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by shirro 1y ago
I don't want to be locked into Apple's ecosystem so they are not an option for me. For others, Apple are in a different league to the rest of the industry with their level of product integration, design, supply chain control etc.
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by shirro 1y ago
People base purchases on more than price. But on price you are essentially correct. They are a money pit if you want to do major upgrades on them and it is often possible to get much better value for money shopping around and this applies t
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by shirro 1y ago
The Wan Show is very long and waffley and strictly for fans. LTT clip segments of the show but the relevant segment is still nearly 40 minutes long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JJ8dur6unc
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by shirro 1y ago
They said an LTT store message directed them to the Brodie Robertson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVwUjcsl6s so they did their own investigation which confirmed similar things. It looks like Youtube might be measu
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by shirro 1y ago
I can see a fracturing of digital convergence in my future. Corporate controlled communication device in one pocket and an open source SBC in the other. I'm not particularly into the privacy/security stuff. I just think it has all
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by shirro 1y ago
Australia's road laws tend to be strictly applied. Large fines and demerit points that can lead to loss of licence. We also have random breath tests. We have much lower road fatalities than the USA per 100,000 people and per billion km
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by shirro 1y ago
Apple and many arm mobile platforms also have a mix of performance and efficiency cores so it seems to be a proven approach. I guess it comes down to implementation. Intel's efficiency cores by themselves (eg N series) apparently make
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by shirro 1y ago
There is something a bit wacky about a performance service implemented in an interpreted language like Python whether it is tuned or auto-cpufreq. Tuned does seem to be as good as it gets for the moment. x86 cpus don't have the power e
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by shirro 1y ago
I don't think despised is correct. Drew made an argument for more mature and responsible behavior and leadership but some people just want to write code and not manage a community. I think that can be a lot to expect from some young pr
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by shirro 1y ago
I sometimes do this as well. Most tiling wms do support overlapping windows thouhg it isn't the default. But then many regular window managers will support placement of windows in various splits manually with a keypress or two so in re
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by shirro 1y ago
Grapheme clustering does my head in. I just want to delete the character to the left of the cursor damn it.
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by shirro 1y ago
Cultures develop within companies like any other organization. As those cultures develop they tend to push the decent people out and promote more of the same. Some companies are clearly abhorrent. My argument is that its a cultural issue un
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by shirro 1y ago
Anti-cheat behaves exactly like malware. It inserts itself in your system in a privileged state to monitor your activity. It's only job is to spy on your behavior. If you want to run it I don't see a problem. Use a dedicated machi
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by shirro 1y ago
Companies provide a legal framework for co-operative ventures between people. Companies are people. They are a legal construct that serves a useful purpose in society. They are not inherently evil. People who believe they are evil have been
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by shirro 1y ago
Everything is turning to shit due to short term extraction of profit. An incredibly stupid and incompetent management class are burning companies for fuel. It's crazy. Creative working people are seeing their futures and works destroye
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by shirro 1y ago
I don't understand the business case for fake meat. Surely it has to be really niche once the novelty has worn off. The market would seem to be meat for people who don't like meat? Isn't that like making sex bots in the gende
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by shirro 1y ago
Still way too much capital in the US for now. If every US citizen with a post graduate qualification emigrated most of them aren't going to find better jobs. Better lives maybe. It is frustrating to see so much money from around the wo
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by shirro 1y ago
Seems like a tough call for operating systems to do this when things are moving so fast. With risc-v its probably better to be future looking given current limitations but if a lower spec risc-v exploded in popularity you miss out. Debian d
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by shirro 1y ago
Yes. As usual people commenting based on their biases instead of comprehending the text. This is a proposal made by predominantly US companies (a country that actually has mandatory proof of age to access digital services in several states)
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by shirro 1y ago
This looks like a voluntary industry code of conduct made by US companies Microsoft, Google etc. I am not aware of any legislation that would require this in Australia. If the commissioner thinks the industry codes are insufficient she migh
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by shirro 1y ago
Many spaceflight fans struggle to distinguish between F9 and Starship and think success with one guarantees another. Go back and read what Fred Brooks writes about second systems. The super heavy booster is extremely impressive, particularl
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by shirro 1y ago
On the participation side the obvious alternative for the US is to grow indoor cricket. Run social competitions in sports centers during the baseball offseason and promote it to baseball players as offseason training as there is a skills cr
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by shirro 1y ago
As a child I bought mercury tilt switches from a tandy store (in Australia) with the intent of making a tilt game controller input for my terrible 8 bit computer (this was decades before acceleromters in game controllers). It was too laggy
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by shirro 2y ago
Yes it is regressive taxation. It can't be judged in isolation without considering how that revenue will be spent. If that revenue went into massive public works and social programs the stimulus could increase consumer spending which i
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by shirro 2y ago
> The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency. I think it is misleading to speak in terms of enemies even if that plays to the fears of US isolationists. It is good rhetoric but I t
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by shirro 2y ago
If China, Japan and South Korea ever reconciled their significant historical issues and political differences and co-operated at a level similar to Europe it would be world altering if incredibly unlikely. I don't understand what the U
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by shirro 2y ago
Bluey was funded by the Australian ABC and British BBC. Both public broadcasters with a strong commitment to quality children's programming. It wasn't created to sell Hasbro toys or Disney merchandise or increase children's Y
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by shirro 2y ago
HN has never been unbiased. It is funded by a tech VC company and targeted at tech entrepreneurs. It has always promoted crypto and AI scams to an eager audience and pumped up one useless company that added nothing of value to the world aft
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by shirro 2y ago
It is a rarity to see any organization that self hosts email or uses a domestic provider any more. It is all foreign controlled now (specifically Microsoft). It should be examined by regulators everywhere both as a monopoly and a sovereign
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by shirro 2y ago
I have a heap of graphic novels I bought for my kids that are basically unusable because Amazon moved everything into Kindle and I couldn't have them in a separate comixology app for my kids anymore and Kindle doesn't allow me to

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