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by ohazi 6y ago
An analogy with airplanes: you pay cubic dollars to fly faster at the high end. That is, it's easy to build an airplane that flies at 90 knots. You can then clean up the aerodynamics a bit, burn a bit more fuel to get a bit more power
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by ohazi 6y ago
Collecting a check? What's the incentive to do anything at that level? He's going to walk away after 5-10 years with OOM a billion dollars regardless of how anything he does or doesn't do pans out for Google. Why not just p
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by ohazi 6y ago
"delaying the inevitable"
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by ohazi 6y ago
Do people who like to play with the voltage and clock speed settings of their CPU/GPU/memory typically do so with one of these utilities? Or in the EFI/BIOS config pages? I've never done this, but lately it sounds like t
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by ohazi 6y ago
> who are promoting [...] as a core value > because it gives them an edge up on competition That's... literally the opposite of holding a principle. They're doing a thing that they don't otherwise care about because i
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by ohazi 6y ago
Companies swap out their internal functionaries regularly, and regression to the mean suggests that as an organization they're likely to lose any principles they may have started with. People can certainly lose their principles, but fr
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by ohazi 6y ago
The only way to guarantee that your keyring is secure long-term is for the source code (and change history) of your password manager to be inspectable and verifiable. A promise made by a corporation is not sufficient. You can pay a corporat
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by ohazi 6y ago
Monopoly rights to spectrum should have ended once cellular modulation schemes went digital. The modulation techniques used in 3G/4G/5G systems are already agile enough that they really wouldn't have a problem with all the ca
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by ohazi 6y ago
Hashlife can theoretically "cache" a specific input and output, e.g. running an instruction on your simulated computer like "add r0, r1, r2" (when r0, r1, and r2 contain specific values that have already been used with t
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by ohazi 6y ago
Did you read the article? If an adult doesn't want to use their literacy, that's their choice, but the unschooling method requires that a kid be able to use their literacy to learn things that interest them at their own pace. A
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by ohazi 6y ago
Are you really trying to draw an equivalence between laziness and illiteracy? It's okay for an adult to be lazy. It's okay for a kid to be lazy. It's probably not great for a homeschooled kid to be lazy, but you can invent
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by ohazi 6y ago
A hurried parent not bothering to read a syllabus is not equivalent to a curious kid blitzing through every single Wikipedia article about dinosaurs. Both require literacy, but one of these things is fun, while the other is a chore.
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by ohazi 6y ago
I can see homeschooling being potentially more interesting/engaging for a certain kind of student after the basics are out of the way, but this: > He didn't even learn how to read until he was around 10. to me, is fucking terr
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by ohazi 6y ago
Reminds me of the "Power Lines in Anime" series: https://powerlinesinanime.tumblr.com/
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by ohazi 6y ago
I don't think this argument is very convincing. There's still more than enough space between the edge of the phone and the edge of the screen to allow a case to have a slightly overlapping lip. Cases that work this way are better
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Suggest you research some of the satellites of the time Suggest you do the same. Here's the "Big Bird" satellite you referred to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon > The cameras could
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by ohazi 6y ago
> In the 80s, 30+ years ago, license plates were discernible from orbit. This is absolutely false.
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by ohazi 6y ago
I mean, sure, don't do it if you need the laptop tomorrow. But if there's a laptop shortage, and you need one for school, and have all summer to sort it out, it's really not that bad. What we have is really a new laptop sho
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by ohazi 6y ago
There are tons of laptops on eBay, but yeah, you have to be comfortable with a screwdriver and performing a clean install. The last "new" computer I bought was a decade ago. You can find 2-4 year old thinkpads on eBay, buy new bat
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by ohazi 6y ago
> control-intensive, and memory-intensive The ideal "accelerator" for these kinds of jobs is a CPU with a big cache. Video encoding has well defined control loops and data paths that don't arbitrarily interfere with each o
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by ohazi 6y ago
You don't need to do it this way, though... the general rule is that you shouldn't enable both Nagle's Algorithm and TCP delayed ACK at the same time.
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Just try writing up a document on your phone! Just imagine what could be if they were on the level _desktops_? It's very, very difficult to beat a keyboard. Tablets and even phones become day vs. night more usable if you plug in
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by ohazi 6y ago
{:#x?} omg!
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by ohazi 6y ago
The vast majority of people in the US have a smartphone in their pocket.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Are you using your observations of Apple's user-facing iOS Update UI to conclude that they're not capable of pushing a silent update to an iOS device? You do realize that branded OS updates and even point releases are not the on
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by ohazi 6y ago
The vast majority of "smart home" devices automatically shovel all of their camera data to the manufacturer's servers, because most consumers don't want to deal with a NAS box and remote access. With this kind of archite
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by ohazi 6y ago
100% agree. The wiki is absolutely still useful if you use Debian / Ubuntu / something else. I use it all the time, even when trying to solve problems on other systems, and I've been using the wiki for longer than I've b
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by ohazi 6y ago
> One day, a Gnome update breaks all plugins lol, that's just Gnome for you. For a long time, deliberately breaking plugins and themes was an officially stated policy of the Gnome developers, with the goal of forcing users into the
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by ohazi 6y ago
I put Arch on a personal laptop as an experiment and like it a lot. The Arch wiki is your friend - start there when you're setting something up and when you get stuck. Most "normal" configurations either just work, or can be
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by ohazi 6y ago
"Any number of cores" != "Fastest possible core design" I also compile large, multi-compilation-unit C++ programs, and it's much, much better to have a 24 or 32 threads clocked at 2 GHZ than 8 threads clocked at 5 G

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