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by paulmd 2y ago
What are you responding to here? No, I said you won’t always be deploying on amd64. Because arm64 is now the cheapest option and generally faster than the sandy bridge vcpu unit that amd64 instances are indexed against (and really, constrai
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Do you have a legal right to write software or run your own software for hardware you bought? No, obviously not. Do you have a right to run a custom OS on your PS5? Do you have a right to run a custom application on your cable set-top
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by paulmd 2y ago
> the actual environment you will be deploying to is almost certainly amd64 that’s up to your team of course, but graviton is generally cheaper than x86 instances nowadays and afaik the same is true on google and the other clouds.
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by paulmd 2y ago
What an oddly aggressive and hostile response to such a banal observation. Yes, millions of people use software they hate, all the time, that’s wildly uncontroversial.
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by paulmd 2y ago
The union of the ruleset of the flag country, the source country, and the destination country seems pretty reasonable - you should have to follow all three. Obviously not how it’s currently done, it’s an industry that has been doing it by f
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by paulmd 2y ago
I’m confused by your confusion - not only is it the topic of this thread, it’s also literally the comment you were replying to. > Most iPads are vastly overpowered and last for a long time. If someone needs more power/storage, then
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by paulmd 2y ago
The fact that nerds constantly react sardonically like this is unfortunate for multiple areas of tech discussion, just like people react so negatively to the rising costs of gpu SKUs as well. It’s poisonous to actual debate and discussion,
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by paulmd 2y ago
if it’s parent-encumbered, it’s literally been recognized as a novel and advanced innovation, that’s why it’s granted a patent in the first place. Choosing to license vs wait is a business decision but you’re spinning something that’s objec
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, but android devices still have objectively inferior software support lifecycles. They have objectively inferior parts-supply lifecycles too, Android tablets and android phones do not offer an m.2 port either, or swappable memory, or wh
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by paulmd 2y ago
nice try, extremely human user shrubble
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by paulmd 2y ago
the notional ability to leave the cartel doesn’t mean there isn’t anticompetitive cartel pressure in action. let alone the direct consequences of breaking the contract or any other adverse action resulting. idk why some people are so desper
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by paulmd 2y ago
Massive FUD/off-topic whining considering it’s already in nightly. Yes, not everyone is as thrilled about the browser becoming an OS and both of the other players have pretty much declined to implement the standards chrome forced throu
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels. Generally, the antitrust laws require that each company establish prices and oth
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by paulmd 2y ago
why would you write a web browser just to avoid installing an off the shelf one? Seems weird but ok. Maybe you are “not the average consumer”. But it generally seems like a disingenuous and bad-faith response to avoid challenging your (inco
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Afaik those unified memory architectures are mostly neither cache coherent nor do they support virtual addresses efficiently (you have to trap into privileged code to pin/unpin the mappings) which means that the relative cost is l
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Can I access to BLE from Web? sure? It’s just not something supported in the minimal safari implementation, iOS browsers can implement support if they want. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluefy-web-ble-browser
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by paulmd 2y ago
ever since backblaze started doing these there has been a dedicated set of seagate fanboys (I know, it’s the oddest thing to fanboy over) who come up with literally any excuse to avoid acknowledging that seagate might have higher than norma
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by paulmd 2y ago
Why discard anything at all? If the laptop is sufficiently durable it should be able to endure multiple owners over its functional lifespan.
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by paulmd 2y ago
I’m not sure what you’re asking - they lost because the “we just host personal antennas for subscribers, it’s 1:1 between antennas and subscribers with no Y therefore it’s not rebroadcasting” was found to not be a viable argument, yes, that
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by paulmd 2y ago
lower-calorie, higher-fiber european poops don't generally reach the size of american fast-food poops. but everyone loves the feeling of breaking the surface, so to promote a sense of social well-being some countries have artificially
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by paulmd 2y ago
gnuplot my beloved https://livebook.manning.com/book/gnuplot-in-action-second-e...
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by paulmd 2y ago
IA is doing a whole lot of digital lending other than television and that’s part of what this lawsuit is about iirc.
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by paulmd 2y ago
nope, aereo didn't have a Y in the wire, still found to be infringing. of course this gets to the core of the problem: rights on paper are one thing, but they are easily taken away by a plaintiff with money. if you don't have the
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by paulmd 2y ago
> mainstream policy [is...] an unfortunate consequence of internet piracy no, this is obscene degrees of victim-blaming here. the modern copyright regime predates the internet being a major commercial vector for anything by literally de
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by paulmd 2y ago
how do you handle models that are bigger than 16GB on that? my m1 max 64gb whips through dolphin-llama3:70b just fine, that's around 42gb usage. I get partial offload on dolphin-mixtral:8x7b, that's significantly slower but stil
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by paulmd 2y ago
24gb is as big as the M3 can be built given the available LPDDR stacks. The bigger crime is that the 15" can't be configured with the M3 Pro... particularly given the less-ambitious spec compared to M1/M2 Pro. Things like no
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by paulmd 2y ago
this isn't really an apple thing. thunderbolt requires the ability to use multiple displays, if you don't then you can't advertise thunderbolt. since macbook airs don't have multi-display capability, you can't call
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by paulmd 2y ago
Store newsletters that you sign up for are not spam. Nobody is making you click the "allow marketing emails" checkboxes. If they do it anyway, yes, that's spam, but that's not what actually happens. "C'mon&qu
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by paulmd 2y ago
> People generally don't think cheap and expendable are features but I would argue that they are. I need a product I'm not concerned to drop or scratch or have stolen or spill a drink on. I need something I can replace without
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by paulmd 2y ago
Some failure states are unique to people who exist in these weird edge-case states though. Like the person who had their luggage stolen, the person registered the laptop to their own account, then returned it still paired. And apple wouldn’

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