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by wtallis 8mo ago
All of those worries you list are extreme and unreasonable and ruled out by spending two minutes reading the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... The only remedies listed are: > 17
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by wtallis 8mo ago
You seem to be operating with an unreasonably weak definition of "verification". What this bill is requiring is that app stores or operating systems ask for age information . Verification would mean doing something to verify
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by wtallis 8mo ago
A majority of the news articles that won't load when using NoScript give an error message to the effect of "this application requires JavaScript". It would be nice to see all the unjustified overuse of heavy JS application fr
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> Now, you need to verify your age... on your microwave? Anyone buying or selling a microwave with an app store deserves this mess.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
The presence of such spines in open bodies of water just makes nautical routes come out particularly stupid, where the route presented calls for you to immediately go to that spine and travel along it, unnecessarily lengthening the route.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
It's trivial to look up the switch port configuration of a consumer router once you put OpenWRT on it. The most common topology is the CPU has two RGMII/XGMII or similar links to an 8-port switch chip, five more ports of the switc
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I've had the nautical navigation work fine when canoeing on rivers and streams where you're following linear features on the map. What it lacks is the ability to plot a sensible course across a polygon of open water.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
More precisely: the manufacturer's software on your consumer grade routers refuses to expose that functionality to the end user. They're almost always relying on VLANs behind the scenes to separate the WAN and LAN ports.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Even when not using client isolation, I've run into similar problems simply from having a computer connected over Ethernet instead of WiFi, and whatever broadcast method a gadget uses for discovery didn't get bridged between wir
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> To reiterate, this is absolutely a comparable machine to the Mac Mini in terms of performance. Reiterating is not the appropriate response after someone has already detailed many ways in which the performance a 5800h is not in the sa
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Thunderbolt isn't literally four PCIe lanes; Thunderbolt can encapsulate and carry PCIe traffic, and Thunderbolt controllers are typically connected with four PCIe lanes, though the amount of PCIe traffic a Thunderbolt link can carry i
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I'm not sure the problem with card readers is that it's security theater, so much as it's a really inconvenient place to put the security check so the added security is not at all worthwhile. Putting the card readers on eac
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by wtallis 8mo ago
You bought the 5800h last year , and provided last year's price paid for it. That makes the 2024 Mac mini more relevant than the models that weren't being made or sold last year. Unless you'd like to dig up what that 5800h
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Four channels of DDR4-3200 vs two channels of DDR5-6400 (four subchannels) should come out pretty close. I don't see any reason why the DDR4 configuration would be consistently faster; you might have more bank groups on DDR4, but I&#
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by wtallis 8mo ago
The blocker was that they were still charging money for new OS versions at that time. System Preferences didn't have a payment processing system, the App Store did.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Today's swiping keyboards are nothing like the original Graffiti or Graffiti 2. Those used shapes/gestures derived from the actual letter shapes, while the swiping gestures supported by the on-screen keyboards of today rely on ges
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I don't think that helps support the argument, though. Despite using a stylus-driven touchscreen, the Palm Pilot UI had a lot more in common with the desktop UIs of the 90s than with today's smartphone UIs or even today's sma
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by wtallis 8mo ago
As I recall, the PPC machines (like the Power Mac G5) never had EFI of any kind, and the early Intel Macs (including the Mac Pro) all had 32-but EFI even after the processors went 64-bit. I don't recall any of those Macs ever being sw
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I think enough of us were running dual-band networks sharing the same SSID back in the day that doing so now cannot be the entire reason for things not working.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Do certificate revocation lists need to keep including certificates that have long since expired? I don't see why root certificates need to expire as long as the certificates signed by those roots all have reasonable expiration windows
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by wtallis 8mo ago
In general, yes, but when consumer parts are spending silicon area on features they can't use, it is happening in the other direction too.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Your framing is what's backwards. NVIDIA artificially nerfed FP64 for a long time before they started making multiple specialized variants of their architectures. It's not a conspiracy theory; it's historical fact that they
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by wtallis 8mo ago
It was luck that a viable non-graphics application like deep learning existed which was well-suited to the architecture NVIDIA already had on hand. I certainly don't mean to diminish the work NVIDIA did to build their CUDA ecosystem,
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> Assume FP64 units are ~2-4x bigger. I'm pretty sure that's not a remotely fair assumption to make. We've seen architectures that can eg. do two FP32 operations or one FP64 operation with the same unit, with relatively l
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by wtallis 8mo ago
It's amazing to step back and look at how much of NVIDIA's success has come from unforeseen directions. For their original purpose of making graphics chips, the consumer vs pro divide was all about CAD support and optional OpenG
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I never got the impression that it was any kind of attempt to match iOS or "boost engagement". It's simply that the Mac App Store was brand new, and it was time to phase out DVDs as the primary distribution mechanism. They di
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I think that particular definition of "on chip" is entirely your invention. I've usually seen it broadly used for anything on-package, whether it's on-die or on a separate die within the same package. "On chip"
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Do leap seconds even matter here? Doing anything involving DNS or certificates in a way that requires clock synchronization down to the second would seem to be asking for trouble.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I don't think hardware random number generators are bullshit, but it's easy to overstate their importance. Outside of cryptography, there aren't a whole lot of cases that truly require that much care in how random numbers a
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by wtallis 8mo ago
You're still grossly overestimating the area required for AVX-512. For example, on AMD Zen4, the entire FPU has been estimated as 25% of the core+L2 area, and that's including AVX-512. If you look at the extra area required for AV

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