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by static_noise 10y ago
I, for one, cannot keep track of which version we're currently at. It used to be that a major version was introduced with fanfare and broke things. The holy 1.0 or versions such as Python 3 and or Gnome 3. I will always remember if I&#
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by static_noise 10y ago
My understanding is that a company which fails to pay the wages is automatically liqudated (after someone triggers the official process and they still fail to pay). For employees it is actually problematic to continue working if they don&#x
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by static_noise 10y ago
Is the situation with x86 bad to begin with? Granted, I didn't read the full documentation provided online for my hardware before I powered it on. Honestly, I didn't read any documentation and it just works, kind of.
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by static_noise 10y ago
They continue to add transistors to newer processors. It is a good sign that someone keeps track of them and writes documentation on how to use all these new transistors.
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by static_noise 10y ago
In my experience no plotting software we have today is finished. The sheer infinite range of possiblities of putting data on paper makes it unlikely that this will be the case soon.
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by static_noise 10y ago
I was trying to find out where this suddenly came from and how this related to gnuplot. A few sentences from the submitter on why this is news and why we should care would be in order.
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by static_noise 10y ago
> This is based on clang --- it's not a new compiler. This is good. Apparently it improves compile speed by a factor of 2..10 for a wide use range without compromising on the output quality. For many C++ developers it will be like a
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by static_noise 10y ago
The GPU integration as such isn't a problem but they threw together two teams who had a vastly different approach. That is an organizational problem. With AMD I think that the influence of the GPU team grew too big. Now AMD has better
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by static_noise 10y ago
AMD seems to have lost their way back when they merged with ATI and integrated their GPUs into the processors. I remember that in a restructuring they switched from hand-optimizing hotspots in the CPUs to a more abstract approach using desi
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by static_noise 10y ago
It will probably beat intel in the performance/price ratio when not considering the cost of electrical power. That low difference (<10%) between turbo and sustained clock speed is a bit troubling, though. It indicates that these pro
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by static_noise 10y ago
My Phenom II X4 940 on the desktop machine is still going strong. I couldn't yet justify replacing it because it just isn't that bad yet. I think I'll put off replacing that rig for another year. Some desktop AMD processors s
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by static_noise 10y ago
Supporting multiple platforms also has the benefit that broken code more often results in observable bugs.
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by static_noise 10y ago
Are you now secure?
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by static_noise 10y ago
If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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by static_noise 10y ago
>90% of Apple customers wouldn't replace their SSD anyways and why should they? In a cloud connected world local storage doesn't matter like it used to. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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by static_noise 10y ago
Now we need a someone to drop it in an aquarium and collect the bubbles to show just how much air is in that device.
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by static_noise 10y ago
The defendants demand trial before the royal court.
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by static_noise 10y ago
Does this mean, that a single machine potentially amassed 2000 installs per year (1 per hour)? Still, 558k installs/2k installs p.a./38 licenses are still over 7 years. Something doesn't quit add up here.
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by static_noise 10y ago
Sorry, I can't provide you with any good hypothesis. I'm just looking at what is known assuming that if something is of statistical significance without an obvious cause, that there is probably something going on that we don'
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by static_noise 10y ago
The "best" depends on the context. I don't want to argue what's best for you. In the university context I've found that there is a lot of free software that works good enough or sometimes even better than commercial
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by static_noise 10y ago
The big market and financial strength is one important factor but I believe that there are quite a few other forces at work which are not so obvious.
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by static_noise 10y ago
This is why I have a strong preference for free software that is available for the dominant three operating systems. Only if free software doesn't satisfy my needs I look for nonfree software and then I first look for commercial softwa
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by static_noise 10y ago
People want to have their cake and eat it, too. The windows ecosystem is all they know and they are not ready to step outside their comfort zone to use open source alternatives. They rather pirate whatever comes along and try to patch thing
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by static_noise 10y ago
Somehow the USA manages that almost every key IT corporation has their headquarters in the states sooner or later.
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by static_noise 10y ago
> 3. Is having an upper bound on Bitcoin, to be reached sometime in the next 25 years, a "good idea"? Will this be 2040's equivalent of "640KB should be enough for anyone"? In my understanding this is a major des
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by static_noise 10y ago
The page should at least display a message like "This page requires JavaScript." and contact details when JavaScript is disabled.
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by static_noise 10y ago
I, too, miss the good old days of splitting bytes into nibbles. Sometimes I program a microcontroller just to feel the walls moving in. Software today is designed the way it is because developer time matters more than hardware specs. Gettin
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by static_noise 10y ago
> 99.9%+ of criticism of the new MBP has been of the form "Without ever interacting with one, I can tell it is unsuitable for me and therefore is unsuitable for anyone, anywhere, in any professional purpose, ever". While this s
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by static_noise 10y ago
If you still feel the bias, you're not _really_ an Apple customer.
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by static_noise 10y ago
That article is a typical example of "If it suits me, it must suit everybody." and your post is a good example for the no-true-Scotsman-fallacy of "Noone who _really_ used it dislikes it." All I really know about this is

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