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by mbell 8y ago
A bigger part of the issue with these remasters tends to be the conversion to 16x9 which most people expect with HD. Even if you have the 'missing' out of shot data on the origin film there are often problems where set equipment,
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by mbell 8y ago
> Telling the population the border is safe knowing it's not and then they get cancer is quite factual. It's not so clear cut. Thyroid cancer rates started increasing dramatically almost everywhere in the world in the mid 80&#x
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by mbell 8y ago
If you structure your images well you don't pay the base image cost for every app, the layer is cached and stored once on disk.
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by mbell 8y ago
Ah, by 'build' I thought you meant the parts list. Pre-built systems has been tried before, but Apple shut it down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
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by mbell 8y ago
Is there a distro comparable to Alpine but based on glibc? I'm aware of various workarounds / hacks for glibc support in Alpine, just curious if there is a distro that doesn't have the issue out of the box.
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by mbell 8y ago
> If someone could figure out a legal way to offer recommended-hardware Hackintosh builds as a service†, that'd be pretty ideal for what you're talking about, in the sense of "you could buy one for your mom", and it w
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by mbell 8y ago
> My main point is that a global CPU graph helps you identify acute CPU consumption as it happens which is the main mechanism that helps me identify things like Spotify getting stuck in a spinlock or a browser tab devouring my battery. S
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by mbell 8y ago
Almost all the pixels on your screen are rendered through a GPU accelerated pathway, if they weren't even the desktop with no apps open would be rather sluggish.
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by mbell 8y ago
It has a 15W CPU in it, it's not a screamer. It's not hard to have extremely long battery life in a laptop, just toss an extremely low power (15W or less) CPU in it and get the battery as close as you can to the somewhat arbitrary
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by mbell 8y ago
> Activity Monitor itself also consumes a lot of CPU. And you tend to only use it when you've already suspected a problem, like when your fans start running. MacOS always tracks the energy usage stats so you don't have to keep
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by mbell 8y ago
If your fan is spinning up when scrolling in Slack it's likely an indication that Electron (Chrome) is refusing to use the GPU for rendering acceleration. This is likely either due to a driver issue or the driver/gpu being on chro
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by mbell 8y ago
It doesn't mean larger allocations, it means more allocations. glibc will try to use different arenas for different OS threads to avoid lock contention, if you allow a lot of arenas then malloc will allocation a lot of chunks of memory
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by mbell 8y ago
It's a long known problem with anything using 'real' threads and glibc malloc (to some extent, any malloc really). As an example and contrary to wozer's comment, Java is affected by this: https://github.com&#x
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by mbell 8y ago
> You just can't win. You can but it requires identifying and fixing the actual problem instead of trying to cover it in layer after layer of bandaids. The problem with this issue, as it is with many other issues, isn't the ava
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by mbell 8y ago
You can't make global claims about 'animals' based on dogs. Humans created dogs, we extricated them from the harsh reality of evolution in order to serve as workers and companions to us. It's no surprise we bred them to
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by mbell 8y ago
Our understanding of exoplanets is analogous to a 3 month old toddler exploring the world. It's _way_ too early to be making definitive statements about it.
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by mbell 8y ago
> We have cataloged planets in hundreds of other solar systems. We see ones with only rocky planets. Ones with only gas giants. But we're the only one we know of with both gas giants and rocky planets. The only one where the rocky p
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by mbell 8y ago
Conceptually that may be true, but it's next to impossible to get performance tires in speed ratings under W and within any particular model it often varies only by 1, rarely 2, speed ratings.
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by mbell 8y ago
I don't know as much about that side of things but as I recall Luxottica didn't make the prescription lens, they were ordered to spec from a third party. They sold and manufactured the frames and did the fitting work (which does s
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by mbell 8y ago
I worked at a sunglass hut part time during college. The _vast_ majority of sunglasses I sold were for fashion, not function. People weren't paying $250 for the lens, they are paying $240 for the style and 'real' D&G logo
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by mbell 8y ago
My math may be a bit off but if you have a 230Ah battery (Telsa Model 3) and you want to charge it in 10 minutes you need something on the order of 1380A charging current even ignoring losses. At 350V, the voltage of the Tesla Model 3 batte
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by mbell 8y ago
Lower speed rating also usually means lighter construction and a 'harder' compound, both of which reduce cost and improve fuel milage.
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by mbell 8y ago
Looks like it also parses UTM params but yea, it's not doing anything special or nefarious.
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by mbell 8y ago
There are options to control the referrer in various places, but it is still included by default. The only situation I can think of where its blocked by default is when navigating from https to http.
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by mbell 8y ago
> If we look at US numbers that actually not the case. As I wrote in an other comment, between 1940 and 1970 it doubled from around 25% to around 50%, but from 1970 to 2017 it only went up to current 55%. It actually went down from 2000
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by mbell 8y ago
Cable TV is certainly not a requirement for modern living, if fact its dying. Cell / Internet I would agree are general requirements in the modern world for the most part. But it's also important to understand their impact on qual
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by mbell 8y ago
The general claim about 'Real Wage' stagnation is based on the median of full time workers. There is data for this in your link: Men: 51,885 (1970) => 55,834 (2017), a 7.6% increase Women: 30,733 (1970) => 44,379 (2017), a 4
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by mbell 8y ago
I don't think tossing 16 SSDs into a single enclosure is a fair comparison with S3. I also think that storage is absolutely in scope for an article like this.
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by mbell 8y ago
I'd be curious what the TCO is when factoring in storage. i.e. What is replacing S3 for data storage in the colo setup?
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by mbell 8y ago
> You're suggesting there's some sort of logical relationship between income and talent. Yes, there is. If you have the talent then in the current landscape you can work for about anyone you want and demand about anything you w

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