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by qball 5y ago
>One cannot run a business without that and without a bank account. Yet those processors seem to think that they are moral police. A fact that the US government has been most eager to exploit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by qball 5y ago
>It's just not fashionable to say good things about Intel right now. Well, being single-handedly responsible for the nearly complete stagnation in processor performance for 10 out of the last 12 years probably has something to do wi
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by qball 5y ago
You're already on the list for visiting and contributing to a site called "Hacker News".
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by qball 5y ago
>We absolutely have different rules for different cohorts today in the US. Crucially, however, none of those rules involve criminal or civil penalties (outside of the distinction between who is and is not considered a full member of soci
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by qball 5y ago
>I wonder if this could have other legal applications. Not in any country that believes in equality before the law; the concept is that you're not allowed to create 2 classes of citizens, which is what this law effectively does. Not
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by qball 5y ago
>I heard about a hack I never tried, myself, where you buy an oversized hard drive and only use the beginning of it. It's actually kind of funny that "just using the beginning 25%" of the drive is completely unnecessary pr
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by qball 5y ago
> The point is to create a massively deep and wide technical and capital moat between iPhones and anything else on the market. It’s a very deliberate long term strategy that’s been running for well over a decade. It's worth noting t
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by qball 5y ago
>2011 desktop CPUs will perform about half as well as a modern laptop one. Maybe, but the fat client-thin client pendulum has swung back in favor of thin clients to the point that CPU performance is generally irrelevant (it kind of has t
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by qball 5y ago
>It has no legal nor practical sense, so why bother? You might be surprised to know that it actually does matter, and it matters in a way that depresses American software engineer salaries: work visas . The fact that the US government c
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by qball 5y ago
Real enough that Utah passed a law to deal with it (i.e. "no, the state is not going to be used to abduct your children while they're walking home from the park, no matter how many times Karen calls us about uNsUpErViSeD cHiLdReN&
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by qball 5y ago
Because "in case of emergency, press button" works when issued from the hands of a 5' 110-pound woman against a 7' 250-pound man in a way that the other options simply do not.
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by qball 5y ago
>Speech are only potent in the hands of those willing and able to say destabilizing things. For those unwilling to do so, they are massively disenfranchising. They essentially tilt the balance of power in society decisively in favour of
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by qball 5y ago
>They are paranoid about everything. And once you (start paying the Dane-geld) give into that paranoia, that paranoia never goes away (get rid of the Dane); it just gets larger and larger. The end state for the nations that sacrifice the
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by qball 5y ago
>And despite the low murder rate, many are still convinced that they're about to be killed by one of those many, many guns I suspect the reason is because a higher than average proportion of people who post here tend to live in citi
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by qball 5y ago
However, they need more than 60 miles (!) of range and their batteries mean they're more comparable weight-wise with a normal gas-powered compact sedan (they're roughly 400 pounds heavier than other cars of their class). And that
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by qball 5y ago
And yet, they've been guilty of uninstalling programs they don't like before ( https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-can-now-a... ). The only real way to avoid this is to sandbox all Windows and ma
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by qball 5y ago
>Do you want to break up the country so all the money and people are in one part, and you and a bunch of dirt roads are in the remaining part? Well, that's the big secret about Canada: the place with the bunch of dirt roads is actua
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by qball 5y ago
>no industry, few jobs, and every teenager with high school diploma will try to escape to an industrial nation next door. This already happens to Canada generally (it's a college degree, but that's just the new high school dipl
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by qball 5y ago
Perhaps, but the standard VFIO-style passthrough methods (if you can call anything about that "standard") is still a terrible solution; it requires more than one GPU to use both systems at once, requires navigating horrifically un
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by qball 5y ago
>I can only conclude either that they do not see it as a problem, or that they are incapable of fixing it. They really shot themselves in the foot 10 years ago when they decided to go all-in on making their desktop and server OSes a gian
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by qball 5y ago
>win32 stuff removed Win32 was not removed from Windows RT, but your access to it (if your name wasn't "Microsoft"; because that low-level access was reportedly how they got Office on it) was. And because of Secure Boot, w
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by qball 5y ago
>iMacs stood for clean desktops with little hassle Yes, but that's always , ever since the original G3 iMac, come with the caveat of "as long as the only things you're using the computer for was covered in those 2007-era
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by qball 5y ago
It's worth noting that Apple has been trying to leave USB in the past ever since USB has existed. FireWire and Thunderbolt are more or less the same thing with the same advantages (over USB) for the same reasons, and with the exact sam
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by qball 6y ago
You can trivially run whatever code you wanted to if you seized the signing keys; I suspect that in such a "collect all the general-purpose computers for general-purpose computing things" that would be the first order of business.
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by qball 6y ago
>Still. I don't think it's realistic to expect to heat Canadian cities or produce plastics by the millions of tonnes, with just heat pumps and solar power. The vast majority of Canadian electricity production is already zero-em
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by qball 6y ago
Also, remember that if a new electric car is capable of performing a commute just barely within its range, it won't be in 5-10 years once the battery is sufficiently worn down, so you can forget about buying used. Oh, and once it'
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by qball 6y ago
>There are far better solutions already. No, there really aren't. If mass transit was actually better, it would have condemned the car (and the horse-driven carriage before it) to being nothing more than a passing fad; "corrup
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by qball 6y ago
>It is only recently If by 1946 you mean "only recently", then sure (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama ). The concept that no company be allowed to enclose the commons has existed ever sin
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by qball 6y ago
Because it's not a sound bite, and because it's more about "owning the Democrats in Silicon Valley" than it is about solving the actual problem. Also, the more effective solutions would diminish government power and is t
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by qball 6y ago
>Free to consumers is generally a net good, since it gives them access to things they wouldn't otherwise have. Unless "access to things they wouldn't otherwise have" is free and fair market competition. There's a

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