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by sspiff 12y ago
Passmark has, in my experience, been an excellent benchmark for predicting parallel compile times. They proved to be an almost perfectly linear predictor for instance for Android AOSP build times on various systems of mine. Haswell and now
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by sspiff 12y ago
This is brilliant. It reminds me of the old HP ScanJets, which came with SCSI commands to play musical notes[0] (someone at HP must have had too much free time on his hands ;)). Some videos of the scanners are at [1] and [2]. Another intere
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by sspiff 12y ago
This is not the real systemD repository. This is just some random guy on the internet who snagged the GitHub username "systemdaemon". Have a look here: https://github.com/systemdaemon A profile created two weeks a
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by sspiff 12y ago
As Nintendo supports Unity on the Wii U, this would have been a great project as a tutorial for indie Wii U devs. Now though, I can't see this as being acceptable for Nintendo.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Yes there is, it's called Signal[1], by the same developers. It started out as two separate products, but you can use them to chat between iOS and Android. [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-m
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by sspiff 12y ago
It depends on the client. TextSecure is an open-source XMPP/Jabber client for Android which does end-to-end encryption (OTR?), and adds contacts based on your address book automatically. It also supports adding a new contact by phone n
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by sspiff 12y ago
I'd say D-wave is at least as dubious as Mill Computing.
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by sspiff 12y ago
I've had pretty great repair service from Lenovo in January of this year, and with Acer in 2013. Both are for devices I purchased as a private consumer, not as a big contract corporate client. I've had some terrible experience wit
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by sspiff 12y ago
Like power, money is addictive. People who got their power or wealth through immoral means often don't stop once they have "enough".
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by sspiff 12y ago
> Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold? How else do you become wealthy and buy $3000 suits?
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by sspiff 12y ago
I think it's in part because 64-bit requires driver signing, and there are no funds for signing the coLinux64 driver.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Why does Microsoft still store temporary files on disk? (as opposed to a RAM-backed temporary file system as used in most other operating systems) Is there a reason for this? It just seems like it would cause clutter and garbage to pile up
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by sspiff 12y ago
Correct. Cygwin has used mintty as a default since 2011[1]. [1]: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-11/msg00040.html
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by sspiff 12y ago
This is brilliant! Much more light weight than a VM. I hope they can iron out the remaining kinks. I used coLinux many moons ago, but it hasn't been updated in any significant way lately, and still doesn't work on 64-bit Windows.
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by sspiff 12y ago
About your Acer Aspire remark: I've had some bad times with Acer in the past, and I bought a new one in January. Pretty good specs, low price, clean design, but very, very plasticky. Wouldn't call that a high quality alternative.
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by sspiff 12y ago
To ghrifter (I couldn't reply to your thread): yes it's a tax thing, and also the cost associated with the EU mandated 2 year minimal warranty programs. Electronics are generally more expensive in euros than in dollars, even thoug
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by sspiff 12y ago
While many of us routinely spend this amount of money on laptops or other hardware, the average Joe doesn't want to spend more than 600-700 euro on a laptop (which translates to up to $650 in practice). So yes, for most people, this so
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by sspiff 12y ago
Well, nice that they put a viable amount of memory in this iteration. I can't see the specs or price of this machine in my country. For anyone in the same situation, here's the price and specs left out of their landing page: $999
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by sspiff 12y ago
Google is trying to push people to cloud storage, nothing new about that.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Depends on the laptop. I have bought two laptops in the past 14 months, a $2000 ThinkPad and a $600 Acer. Both came with 4GB soldered on and a single free SODIMM. (On a different note: the ThinkPad maxes out at 8GB and the Acer at 12GB, whe
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by sspiff 12y ago
I don't see how she got what she deserved. What she did was wrong, but nothing to deserve graphic death and rape threats.
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by sspiff 12y ago
What Adria did was not OK. She could have addressed Hank and his friend, and talked to them. Tell them she overheard and it was offensive to her. Engage in discourse. Educate them about how their remarks come across. Instead, she chose to d
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by sspiff 12y ago
I actually have one on my desk, waiting to be used. Hoping to play around with OpenBSD on it.
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by sspiff 12y ago
And it handles like a brick in a vacuum. The momentum taking you of your lane in a corner at 20km/h is just ridiculous.
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by sspiff 12y ago
There is nothing weird about national standards. Everyone does it. Germany has DIN, for instance. Even tiny Belgium has the NBN. Usually, these standards are either equivalent to international standards or are only relevant in the home
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by sspiff 12y ago
Any blog post title which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. - Adapted from Betteridge's law of headlines [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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by sspiff 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this true for all popular ARM boards today? Decent CPU, low power consumption, and terrible I/O performance? I remember the PandaBoard as exceptionally bad, most are better but still pretty
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by sspiff 12y ago
Exactly - the open source kernel driver is just a gateway for the user space driver to access the hardware. The real magic is in the closed source, user space driver. I believe Linus has stopped accepting these kinds of Trojan horse drivers
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by sspiff 12y ago
It's a good question. It has more CPU power, and likely more GPU power as well, but not an order of magnitude more. They main selling point (from my point of view) is for people who want to get their hands on a dev board that has 64-bi
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by sspiff 12y ago
This wasn't completely clear to me from the get-go, but this organization and it's boards are an effort put forward by the Linaro organization. That, to me, makes the product much more relevant and reliable. I wouldn't buy a

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