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by minimaul 4y ago
I didn't have to keep separate sets of visually identical cables for USB-A to do different things - that's already a reality with USB-C -> USB-C cables. I can tell at a glance if a USB-A cable supports USB3.0 for instance. I ca
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by minimaul 4y ago
> "the regular charging cable" This is the problem I have with this choice. USB-C isn't one cable. It's a big variety of poorly-labelled possible cables, complying with a ton of different standards. USB-C can be ju
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by minimaul 4y ago
Soldered RAM isn’t just to be difficult. It has genuine performance & power consumption advantages for DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR4/LPDDR5. Storage though, I agree with :)
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by minimaul 4y ago
It’s a nickname from playing an early MMO (Ultima Online) that stuck.
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by minimaul 4y ago
I think you're thinking of M1 Ultra - which is 2x M1 Max on an interconnect. M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max are separate dies.
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by minimaul 4y ago
No? The vast majority of hardware has OSS drivers (and they're usually even the better choice!) - the big exception here for average machines is NVIDIA.
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by minimaul 4y ago
FWIW, most monthly contract plans in the UK have unlimited calls & SMS. The main differentiator is the size of the data cap. There are charges for MMS etc though. Even the cheapest of plans from the main networks (3, vodafone, EE, o2) -
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by minimaul 4y ago
The fragmentation of these third party apps gets frustrating very fast though. I'm in the UK and my work uses Slack and also wants me to use WhatsApp for OOH contact. My friends are mostly on Discord. My family is mostly only available
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by minimaul 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-28/profit-bo... As an example for more recent information.
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by minimaul 4y ago
This is well beyond ‘market prices will fix this’ - market prices will mean a very large chunk of the population will literally be unable to afford to cook dinner and heat their houses. We already don’t have AC in summers which are growing
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by minimaul 4y ago
Drawing general comparisons is exactly what this article tries to do at the end, that's one of my concerns with it. They don't know what state the M2 was in at the start of each test (because the hw monitoring support isn't t
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by minimaul 4y ago
That's not necessarily unexpected and still follows most of what I've said - if one particular algorithm is hand-optimised and one isn't, you will see wild swings - especially if one has been hand-vectorised and one is fail
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by minimaul 4y ago
It's not even running the same compiler (x86 is a GCC 12.1.1 snapshot, ARM64 is GCC 12.1.0), so even before you get to some of these tests having hand optimised x86 codepaths, you're already potentially skewed. No, I don't ex
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by minimaul 4y ago
It's not the exact same binary - that's the point. It is different instruction sets, with potentially different optimisations. They're even compiled with different compilers - what looks like a GCC 12.1.1 snapshot for x86, an
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by minimaul 4y ago
With cross-arch benchmarks like this, you find a lot of software that has hyper-optimised x86_64 implementations does better on AMD/Intel because of that. It skews the numbers and makes a good comparison really annoying to do, unless y
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by minimaul 4y ago
Barring a few issues, I could honestly see myself buying it - it's a nice design statement, it looks reasonably practical to use, and assuming the build quality lives up to the design it should be a really nice keyboard.
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by minimaul 4y ago
I agree - for me I like the keyboard as a whole, but the bits that bug me are: - the rotary encoder. I don't see what the aim of this is - what's the intended usecase? - the font on the numbers. I feel like it should match the fon
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by minimaul 4y ago
It's a very artistic website, but it's awful for getting a good look at the actual product - you do not have a single static shot showing the whole keyboard in a size that means I can get a grasp for what it looks like at 1920x120
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by minimaul 4y ago
Puppeteer can do both Chrome & Firefox, you're right. I use both for a scraping project I do.
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by minimaul 4y ago
I've done full time WfH, I've done hybrid and I've done full time in office over the last few years. Full time WfH is where I've settled. I find the flexibility suits me better - if I want to take a long lunch so I can c
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by minimaul 4y ago
The examples in this article about gaming feel very outdated now - the sheer fact that the Steam Deck exists at all is good evidence of how different the current state of Linux gaming is to how the article suggests. A lot of big titles run
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by minimaul 4y ago
That's a pretty misleading quote out of context (and to be honest, it's not great even with context - there's no real grounds for iFixit to make that assertion) - Apple made changes at the hardware & software level to h
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by minimaul 4y ago
For me, it means I can develop on mac, have CI build for me on linux, and push built containers/other artifacts wherever they're needed. It also means I can do things like automatically rebuild containers nightly/weekly to ge
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by minimaul 4y ago
It's not ideal, I agree - the main reason I use it over lighter & more open services is the integrated CI. I've considered replacing it with sourcehut, but I don't have available hardware to dedicate to the VM-based CI. o
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by minimaul 4y ago
FWIW, GitLab has an entirely OSS community edition, and you can run the enterprise edition just without licenses - I do this personally. You have to run your own CI runners, but if you can self-host GitLab that ought to be no problem ;) I a
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by minimaul 4y ago
I read those links and it just makes me sad. I don't understand why so many developers do so many stupid things with emails. Sure, there's some trivial validation you can do that makes sense - make sure it matches (.+)@(.+), make
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by minimaul 4y ago
I stopped using KDE during the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition. Loved KDE3, really didn't get on with KDE4. KDE5 has been vastly better for me - especially in the last two years or so. I don't really hit any bugs day to day.
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by minimaul 4y ago
Europeans do elect members of the European parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_to_the_European_Parl...
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by minimaul 4y ago
We've standardised on the M1 Pro 14" for work in a webdev environment (Python, JS, and some PHP) - works really well for us. They're fast, they run docker & other nice dev tooling, they have great displays for text, and t
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by minimaul 4y ago
I have a f1 news aggregator that I rewrite every time I learn a new language/framework. Over the years it has had a web frontend and also a mobile app. Has a backend that consumes RSS feeds and builds a database of articles, a REST API

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