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by mdasen 4y ago
> Partly I’m hoping that somebody at Microsoft will wake up to the unrealised potential of Edge and start treating it like Safari: a utility that end users can trust to have their back and preserve their privacy in as many circumstances
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If you go with their AMD servers, you'll get ECC RAM which would be the main sticking point for me. ECC memory will be €5.50 extra on their €37 Ryzen 5 3600 (6 core, 12 thread) 64GB RAM server. Even at €43 with EEC RAM, it's still
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> A 2 year old iPhone (or to be fair, Google Pixel now) still has enough years of support I think part of it is also that older iPhones still have good processors due to Apple's substantial lead in mobile CPUs. An iPhone 12 (2.5 yea
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Are they that cheap? People keep emphasizing Mint's cheapness, but it doesn't seem that cheap. Visible charges $25/mo for unlimited service. Mint charges $30/mo for 35GB "unlimited" service with annual pre-paym
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I doubt that they'll want to change the $30/mo + taxes/fees you're paying for "unlimited" (really 35GB) service. T-Mobile already offers a $40/mo unlimited plan on Metro with taxes and fees included and th
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Dish bought Boost from Sprint/T-Mobile for $1.4B with around 9M customers, but that was also part of a sweetheart deal to get the T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved. $1.35B for 3M customers is basically 3x more expensive, but I think
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I wouldn't say that it's really a threat. Part of what you're offering Mint is a guarantee that you aren't going to churn for an entire year each time you renew along with an up-front payment so they don't have to w
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I feel like this is comparing apples and oranges a bit, depending on when you were a kid. Even within the GPU market, Nvidia wasn't a huge player for a while. It's not just that GPUs are more important today, but that Nvidia went
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For those who, like me, don't recognize CBDC: Central Bank Digital Coin. I think the reality isn't that there's a desired outcome or conspiracy to move things in a direction. Reality is often boring. This is really just a few
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I guess I'm wondering what this offers over calling an HVAC company and having them install a heat pump system. The system seems expensive at $14,000 for a 48k BTU 18 SEER system. It looks like I can get that for $4,000. Is the sleek s
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The announcement from Treasury, the Fed, and the FDIC was that depositors would be made whole and that there would be an assessment on banks to cover it. As such, I'd assume that there was no buyer. https://home.treasury.gov
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That means it's not really a peg. If you have a peg, it means that the currency issuer is willing to buy their currency for a set amount. Right now, Circle isn't willing to buy USDC for $1 USD - therefore, there is no peg. Or mayb
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It's not just SVB, but the title is a bit misleading. There's been 22 failures since 2016 and 10 since 2018 and they've been really small compared to SVB. The article has this information so it isn't a misleading article
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Intel did say that they were hoping to win Apple's business back ( https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/17/intel-hopes-to-win-back... ). I doubt that Apple will go back to x64 architecture, but Intel is offer
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I've been quite happy with CloudNativePG on k8s. It was simple for me to set up on a k8s cluster with one primary and two replicas, if the primary box goes down another instance becomes primary, deal with connection pooling, and simple
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> there's no discount pricing for self-hosting your gitlab instance, so you may as well use Gitlab's resources on the SaaS platform, which is more expensive for gitlab themselves I think organizations that self-host aren't
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I don't think so. I haven't read the EU documents and the article doesn't say, but you can do this without forcing a company to adopt anything. Let's say I propose this rule: Apple must publish the iMessage spec and allo
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I'm also very unclear on who gets the tip for a pickup order. In my state, it's illegal to share the tips with back-of-house staff (ie. the people cooking the food). Am I just tipping the person who hands me the food? The online s
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This was my reaction as well (though it might be closer to 100-200 jobs depending on what kind of jobs were laid off; not all of Salesforce is software engineers). Though I think there is something to be said about companies spending money
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People often don't associate the bad things with the people that caused them. They associate the bad things with the person cleaning up the mess. Daley didn't raise their taxes. The meters didn't skyrocket in price under his
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Does that make it difficult to make a cellular modem or just expensive? Those are two different things. I'm assuming that they were asking why it's so difficult that so few vendors do it and why it's taking Apple so long. For
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I'm surprised that they aren't trying to integrated it into the CPU like Qualcomm does with the Snapdragon processors.
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Not to take anything away from Dapper (it's an excellent library), but it isn't really that much faster than EntityFramework anymore. > EF Core 6.0 performance is now 70% faster on the industry-standard TechEmpower Fortunes ben
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Yes, violating the GPL's rules means that you don't have the right to distribute that GPL code. If someone has already been distributing that GPL code against the GPL's rules, then they're committing copyright infringeme
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I guess it doesn't seem cheap compared to Microsoft 365. Google's $6 plan includes 30GB per user while Microsoft's includes 1TB per user. Google offers a $12 plan and Microsoft a $12.50 plan, but Microsoft's $12.50 plan
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The "still" is what surprises me. Back in 2016 or 2017, I was excited. Musk still seemed like a pretty stable person back then and Tesla had basically executed on its promises and Musk said that by the end of 2017 you'd be ab
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Hetzner is nice and cheap and now has two US data centers, but you will need to contact support to get SMTP ports unblocked I believe. If you had a 4GB/2-CPU Linode for $30, you could get an 8GB/2-CPU from Hetzner for €21.85 (~$23
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I don't want this to sound like I'm defending having a proprietary debugger, but a lot of the tools that people use are proprietary even while they think they're using FOSS. For example, Visual Studio Code + Python? All that
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The evidence is that Geekbench isn't biased towards Apple Silicon given that other benchmarks agree. For example, AnandTech runs a bunch of SPEC CPU benchmarks and found that the Apple A15 was a lot faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon
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My question is: what kind of deal are you thinking? Would Apple pay Microsoft a lot of money for this ChatGPT-powered platform? Would Microsoft be paying Apple? With search, Google pays Apple with the payoff being that people end up seeing

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