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by mbell 8y ago
Electrons are the majority charge carriers for NPN vs holes in PNP which does mean that NPN transistors are faster, they also are usually a _bit_ better than PNP in other specs (beta, etc). However I don't think this was the main part
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by mbell 8y ago
I use hoxy[1] for a lot of similar use cases, e.g. integration testing third party code. [1] https://github.com/greim/hoxy
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by mbell 8y ago
Is this not a problem with, for example, L3 cache that is shared across cores? Is there something inherent about it that makes timing attacks impossible or is it just that we're seeing people go after lower hanging fruit?
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by mbell 8y ago
Does anyone have a tech brief on why SMT is more dangerous than any other type of shared resource? i.e. There are several resources that are shared between cores on a CPU, is there something inherent about SMT that makes the resources it sh
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by mbell 8y ago
> ear measuring mics (e.g. https://www.minidsp.com/products/acoustic-measurement/ears-h... . ) That one sounds suspect but the only way to correctly measure headphones is on a binaural head.
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by mbell 8y ago
> It is ironic that higher quality mastering is done on a vintage outdated (barring recent resurgence) and objectively lower fidelity medium. It'd be nice to see CD's having great mastering and may be some of them do? It's
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by mbell 8y ago
Yes, but the two are intertwined. You often can not get a flac file from source with the same mix that was put on vinyl, just the unfortunate reality of it. This is exactly what I'm saying, people will say that vinyl "sounds bette
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by mbell 8y ago
There are objective reasons to favor vinyl even today. The 'audio quality' if measured in terms of SNR is objectively much worse than any modern medium, however the mixes used for vinyl tend to not be compressed to death so the dy
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by mbell 8y ago
That's not realistic, particularly if you're after a full range amp.
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by mbell 8y ago
> Your generalisation is unfair. Most Audiophiles just want to listen to music the way the artists intended. That is not my experience at all. Audio gear that is 'flat', in that it outputs as close a representation to the recor
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by mbell 8y ago
You're largely ignoring the primary differentiator in these machines, the power class of the CPU/GPU. If you use the base model in each category, set all the machines at 256GB disk and 16GB of ram and use geekbench cpu numbers as
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by mbell 8y ago
Most likely they all support 64GB of RAM. What has allowed Apple to offer 64GB is that Samsung released 32GB SO-DIMM modules this summer based on their new 10nm process. It's still almost impossible to find them aftermarket though.
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by mbell 8y ago
> My theory is that Apple rushed APFS and its implementation isn't in a great shape for the public review. The rollout of APFS was _incredibly_ well done; I don't think there is even a remote comparison to how successful it was
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by mbell 8y ago
There isn't much practical difference. MySQL's memory cost is lower, largely due to using a thread per connection rather than a process, so you can have a larger number of connections before running out of memory. But this really
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by mbell 8y ago
> Yet for every AAA development house that can't prioritize making public versions of their in house development tools, there are games like Minecraft that are almost nothing but modding tools pretending to be games, and getting all
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by mbell 8y ago
Unless I'm misinterpreting the satellite image its ~150m from the end of the runway to that wall[0] and it also looks a bit downhill from the runway to the wall[1]. I don't see how this could happen without the pilots noticing; th
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by mbell 8y ago
Looks like they went halfway across the Arabian Sea before turning around, strange... https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ix611#1e2da319
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by mbell 8y ago
It increases screen space for apps to use by pushing the 'taskbar' up. Other than an aesthetic complaint I don't see how this can be a bad thing.
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by mbell 8y ago
It's not finding a parser that I find problematic, it's the dataset needed. My understanding is that the workers are limited to 128MB of ram and that they may be 'restarted' at any time. Datasets for accurate browser det
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by mbell 8y ago
> now they are gasping for breath in the competitive environment That statement is beyond hyperbolic...
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by mbell 8y ago
Are there any plans to provide browser detection in the worker API? I imagine it's possible to implement as a user now, but may be clunky to provide a dataset to work from. This seems like a killer feature to have on edge workers to al
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by mbell 8y ago
In the MBP case you just waited for ~7 days for the fix to be delivered to you automatically. In this case you figure out how to update your BIOS under linux which is often non-trivial and then figure out how to install this which has a bun
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by mbell 8y ago
This should make for an interesting test of the level of anti-Apple group think out there as this is the same fundamental issue that caused the 2018 MBP fiasco. MBP power limit was set too high, this laptop has it set too low.
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by mbell 8y ago
> the distribution is unpredictable so it can be difficult to know what to cache. Reddit's data is shockingly small[0], cache eviction should be a non-issue as it would be trivial to keep it all in ram. [0] https://www.re
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by mbell 8y ago
> I am in the extreme minority when I say that I absolutely love the keystroke feel of this thing I do as well and I don't think we're in the minority, there are just a lot of loud people on the internet.
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by mbell 8y ago
It's unclear if Firefox is still a major browser. 1-2% of traffic support cutoff thresholds are fairly common and Firefox is sitting in that territory now (about 1.5% of our traffic last I looked).
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by mbell 8y ago
As did I. Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. have found models to convert vast amount of electricity into $ via computing. My point was that this isn't a new thing, it's been true for a very long time that the largest most successful c
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by mbell 8y ago
I don't buy that this has anything to do with the rise of the 'digital world'. The unfortunate reality is that adult literacy statistics are scary. A huge number of adults just aren't capable of understanding more than t
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by mbell 8y ago
I don't find that particularly insightful. The reality has always been that companies which find the most effective way to either produce or consume electrical power are the most profitable. Actually I'd argue that power consumpti
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by mbell 8y ago
https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose or https://github.com/helm/helm or keep using docker's dev client, it can target a locally running k8s now.

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