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by sq_ 6y ago
I can never figure out Canonical's logic with going off to do their own thing. They don't do it with everything, so clearly it's not a complete rejection of things not made in-house. It seems like they also often end up going
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by sq_ 6y ago
I ended up heading off to Arch. I've always enjoyed messing around with nonstandard desktop setups, and it was really appealing for that because of the lean default system that Arch provides, along with the availability of so much soft
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by sq_ 6y ago
Even without the specific downsides of snap that you've noted, having two parallel package managers that each have zero visibility into each other feels like such an antipattern and UX failure to me. Needing to use two different tools
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by sq_ 6y ago
Good point. I actually just discovered via a link in the TomsHardware article that the Seagate drive I purchased a couple weeks ago is, in fact, SMR. While I shouldn't have issues with it because my workloads aren't particularly w
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by sq_ 6y ago
Hopefully Seagate and the other manufacturers that've been caught doing this will follow suit. It sucks to be a tech consumer buying expensive hardware like this and not feeling like you can trust the company selling it.
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by sq_ 6y ago
I set up a Minecraft server for some friends a few weeks ago, and I learned firsthand how huge of a performance improvement one can get by dropping the render distance. My basic understanding of the problem is that it's less of a graph
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by sq_ 6y ago
I mean, looking at that page, AMD's current real consumer offerings probably bottom out at the Athlon chips. I haven't seen an FX chip in a newly released system in a long time, and the A-series chips seem to be on their way out
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by sq_ 6y ago
Additionally, you also get a really solid stock CPU cooler compared to Intel's. If you're building a PC in the price range where these sit, that $20 you save by not needing an aftermarket cooler can be huge, allowing you to get
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by sq_ 6y ago
For anyone looking for some elaboration on why Userbenchmark isn't great, I'd check out this reddit thread [0]. Even if you don't agree that they outright shouldn't be used, other reviewers and benchmarkers definitely do
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by sq_ 6y ago
While the 1600AF is great(basically a 2600 under the name of the 1600 for anyone who's confused), the different ways one can buy one aren't the clearest about whether it's actually the AF. At least personally, I'd be war
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by sq_ 6y ago
I think the segmentation is reasonable enough for typical users. Any basic user just looking for something like a desktop would only see the Ryzen 3/5/7/9 desktop SKUs, and those have a pretty sensible and intuitive segmentat
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The Future of the Night Sky: Light Pollution from Satellites(aerospace.org)
6 points by sq_ 6y ago|0 comments
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by sq_ 6y ago
Super happy to see this; having more low-price desktop processor options is great for anyone looking to build a desktop. Also excited for the B550 platform; it's been a while since they updated the mid range motherboard options.
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by sq_ 6y ago
Very interested by the lineup on Gorsuch's opinion: > Gorsuch was joined in part by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh. I'm sure someone with more experience would see how it makes
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by sq_ 6y ago
Seems especially true for quantum computing. So many different, untested ways to get to the end goal, to the point where members of a group could all have perfectly valid reasoning as to why their particular method is the only one that will
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by sq_ 6y ago
From the article: > One hundred years later we have now detected the same effect in the motion of a star orbiting the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way. This observational breakthrough strengthens the evi
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by sq_ 7y ago
For all the faults our driving culture has created, there's definitely something calming for me about the whole thing (once you're outside the crush of big-city traffic). Kinda related to what the author says in the article, there
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by sq_ 7y ago
From my uninformed perspective, it's hard to disagree with this. Tesla seems to have the whole manufacturer direct thing figured out pretty well. Anecdotally, no one I know who's bought a Tesla has had a major complaint about the
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by sq_ 7y ago
> I have very little sympathy for car dealers. I helped mom buy a new CUV recently, and one dealer had it sewn up .. until they swapped the vehicle we had been talking about for a different one when we got to the "We're buying
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by sq_ 7y ago
Based on the "Results" page on the F@H site [0], they have managed to produce some reasonably useful results over the years. At first glance, it definitely seems like what they're doing could be helpful for COVID-19, as they&
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by sq_ 7y ago
The link in the Anandtech forum points to the ExtremeOverclocking leaderboards for Folding@Home, which is a Stanford project to do distributed protein folding. They're currently placing COVID-19 related projects at max priority. My und
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Multipixel Imaging/Spectroscopy of Exoplanets via Solar Gravitational Lens(nasa.gov)
2 points by sq_ 7y ago|0 comments
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by sq_ 7y ago
I absolutely love reading Derek's blog. So informative and funny at the same time. Especially his "Things I Won't Work With" section.
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by sq_ 7y ago
Am I allowed to really love them both? I feel like each has its place in branding the agency and being something that people look at and tie to exciting new exploration.
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by sq_ 7y ago
Absolutely. I had a 6s until last October, and I would definitely have considered this strongly over the 11 or 11 Pro. Getting the newer CPU in a package still roughly palm-sized would be awesome.
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by sq_ 7y ago
Definitely interesting. I'm personally happy with my more recent iPhone, but I know a ton of people who wish their 6s would last forever because of the size and the headphone jack. I think most of them would upgrade if this were availa
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by sq_ 7y ago
True, but it seems to me that he's been most successful at companies that are willing to place big bets on his team and put a lot of institutional weight behind him. His work at Apple, AMD, and Tesla all seem to point towards that conc
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by sq_ 7y ago
Saw a tweet last night saying that a question we should all ask of interviewers from now on it "how did your company respond to COVID-19?", and things like this make me think that that might really be a good idea. This terrible cr
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by sq_ 7y ago
Things like this give me so much respect for lifeguards, especially ocean lifeguards. Being a lifeguard in a pool is clearly tough enough; being in charge of a stretch of sand with people moving in and out constantly has to be absolutely
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by sq_ 7y ago
IIRC, Freesync will only ever work over DP because it relies on features that the HDMI protocol doesn't/won't ever have. Also, it's very interesting that things are so different in France with regard to display cables. I

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