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by wang_li 5y ago
Or another way to consider it is my 2021 era $399 Jetson Xavier NX dev kit is a better computer in every way an Onyx. Other than my Jetson Nano only having 4 GB of RAM, it's also a more capable computer than an Onyx. Hooray for Moore&#
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by wang_li 5y ago
The about dialog says copyright -2015. Apple was releasing patches/versions of the Apple IIgs OS until 2015?
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by wang_li 5y ago
Employee calls Nvidia and reports it, receives fat reward.
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by wang_li 5y ago
>FreeBSD does not excel on the server side. I don't know any companies that even use it and I spent the last decade consulting with hundreds of companies. Examples come to mind: Whatsapp and Hotmail used to use it before being acqui
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by wang_li 5y ago
As a Franklin Ace 1000 owner (Apple Clone) I can say that there were no commands for sounds and the graphics were rudimentary, draw a point or draw a line or draw a pretty slow vector shape.
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by wang_li 5y ago
I'm not them, but I think they probably are referring to the fact that sitting on your ass eating cheetos for a year also takes a serious toll on heart health.
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by wang_li 5y ago
With a one button mouse, no less.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Used to boot Linux from a 1.2 MB 5 1/4" floppy with the kernel, network drivers, shell, and X Windows server on an i386 with 8 MB RAM. Made for a perfectly fine X terminal.
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by wang_li 5y ago
> Delta is a private company looking to impose even harsher blanket bans arbitrarily. Did you click through the link? Where it uses the word "convicted" in both the headline and the first paragraph? There's nothing arbitra
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by wang_li 5y ago
And someone gets sued for tortuous interference and defamation.
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by wang_li 5y ago
The headline of the linked article is literally: >Delta CEO wants U.S. to put convicted unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list And the first paragraph says: >Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) wants the U.S. government to place passengers
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by wang_li 5y ago
It was all over the tech news space back in November that a woman was alerted to one that was moving with her. Someone attached it to her car. And again in January. https://www.wbrc.com/2021/11/18/woman-disco
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by wang_li 5y ago
>And when some component of the server fails, your app is unavailable until you can repair it. So you need another server for redundancy. And a load balancer. And a UPS. And a second internet connection. Most applications don't actu
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by wang_li 5y ago
Or you'd hire an MSP. Having a full time employee is a greater level of service than anyone here is getting from a cloud provider. Lots of folks can get by with an admin who stops in once or twice a week, or remotes in and takes care o
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by wang_li 5y ago
When fact checkers “add context” to a statement it exposes that the fact checking isn’t about correctness or truth, but rather about narrative control. Which means it’s biased and one begins to wonder what context they’re leaving out of all
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by wang_li 5y ago
The poor are not getting poorer and the middle class is becoming rich. In the US anyway. Fundamentally the problem is that people think that someone having more money than then is some kind of ethical issue. Not to mention something like 10
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by wang_li 5y ago
Backups should be able to be merged with data on the phone. The use case is I want to travel overseas but I don't want various border control entities to make copies of my phone contents, so I back it up and reset the phone to factory
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by wang_li 5y ago
It definitely doesn’t happen on the client. If it did then the server’s password file would effectively be plaintext.
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by wang_li 5y ago
This is a type of common HN post. Where the person posting is going over well known knowledge. Others that are similar are "I wrote a compiler." and "I made a emulator." Usually they are subsets of the problem space and
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by wang_li 5y ago
Quake 3 doesn’t have a software renderer. It requires OpenGL.
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by wang_li 5y ago
It depends deeply on what version of doom the poster is talking about. Dhewm3 (source port of Doom 3) runs at 7 FPS on my RPi 4. The original Doom should run perfectly fine. The 2016 version of Doom is unlikely to run with any degree of pla
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by wang_li 5y ago
>There needs to be a dependency on the index for duff's device to work right? For it to work "right" the work inside the loop has to be quite minor. The point being that it saves on cpu cycles by reducing the number of tim
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by wang_li 5y ago
At a previous job they sent everyone in the IT department to cause map training to improve root causes analysis. Mainly to get away from blame assigning.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Some time ago I bought an EVGA 560 Ti and they threw in a 10 year extended warranty. A couple years in it failed and they replaced it with a 660 Ti. About a year later that failed and they replaced it with a 960 Ti. I appreciate their warra
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by wang_li 5y ago
It's also true about cars, homes, power tools, computers, and etc. Newer variants of these items are more efficient and it's just dumb to try to use things forever without updating them.
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by wang_li 5y ago
>A lot of electrical stuff like radios and TVs are still useful after 20 years. Like my incandescent light bulbs? Plenty of things should not be kept around for twenty years simply because their replacements are better for the environmen
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by wang_li 5y ago
Did you consider that that text is about the video and not about the feature in their cars as sold to the public?
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by wang_li 5y ago
It's the home of the Seattle Krakens. We call it the Krakhaus.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Well, this instance of Dune is two movies. Part two is due in October 2023.
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by wang_li 5y ago
They give a shit if you expect full pay for 7/8th of the work. And they give a shit if you only do 7/8ths as much as before you had a kid.

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