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by pedrocr 7y ago
X1 Carbon with 32GB ECC RAM, 4K screen, 2 M.2 slots and one of these Ryzen APUs. That's pretty much my dream laptop. Will almost certainly not happen though, particularly the RAM.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
At least for Firefox that probably means it's running with X emulation. But the Firefox Wayland backend works fine, it just needs to be enabled. But sure, Wayland still has quite a few corner cases like that.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I've been running 1.3x fake scaling for years by just tweaking fonts. In previous Ubuntu versions with Unity that was just a standard setting. Now I need to set the font scaling in the tweak tool and in the firefox about:config. After
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The only controversy I've actually read about Brave is their replacement of the site's ads with ones they've sourced themselves. But maybe they've stopped doing that now?
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Sure, given the context being in kilometers instead of miles I was using the ~130km/h that is common in a lot of European highways. From experience that gets you less than 350, particularly in winter. Some places (and drivers) are quit
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The model 3 and S already have that range or more. You'll only get ~350km out of that at highway speeds though. The supercharger network makes it perfectly reasonable but it's not yet ideal. Other EVs tend to be far behind still.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I use tinc for this. It does the mesh dynamically so I have a few nodes that are fixed and the others will connect directly or indirectly automatically. I deploy it using puppet and there's no need to update all nodes to add a new one.
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Stockfish 11 released, strongest chess player in the known universe(abrok.eu)
3 points by pedrocr 7y ago|0 comments
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Fit and finish is worse (e.g, fit noises, panel gaps, quality of materials) and sound insulation is much worse (i.e., traditional luxury brands are much better at highway speeds). You can't beat electric for drive train smoothness and
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I saw it was from UCSD but that in itself wasn't an answer. There are plenty of things that are usable in production that are built by research groups initially. SDN isn't the answer either unless these FPGAs can be used directly
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Really interesting project. Couldn't find the motivation explained. Is this just for research? Is it usable in production running in an FPGA? Are there plans to produce hardware?
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The T495s should be the solution for this but annoyingly they don't offer the 1440p screen like they do on the T490s (that can even go to 32GB of RAM). But the an AMD X1 would be awesome indeed. The better chassis and 4K screen would m
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I did read it till the end but missed that bit about the fast path somehow. I struggle to see a case where you care enough about those 7ns but the Windows scheduler was a different story.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Why isn't the conclusion to just use the mutex at least on Linux? It seems to have both consistently low latency and great throughput. What else can you get from the spinlock?
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Getting a projector is a good option these days. They're cheap and can give you a home theater experience with easily twice that size. Just measured my setup and it ends up at ~130" diagonally. There are limitations in the room yo
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I think it's pretty common. I'm not an expert but I think most of France's grid is run that way. Wikipedia has a few details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Nuc...
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by pedrocr 7y ago
There are nuclear power plants capable of throttling up and down at will. Not all designs work like that but some do.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
No need to reinvent video encoding. At least my local provider seems to fix this by having all the channels streamed as multicast continuously and then having the TV box request a small bit of video over normal TCP to do the channel switch
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by pedrocr 7y ago
You really can't. Devices get dropped often and kernels are left at old versions with security bugs unpatched. There's nothing in Android that's like a proper Linux distribution that keeps working for decades on the same hard
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Sometimes people struggle to understand that chess may very well be solved as a win for black. This is a great illustration of that.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
That's only true if you own single shares that you can't divide. If the market cap of the company is divided in enough shares that everyone can sell their portion of the buyback then it can be exactly like the dividend. And invest
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I empathize and don't have any clear solution. One thing that has helped is actually setting a schedule and following up on it. If Tuesday mornings have two hours booked then you can actually just ask if that was followed any time you
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> GPL clauses would only affect Google code upon linking. It's often possible to use fuse style software without linking - they could use it via the command-line and mount whatever they need at startup or even dynamically. This does
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I've been using tinc[1] as a way to get a mesh VPN on all my machines that works even if some of them are behind restrictive firewalls. It works really well and I've automated the setup with puppet so I just deploy it automaticall
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Microsoft's “Love” of Linux(pedrocr.pt)
470 points by pedrocr 7y ago|408 comments
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The law is based on measurement of course. It's our lack of reaction to the non-following of the law that's the perception issue.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
As others have said this is well beyond "cuddling speakers". But your points are fine. And if they're really unavoidable then distribute ear plugs at the entrance to your concerts. Because the alternative is a bunch of teenag
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by pedrocr 7y ago
At least where I am legislation already exists. What I'm puzzled by is why it doesn't seem to be policed at all, and why nobody seems to care. When rivers, soil or the air are being visibly produced we at least get some public rea
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I know this now. The fact that this is needed just further illustrates my point. We first blast music above safe levels and then expect people to compensate for that with hearing protection. That's just insane.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Finding a cure or treatment for tinnitus would be awesome. I have a very mild case from a few too many loud concerts. What I find amazing is how we don't attack the source of the problem much that I can see. Concerts, clubs, fireworks,

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