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by nickflood 6y ago
Yeah, that's a lot. I've got a 5-year old 512 GB Samsung PM951 that's been a system drive in 3 Windows systems with 16-64 gigs of RAM, and over the course of 6200 power cycles and 16500 hours on it has only 35 TB written and
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by nickflood 6y ago
If they discover a huge security problem with the distribution you installed, they can contact you and help you upgrade to a non-vulnerable version? This like like what "technical support" is supposed to mean
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by nickflood 6y ago
Energy transports costs are non-negligible. In fact, in Europe I pay more for the grid transfer (~0.25/kwh) than generation (0.06/kwh).
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by nickflood 6y ago
In Europe where I live, electricity costs 0.06 euro for generation and then 0.25 on top for transportation to me. So eve if the grid is vast, transport costs are vast as well.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Yes it is
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by nickflood 6y ago
Thank you!
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by nickflood 6y ago
I've just started a browser app that allows you to create and restore layouts of windows with websites, with minimal graphical UI and which remembers zoom levels and scroll positions as well as has an auto-refresh functionality. The go
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by nickflood 6y ago
Me too, and I've watched many of my friends go through this as well. Basically, some people have jobs that are analogous to abusive relationships. Easy enough to get into one when you depend on your job to get money. And it is rarely a
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by nickflood 6y ago
Batteries inside a laptop have no reason to be glued in. Look at the sleek laptops from Dell or Lenovo. Somehow they managed to put an easily replaceable battery into all of them - even tablets - without sacrificing weight or thickness. Glu
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by nickflood 6y ago
Sony smartphones still have a headphone jack, so this should be less of a concern for them, I think.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Good point, thank you.
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by nickflood 6y ago
If your hosting provider is in a country with DMCA-like laws, they can be targeted the same way GitHub was and would probably comply the same way as well. So was there really a point?
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by nickflood 6y ago
Btw, when I've been testing a "kill switch" on Windows (firewall configuration that doesn't allow internet access without a VPN running) using the built-in firewall, I discovered that - Chrome adds a Firewall rule on ins
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by nickflood 6y ago
Nobody mentions that USB-C enabled the production of laptop power banks. They are such a help for when you travel and want to work on a long flight or a train ride. Power rating is a mess, and manufacturers are all trying to mislead the con
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by nickflood 6y ago
Can confirm that both Samsung and LG cheap LCD panels (~$400) that I got this year do not force a network setup and work without it.
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by nickflood 6y ago
This was a change that Chromium introduced in July 2016. I remember it being slightly controversial at the time and the issue from the tracker being posted to HN :)
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by nickflood 6y ago
I'd argue that Valve doesn't need exclusives just yet. By virtue of being the default PC store they get plenty of games that are not on any other store. But this will change.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Quest 2 uses LCD screens instead of OLED, which probably accounts for some of the price drop.
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by nickflood 6y ago
So my interpretation is (IANAL) that the Entrouvert released some library under GPL, and then when a big company used this free library, they wanted some money out of them and tried to use copyright mechanism to circumvent GPL as a free sof
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by nickflood 6y ago
Doing nothing is unfortunately a complete opposite of what they are doing.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Port forwarding and shared folders. Hyper-V has neither, and it's a pain to migrate, and also there's a perf impact.
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by nickflood 6y ago
This feature, at least in VirualBox, is useless. Machines that run hyper-v core do not boot properly, have their memory corrupted at boot, etc. I wanted to use various things that rely on Hyper-V such as the Sandbox and WSL2 (last tried it
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by nickflood 6y ago
Very interesting. I can confirm the parent comment. I've got a kind of mumbling voice and am not a native English speaker, so Siri would not understand 60% of what I'm saying. While GA got everything I was saying every time, even
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by nickflood 6y ago
Well, we have other platforms to look at. Android, Windows, MacOS - they all seem to be fine regarding this issue. Not great, but not bad either, while offsetting the bad with their openness. The open web also exists and somehow doesn'
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by nickflood 6y ago
Me too. I think, Epic is uniquely positioned also because it is privately held. As such, its actions are more representative of what Tim Sweeney thinks is right instead of the investor mob. And to me as a developer Tim Sweeney seems like a
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by nickflood 6y ago
Apple says that App Store is secure and stuff. But it would not become less secure if there are other stores. And everybody who wants security for themselves could choose to use the App Store exclusively. Everybody else, on the other hand,
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by nickflood 6y ago
Note how many sources wanted to stay anonymous "for fear of upsetting Apple". Apple knows they can end businesses with the click of a finger. That's what they tried to do by ending the dev license for Unreal Engine. And Apple
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by nickflood 6y ago
I think, it's down to the Xbox version not being available yet. I'm sure once it's out, it'll be available through xCloud.
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by nickflood 6y ago
But Telegram is really popular. You can't do that if the number of people using telegram that day was literally 20% of the country's population.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Competition in a government space would be a good thing, imo. For a while at least. Beats being quite permanently attached to a shitty gov at birth.

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