samuellavoie90

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by samuellavoie90 1y ago
Microsoft isn't ending Windows 10 support, it's all just marketing to encourage people to move over. They already partially backed out by saying they will provide updates for (At least) 1 more year if certain conditions are met,
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by samuellavoie90 1y ago
Also, If I remember correctly, the originally announced end of life for Windows XP was extended because too many people were still running it when the date came. (I think they even extended it more than once)
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by samuellavoie90 2y ago
The goal of a standard is to not be forced to code specific things for each implementation out there. This is failure of the web standards that the google implementation has become the standard.
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by samuellavoie90 2y ago
LoRA radio things are a lot more common than the newly popular AI stuff.
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by samuellavoie90 2y ago
It's not just about performance, I think one of the reasons for moving away from OpenGL is that the High level functions are inconsistent across driver implementations/GPUs. Whats the point of an abstraction layer if you keep hav
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by samuellavoie90 3y ago
Shouldn't a system like that be part of the car, not the phone? Trying to force a feature to exist outside of the context where it makes sense can only lead to issues in my opinion.
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by samuellavoie90 5y ago
In the U.S., its part of their culture that striking up a conversation with a total stranger is normal. It just looks weird to the rest of the world, but I think it works out in their favor.
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by samuellavoie90 5y ago
Microsoft's next step might be to 'Extend'; add feature to wsl2 that aren't available outside of windows. (To lock in WSL2 Users, and since they have the manpower they can outpace any other linux distro on features)
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by samuellavoie90 7y ago
Isn't a rational actor with emotions called an irrational actor? ;p
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by samuellavoie90 8y ago
Probably just some 'Write Once' Memory, where they can raise bits to 1 but can't lower them back to 0. (Or the other way around, depending on the memory)
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by samuellavoie90 11y ago
I had my hopes up, Expecting Q from star trek.
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by samuellavoie90 11y ago
They should try to ban it, just so they can really see how much stuff depends on it and how vague 'Banned Encryption' is.
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by samuellavoie90 12y ago
Mort is Death in french. Mort says goodbye in english, while death prefers goodbye in french.
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by samuellavoie90 12y ago
Yes, if an hijacker got as far as the webcam, it's safe to assume they have access to everything else in your computer. But most webcams have a light to tell you if its being used, other dangers are keyloggers, and how they can be use
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by samuellavoie90 13y ago
Here's a good Board game that has the concept of instructions and executing them: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally