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721.
by mastax 5y ago
> Definitely yes, but let's not kid ourselves. Valve is not doing this from the generosity of their hearts or love for the Linux community, or the gaming community, GOOD! That means our incentives are aligned, and the arrangement is
722.
by mastax 5y ago
Is anyone at Apple allowed to have a sense of humor anymore?
723.
by mastax 5y ago
How do you feel about that Wu Tang album that sold to Martin Skreli? Should the government have stopped that sale?
724.
by mastax 5y ago
When companies aren't growing explosively they're worth (looks at INTC) 10 P/E. If AAPL hit their ceiling they'd be overpriced by 2.8X. (Hand-waving away dividend and buyback differences)
725.
by mastax 5y ago
Not mentioned on this page is the associated refactoring tool ( https://c2rust.com/manual/c2rust-refactor/index.html ) which IME is too complicated to learn in 15 minutes, but would likely be a very useful investmen
726.
by mastax 5y ago
The spec is so complicated that it's impossible to implement correctly (or so I hear). I do think it would help a lot to have 5GHz Bluetooth.
727.
by mastax 5y ago
- Cost. Double or more. - Would require a redesign. - Certain parts of the die cannot be shrunk: bond pads, esd protection, output drive transistors. - Certain parts of chips are designed for proprietary processes (eFLASH, analog)
728.
by mastax 5y ago
There were a couple years (maybe 2008-2012) where retail PC motherboards came with embedded "instant boot" OS environments that nobody actually used.
729.
by mastax 5y ago
Wonder how many ACME deployments check for revocation, rather than just being on an infrequent cron job? What proportion of affected certificates will be automatically renewed with no effort? Looking at a few docs, probably not many. In any
730.
by mastax 5y ago
This sort of happens naturally with a branch-and-merge workflow. The merge commits are what matter. With bors the merge commits get tested before merge and get their commit messages populated from the PR description. What's missing is
731.
by mastax 5y ago
Lots of high volume electronics, especially power electronics, still use through hole parts. They can use a cheap single-sided phenolic board with a single wave soldering pass. DIP packages are (usually) more expensive than SMT ones, but la
732.
by mastax 5y ago
Dereferencing a null pointer is Undefined Behavior.
733.
by mastax 5y ago
I really like the way C# did this: void foo<T>(T by_value, ref T by_ref, in T by_immutable_ref, out T out_only); Append `?` to any type to make it optional. (Though that is more of a lint than truly part of the type system).
734.
by mastax 5y ago
That may be true, but the switch exists in a market where games are extremely cheap. High quality free to play games, cheap indie games I play for weeks, steam sales, huge numbers of games given away by Epic Games, "free" games wi
735.
by mastax 5y ago
Datacenters: memory over fabric (CXL) High End Accelerators: HBM Consumer: maybe on-package DDR like M1 Everywhere: more cache
736.
by mastax 5y ago
The only reason to pronounce some word a certain way is to facilitate communication with other people. It helps to pronounce things the same as the plurality of people you are talking to, to reduce barriers to understanding.
737.
by mastax 5y ago
I was going to make some coasters by gluing some 4-inch silicon wafers underneath glass coasters. I should get on that.
738.
by mastax 5y ago
Isn't owning a Premium Apple Product supposed to be convenient and not like going to the DMV?
739.
by mastax 5y ago
They say it is remotely accessible but present no evidence. They present device-unique keys as impossible with no evidence despite that being exactly how TPMs have worked for decades. They didn't even mention what is the biggest concer
740.
by mastax 5y ago
"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics" is a term that someone coined for that idea.
741.
by mastax 5y ago
Having known Tcl/Tk only from the common Python tools, I didn't know that Tk could be used to make GUIs that are any good. I feel a bit silly now, this looks neat.
742.
by mastax 5y ago
Last crypto boom crashed leaving manufacturers high and dry. Nvidia had a 9-figure write-off IIRC.
743.
by mastax 5y ago
> Currently, GlobalISel is within 1.5 the speed of FastISel according to https://llvm.org/docs/GlobalISel/index.html and they have some ambitions for getting it within 1.1 or 1.2 in time, so it seems likely tha
744.
by mastax 5y ago
Disabling Windows Defender in your build directories can be a serious boost. NTFS is still slow, though.
745.
by mastax 5y ago
Yeah, it's interesting to me how China (and Hong Kong, etc.) have seemed to follow the discredited Le Corbusier model of tall isolated residential towers surrounded by trees and roads. Perhaps it's a mistake or perhaps it's a
746.
by mastax 5y ago
Is there a difference between pulse-density modulation and sigma-delta modulation? I've seen the sigma-delta hardware in STM32s and wanted a project to use them.
747.
by mastax 5y ago
An interesting teardown of one of the Ecoflow Delta plug-and-play inverter-batteries by Matthias Wandel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFj4l3EDa8
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by mastax 5y ago
Given it happened in November 1943, it may have been one of the first truely live mk14 torpedoes ;)
749.
by mastax 5y ago
Yay! I've been watching the Kicad 6 burn down chart for a while, this is faster than I expected - looks like a lot of stuff got postponed?
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by mastax 5y ago
Therefore people are discouraged from holding deposits, and encouraged to spend Lira - exacerbating inflation.

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