mrkstu

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631.
by mrkstu 6y ago
I have a Performa 6115/CD sitting under a desk- I should fire it up and see if it still works. Was my main machine for a long while.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Potentially keeping AMD as a partner is graphics on the high end is a good point- i.e. iMac Pro/Mac Pro. But since its 99% likely that all the other Mac's will be SoC with no Windows driver support for any of the underlying silico
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yeah- you were generally standing still at best. The nice thing though is that as your apps (and OS) updated, you were continually getting 'free' speed boosts.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Considering that Adobe has been actively porting creative cloud programs to iPad, I'd say the opposite. They've already been optimizing the existing code base for ARM, maybe with a heads up from Apple that this would be a good pre
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Compared to other x86 alternatives, historically true. Compared to Apple processors? Not so much. There isn't an Intel processor that is near the performance/watt in the iPad Pro, especially factoring in graphics performance.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The problem is that Apple has moved to a home-grown stack for it graphics and deprecated OpenGL and moved wholly to Metal. There is no way Apple would create a Windows driver for that custom silicon- it has always relied on AMD or Nvidia fo
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I would say the majority of /Coastal/ engineers are progressive. I'd say the average engineer elsewhere in the states leans mildly conservative/libertarian.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I think most of the Chinese Communist Party support is Chinese gov directed, not native to most membership in HN, though there is definitely a subset of those with significant investment in China who would possibly let that influence their
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by mrkstu 6y ago
That is what SoftBank's Vision Fund was trying to be. Unfortunately it's the baby in 1 month with 9 mothers problem. Just like SpaceX is killing it vs Blue Origin where one was on a relative shoe string and the other basically as
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by mrkstu 6y ago
An OS iso is going to have a multitude of copyrighted assets beyond complied programs.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Agreed- all those competitors have been shown up by Apple for years. They've had to take it because they haven't been able to come up with a technical response- even those using the same foundries...
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Until and unless society truly has equal rights/opportunity/recognition, it behooves us to fete those who do the very hard things, with an extra helping of overcoming institutional/societal barriers due to their inherent char
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I suppose if you had some kind of aero-gel bubble that could progressively ablate as you came down you could make it work.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Muscle is denser than fat per volume.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
That's generally the constitutional test- if you are generally regulating things and not singling out religions, you're ok. Now if a particular practice is essential to that religion, you may have to show a compelling government i
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep, start there and then throw GNS3 on a fairly hefty VM and start labbing scenarios that relate to environments that are of interest to you.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Depends- I’ve seen studies like that for supplements, but not for antioxidants obtained via food.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
And simultaneously remove old versions from the re-sale market that they have to compete against, since of course, they aren't secure.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
To be fair, Apple generally buys small companies and adds their capabilities to their toolbelt, rather than growing its size through acquisition and Amazon is similar. Now if you mean LINES of business, then yes, they both regularly expand
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by mrkstu 6y ago
But there is no inherent reason the business itself is the locus of responsibility to the worker (other than obvious things like worker safety on the job.) Why not, for instance, make the loss of a job be covered by saved union funds that a
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Also highly dependent on the laws of the individual countries as to what counts as R&D spending.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The issue of course is that more regulation makes it that much harder for small business to hire and over time forces more and more of the economy and the labor force into the arms of big business.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Selected highlights- you're not guaranteed to get access to any particular article.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Except it has consistently been reducing everywhere- its just that some continents started much higher and will take longer to get down to ~2 or below.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
In this environment, if all the affected business had done the same, the insurance companies would have all gone broke and we'd be at square one.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I'm curious if there is an equally high quality more recently written piece. This one looks great and I'll enjoy reading it, but something that covers quic and other more recent additions would be a nice addendum.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I doubt anyone is using Edge enough to find out. Generally now people are trained to Chrome regardless (most people home and work), and w/the IE Tab extension there is no motivation to investigate. As a side note, I would guess most no
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Prior to Microsoft’s change of engines, or at least around the same time. Plus it isn’t like anyone wanted to use IE or Edge, so we would of likely gone the same path regardless.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
We recently transitioned to Chrome and use IE Tab on predefined sites. It’s a good compromise of standardizing on a modern browser and still being able to access a couple straggler apps.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Depends how seamlessly they can get devs to re-compile. ARM having to emulate x86 would be definitely slower. There is no reason to believe the per-watt performance of actual ARM code won't outperform equivalent x86 chips. i.e. an A(x)

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