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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> Even Safari is miles ahead of Chromium in this regard. I hate Safari's address bar. One visit to a mistyped address can ruin your suggestions forever, that typoed URL will be always preferred over the correct one. Firefox's a
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
The reason why we learn about North Korea almost exclusively from the Western sources is because it's a totalitarian dictatorship that suppresses information. You can check out their media online and see for yourself that it's ful
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> But when people say "use AES-CBC + HMAC" and cite Signal as an example, and Signal's implementation does this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/app/sr... Tha
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
AMD continues to sabotage itself with their terrible GPU compute support. I don't understand why it's so hard for them to pick a single API and support it on all GPUs and on all major platforms (Linux, Windows). It's no wonde
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> The orange website and the red website are popular slang that you hear around here from time to time. A Google search for "the orange website" returns a lot of results about Hacker News, "the red website" doesn&#x27
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> Also definitely not in the best interest of users, which isn't the Satya Nadella way of operating, at least not as demonstrated in the developer tools side of the business. Oh yes, good tsar, bad boyars. Whenever Microsoft does so
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
There isn't. Prigozhin's official Telegram account is "concordgroup_official". The problem is that many OSINT guys and journalists are informationally illiterate and blindly spread fakes from random Telegram and Twitter
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>The Intel Xeons don’t have E-cores. Xeons with E-cores are planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Forest And even if they weren't, it would still be a cheap PR win. >Also, you know AMD has recent con
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> "Woke" has always meant being grokking (in the truest sense) the plight of minorities and minority groups (e.g. LGBTQ+). In other words, people who have woken up to what's going on around them. Exactly, and a "Nazi&
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
The author said it's inappropriate "during their internal investigation". The way I understand it, he supports the actions of Amazon, but he wishes there was a presumption of innocence.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>Let me be clear: I fully support Amazon taking measures to ensure the safety of their drivers. However, I question why my entire smart home system had to be rendered unusable during their internal investigation. This attitude is the rea
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
Arrests involving Anti-Asian hate crime incidents in 2020: BLACK: 11 (55%) WHITE HISPANIC: 5 (25%) BLACK HISPANIC: 2 (10%) WHITE: 2 (10%) Total: 20 2021: BLACK: 31 (53%) HISPANIC: 15 (26%) WHITE: 7 (12%) ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER: 5 (8%
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> These conspiracy theories lead to a marked rise in violent attacks on anyone of Asian descent in the US, It should be noted that the statistics don't support the media narrative and there was no wave of white supremacist attacks o
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
On the other hand, AVIF smoothes out the fine details. It struggles to preserve the texture of the receipt and the tiny specks on the inside of the cup blend together. It's visible even in qualities higher than "tiny", which
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
IBM version of G5, POWER4 and POWER5, was clocked a bit lower than G5, and their servers and workstations had extremely loud fans.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>The odds of a global nuclear conflict are hopefully not in the double digit percentages, but I can't see why they aren't at a historic high in history. It's not even close. There are many precedents for nuclear powers fig
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
Hidden behind a disabled-by-default feature flag. WebP and AVIF had no experimental period.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> Posting obnoxious, demanding messages on the Chromium bug tracker is not the way to win friends & influence people It's true, although it should be noted that this is the result of the Chromium team acting in bad faith and gas
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
CUDA is a success because 1) it works on all NVIDIA GPUs made since 2006 2) it works on both Windows and Linux. This may seem like a very low bar to clear, but AMD continues to struggle with it. I don't understand it. They act as if GP
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
This is the official Debian repository. The package versions are frozen in each major Debian release. However, they may backport security and bug fixes. In practice, in the case of less popular packages, they do this on demand, when someone
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
I noticed climate change denialism is being replaced by "it's happening but it's not a big deal" or "others are polluting more so we shouldn't do anything".
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
> So if your software is BSD or anything without attribution I can probably upload it without problems. BSD and MIT licenses absolutely do require an attribution.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
I don't get why some of the commenters are so surprised by the article. There's a long history of newspapers showing the "human side" of famous criminals. Even Charles Manson got articles like these. You should always ap
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>It's only tone deaf to people who understand "undefined behavior" as an epithet or as synonymous with giving a license to compilers to screw you over. The term doesn't have either of those meaning to those on the C c
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I don't think it's a good idea, because of the second order effects. Assuming this tax can't be evaded (which, to be fair, is a pretty big assumption), high net worth individuals will be paying >100% tax rate. This means t
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>This is extremely incorrect. India is buying Russian gas and cooperating on payment networks to bypass American sanctions Not participating in western sanctions isn't "providing assistance", it's the default state. T
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Huh? Its an actual organization with actual rules and actual institutions. Of course, the organization exists, it wasn't my point. > False. What is false? The UN votes? Recent example: UN resolution A/ES-11/L.7 ("
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>The five stages of grief. You're right but not in the way you think. Russia is desperate to prove they aren't isolated internationally.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I'll be frank, every article that presents BRICS as a real thing is propaganda. It isn't a coincidence that we're seeing a lot more of them since Russia invaded Ukraine. India and China are enemies, they keep having border sk
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Running out of resources doesn't mean they will suddenly stop shooting. It isn't binary. It means the intensity of artillery and missile strikes is decreasing. It means they have to import arms from Iran. It means they are now usi

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