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by simias 6y ago
Ok, but if that's the article's argument it really makes no sense, no? How would the author propose harvesting these various losses to mine cryptocoins? It's a really weird take if that's what the author is saying.
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by simias 6y ago
Do you know if the graph in the article is accurate, and what is meant by "rejected" exactly? What surprised me is that "Transportation" in that graph is supposed to "reject" over 22% of its energy, which seems
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by simias 6y ago
I've had the same issue multiple times lately. It really wouldn't be so bad if Signal could resynchronize the messages, but here you have to restart from scratch every time. I always found it very dissonant that all I hear coming
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by simias 6y ago
I'm all for no-nonsense, but I'd qualify Signal as barebones in some regards. Two features that routinely annoy me: no way to synchronize previous messages when linking a new client, no way to change the spellchecker language in t
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by simias 6y ago
If not following the guidelines makes your app hard to use or glitchy on some of Apple's lineup, I don't see why you wouldn't expect Apple to reject the app. This reflect poorly on Apple because it makes it look that some of
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by simias 6y ago
You make good points but IMO that's an Apple problem first and foremost, not an application designer problem. If an application doesn't follow the guidelines and breaks on some of the phones supported by the app store, then Apple
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by simias 6y ago
Ahah, I like the "give up" approach to fighting browser fingerprinting! "If ads can track us, we might as well make it efficient".
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by simias 6y ago
I don't want to live in a trustless society. What you describe sounds like a totalitarian dystopia to me. I want escape hatches. I want plausible deniability. Facts in a vacuum are useless and can be used to propel all sorts of narrati
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by simias 6y ago
This is not a technical problem IMO. You can't cryptographically sign reality. There's always the analog hole[1]. It's a problem of trust within society. Look at many very mainstream conspiracy theories these days: there&#x27
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by simias 6y ago
Yeah "sensible defaults" doesn't make a lot of sense, it's way too opinionated. I could see using that as a starting template for some of my own preferences though. It's like reading somebody's vimrc, even if y
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by simias 6y ago
Assuming that you're not a high profile target self-hosting does make it rather unlikely that you'll get pwned in this case. An attacker can justify allocating a lot of resource to pwn bitwarden.com. If you manage to break into th
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed. I think I like Inkscape approach for that: you can just stack whatever you want in panes to the sides of the work area, this way you can keep the often used tools handy and easily swap them in and out as needed. It's fairly int
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by simias 6y ago
Let me be clear, when I say clunky, I mean clunky, not old-fashioned or anything like that. I live in Vim and the terminal. I know perl. I can handle un-shiny UI. To give a concrete example: suppose I want to apply noise cancellation (somet
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by simias 6y ago
Audacity is a godsend for amateur audio makers, but man the UI is really really clunky. If I was a rich philanthropist I'd throw them some money to gut the core of the software and rebuild a decent user interface around it. But hey, UI
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by simias 6y ago
Right. C decides if a shift is logical or arithmetic based on the type of the operands (signed or unsigned). Also `-` is not a decrement operator, that's obviously `--`, `-` is just used to change the sign of a variable. Honestly I fin
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by simias 6y ago
Due to my phone running low on storage I've had to uninstall some apps lately and switch to the mobile web version. In the process, I realized that many of these webapps effectively worked almost identically to their app counterparts w
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by simias 6y ago
If separate projects have independent builds maybe a monorepo was not a great idea to begin with? I have a big monorepo at work but whenever anything changes I want to rebuild everything to generate a new firmware image. I have ccache setup
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by simias 6y ago
It's been the case for a while though, and I know for a fact that Dell offers form factors very similar to MacBooks. But even then, the market is a lot more fragmented when Apple offers a full ecosystem of devices.
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by simias 6y ago
It depends on the products, for some of them I'm fairly sure it's well beyond that (their new headphones come to mind). For their macbooks you're almost certainly right though.
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by simias 6y ago
Apple can design custom everything and has the economy of scale to justify it. The PC space is also more competitive, Apple managed to associate their brand with luxury and charge a huge premium for their hardware, a laptop with equivalent
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by simias 6y ago
given the size of the unit it makes sense to have a numpad, no? What would you put instead?
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by simias 6y ago
I definitely think it's a good idea. The other week my girlfriend's Western Digital external drive stopped working, I wanted to open it to figure out if it was the drive itself or the sata-to-USB logic. Took me 20 minutes to open
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by simias 6y ago
Not necessarily, if you have access to a heat pump for instance you could get much more efficient and cheap heating than a mining rig would offer you. You could also be heating your home using natural gas or some other resources costing a l
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by simias 6y ago
I was also wondering why nvidia felt the need to step in. Selling cards is selling cards, having too much demand doesn't seem like a problem they should want solved. Sure it does incur some PR cost as gamers are frustrated not to be ab
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by simias 6y ago
It was my understanding that you need very cheap electricity for cryptomining to be worth it, am I mistaken? If not I suspect that most people don't really have a good incentive to mine coins, unless the use it to heat up their flat or
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by simias 6y ago
Modern engines render scenes in multiple passes, iterating over the same framebuffer until everything has been rendered. Engineering such a flaw in a way that wouldn't lead to dramatic cascading effect will indeed be very difficult to
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by simias 6y ago
I think an even better example would be the "entry" keyword which would add multiple entry points to C functions[1]. We dodged a bullet here. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/254395/whatever-happen
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by simias 6y ago
> Why bother using FF at this point? Most sites don't work as well, and Mozilla seems actively hostile to my use case. I share some of your gripes and I do think that Mozilla routinely drops the ball with Firefox, but that's a
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by simias 6y ago
Aah ok, that makes sense, sorry for the confusion. I didn't know zip worked that way, although in hindsight that explains why it's so simple and fast to extract and/or modify only a part of a .zip archive, even on old compute
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by simias 6y ago
Note that in both cases the archive was first put into a single tar file, then compressed. That's how all tar formats function. The difference was just the order in which the files were concatenated.

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