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by natermer 10y ago
If you limit the charge of the lithium battery to something like 4.0v versus 4.2v (70-75% capacity) you can double or triple the amount the useful cycles. All of this is nice because electric motors are essentially infinitely rebuild-able
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by natermer 10y ago
Nothing systemd has done is preventing anybody from using any asynchronous library they feel like. It's providing local name resolution services. And for very good reasons. By your logic things like NSS is useless as well because progr
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by natermer 10y ago
> Honestly an init process implementing a DNS resolver? Systemd is a project that manages a large number of low-level services and programs that work together to try to help create a cohesive operating system. Systemd is also the name of
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by natermer 10y ago
There is no 'my side' in government. Both the Democrats and Republicans are frauds, hucksters, and criminals. Government sucks, period. Maybe most people are not paying enough attention, but election results have no substantial e
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by natermer 10y ago
Chain drives are about as efficient as you can get, actually. Can be more efficient then meshed gears.. But only if the chain is properly maintained. Belts may not have pins, but it still needs to simultaneously stretch and compress to go a
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by natermer 10y ago
China's innovation is being able to adopt their society rapidly for adopting new technologies in general. Tolerating the violating of foreigner's IP laws, which stand in the way of progress, is one of the things that helped enable
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by natermer 10y ago
They are when it's done entirely for the purpose of having friendly trade relations with the USA. That's one of the benefits of running a country like the USA. The USA market is so desirable to participate in that they can black m
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by natermer 10y ago
If people didn't 'steal' technology then we wouldn't have technology.
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by natermer 10y ago
He is making a observation. Many people saw the October as a disappointing 'bump' to the Macbook lineup.
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by natermer 10y ago
Carrying out and enforcing immoral laws makes you as much of a criminal as anybody. The police state doesn't carry out showy public executions like the cartels do, but they have ruined many people's lives for no good reason and th
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by natermer 10y ago
> "they’re not doing their job" --- their job being what? Their job is to carry out their orders like good little figure-heads of state that they are.
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by natermer 10y ago
There is some correlation between success and IQ, but it's absolutely not a given. If you look at statistics you will see things like 'Average IQ of University Professor is 125 were as average IQ of factory worker is 85'. Th
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by natermer 10y ago
Good to know they are following Chromebook's lead.
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by natermer 10y ago
All you need to have hookers and blow is money. Don't need to be sexy, smart, interesting, or good looking. Sounds like nerds and hookers and blow can go together just fine.
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by natermer 10y ago
Your argument might as well be "It's big brother acting in your best interest. Shut up, be thankful and just obey"
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by natermer 10y ago
> I couldn't stand the PA process hanging around in the background eating 20% of my cpu...especially on laptops. That's likely a artifact of you needing to configure these things yourself and not doing a very good job. This is
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by natermer 10y ago
Having working audio input (microphones) and using Alsa are often diametrically opposed goals. If your use case is very simple Alsa playback is fairly trivial. But anything beyond that usually is going to require significant configuration o
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by natermer 10y ago
> Can't people then just register the car quickly out of state and then re-register it locally so it looks like "a move" legally and not a sale? Paying twice the taxes on a new car is not a cheap thing. The states cannot p
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by natermer 10y ago
It's not really debunked. F-35 is not really suitable for combat. Fighter jets are now mostly obsolete, but F-35 is just especially bad. The stealth features of it dictate much of it's design, but they destroy it's usefulness
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by natermer 10y ago
That and you lose the advantage of what JIT compiling can get you.
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by natermer 10y ago
> Things used to be done kernel up. But these days it seems that things are happening DE down. The software hierarchy in order of importance, starting with most important: 1. User's needs/wants 2. User's applications 3. Us
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by natermer 10y ago
flaws I described in central planning are pretty universal. Nobody can say any one thing that will apply to all things all the time.
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by natermer 10y ago
> Or, alternatively, it will be a race to the bottom until the housing market crashes. The housing market crash was due to central planning. Hardly a counter point. > Unless that actor has nuclear weapons, poisons a water supply, dest
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by natermer 10y ago
centralization also results in severely less optimal results because the information and experience available to central planners is substantially less then information available to individual actors. Not only is the information of poorer q
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by natermer 10y ago
> I'm sick of the "storage is insanely cheap" refrain from FLAC proponents. It is insanely cheap. > Practically speaking, for a MacBook this means going to the 512 GB storage model instead of the 256 GB storage model,
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by natermer 10y ago
Docker stopped used LXC stuff a while ago. Sure docker uses Linux namespaces and such, but that has a lot more to do with OpenVZ then LXC. People seem to like LXC because they want to treat containers as 'light weight virtual machines
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by natermer 10y ago
Out of the groups mentioned only the business ones have lots of money to spend. And businesses typically get these support licenses because they are either required to by hte hardware or software they use, third party contracts, or that it
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by natermer 10y ago
> And those examples in a country with over a billion people? You can find all those examples in Africa, Asia, South America, etc. And North America. And Europe. > Corrupt politicians? We have Presidents and PMs, senators and MPs open
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by natermer 10y ago
Jack is a audio daemon for Linux that performs a similar function to Pulseaudio, but is intended for a wholly different audience. Jack is intended as a low-latency audio and midi router for audio production. It routes audio data between app
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by natermer 10y ago
Which why you run screaming away from these sorts of organizations. If they are too fucking stupid to implement a password text field correctly just imagine the byzantine nightmares that their infrastructure is. All you are doing is volunt

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