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by shasheene 8y ago
Video card interface electrical standards may have changed, but GPU form factors have not. Electrical interface changes just need to be paired with compatible motherboards. Same with hard drives: the interface changed but the form factor ha
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by shasheene 8y ago
Being able to continue to use the display, keyboard, mouse/trackpad means you can choose higher-end components. Even if you don't want to keep your widescreen DVI display from 2008, the interoperability means that when you drop it
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by shasheene 8y ago
To successfully define a laptop standard, it would have taken a consortium of companies. Likely companies which aren't necessarily in the business of selling integrated laptops themselves, but would benefit from the existence of a lapt
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by shasheene 8y ago
This is a good time to bring up the fact there was never an industry-wide standardization effort for laptops. A standard form-factor means components would be re-usable between upgrades: the laptop case, power supply, monitor, keyboard, tou
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by shasheene 8y ago
While I'm not particularly a fan, it's important to make clear the company SUSE (that is, SUSE Linux GmbH) has two distributions. It funds the community-maintained openSUSE distribution, but also has SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (
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by shasheene 8y ago
Some further pros and cons of padding is discussed elsewhere in the thread. Providing privacy for the packages that, including dependencies, are less than 100MB in size is something that's probably worth doing. The cost of padding an a
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by shasheene 8y ago
It's still useful to be able to connect to the local mirror without tor (and enjoy the fast transfer speeds), but still mitigate privacy leaks from analysis of the transfer and timings. Transferring apt packages over tor is unlikely
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by shasheene 8y ago
> If you really want to mitigate information about downloaded packages you would have to completely revamp apt to randomize package names and sizes, and also randomize read access on mirrors... There isn't a need to randomize packag
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by shasheene 8y ago
> and I’d like to think that he’s one of the few reasons the wealth generated in Silicon Valley largely stays to fund the next generation of startups (like mine). This is not directly true. Vanguard mutual funds provide 0.05% annual fee
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by shasheene 8y ago
The broader point is that animals thought to be purely herbivores are in actual fact 'opportunistic omnivores': they'll supplement their diets with animal biomass (including bones) if given an opportunity. This is especially
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by shasheene 8y ago
I don't understand why there was no standardization effort equivalent to ATX for the classic IBM ThinkPad-era designs. A standardized form-factor allows easy replacement of motherboard, CPUs, screens, keyboards. Desktop PCs still use A
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by shasheene 8y ago
Great article with interesting historical insight. Thanks for posting! This part (and the slavery justification stuff) particularly stuck out to me: > "If you're unacclimated, you basically languish in professional and social p
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by shasheene 8y ago
Forgive me if I have any misconceptions or out-of-date knowledge, but while Testra owned the copper telephone network (including, I believe, the copper cabling within everybody's houses), it's only FTTN that uses the traditional c
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by shasheene 8y ago
+1. The lack of 2x playback speed makes documentaries on Netflix unwatchable. Third-party Chrome extensions of unknown origin doesn't seem like a good idea. Unfortunately, easier to stick to YouTube and VLC for documentary watching.
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by shasheene 8y ago
As a non-expert, it seems likely that of the 3 options, wealth transfer will be the main solution to China's debt problems. (It's worth noting, China's high corporate debt levels are, like Japan's, owed to mainly to dome
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by shasheene 8y ago
> How can we determine this? Using a population pyramid graph [0]. You can see the data in [1]. It's a nice way to visualize the amount of working aged people vs dependents (youth and elderly). In short, a bulge of working age peopl
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by shasheene 8y ago
Slightly off-topic (sorry for taking oxygen away from the semi-conductor fabrication discussion): I find that Wikipedia page you linked to very frustrating: understanding the central economic policy document of a growing superpower is very
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by shasheene 8y ago
I think history will suggest that the end of Deng Xiaoping's long-term strategy of "hide our capacities and bide our time" around 2015 was too premature to meet the government of China's long-term goals. The moderate amo
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by shasheene 8y ago
Good response. Sorry to hear your experiences. Given I use tablet-mode mainly for Android reading apps (media consumption) and the native Chrome browser (all in portrait-mode), I don't think I've had those issues, at least anytime
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by shasheene 8y ago
I've played with using Google Keep (both the Chrome app and the Android app), Squid and Kami. I haven't played around with any other devices' styluses. I switched back to pen and paper because I usually want to continue to us
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by shasheene 8y ago
I initially bought it only for laptop-mode (web-browsing and Google Docs). The keyboard and touchpad are pretty great. The tablet-mode has just been a convenient bonus for reading when laying down. While I think it has the perfect form-fact
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by shasheene 8y ago
Samsung Chromebook Plus satisfies my needs for a tablet: mainly media consumption (web browsing, YouTube, reading long articles, and watching movies). 1. Incredibly nice screen 2. Gets security updates (ChromeOS devices are great for this c
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by shasheene 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus#Capture_... Sounds like it could more than halve the atmosphere (from 93 times Earth atmosphere to 43 times). Though worth remembering that the surface of Venus is an
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by shasheene 9y ago
> Can you point to the source? I've been a SpaceX fan for a long time and never heard him say that. Source is from the 2016 International Astronautical Congress talk in Mexico [1]: > And I should say also that the main reason I&
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by shasheene 9y ago
Your English is fine, except I think you meant 'competitors', not 'concurrence'
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by shasheene 9y ago
It would be really cool to read interview with the authors of other great emulators of the era too. My personal favorite was NO$GMB ("nocash gameboy"), which was written in x86 assembly for DOS and allowed a 33MHz 486DX to emulate
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by shasheene 9y ago
Fortnite currently uses EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/82xyhb/launch_e...
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by shasheene 9y ago
The fundamental issue here is there was never any industry standardization for laptops like there was for desktop PCs. An ATX case ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX ) from 1995 can still be used as the enclosure for a
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by shasheene 9y ago
Giving up the principle of an impartial, unbiased, universally-enforced law JUST to do business with corrupt but wealthy nations is unfortunate and dangerous. Hopefully the next leader of this anti-corruption agency will continue to be effe
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by shasheene 9y ago
I don't dispute the pronunciation as 'poned' goes back further, but I'm saying that South Park popularized it. PurePwnage uses the pronunciation 'owned', right?

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