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by mrkstu 6y ago
In Texas it’s ‘what all’y’all are missing’
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by mrkstu 6y ago
But what public good, in this instance, was served by depriving the writer of their anonymity? It was a puerile attempt at harming someone they disagreed with. If it had been someone who was already a public figure or someone who was levera
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Difference being if he’s using wood he’s recycling that carbon over infinitely as long as it isn’t from old growth forests.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
You could probably amend it to "No one in history has ever gone to war against a country they might lose against to stop a genocide."
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Good for the engineers, not much incentive for the government to lose their best and brightest to the US.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Good to know- glad I got a terabyte drive then, since it will less likely suffer a wear failure in its usable lifetime, but sad that a wear part guarantees a finite lifetime for a machine with no moving parts.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
So you literally cannot boot an M1 Mac with a nonfunctional internal drive, even if you’re successfully ’booting’ from an external drive before it fails? The SSD is integral to its functioning?
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep, he's already the richest guy on the planet and it apparently isn't enough, he has to plunder the crypto market. He is too big and influential to tweet and talk about crypto while also trading in it- he automatically will move
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Ok, I mistook your mentioning of electrical connection as suggesting BPL as an alternative delivery mechanism. But again, no NA carrier I'm aware of is pushing out new DSL DSLAMs anywhere in the country or even building out copper capa
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by mrkstu 6y ago
DSL slows over distance. If you're far enough out, you're basically back to dial-up speeds unless they are willing to build cabinets closer, which no North American carrier I've heard of is still doing for DSL. BPL (Broadband
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by mrkstu 6y ago
To a point, of course, they'll use all the tricks they can. But if it genuinely isn't in the ballpark, why use 8k screens instead of 4k? They at least think they can drive enough real pixels to make the more exotic/expensive
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Will any one ground link station actually require the big routers though? The traffic will be distributed through each connection point to possibly push the throughput per ground station to a lower level of cost hardware.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The most interesting thing about this is what it says about the work Apple has been putting into graphics hardware. Dual 8k displays that I assume are being driven by Apple graphics hardware. Lots of R&D for future M1s or discrete cards
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Why is the AirPod product line a near-Fortune 500 company sized hit on its own? Why did no other company do this? Why is the Apple Watch dominating it's segment? Why have Android tablet sales fallen flat compared to Apple's? Why d
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Note that the cost of an MX2020 likely exceeds Starlink's cost of building and launching one of their satellites. Now there is likely to be an relatively few MX2020s in a mid-size carrier (conceding that Starlink will be launching many
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Started w/sleepover's at my buddy's house dialing into the mainframe to play Adventure on his Dad's terminal w/acoustic coupler modem. Pretty sure it was slower than 300.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Or, alternatively, that companies with large codebases face similar issues of complexity and legacy interactions that aren't easy to just throw people/resources at, they just take the time they take in order to get it accomplished
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yeah, bought a M1 Mac Mini to tide me over until I can see more directly where Apple is going with iOS/MacOS and touch devices. I really want a new iPad (still using an original iPad Pro 9.7") and a new MacBook (using a Pro 2016 f
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Or making room for a device that runs either OS and making the transition less jarring. Though I suppose a MacBook touch (M1x) would already be able to run iOS apps, theoretically, and it would just help the apps themselves, rather than the
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Microsoft and Windows Control Panel migration to System Settings argue its pretty difficult indeed, even for the most well-resourced companies.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They can cover their initial capital outlay pretty easily by selling a small number of shares on the way up.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Corporate citizenship lasts as long as you have a CEO that values it and the CEO has a highly profitable company that they can afford to be generous w/o pissing off the board. Look at someplace like Costco- highly profitable, pays well
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by mrkstu 6y ago
You may have friends at work but yes, don't confuse that with the employer organization itself being your friend. The business will 99.999% do what's better for itself (as defined by the executive team, which is incentivized by
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Raspberry Pi 400 is almost that- more like a Commodore 64 in that it doesn't include a monitor.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Its so incestuous that all this becomes circular after awhile- there would be no ARM without Apple.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep, some vendors have that kind of pull, which is exactly why the Carbon API was created and persisted for a long while. But, like Carbon, Apple will eventually sunset anything that drags at them evolving the platform.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I've got to believe that TSMC has required enough booking volume to safely amortize the investment in new capacity.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Don't feed conspiracists by shutting down legitimate reporting, don't protect the powerful from inquiry, just because they are on 'your side,' don't feel the need to de-platform those with a record of truth-telling,
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Which makes it sounds like AWS wasn't competing very well in the space, if it couldn't do so affordably.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Well, I've had a Mac continuously since the original 128k Mac, so I'm pretty well situated as an observer of all things Apple and more knowledgeable about their history and their machines/software then the vast majority of th

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