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by pslam 13y ago
No, there is a good way to argue it: it is provable that there is no improvement. That is exactly what's wrong with this industry: it convinces people that something entirely provable and quantifiable by math and physics, is in fact un
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by pslam 13y ago
The buyer is led to believe they are spending $695 on a device which will improve their audio quality. In fact, it will have absolutely no benefit whatsoever. They will feel ripped off for the extra $694. The seller knows damn well their de
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by pslam 13y ago
I still wonder why the people who design and sell these products aren't all in jail. "Audiophile" nonsense is a prime example of how consumer protection laws don't work if you invoke any kind of pseudo-science in your ma
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by pslam 13y ago
Interesting logical fallacy they're employing: by inverting the inequality such that the upside is capped, they're strongly implying that the value is non-zero. This shifts the conversation away from the value being, in fact, zero
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by pslam 13y ago
> "Think of the excellent restaurants, concert venues, boutiques, bars, etc. that exist in Oakland now--that's first wave gentrification. Those people are also historically more aware of their surroundings and the culture that
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by pslam 13y ago
No, it hasn't put an end to debate at all. This is an ugly workaround and still requires Cisco to build binaries on your behalf. It's quite a stretch of "open" and certainly not "free" (not that it claims to be
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by pslam 13y ago
The city isn't turning a blind eye at all, and there's no bullying. There's a conversation going on between the city and the private companies involved, in fact. They recognize that the coaches aren't permitted to use Mu
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by pslam 13y ago
If the branch target is an address loaded from memory, and there is no cached result for the branch instruction, then there's no way it can predict which instruction to execute next. The target could be anywhere in valid memory. The re
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by pslam 13y ago
A big extra cost of virtual functions in the underlying CPU not mentioned in the article: they effectively create a branch target dependency on a pointer chase. Put another way: 1) The virtual function address lookup requires a load from an
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by pslam 13y ago
The missing piece here is that WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS chipsets ARE usually using ARM CPUs internally. GPUs generally run a funky DSP-like core but there's still some kind of OS scheduling tasks and running code to interact with
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by pslam 13y ago
What do you think is in that "microcode"? Most of what I mentioned is usually running on an ARM of some sort. I count that code as an OS, because it's a pretty narrow definition otherwise.
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by pslam 13y ago
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone? Really? There's a ridiculous number of operating systems hiding in every mobile phone. What do you think runs on the GPU? What about bluetooth, wifi and GPS? What about all th
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by pslam 13y ago
Dimensions/Weight: 18.7”(L) x 13.1”(W) x 0.5”(D), 5.3 lbs. Weighs more than a MacBook Pro 13 (4.5 lbs). This should be marketed as a body-building tool. In fact, I'm not sure the models in the "Solutions" page are actual
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by pslam 13y ago
First note in the small print: "1. All prices are Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). MSRP excludes destination and handling charges, tax, title, license and options. Dealer sets actual price." Dealer sets actual pr
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by pslam 13y ago
The "open" variants of those you list can be compiled, installed and used practically without significant compromise - they are genuinely useful. The exception is AOSP. There are very few devices where you can compile and install
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by pslam 13y ago
Especially if you wanted to do a simple covered-call, e.g: * Buy 100 GOOG at $1000. * Sell 1 Nov 16 $1050 Call. (Edit: Then assuming GOOG doesn't go down significantly it's a profit even if assigned) Normally that would b
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by pslam 13y ago
$1000 is meaningful on its own but not for the reasons most of these comments think: it's an awkwardly large amount to pay for a single share, and an even more awkwardly large amount to pay for a standard option. Standard options are c
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by pslam 13y ago
You can unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email, but you'll still get email for any new category they invent later. So I keep having to do this every few months. For example: "endorsements" became a thing and suddenly I had to
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by pslam 13y ago
Are you sure? This is repeated often and immediately refuted every time. Apple pays all its tax obligations in the US, which means paying taxes on sales in the US. The dealings in Ireland are foreign tax related to foreign sales, where the
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by pslam 13y ago
Yes, that's the one - thanks! Not the Haight at all, but apparently there's at least 2 others along Haight, for a total of about 6 in the city.
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by pslam 13y ago
I recall walking through a street of San Francisco (though I can't remember which one - maybe the Haight somewhere) when I saw a big spray-painted piece of art on a wall above the top of a building. I instantly recognized it as being i
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by pslam 13y ago
The root issue is that this requires some weasel-minded logic: "In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementers over specifiers over theoretical purity." The author (and those who voted in favor at W3C) consider
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by pslam 13y ago
On the article itself: why did it take 6 paragraphs of text to finally mention what the milestone was? I hate this style of article writing, and it's usually a good bullshit-signal for any story. That's a shame, because it looks l
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by pslam 13y ago
No, there are disputes over this, and it's exactly why there is Iceweasel in Debian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re... It's not really a big deal, but the trademark restriction d
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by pslam 13y ago
Firefox is non-free due to trademark protection, but that's VASTLY different to being non-free due to being a paid download, or being closed source, or patent licensing, or restrictive licensing terms, and so on. It's almost irrel
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by pslam 13y ago
The W3C hasn't been a good "guardian" of HTML for a very long time. This is pretty much why they're not even the only guardian around - there's also WHATWG. For example, 12 years ago W3C attempting to push "RAN
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by pslam 13y ago
I always found this special-casing of headers for kernel vs user unnecessary and complicating. In the many embedded runtimes I maintain, I've moved towards using standard POSIX-y and C(++) standard headers everywhere. I know kernel fol
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by pslam 13y ago
The power consumption difference between 1GB and 2GB is far from negligible, both in auto-refresh (active) and self-refresh (sleep) mode. It's a significant fraction of total power draw when asleep. You also have to account for PMU eff
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by pslam 13y ago
2GB of DDR also takes twice as much power to keep alive vs 1GB of DDR. If you don't need it - it's a waste of battery.
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by pslam 13y ago
Simple transformation: for (unsigned i = strlen(s); i > 0; --i) { if (s[i - 1] == '.') break; } Easy to see that s[i-1] does not underflow the array due to the loop invariant i>0. It's usually easy to conve

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