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by qball 4y ago
>Our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. And the Japanese (to say nothing of the rest of the world) are taking Germany as an example of what happens when you depend on cheap resources from your geo
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>Qualcomm is currently focused on performance in a way that they wouldn't be if Apple hadn't lit a fire under their ass. No, Qualcomm has been consistently behind for years . The reason their chips are doing significantly bett
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>Most of them seem to be doing it for power rather than for love of the content of their sub. In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people. First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization
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>I think there are a lot of other subtle influences from mainstream consensus that affect all the participants in the process. But unlike OJ, political figures and the media higher-ups weren't nearly as personally invested in the ou
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by qball 4y ago
>"Because it's not like it used to be," is the excuse I hear. Well, they're right. We used to treat concern trolls like laughingstock, now they set national policy. Karenism is an existential threat, and it should hav
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by qball 4y ago
>we also a stronger protections for private entities being strong-armed by state actors. It's important to note that this also needs (though I suspect that it already does) to apply to hosting providers and ISPs. (We need one for b
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by qball 4y ago
>Haven’t seen any top down government interventions work at increasing TFR. Well, they've all been symbolic measures... but that's all they can realistically do. In terms of education reform (the "give young men and women
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by qball 4y ago
It was never going to work. You want to encourage family formation, you need to make it a viable life path, and without radical tax (as in, family can't lead to a drop in standard of living compared to DINKs) and education reform (not
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by qball 4y ago
>knows that if Chromium is the only option then Google will abuse it some way or another. It doesn't even need to be the only option; Manifest V3 (making adblockers impossible) already exists.
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>with the burden of having to communicate the risk to every human generation as long as humanity exists? We already have many industrial disasters with dangers that need to be communicated to every human generation to come in the form of
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by qball 4y ago
>It's my impression that the hardware for newer android phones is pretty much on par, no? No, it isn't; the iPhones are a dramatically better value provided you're not looking at the high end. The SE 2 and Pixel 6A have a
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by qball 4y ago
>The technology future I was sold was one where technology becomes cheaper over time, not more expensive. Contrary to popular belief, high-end cards actually are priced appropriately. It's the low to midrange cards that are ludicro
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>The lack of scrutiny in baseband source code review, encryption in relevant messages, and the opaqueness makes it a great target. Sure, but why hasn't anyone actually used it in this way yet (that we know of; I'm sure relevant
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by qball 4y ago
>we don't have automatic aiming for real guns Yes we do. We've had various implementations of it for as long as computer vision has been readily available, as demonstrated by this decade-old video ( https://www.youtu
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by qball 4y ago
>So reliable that New York State generates approximately 70% of its electricity from hydro. Which, it's worth noting, is also the proportion Canada's national electricity production happens to be. And of that remaining fractio
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by qball 4y ago
To be fair, you also have to do this for macOS as well; it still doesn't have the window-snapping feature that Windows has had since 2006.
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>It's a bit like saying we can't stop music piracy, now that Napster exists. Trivially, you still can't. Lawbreaking when it comes to copyright is enabled at scale by computers (like everything else); so unless you mana
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by qball 4y ago
>The idea of Mastodon is good but it's too annoying to use, and that will torpedo any hope for wide use. If by "the idea of Mastodon" you mean "you can connect to isolated versions of Twitter and view it with whatever
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by qball 4y ago
They had their chance, but they turned it down at that time by failing to include a Dart VM in Chrome, whose browser engine had 30% of PC and mobile marketshare at the time. However, now Chromium-derived browsers have 90% PC marketshare and
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by qball 4y ago
>It is always a mystery to me that why ms would expect user to buy a device that nearly run nothing. Because at the end of the day, Windows RT was a creature born of greed. They saw dollar signs- Apple's 30% App Store cut- and as s
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by qball 4y ago
>I'm starting to see them as just a way to remember which word you were talking about I find it even simpler than that: they're just [different versions of articles] designed to help the language flow better. English has the sa
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by qball 4y ago
Who among them has the time? You're dealing with 12 hours of school every day, 2 hours on transit, and 8 hours of sleep, 6 days a week. I guess it gets better later on, since while you then have 14 hours of work, that's only 5 d
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by qball 4y ago
Yes, and I'm absolutely certain they're kicking themselves for having agreed to do so. As far as I know, console manufacture comes with supply agreements- you agree to supply X number of processors at Y cost... even if the price o
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>Because they can’t add anything else… They do secondary binning; the best ones are overclocked (and more importantly, warranted to perform stably at that overclock) compared to nVidia's specifications. Frequency gains are mostly li
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>I'm sure putting up with all of NVIDIA's crap is barely worth it even when making a decent profit It's illustrative to remember who and what started this: nVidia's practice of intentionally undercutting their manufa
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>I'm not a fan of expensive phones though - I'm scared I will break it and lose $700+ in the blink of an eye. Phones over 200 bucks are a serious liability, I agree. Fortunately, that also happens to be the price of the fourth-
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by qball 4y ago
For reference, I'm expecting windowing behavior in macOS to do exactly what Windows does: when you drag a window to the boundary (edge or corner) of the screen, it should automatically resize to that half or quadrant of the screen. Mon
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by qball 4y ago
>but not that I’ve figured out the quirks, I prefer Mac And yet, Macs still need third-party software to do window management properly. Not even Monterey lets you snap windows by simply dragging them to the side of the screen, a feature
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>Intel have been doing two generations of support for absolutely ages. It's worth noting that most of that was artificial; just enough electrical incompatibility to make you buy a new motherboard if you wanted a new processor (it&#x
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by qball 4y ago
Not when it comes to clock speed. Note that the total power a CPU draws is proportional to its capacitance (fixed) * its frequency * the square of its voltage + some other stuff that's generally the same across CPUs of the same generat

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