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The binary translation happens on install of apps, and unused APIs consume no CPU time. As for storage, if a unified platform supported every legacy API, the same problem exists whether it is x86 or ARM, so that seems orthogonal to this dis
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If it supported the same APIs, a platform encountering native code from another platform could simply do binary translation (where simply means "enormously complex and difficult, but a solved problem"). This is exactly what x86 An
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The plan here seems to be to build all Windows phones and tablets with x86 chips to eliminate that issue. That was an analyst guessing, not Microsoft setting a strategy. It is extraordinarily doubtful that Microsoft would go all in on x86
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That would be incredible commitment if they came back three times to guess at schedules. Most home robberies are of the kick the door in, grab the obvious valuables in literally seconds, and get out and away variety. The door-to-door ruse i
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Ah, the conspiracy garbage infects HN. This is exactly why this sort of story does not belong here. click on other dates and keep an eye on the flight path You mean that the flight path changed significantly every single day ? What does
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Are you an expert? In another comment you made the extraordinary claim, substantiated by absolutely no one and no organization of any authority at all (just the standard conspiracy noise and rhetoric that is simply deplorable . It is t
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Witness to Iran Flight 655(nytimes.com)
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They shot down a A300 thinking it was an F14, and they were in a heightened level of alert because they (the USS Vincennes) were in Iranian waters, chasing a small naval boat that they claimed shot at their helicopter. As an aside, the IR65
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by personZ 12y ago
We don't even know who was laid off, so the market isn't judging based upon it being a productive reduction of force -- they're reacting because in the short term, layoffs almost always improve profits, especially for an or
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You say my comment is not factual, only then you describe his motivations being precisely what I described (rather than "ballsy and classy"). Not sure if you're being ironic or just shockingly naive. The facts, gress, are per
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Yes, I'm comparing persuasive tactics. Is there some reason I shouldn't ? The notion that anyone would read my comment and think they have to defend Marco or silence an obvious, factual comment is rather sad.
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Ballsy and classy. It's also perhaps a bit manipulative. I'm not in any way saying this in a critical or dismissive fashion, but rather given that many here are learning from software like this, and I do think there is a lesson
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Yesterday, Forbes did an article[1] about how console gamers are moving towards PC. A contributor, essentially using Forbes as a blog platform, claimed that. The article is a baseless fluff piece pandering to an audience. I really believe
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Outside of the vendor's relationship with the credit card company, a chargeback is identical to ceasing payment. The credit card company has zero control or influence over contract disputes. At best they can threaten a vendor relations
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Your credit card company is not an arbiter of contracts. They are nothing more than a payment method, and the only reason they have any process whatsoever is to try to maintain relations with the vendors who they also deal with. If you have
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Twenty minutes? Did you maybe intend to say twenty second? Because twenty minutes sounds rather terrible. Secondly, realize that this guy's entire job is to do exactly what he did: This is what Comcast trains him to do; It's wha
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Chargebacks are no different than simply ceasing to send in payments for a service: It sounds pat, but can haunt you years later when massive penalties and interest appear on your credit report.
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The guy who he was talking to works for Comcast, is pursuing Comcast goals (which aggressively punishes agents who don't have high enough retention rates), and is recorded and often monitored by Comcast. The Comcast agent clearly has a
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by personZ 12y ago
You are incredible. Do you realize that nothing, at all, that you have referenced supports your arguments at all . Yes, you know how to use Google: Congratulations, you have achieved a primary school level of achievement. Yet you remain bl
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by personZ 12y ago
"you're removing fertilizer that would otherwise help the growth of current/new trees" There is astonishingly little fertilizer potential of fallen wood (and the little there is remains in the ash). In parks it is contro
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Worldwide, and across all scientific realms, burning wood is considered carbon neutral. This is not an "argument", it is actual reality -- the carbon released when you burn wood is identical to the carbon captured to form the same
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Given that the company goes to enormous lengths to never show or talk about the inside of the pan, I have to assume this is the Achilles heal. If the fins aren't replicated on the inside, then some areas will be mm from the flame, ot
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You seem really passionately against this. This is a camp stove . You cook things on it. It has a fan to provide a very efficient, very clean burn. It happens to have a charger on it as a side effect of being a fan driven burner. I guar
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Wood is worse than other fuels by most accounts Wood is carbon neutral (trees are, of course, very efficient solar energy plants), and backpackers burning scrub branches are not diminishing nature. Further the fan leads to an extremely cl
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Much greater surface area, so that part makes sense at least for flame-based cooking. I doubt it offers any benefit for non-flame-based cooking (elements, ceramic, etc. It might actually be a detriment because it would dissipate more energy
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There are "hidden incentives" in virtually every study, and one should always remain highly skeptical. One of the biggest perversions of science is the probability of wide publication (essentially the virality of a finding), vastl
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Unless you used a specialized, customized version of netsend, yes it was rate limited -- it by default waits on the clock interval, and warns you if you try to call it in defiance of that. Further it is endlessly calculating the time and ca
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by personZ 12y ago
That comparison is of questionable merit. It compares bulk, unmetered packet generation (in an OS, worth noting, just as a kernel module) against netsend, which is intentionally a rate limited generator (using busy waits, as an aside, which
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There is an OS overhead for sure (although you can mitigate that with things like Zero Copy solutions), but it generally imposes a couple of percentage points of overhead. I was thrown off by the several orders of magnitude claim. Reading i
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The disparity between what the OS can do and what the hardware is capable of delivering is off by a few orders of magnitude right now. It's downright ridiculous how much performance we're giving up for supposed "convenience&

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