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by wtallis 7mo ago
> Do you think SSD drives are replaceable for no reason? The number one reason why laptop OEMs primarily use replaceable SSDs is so that they can switch SSD vendors on a monthly basis to whoever is the lowest bidder at the moment. The nu
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by wtallis 7mo ago
That has nothing to do with running VMs.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The workarounds for IPv4 address exhaustion were a major contributing factor to today's Internet being basically unable to reliably handle traffic that isn't TCP or UDP. Protocol ossification and widespread tolerance of connection
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by wtallis 7mo ago
They haven't retired or replaced most of the models under the old naming scheme, and in many cases they're still manufacturing those models.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I'm not sure exactly what the USB specs require, but there are a lot of phones out there that only support USB 2.0 data speed but do implement the current fast charging protocols. It's absolutely a mainstream thing.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
The CPU model naming is silly, but definitely not as bad as laptop naming or monitor naming. Intel and AMD at least pick a structured naming scheme and stick with it for two or three years, and almost all of the OEMs tell you which processo
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Most startups fail. Some deserve it.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
The idea of giving spammers a second chance seems truly bizarre to me. Have you ever un-blocked an email address that you previously blacklisted for spamming you? Do you think recipients of spam from this company want to give them a second
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> A lot of the colors are arbitrary, so don't really impart information. The color may not carry any information content by itself, but it still helps distinguish between icons that use different colors.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
That might work to some extent with the DDR5 DIMMs connected to the CPUs, but is thoroughly impossible for the HBM DRAM stacks packaged with the GPUs.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
For the images seen through the microscope, the horizontal axis is the same as the horizontal axis of the video. The vertical axis of what the microscope sees is the time axis of the video: it's essentially a slit camera view of a pa
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I think it's arrogant to call this merely "arguing aesthetics" unless you can point to real usability studies that say removing color from icons does not impair their legibility and recognizability, or that reducing contrast
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by wtallis 8mo ago
No, CAV has nothing to do with encoding, and both analog and digital formats have used both CAV and CLV and hybrids of the two. The legible text seen in the microscope images happens because of the combination of LaserDisc recording a raw
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by wtallis 8mo ago
There is at least room to hope that Lemay may be able to take a more nuanced, reasonable approach. Believing that Preview.app needs to be designed with the "content is king" mindset doesn't necessarily mean believing that &qu
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by wtallis 8mo ago
And while UI controls have been becoming harder to recognize, they've also been inflating to waste more screen space. Liquid Glass is a big jump in that respect. Though the web has been afflicted much worse, because everything online i
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> But I wasn't an early user of MacOS, I don't know when this Column layout was first introduced. 1989. See the screenshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP Instead of the drawer on the side, NeXTSTE
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by wtallis 8mo ago
There are gaming laptops that come with power bricks rated for higher output than a Mac Studio's power supply. M3 Ultra levels of power dissipation are possible to handle in a laptop, but it wouldn't look much like a MacBook Pro
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> Tests can’t prevent this because for a test suite to cover all observable behavior, it would need to be more complex than the code. In which case, it wouldn’t be any easier for machine or human to understand. I don't think "c
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> Including for things like Threadripper, which is not exactly an exotic science project CPU or non-personal or non-desktop. We're talking about a CPU with a list price over $10000. Geekbench 6 is a bad test to use to assess the sui
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by wtallis 8mo ago
I'm not sure what's going on with that subtest, and the lack of scaling is certainly egregious. But we've all encountered tasks that in theory could scale much better but in practice have been implemented in a more or less se
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Geekbench 6 isn't really marketed as a one-size-fits-all benchmark. It's specifically aimed at consumer hardware. The first paragraph on geekbench.com reads: > Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures your system
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Given the username of the account you're replying to, and the implausibility of a Phoronix reader being unaware of Tom's Hardware, I think you may have been baited by a troll.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Compare to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/AmdahlsL...
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by wtallis 8mo ago
You're seriously posting to HN a link to your Slashdot post linking to your year-old blog post complaining about Geekbench 6's multi-threaded test without ever mentioning Amdahl's Law? Pretending that everything a CPU does is
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by wtallis 8mo ago
There are two ways to carry video signals over type-c: DisplayPort alt mode, and Thunderbolt. DP Alt mode can work in either direction with a passive adapter or cable: a monitor with a Type-C DP input can be driven by a graphics card with a
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> Why is there swap used when I have free memory? That data may have been evicted during a previous moment of higher memory pressure. If it hasn't been needed since, leaving it in swap probably makes more sense than preemptively pag
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by wtallis 8mo ago
It would be at least as valid a strategy to avoid collecting any unnecessary personal information about your users, so that you don't have to worry about whether the information you've amassed adds up to "internal clear and
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by wtallis 8mo ago
> if they have reason to believe users are underage The law requires "clear and convincing information", not merely "reason to believe". And since the law requires developers to rely on the provide age signal as the
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Enterprises that care about using a kernel for many years typically put their own resources into providing the level of maintenance they require (or getting it from a distro that maintains their own LTS kernels), rather than depending on up
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by wtallis 8mo ago
So you're predicting that 8GB machines will fail prematurely based on extrapolation from an extreme niche use case that doesn't remotely fit on those machines?

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