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by na85 5y ago
>ARM to IPO I'll be looking to pick up some shares as a long-term investment. I think ARM is one of the best things to happen to computing, and anything that threatens the x86 monoculture/hegemony is a good thing in my view.
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by na85 5y ago
>Please (please) append the word "Essays" (or "Book") to the post title ASAP. This reads like an obituary and I'm sure many others will be concerned when seeing it in this form like I was. 1. I'm not a moder
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by na85 5y ago
I flagged this submission because: 1. It's not about anything other than RMS in a general sense (like, hey this guy exists). It's blogspam. 2. Because TFA contains nothing of import, the comments will just be a rehashing of the s
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by na85 5y ago
This is a good summary.
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by na85 5y ago
>The 737 MAX is unstable, no? No, it's not unstable. The 737 Max exhibits stable pitch behavior along the entire envelope. A lot of people think "unstable" means "it crashes" but these terms have precise meanin
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by na85 5y ago
>The author makes the bizarre assertion that runaway trim is only caused by short circuits That's not the only problem with TFA. I worked on the Hercules, not any of the Boeing airliners, but this "30-year pilot" has some
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by na85 5y ago
>Almost all of the men participating in online dating are interested in hooking up or a longer term relationship but a lot of young women sign on just to get an ego boost from getting a lot of matches, then they ghost them all. Got any d
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by na85 5y ago
At least packet loss and ping stability can be measured, unlike "sounds fuller".
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by na85 5y ago
Oof, that sounds like a lot of work. Simplicity is a virtue but sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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by na85 5y ago
I considered Slackware but I'm under the impression it has no analogue to apt or dnf/yum. How on earth do people running Slackware manage their library dependencies and keep everything up to date?
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by na85 5y ago
The : character is a no-op character in bash, ksh, and maybe others. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7444504/explanation-of-c...
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by na85 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but my understanding of this issue is that it constitutes fraud if and only if the status page is a contractually- or legally-binding warrant as to the status of their services. >why is it legal in the tech industry? Tech h
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by na85 5y ago
I started a project in 2021 using CL. I'm solo, but I think if your team adhered to a style guide that (among other things) enforces use of Quicklisp or similar for managing dependencies, and puts strict^H^H^H^H^H^H draconian limits o
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by na85 5y ago
I want to get off Mr Bone's Wild Ride.
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by na85 5y ago
Fair point! It is, after all, the year of the Linux Desktop.
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by na85 5y ago
>So what are some reasons that it won't gain popularity? It's a GNU project.
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by na85 5y ago
>but the privacy and anonymity are all gone Maybe on EFnet and other legacy networks but more modern ircds support host cloaks for preserving pseudonymity.
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by na85 5y ago
Cringe intensifies.
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by na85 5y ago
In Canada at least, when I was a kid The Yellow Pages was the colloquial name for the entire book; yellow, green, white and all.
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by na85 5y ago
Ah yeah, maybe GPU only. Don't the MacBooks with the onboard discrete GPU have an integrated Intel GPU as well? I'd assume those ones physically power off the big daddy card when it's not needed.
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by na85 5y ago
2 watts total? I doubt it. The display is a major drain. I went down this rabbit hole years ago and on a 2012-vintage X220 with an i7 I could get it down to just under 6W with the display on minimum brightness, the wifi and Bluetooth off,
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by na85 5y ago
The power consumption is a critical issue on a laptop, unless you're one of those laptop users that never works on battery in which case you could get a lot more bang for your buck with a desktop.
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by na85 5y ago
Who is your ISP?
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by na85 5y ago
5 at least is a non factor since the Chinese government doesn't play by the rules of intellectual property anyway.
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by na85 5y ago
The fact that they make a point of mentioning .11n support should be a good hint that there is no .11ac support at all.
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by na85 5y ago
Opportunities to spend karma lead to incentives to farm it. I think that's bad for communities.
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by na85 5y ago
Only chumps eschew an in-oven thermometer. Why rely on calculated estimates when you can just measure the internal temp?
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by na85 5y ago
>Even the T60 offers a decent performance if your usecase is browsing the web, I actually own a T60 and this is not true, for any reasonable definition of "decent". The web is a horrid wasteland of poor performance JavaScript.
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by na85 5y ago
>Was it in good faith? On what planet could this be considered good faith?
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by na85 5y ago
Cookie minigame popup takes up entire screen on my phone. Closed the tab without discovering what Worldreader is. If anyone who works on Worldreader is reading this, your UX can be improved.

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