romanoderoma

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by romanoderoma 6y ago
If not getting hot while watching Netflix is the benchmark, I can show you a 400 euros laptop that can do 9 hours of Netflix on battery (or 7 hours of 1080p 60fps streaming) Don't need no M1 AMD and Nvidia have sold more GPUs than Appl
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Android has oversold Apple 3 to 1 Now if we look at what people are buying and ask ourselves 'are these the people who care about TDP?' the answer is simply 'no' The majority of laptops sold are sub 700, as the previous
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
But honestly, does it matter? People buying a threadripper today don't care about it. What matters to them it's the performance, my gf is a 3d artist, she doesn't care if some cpu consumes more or less power than another (whe
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
It's about legacy, legacy brings personal satisfaction too. I would be very happy to be part of something that dates back hundreds of years.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Also, unfortunately for our climate, fossil fuels are easy to store, even for decades (potentially forever, they don't decay) and transport and require no advanced technology to be useful, you simply need a way to set them on fire. The
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Erlang processes are not green threads. Green threads can share memory while Erlang processes cannot, they are strictly forbidden to do it. Also Erlang scheduler is highly optimized to work as a soft real-time platform, so they never run fo
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> They’re a hardware company that makes the hardware more attractive with software They also make hardware that to take advantage of the new software features need to become obsolete Linux extends the life of any hardware it runs on
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
That doesn't prove that influencial people mainly use Macs. It's probably an US thing, where Apple has an higher market penetration. With a global 8% is highly improbable that most wealthy and influential people use Macs. Also, fo
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Proof? I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
"Identify which country calls them vasistas because Germans used to ask "was ist das?" from a smaller aperture on the door before opening the actual door"
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language. That's a well understood protocol too.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
we call them "strisce pedonali" (pedestrian stripes) in Italy, no one refers to them as crossing, and usually we just call them stripes.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Insightful! I feel the same, I sold my car 8 years ago and never bought a new one since, I'm planning to get a new one (hopefully kids, old parents, I'm gonna need it sooner or later) but I am struggling too. I usually use the Ren
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Until 10 years ago me and other 3 friends used to go snowboarding weekly, we live in Rome and the nearest ski stations are in Abruzzo, about an hour away in the central Italian Appenines. One of the places we went more often is called Campo
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
They can be hard to read, but I don't think they are deficient, on the contrary I think they are very elegant Stephen Cole Kleene was a brilliant mathematician and when he invented regexs in the 50s of the past century, he anticipated
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
As someone who grew up in the country where my family (that was kinda poor when I was born) bred the animals we ate, I remember that businesses selling eggs also sold male chicks to the local farmers and only kept the females to make eggs W
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> 18,000,000 million people Yes, of course! (Facepalm) > by the way, 30g of chicken at hatching are not 30g of meat) And of course again, it's just to prove how much actual good food it's wasted by simply not considering the
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
6,000,000,000 (chicks) * 0.03 (weight of a chick in kg at birth) = 180,000,000 kg 180,000,000 kg / 10 (average meat consumption in North and Central Africa) = 18,000,000 people that could eat for a year.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> why "in Africa"? Because, as I wrote a couple posts before "an average (meta consumption) in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there" https:/&
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Yep, it's 180,000 tons. Which would still feed 18,000,000 million people in Africa for a year.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
The meat of 6 billions chicks was needed to feed domestic reptiles? Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat That's a lot of meat, I didn't know people kept so many reptiles in their homes. p.s. 1,800
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
So the question now becomes: what will they use to make pet food? Given that in US (for example) there are 160 million pets and a cat eats around 200-300 grams of meat everyday, which is more than half of the global World population have at
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
As a popular Italian artists said freedom is not the opportunity of doing whatever you want without any limit, if they leave me in the desert and tell me "you are free now, do whatever you like" I would not be free at all.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
It's quite cold in Norway. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vigdis_Vandvik/publicat...
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
On the front page today (2020-11-24) "Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case" Coincidence? Probably not https://morganhilltimes.com/apples-head-of-security-indicted...
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
I tend to consider not wearing a mask like smoking near some non smoker (I'm a smoker BTW). The risk of them getting a serious disease caused by the smoke of my cigarette is non existent, if I am far enough the smell also is not strong
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Apple is made up of hundreds of thousands of employees And they can still be bad I could be fooled by your words when I was kid, unfortunately for me I'm too old to be fooled by rhetoric and propaganda. https://en.wikip
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Why? Care to explain? Because my answer was to > They're just jealous and need to write 'apple bad' blog to validate to themselves why they are years behind which doesn't even qualify as "bad irony"
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> don't want to test every piece of food I buy at the grocery store for poison I consider myself a pragmatic and I think that the only way to actually be sure there is no poison in your food is to literally produce it yourself. Som
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> But if it ignores or irritates its users too much there are financial consequences. I believe they very much know what their users want and are giving it to them That's why they are so successful. And what their users want is a de

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