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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Ideally every application that is unlikely to use more than 2GB of memory should use the X32 ABI. It's often useful to be able to address in 64bits even if you are never going to use 2GB of memory. And it's probably more and
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That's true and the reason that electric cars will work much better than most expected, with no need for a battery change during the life of the car. Here though part of the reason for the huge savings in one year is the market was in
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by pedrocr 8y ago
But that's the perfect fob! I keep it in my pocket and it has enough of a distinct shape I can press the buttons from the outside of the pocket. So I lock/unlock and open the trunk with no effort and yet am imune to this attack be
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Is there some kind of target or plan for converting C/C++ to Rust in Firefox? Or is it just happening as there are people interested in working on parts of the stack? These progress numbers are very interesting: https://twit
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That's a great discussion to be had anywhere but on an HN thread about how those same organizations are trying to create a precedent for limiting the kind of software you can choose to run on your own computer. These organizations are
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by pedrocr 8y ago
It's probably one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo#Lupo_3L It also explains where the 94mpg number comes from.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That would be 85mpg, not 94 from what I can see online
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Alternatively, the add-ons break the social contract, whereby content creators request payment for their content. The site is free to not emit any content before payment is assured. The reason these add-ons are possible is that these s
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Not sure how you're doing the conversion but 3.3l/100km is only 71mpg according to Google. 94mpg would be 2.5l/100km or 1l per 40km.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
3.3L/100km doesn't seem that hard. I get 4.7 in a mid-size sedan so this is probably a small Volkswagen with a 3 cylinder engine.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
And by doing so crash bitcoin value since it is believed those early wallets with lots of coins are effectively destroyed.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> But that just circles back to Bogle's points in the article. Also, with index fund costs at rock bottoms, good luck getting quality research into your voting options. The alternative is active funds where you're already pay
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by pedrocr 8y ago
This seems quite easy to fix. Just give me the option of voting my shares in the underlying companies of the index funds I own. I just want to own the market average but I'm happy to be an activist investor in the decisions I happen to
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by pedrocr 8y ago
So a fully open-source phone is now feasible given friendly hardware? I thought replacing the baseband was much farther away.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The tie-break didn't get to blitz. Rapid is roughly an hour of playing which is well within the cultural concept of chess. Probably closer for most people actually.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
If only that was true. Javascript has had all plenty of inconsistent behaviors across browsers and the feature matrix for what is and isn't supported in each browser is hugely complex. And even if that was true standardizing the result
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>the behavior of that malloc/free pair would need to be identical (same pointers returned from malloc) in all browsers, for every possible sequence of allocations and deallocations Why would you ever spec it like that? That doesn&
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That was my experience as well. Experimentation becomes much easier and for things where you want to run the same analysis every year/month/etc when more data comes out it makes things much easier. It's also great when you ha
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Basically `run-all.sh` generates the results and `plot-all.sh` plots them. I've done things like this in the past and it's awesome. It would be great if more and more research was done like this so reproducing and extending
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>actually, when I say 'latest' I mean 'latest available for the moto g'. I'm not 100% sure that's the very latest version that exists. It's not. You're stuck with an Android that's 2 versions
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I use mostly TP-Link stuff. The Archer C7 has been a good work horse lately. You will need something with more CPU power if you have Gigabit internet service. For everything else it seems more than capable.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Is upstreaming hardware drivers to at least staging quality that much of an uphill task? Seems like this should be fixed at the source by having the initial development go straight into mainline. That's what seems to happen for PC hard
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You seem to be taking my point as prescribing what everyone should want. But that's not what I'm suggesting at all. I think well designed consumer software and hardware ecosystems that get out of the way are great. I don't
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Oh, definitely! It's even worse because you don't even get a properly secured device, it's a horrible ecosystem right now. But because it actually runs an open-source kernel and the bootloaders can be unlocked in most cases t
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The point isn't that Apple isn't good at doing updates. The very next sentence points out explicitly that they do that above and beyond everyone else in the space. The point is that you're locked in to a specific HW+SW ecosys
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by pedrocr 8y ago
As far as I know those have the exact same issues with their kernels. The problem isn't the Android side of things, that's workable with Android One phones too. The problem is what is described in the article, the kernels at best
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You do nothing of the sort. You're buying a specific combination of hardware and software that may or may not get upgrades and security fixes over time, just like any Android phone. Apple just has a much better track record at doing
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by pedrocr 8y ago
When I buy a laptop I install whatever is the latest version of Ubuntu on it and am done. When I buy an access point I install whatever is the latest version of OpenWrt on it and am done. I've tried to do the same thing with phones usi
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The Model 3 doesn't have this "bioweapon defense mode".

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