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by loudmax 5y ago
I tend to sympathize with this attitude, and while it is absolutely true that the world needs to be better prepared for pandemics regardless of origin, I don't think it's correct that the origin of the disease doesn't matter.
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by loudmax 5y ago
From that article: "If the pilot proves effective, it is estimated that at least 40% of the fleet will be able to use the technology, which would result in a reduction of almost 1.5% of Vale’s annual iron ore maritime transport emissio
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by loudmax 5y ago
In this case, SpaceX is actually landing those Falcon boosters pretty reliably now. So maybe their secret proprietary stuff isn't as advanced as they make it out to be, but whatever they're doing it does seem effective.
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by loudmax 5y ago
The quality of grocery stores can vary within the same chain. My wife and I usually shop at the Ranch 99 that's local to us, but there's another one about 40 minutes away that has a better selection. Or at least, a slightly dif
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by loudmax 6y ago
> Finally, my devs work in AMD64 and that would be another source for "why does this work in dev but not prod". I can see a use case for building a CI/CD pipeline on Raspberry Pi's.
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by loudmax 6y ago
GNOME is the default desktop for nearly every major Linux distribution. It's the desktop that nearly everyone experiences if they decide to give Linux a try. As such its shortcomings are much more apparent than for something like, sa
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by loudmax 6y ago
IMHO where Excel falls short is in interoperability. Try processing .xlsx files in anything other than Excel and it can be painful. Let's see the new more open Microsoft really embrace competing on an even playing field that doesn&
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by loudmax 6y ago
I got a subscription to Curiosity Stream with Nebula bundled in. While Curiosity Stream has original content, as far as I can tell all of the Nebula stuff is also available on YouTube. So as a Nebula customer the only real benefit is watc
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by loudmax 6y ago
How the term "autopilot" is used by professionals in the aviation and marine industries isn't the main point here. What matters is what non-professionals think when they hear the term "autopilot". If you market so
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by loudmax 6y ago
Corporate servers can have strict rules about what software is allowed to be installed. It all depends on the corporation and what the servers are doing. Financial and health care companies are extremely risk averse. Even if the downside
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by loudmax 6y ago
Well, yes, of course. The Germans were the same race as the whites that dominated America in the 1940's, including Walt Disney himself. To think that race played no part of the propaganda of the times is delusional.
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by loudmax 6y ago
Germans? If you're going to look into Disney wartime propaganda films, Disney made some anti-Japanese cartoons that in retrospect are pretty overtly racist. I'm not bringing this up to make Disney out as any kind of villain. The
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by loudmax 6y ago
I never had any problem with Zoom on i3, but I never tried to share my screen. Zoom on sway works, but since sway runs on top of Wayland and Zoom doesn't have the bindings to communicate with Wayland, I'm fairly positive screen sh
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by loudmax 6y ago
I installed Arch Linux on a ThinkPad in 2011 and it's literally running the same OS today, nearly 10 years later. I won't say I've never had anything break, but never anything major like audio or video or wifi. In my experie
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by loudmax 6y ago
Agreed. This naming approach reminds me very much of the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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by loudmax 6y ago
The difficulty is that we need to have different terms for different levels of atrocities. Forced sterilization of an ethnic group is an atrocity. Mass murder of an ethnic group is also an atrocity. But they're on different levels.
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by loudmax 6y ago
There's a pretty good documentary on Curiosity Steam called Out of the Cradle that goes over the story of early humans. The path from the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans to modern humans is not a straight line. There were a
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by loudmax 6y ago
Who do you think appoints the people who run fed Fed? If you're looking to cast blame on bad policies, then blame those ultimately responsible: the politicians and the voters who put them there. Ideally, the United States would have a
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by loudmax 6y ago
I applaud the drive and vision to experiment with a fundamentally different operating system paradigm. But even if your persistent storage is RAM, I don't see why you wouldn't still want a filesystem. Filesystems arose as a meth
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by loudmax 6y ago
Chrome to Edge is just trading one monopolist vendor lock-in for another.
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by loudmax 6y ago
Clearly, a company advertising encrypted drives could and should do better than this. Good on this researcher for calling out shoddy workmanship and posting about it. This is a warning to people with access to highly sensitive data. But f
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by loudmax 6y ago
How is performance on Firefox? I can do without the clipboard or PWA mode. Performance and responsiveness are what converted me and plenty others from Firefox when Chrome first appeared. If Firefox performance is at least close to Chrome&
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by loudmax 6y ago
Not many people program in assembly, but teams working on compilers like gcc and LLVM very much do care about the ISA. Apple has been able to make great progress moving from Intel x86 to their own custom ARM M1 processor. The way I underst
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by loudmax 6y ago
I don't know what news outlets you were following, but medical reports were indicating a case fatality rate around 0.3% by April. This works out to something like 1 in 300. Since the fatalities skew heavily toward the elderly, in prac
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by loudmax 6y ago
We've been taking open source for granted for the past decade. As open source has proven difficult to monetize, we may be seeing a return to proprietary closed source software. Whether this is a good or a bad thing depends on how it p
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by loudmax 6y ago
I'd love to see RISC-V or another open source ISA become the dominant design. But I'm not sure RISC-V is there yet. Companies have been pouring resources into optimizing ARM CPUs for years now, and they're now starting to g
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by loudmax 6y ago
I'm not sure what to make of that Neural Engine. I was under the impression that most machine learning was using GPUs. The M1 already has a large GPU, so I'm surprised that the chip developers decided that a dedicated neural pro
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by loudmax 6y ago
I built my home compute cluster out of four Odroid N2. These are $80 ARM based single board computers (SBC's), similar to Raspberry Pi's. You can bridge the gap between high and low ends buy buying low end and scaling horizontal
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by loudmax 6y ago
I don't know how to answer your dilemma that all of us face. But to add some nuance... it's pretty rare for a news organization of whatever political persuasion to report outright falsehoods. An individual reporter may stretch t
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by loudmax 6y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, though I set the bar a bit higher (or lower, depending on your perspective). Bash does okay with positional arguments, error handing, and even loops. You can get a lot done with that, and there are a lo

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