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by pmjordan 7y ago
Yeah, this isn’t something I’ve seen either, and given the limited wildlife behaviour (tiny bit of damage to them and they fall over like a wooden prop) I’m wondering if this might be a case of Chinese whispers. And yes, I too would love a
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I read about this sort of thing years ago, and I seem to remember the consensus being that while it's entirely possible to build skill-adaptive AI, it tends to frustrate players no end. I don't know if there's been any moveme
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by pmjordan 7y ago
First, the OS can't hide that because it's not a middleman in the execution of program code. When a program is running on a CPU it has access to the instructions that tell it what CPU it is. Technically, it could, using virtuali
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by pmjordan 7y ago
IOKit is actually a considerable chunk of the kernel, particularly if you count the various "families", some of which remain open source. I'd say it's Apple's main contribution to the kernel at the architectural lev
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by pmjordan 7y ago
To be honest, it sounds like your particular needs are best served by an Epyc.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Not one I can easily point you to - my in-laws' neighbour apparently used to be an engineer on board such ships. It's possible this is no longer accurate as this would have presumably been some decades ago.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Although waste will be produced, that doesn't mean it's emitted into the air. There is a famous waste burning plant[1] (~6MW) within the city of Vienna, and which is near residential buildings and supplies the nearby general hospi
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Another interesting incident, this one involving a North Korean spy ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amami-Ōshima The wreckage is worth a visit if you find yourself in Tokyo with a day to spare for a trip
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by pmjordan 7y ago
That makes sense, so I suppose the explanation might be that these bystanders were also outsiders, but, as turned out, presumably too late, they merely were in the wrong place at the wrong time as you say and guilty by proximity. My initial
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Thanks for the link. I guess I was aware of the general lawlessness of that part of the world at the time, but the part about " cattle rustling being “considered one of the lowest forms of crime.” " seemed like a reference to some
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by pmjordan 7y ago
It also reminds me of cargo ships carrying commodities. They apparently change destination and heading numerous times before their final arrival at port, as their cargo gets bought and sold by a sequence of different entities long before it
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Entirely tangential to the main thrust of the article, but this threw me: a noose dangling from “the hanging tree,” which a plaque explains was used to execute three cattle rustlers and two unlucky bystanders, cattle rustling being “consid
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by pmjordan 7y ago
In Central Europe, houses are still commonly built from brick at a structural level. (This includes multi-storey apartment blocks, commonly with some sections implemented as cantilevered reinforced concrete - the block I live in is such an
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by pmjordan 7y ago
This is certainly true for the big headline projects. For every one of those, there's a hundred small but widely used libraries or tools whose sole maintainers (or tiny groups of maintainers) struggle under the workload of keeping it g
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by pmjordan 7y ago
The AMDGPU driver was the first one where the "main" consumer driver was the FOSS one. Prior to this, "fglrx" was for many years the fully-featured, proprietary driver, intended for both professional purposes where certi
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I don't necessarily need a free tier, but I find short trial periods to be unhelpful for something that needs a considerable time investments to truly try. Often I'll end up getting pulled away after starting a trial on something
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Good to know that Heathrow T2 is an exception, I may use that knowledge next time I fly to the UK. We mostly fly in & out of Gatwick (proximity to family, and it's an EasyJet hub) but I'm glad I'm not the only one who get
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Single-core CPU performance is at a peak. There aren't any revolutionary increases expected there anytime soon. To be fair, Ice Lake/Sunny Cove seems to introduce a significant IPC improvement. It's currently stuck in low-p
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by pmjordan 7y ago
AMD's Navi is looking to be competing quite well with NVIDIA in the mid-range/enthusiast space, and shortly in the mid-to-low-end segment with the imminent RX5500. I suspect it won't be long until the empire strikes back in t
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by pmjordan 7y ago
That link doesn't work for me (perhaps geo-IP gated?) - what issue are we talking about? The highly reputable c't Magazine used it in one of their recommended PC builds recently. They tend to be very thorough and fussy about issue
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Where else in the metropolis, after all, are there free toilets, air-conditioning and seating? This is meant as a rhetorical question, as if those things didn't exist in cities. They don't in many western cities, certainly, bu
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Phenom got soundly beaten by the first few Core i generations (Nehalem, Sandy Bridge) in terms of both peak performance and power efficiency. Bulldozer (The basis for AMD's FX and "A" series CPUs) was mostly a misstep that wa
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by pmjordan 7y ago
It was still possible to use "real mode" (16-bit DOS) device drivers with Win95. [1] I believe there was a 32-bit kernel running on top of this 16-bit foundation, but it was definitely a hybrid arrangement. User space processes de
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac, meanwhile is actually based on what used to be MonoDevelop.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
It's also not uncommon that a 10-line local hack that took an hour or two total to figure out and implement mutates into a 200-line pull request that eventually gets merged after 3 months of near-daily babysitting and 7 rounds of revie
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by pmjordan 7y ago
You give people far too much credit. In my experience: implement a hack in whatever the latest upstream version is to meet requirements, then never pull in upstream changes and just keep running the increasingly ancient, hacked-up fork.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
it's everywhere already If only everyone using the FOSS tools actually contributed back their local modifications. That's definitely not happening "everywhere".
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by pmjordan 7y ago
If you were in the market for a new mobile machine, would you be going Intel or AMD? I'd be basing my decision primarily around which models fulfil my needs - be that in terms of portability, battery life, display quality, performanc
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by pmjordan 7y ago
How long from release does it usually take to start seeing released chips in new laptops? I seem to remember reading about a January launch (i.e. CES as you say) with shipping laptops expected towards the end of Q1 2020. Vega vs Navi: IS
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Reviews indicate that the AMD variant of Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 is actually a decent machine, as AMD and Microsoft have worked together to provide a good experience in terms of battery life, etc. Hopefully the outcome of that wor

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