The economies are too intertwined for either US or China to deploy their forces full-scale. This was was a common belief about Europe before World War One. Unfortunately, that didn't prevent the carnage. I tend to agree with you
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by loudmax 4y ago
Looking forward to seeing Led Zeppelin concert. That's if my parents will allow me go.

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