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by spijdar 5y ago
It's effectively a rate limiter, where before the Bad Person/People could make 10,000 users per unit of time before, now they may only make 100 users. It won't fix the problem entirely, but it's better than nothing.
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by spijdar 5y ago
I think it's the lesser evil in terms of privacy and self-hosting if you need anti-spam protection for something. In today's world spam/not protection is becoming more and more necessary, and even with JavaScript this is less
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, I said "closer", not an exact analogue. They're pretty close equivalents, though, as most Windows programs don't actually call syscalls directly, but link in an OS-provided DLL and call an exported symbol from it,
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by spijdar 5y ago
Actually, not quite. Wine is closer to what WSL1 was. The closest equivalent to "Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI" on WSL2 for Linux would just be ... running Windows in a VM, with FreeRDP doing per-app tunneling to the Linux host.
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's not false advertising, there are no lies or outright deception. However, it feels disingenuous to me because there are lots of laptops out there that can either have coreboot flashed or you can run me_cleaner on, possibly laptops
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by spijdar 5y ago
Yeah, there's something a bit ironic about a store with the tagline "GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled." putting a laptop without libreboot at the front. I understand why , but at the same time, it feels ever so
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by spijdar 5y ago
Darwin and MacOS aren't really all that related to NeXTSTEP, on purpose. NeXTSTEP had proprietary UNIX code in it, and required a UNIX license from AT&T to distribute. Additionally, the display manager (infamously) was based on Dis
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by spijdar 5y ago
To achieve that end, he essentially says he wants all his resources somewhere else (hosted by a third party who does the hard work of keeping it online and backed up, etc) and to interact with those resources through a uniform interface via
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by spijdar 5y ago
You might be interested to read about IBM's OS/400, aka IBM i. It's... sort of like that. Essentially an OS built around DB/2.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Caveat: I've barely used Go personally. Just speculating on what GP specifically meant, but Go lacks the ability to pack structs, and probably lacks the equivalent of tricks like computed gotos [0] to increase bytecode interpreter spee
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by spijdar 5y ago
It appears to target "GPGPU" APIs like OpenCL and CUDA via translation, making it more like Xeon Phi in that its architecture and instruction set is vaguely GPU-like, while it lacks video output or fixed-function pipeline hardware
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by spijdar 5y ago
I was responding to the idea that neural network-based software/hardware as a whole is an unprofitable industry trend, no comment on Tesla's specific hardware here.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Yeah, you can make a point that it's a dead end if you want "real" "general AI" or whatever, but Google/Facebook/etc are definitely using it to their advantage in analytics, if nothing else.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Fixing the security vulns in a non-networked computer would also be a lot less critical...
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by spijdar 5y ago
Okay, so, two things: There are already many similarly licensed and capable OSes, some (e.g. FreeBSD) capable of running Linux executables. Are these hurting humanity? I guess you could argue that they've enabled proprietary OSes on, s
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by spijdar 5y ago
Windows has a long and colorful history full of serious, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities made oh so much worse by the fact they're running inside kernel space. I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't like the ide
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by spijdar 5y ago
The recently restarted development work is focused on Linux, but the game historically ran on all the major OSes including Mac and Windows. You could either download an older release for those platforms or wait for someone to get it buildin
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by spijdar 5y ago
Can you run it with a working framebuffer and peripherals? Probably not. You'd have to ask Corellium for their secret sauce Apple SoC virtualization. Can you run it in some capacity ? Yes. See https://blogs.blackberry.com&#
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by spijdar 5y ago
Besides some of the ARM options like the Honeycomb that have been mentioned, there are also the POWER9 systems from Raptor Computing Systems. Much more expensive than the x86 systems, but I feel compelled to mention them, since they have mA
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by spijdar 5y ago
In raw performance, probably. The benefit these have (at least purportedly) is they're very energy efficient, consuming little power (and generating little heat) for comparatively large throughput. So I can imagine someone wanting a fe
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by spijdar 5y ago
The ability to take Jetson cards is actually a really strong point in its favor IMO. Raspberry Pis by themselves aren't incredibly interesting in clusters except for pedagogical reasons, but with some Nvidia cards running whatever on C
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm not certain, but I believe they started shipping the flat magic mouse, er, mice with the 2009 iMacs and 2010 Mac Pros. Unless you only got the magic mouse with an upcharge? That could be the case, although I think it was standard.
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by spijdar 5y ago
For anyone else momentarily confused by this, they stopped selling the last corded mouse four years ago, but haven't bundled a corded mouse with any computer since 2009 AFAIK. Which makes the comment about "corded mouse they shi
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by spijdar 5y ago
I didn't downvote -- it's fair to be skeptical that a machine that spends hours making loud whirring noises would be more efficient than just scrubbing some dishes in the sink. And I don't want to careful about making unequiv
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by spijdar 5y ago
I haven't watched this video in a while so apologies if it's not specifically elaborated on, but I believe it's covered here: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04 From memory yes, it's partially about water usag
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by spijdar 5y ago
You're correct; another project using this display panel documented their process towards getting it running: https://www.zephray.me/post/archer_bringup_notes They go into some detail on the display and getting it
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by spijdar 5y ago
I've not worked in this space, but see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17993174 and https://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/c/c4/E-paper-mode-declara... for a description of some a
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by spijdar 5y ago
60Hz for total, full screen refresh would indeed be a staggering feat, however I don't believe that's what these figures are. One of the things that makes e-ink so hard in the first place is the multiple and proprietary algorithms
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by spijdar 5y ago
One control scheme that's used nowadays is two joysticks, with one to control orientation (pitch/roll/yaw) and the other to control translation (up-down/left-right/forward-back). I usually map the left stick to tran
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by spijdar 5y ago
On top of that, because of the way audio was recorded to vinyl, the higher frequency a sound was, there would be a disproportionate amount of wear/friction, I think. Either way, in this case the article is referring to the ultrasonic t

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