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by pavlov 2y ago
Well, Republicans seem to believe that Russia is a democracy.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Have you noticed that Trump is threatening to invade Canada? That’s what “annex” means. It’s not a joke for him. He wants it to be his legacy.
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by pavlov 2y ago
A secure app in this context also couldn’t be loaded on any random smartphone and allow you to login with single-factor authentication.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I think Americans underestimate the double effect of Trump’s saber-rattling towards neighboring countries and his simultaneous full-throated support of Putin. Europeans feel under threat from two directions now. His military threats against
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by pavlov 2y ago
The combination of all-caps type names and Hungarian notation for variables (“ppszOutStr”) makes it feel like you’re having a conversation with the vampire from the 2024 Nosferatu remake. He’s kind of yelling slowly and kind of talking in s
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “It’s like saying with $3.65 I can buy either a grande non-fat latte or a head of organic lettuce” Ah, 2015.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Finland can't afford that kind of thing. It's a bit unique because it has a large and well-trained army (by European standards) but a smallish defense budget. The Finnish military basically runs on the collective trauma of the las
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by pavlov 2y ago
Especially when co-president Musk is tweeting that the F-35 is a dud and the US should leave NATO. That's a double whammy for European countries who signed on to spend hundreds of billions on these planes in the belief that they'r
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by pavlov 2y ago
I lived there for years as a legal resident. During Covid I got a national interest exception allowing me to return to USA from Europe while the border was closed to non-citizens. So I have reason to believe my immigration sheet is clean. I
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yeah, instead of evaluating a journalist by looking at over a decade of high-quality work he has done writing about this space, let’s pull up a joke from one article and judge that. Do you realize that you’re the one behaving like a low-qua
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by pavlov 2y ago
Does that justify blatant lies?
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by pavlov 2y ago
Berger is an excellent journalist. He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past. When he says it’s a “throne of lies”, a line has been crossed.
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by pavlov 2y ago
It's not in the package? TIL... My misunderstanding seems to be common across the interwebs. I remember Apple used to show slides depicting the M1 SoC as one unit containing a CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, cache, and DRAM all together. But
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by pavlov 2y ago
Apple sells a Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra chip and 512GB VRAM (unified memory between CPU and GPU). It costs $9,500. Their secret is that the memory is manufactured within the chip package.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I remember this was the first HDR program I watched on my new OLED TV back in 2019, and the experience felt like all my life I'd been watching TV with foggy sunglasses that had been suddenly removed. It's a really beautifully shot
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by pavlov 2y ago
I think the usual move is to buy some barely operating New Jersey deli chain or teabag factory that happens to be publicly listed, then rename it to: Mvidia.AI BlockChain Deep Technology, Inc. ...and start putting out press releases about h
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by pavlov 2y ago
PDF is a product, just like PostScript was.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Photoshop, PDF and Excel are all products that were truly much better than their competitors at the time of their introduction. Every file format accumulates cruft over thirty years, especially when you have hundreds of millions of users an
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by pavlov 2y ago
That’s also because they were not called SPAs for the first 15 years of the web. The very first technology for building “SPAs” was Java Applets. Corel released a web-based office suite already in 1997, and it was practically an applet for e
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by pavlov 2y ago
Coming from North Europe, I always felt America’s loose definition of identity was its core strength. No national religion. No national language. No centralized identity registry. Social security numbers that are more like timid suggestions
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yesterday Trump was begging MAGAs to buy Teslas on Truth Social. He called it an “illegal boycott” that Tesla’s sales are collapsing. At this point nobody’s surprised that the president has no idea about how laws work. Myself I got a “Happy
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by pavlov 2y ago
Now that USAID has been thrown under the bus, it’s actually a golden opportunity for Europe to both rethink and boost aid programs. India is a crucial counterbalance to China. Now that the USA is retreating into internal bickering and givin
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Voodoo was a 3D-only accelerator. It didn’t have a traditional 2D graphics core at all, so you needed another basic video card which plugged into the Voodoo using VGA passthrough. When an accelerated game was launched, the Voodoo took o
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s also because the VGA signal quality from the 3dfx Voodoo wasn’t very good. It didn’t have a traditional 2D graphics core at all, so it needed another graphics card for rendering the desktop (any non-accelerated apps really), and this w
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by pavlov 2y ago
You don’t understand Trump’s transactional instinct. If this guy offered to pay him $5B at some point, maybe he will have a better offer later? It’s best to pardon him and see what he comes up with. As long as he’s motivated by “how can I p
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by pavlov 2y ago
But it’s all fetish-positive — people really do admire the language and the runtime.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yeah, it’s a surprising take because Erlang originally used to be a central object of reverence — some would say fetish — on HN. There was “Erlang Day” when the entire HN front page was about Erlang because pg had made some offhand request
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by pavlov 2y ago
Because P(A) is suggested as being unique to A?
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by pavlov 2y ago
Germans revered a business leader who turned out to be a Russian asset. But at least they accepted the evidence when it was presented. Americans elected a president who behaves exactly like a Russian asset. And no evidence could make them c
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by pavlov 2y ago
Mobile absolutely uses “shit from 1994”. The UI framework in iOS is a direct descendant of the NeXT one I’m talking about.

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