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I'd prefer that the federal government set a proper nationwide standard (match or beat CA's current standard?), but I do agree with you. You'd think that all the states' rights people out there would be up in arms about
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Aside from a petty desire to undo things done by the previous administration and attack California, I really don't understand this move by Trump and his administration. Any major car manufacturer will look at this with the knowledge th
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Part of the reason we're going out there is to find out whether or not we're alone in the universe and to learn more about how we ourselves might have come to be. I think there's a balance to be struck between planetary prote
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Not trying to be combative, but I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person". Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it? I know he&#x27
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After reading that, this looks really exciting. Seems like they've solved some tough issues. I'm sure there are background issues that aren't apparent to a layperson reading, but 15,000 transistors and "we think we can m
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Never a good idea to be playing with Satan's kimchi!
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I think most of us around here on HN and "tech people" in general understand that particular set of issues around encryption backdoors. It seems to me that certain lawmakers and people like Barr either don't put the time in t
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I mean it makes sense if they just choose not to sell the cards they don’t want in datacenters to people who will use them that way. What weirds me out is that you could have purchased the card, eventually decide to use it in a way that goe
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Oh wow. That's a lot worse than I'd expected. Intel really royally screwed up, especially since so much of their current optimization relies on the same hardware functionality that makes these side-channel attacks possible.
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Does anyone know of any benchmarks that go through the full impacts for all of Intel’s hardware-level security issues? I remember seeing the Linux kernel devs discussing some massive 10+% performance hits back around Meltdown/Spectre p
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It kind of amazes me that there can be a EULA for software that is absolutely required in order to use physical hardware that you’ve purchased. Guess that’s the world we live in now...
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If I remember correctly, CUDA is pretty tightly tied to Nvidia’s GPU architecture, so it would be very difficult to get the same things to run on AMD chips without them making huge changes to conform to Nvidia’s way of doing things. I think
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Chiplets were for sure an amazing bet AMD made that’s paid off big time. The smaller dies and modular setup even on the same die gives them so much flexibility in their binning and package integration and must keep defect rates much lower
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It's really amazing how little trust people have in the telephone system now. At least on personal devices/lines, everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize, whi
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Ah, a classic home router admin move: "I'm gonna QoS all of your traffic into oblivion so that I can download my cat videos". More seriously, I'm impressed at that consistency. I've always heard that that type of co
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Does your connection maintain 5mbps/2mbps consistently? Or do you experience ups and downs in terms of speed?
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The larger the mirror of the telescope, the more light it can gather from a given source. The expanded light-gathering capability of a thirty meter aperture combined with the great conditions that exist at the top of Mauna Kea because of it
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Even if people's home power bills spike, they'll still save plenty of money by not paying for gas. In parts of the US, a decent commute will cost one $200 to $300 in gas a month, and charging an EV off the grid for the same range
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Yeah, the experience probably varies a ton across the industry and even within orgs. I'm sure most people around here who've been in tech for a while can tell stories about both types of company.
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They're covered for four years after first retail sale from Apple [0]. [0] https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...
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In my mind, it does count for something that he seems to have turned everything around from being a black hat towards doing proper security research and generally trying to work towards the common good.
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He said on Twitter earlier that a big part of the judge's decision to sentence him to time served was the character letters that a ton of people from the infosec industry that know him sent. That kind of thing could definitely be relev
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I feel like that's really gonna depend on what part of the tech sector you're working in. In the world of early and middle stage startups, you're probably right. However, in massive tech companies or more legacy-type tech com
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That's honestly an amazing strategy. Adds a pretty big extra layer of thought about whether the decision to call you would be worth it.
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Kind Words: A game of lo-fi beats, letters to strangers, and feeling less alone
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Oh, I guess I have seen that one. Was wondering how I could've missed one of his! ClF3 is such "fun" stuff; I love that one quote about it that everyone always quotes from the book.
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Scott really does make great videos. He does a great job of breaking big things down into smaller bits and making the information available to a wide audience. Didn't know he'd done an episode on Ignition! , though.
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The book that quote is originally from, Ignition! , is 100% worth a read. Picked up a copy through Amazon a few months ago, and it’s one of the funniest (in a nerdy way) and most interesting books I’ve read in a loooong time.
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Figured that would be it. How do you like it? Do you think performance is solid?
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My case on my 6s finally broke a few months ago after 3.5 years of (ab)use. In the whole time I had it, I dropped it maybe 5 times. In the week after the case broke and I took it off, I dropped it hard at least 3 times. Suffice it to say,

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