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by pdpi 6mo ago
They might be able to work around that by arguing it’s a consumable, so not a warranty issue.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
Even if users do read permission dialogues, how many Adobe users out there actually understand what modifying the hosts file means? There can be no informed consent if the person who's meant to consent doesn't have the tools to un
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The fact that the Cyberpunk-branded stuff is all Arasaka-styled is kind of ironic.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The "only" place monopolies tend to emerge in is any market with a significant barrier to entry. Regulatory regime can be one such barrier, but e.g. up-front capital costs and network effects are other barriers to entry that can a
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The crucially important subtlety here is that Apple requiring developers to use the App Store doesn't leverage an existing monopoly (like what Microsoft had with Windows). Compare the games console market. Nintendo is allowed to say yo
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The issue was never "Microsoft has a monopoly on IE6". That's obviously nonsense. The monopoly that Microsoft held was the home computer operating system market, first through DOS, then later through Windows. Holding a monopo
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by pdpi 6mo ago
It might be your better option, but it's not mine. I really value sharp text, and 4k@2x is vastly superior to 1440p. I really do miss my 5k iMac 27", but 60Hz doesn't cut it anymore these days, and I'm not about to dro
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by pdpi 6mo ago
I'm on the other side of this one. Two 27" 4k displays (at 2x scaling, so logical 1080p), always with editor on one screen, and documentation on the other. This is true for programming (where editor = IDE and documentation = API d
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by pdpi 6mo ago
I'd focus less on the U30 part, and more on the 30U, if that makes sense — the problem is with people who seek that sort of attention (and that 79 year old certainly qualifies as wanting that sort of attention). For those people, their
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Security in depth. Even if you think you don't have anything particularly valuable in there, you still protect it as if you did.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Many of those shortcuts already existed in macOS before they were added in Windows. Inversely, a lot of desktop Linux stuff was designed specifically to mimic the Windows behaviour. So, really, it's Microsoft that decided "we&#x27
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by pdpi 7mo ago
I do this on macOS much more than I do on Windows, yes. MacOS flows a lot better if you're willing to adopt its window management style. As you said, browser and IDE are the big exceptions, plus things like Lightroom or my 3d printer&#
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by pdpi 7mo ago
EAFP is an explicit part of what makes code "pythonic", and the Zen of Python (`import this`) has the lines "Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced." Java has checked and unchecked exceptions. Rust
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by pdpi 7mo ago
No amount of hardware/software hardening will save you if you delete "with spyware" and replace it with "with social engineering". If there have been cases of people being hacked through social engineering, it would
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by pdpi 7mo ago
A state actor will do those things if they're willing to be overt about their actions. Many aren't, both for the sake of preserving their image, and due to tactical concerns (e.g. you don't want to kill the golden goose).
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by pdpi 7mo ago
I deliberately leave the most recent delivery box out for my cat to lounge in. Sometimes it’s a small studio flat, other times (like when my 3d printer arrived) it’s a whole palace. She likes them either way.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
No, but looking at the two side by side, I do think that the one with a fragile clip that shears off every time somebody trips on it is going to be more of a problem than the friction fit one that will just come off.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
The punchline is that you can fill in the centre of Escher's piece by using complex analysis, and it produces a very satisfying, "obviously correct", solution. But, as with all jokes, the punchline isn't funny at all wit
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by pdpi 7mo ago
How often do you unplug RJ45s versus USB-C, though?
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by pdpi 7mo ago
> maybe with a more robust connector than RJ45 USB-C could be that connector, using USB-PD instead of PoE. Though I'm not sure I'd want to need that much smarts for every single power outlet.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
And vice-versa. It's pretty interesting that the two projects haven't kind of merged despite all the collaboration.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Kind of. We've had solid CPUs for a while, but GPUs have lagged behind (and they're the ones that matter for this particular application). iPhones still lead by a comfortable margin on this front, but have historically been pretty
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by pdpi 7mo ago
It's both. We haven't had phones running laptop-grade CPUs/GPUs for that long, and that is a very real hardware feat. Likewise, nobody would've said running a 400b LLM on a low-end laptop was feasible, and that is very m
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by pdpi 7mo ago
They specifically state that they’re aiming for a “fatter” model that expects higher-end hardware, and other projects like Internet in a box already target rpi-style devices.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
> (Win11 reverts). I must've missed that one. What did they revert?
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by pdpi 7mo ago
There's an important property that emerges from rules 3 and 4 — because the simple algorithm is easier to implement correctly, you can test the fancy algorithm for correctness by comparing its output to the simple one.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
By that logic, on the M4 (which still has the GPU on the same die as the CPU), CPU cores have hardware accelerated raytracing, which is obviously nonsense.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Don't think they would. Games aren't nearly as hungry for memory bandwidth as LLMs are. Also, I expect that the VRAM/GPU/CPU balance would be completely out of whack. Something would be twiddling its thumbs waiting for
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Features like hardware FP8 support definitely make it apples-to-oranges.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
> It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it These things have hardware FP8 support, and a 1.8TB/s full mesh interconnect between CPUs and GPUs. We can argue about the "agentic" bit

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