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by magila 9y ago
There's a little more nuance to it than that. While git users generally keep a local copy of a repo, collaborating with others is pretty much always done through a central server. Git users could theoretically collaborate without a cen
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by magila 9y ago
Manufacturers don't like cryptocurrency miners because they don't have any brand loyalty and may not be in the market for a new GPU a year from now. As for why they don't just make more cards: The volatility of cryptocurrenci
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by magila 9y ago
I'm not trying to start a debate here. It's obvious from your posts that you don't have any particular knowledge of AMD's console dealings, or even console dealings in general. You only speak to generalities which are we
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by magila 9y ago
Protip: When you accuse people of talking out of their arse, don't then proceed to talk out of your arse.
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by magila 9y ago
> it induces hyperactivity and harms concentration in healthy people This is wrong. They don't like to talk about it, but air forces around the world have been giving amphetamines to pilots since WWII. They're used to enable pi
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by magila 9y ago
Not really. The platform-to-platform time from LA to SF is going to be, at best, a little less than three hours. That's comparable to the time it takes to fly from LAX to SFO plus the ~30 minute BART ride to downtown SF. LA is so sprea
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by magila 9y ago
There's not really that much to it. Pre-acquisition Youtube was burning through cash at a rapid and increasing rate. There was clearly no way they were going to find a revenue source which would even come close to covering their operat
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by magila 9y ago
I find moving authority from the cities to the state more acceptable in this case because it merely mandates allowing economic activity to occur. None of these policies prevent citizens from voting with their wallets, developers will still
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by magila 9y ago
What? Verizon rolled out the bulk of its fiber service between 2005 and 2010 at which point it halted new roll outs. AT&T has been pretty miserly with it's fiber roll out until just the last year or so when they accelerated deploym
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by magila 9y ago
The DSL market was doomed to failure not because it was classified as a telecommunication service, but because it is technically inferior to cable. DSL's limited range and bandwidth causes it to have spotty coverage and generally slowe
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by magila 9y ago
The consumer electrons industry is dominated by a handful of companies. Those companies also happen to be the ones who own the patents on HDMI. They control enough of the market that the smaller players are forced to pay up to be able to in
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by magila 9y ago
The real reason why both continue to be developed in parallel is industry politics. HDMI is the product of consumer electronics companies while DisplayPort is from PC hardware manufacturers. For various reasons these two groups rarely coope
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by magila 9y ago
I think it has a lot to do with the way government in the US is structured, specifically the focus on local representatives. Because US legislators are beholden to voters in a particular locality, any time there's an infrastructure pro
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by magila 9y ago
This ended up having a lasting legacy as many motherboard manufactures switched to Japanese made and/or polymer capacitors. They would tout this fact in their marketing material as a sign of quality. Tech sites started noting the sourc
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by magila 9y ago
Of course the meaning of high-speed is always going to be relative. The author makes it sound like ordering wine over the internet wasn't possible until broadband become available. I don't know if such sites existed, but a wine re
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by magila 9y ago
It's a minor nit, unrelated to the article's main point, but I found it strange that the author seems to think you need a high-speed internet connection to order wine across state lines. I'm guessing this comes from ISP marke
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by magila 9y ago
You have to be careful when you see claims of a company receiving $x in subsidies. There is often some questionable accounting which going into computing those numbers. For example, the $64 billion figure from the headline of the first arti
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by magila 9y ago
The internet still works without ICMP, until it doesn't. Worse, when it does fail you have no recourse because the network has accumulated a pile of hacks to get 99% of people's use cases working and network operators are not incl
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by magila 9y ago
While the designers of TCP/IP got an amazing amount of things right, one things they missed rather badly was the need to take the incentives and motivations of the people participating in the network into account. I don't blame th
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by magila 9y ago
> Can a Coffee Lake CPU work on a Kaby Lake / Skylake motherboard? No. Although the socket has the same number of pins it is not compatible with Skylake/Kaby Lake. The socket will probably be called LGA 1151-v2 to distinguish i
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by magila 9y ago
If you think PI is too expensive, that is an issue between you and your service providers. As a developer of network applications, I have no interest in subsidizing your network management by going through the trouble of supporting NAT or N
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by magila 9y ago
With five upstream providers you're at the point where you really should have a proper router with it's own address block in front of your network. To put it bluntly, people like you are the reason why the IETF resisted standard
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by magila 9y ago
I suspect Intel is not too worried about AMD because they've seen this script before. When AMD's Opteron server CPUs came out they offered vastly superior performance and scaleability compared to contemporary Xeons. Even with a cl
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by magila 9y ago
You can come up with all sorts of proximal causes for the current situation, but once all the bs excuses are stripped away it really comes down to plain old corruption. Banks collude with their regulators to both minimize required changes t
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by magila 9y ago
Lineage OS isn't a substitute for vendor support. Lineage is dependent on vendors for updated drivers and firmware blobs. So if there's a bug in the firmware, like the recent BCM43xx vulnerability, you are still SOL if the particu
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by magila 9y ago
Specifically, T-Mobile has deployed their 700MHz blocks throughout the country, which gives them much better indoor and rural coverage. You need to make sure your handset supports LTE band 12 to take advantage of it. They also have a signif
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by magila 9y ago
The ratings agencies, and their importance in the financial system, have been shaped in large part by government policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_recognized_statisti...
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by magila 9y ago
The idea that settlement-free peering always assumes symmetric flows is a common myth. Nobody expects peering with a residential ISP to have symmetric traffic because that doesn't make sense, of course the flows are going to be overwhe
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by magila 9y ago
For technical reasons, fixed wireless and DSL are un-competitive with cable for most people. Wireless suffers severely from limited capacity due do a shared transmission medium. Cable has this problem as well but less so because coax suppor
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by magila 9y ago
What happened at about the same time as the Thai floods is that areal density hit a brick wall. The timing is just a coincidence. The reason that 4TB remains the cheapest capacity is that it turns out 4TB is the most you can store using a c

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