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811.
by yborg 8y ago
Intel is currently projecting full-year revenue for 2018 of $69.5 billion.
812.
by yborg 8y ago
Well, took a backup and decided to go for it. You don't get a choice, it converts the boot filesystem to APFS. Took about 3 hours on a very full 1.5 TB Fusion Drive, but converted successfully. We'll see how it goes.
813.
by yborg 8y ago
>for all other devices Yes, the solid state storage for which it is designed. The Fusion Drive by definition includes rotating media and compounds this problem by involving 2 devices in a common logical storage device. The APFS support f
814.
by yborg 8y ago
Is it possible to upgrade without upgrading the boot filesystem to APFS? I have a Fusion Drive, and don't have high confidence Apple got this right.
815.
by yborg 8y ago
This is the main thing that keeps me on Apple Mail. In any kind of work context it's absolutely required for me, and the other alternative mail clients mostly concentrate on being pretty, unfortunately.
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by yborg 8y ago
It's remarkable how ancient life is in general. Stromatolites have been identified in basically the oldest rocks you can find at ~3.7 Gy and this requires full-fledged bacteria. This implies that the very earliest beginnings of self-or
817.
by yborg 8y ago
This is what I have out of the box on 63b8: https://my.mixtape.moe/sjlprj.jpg - Telemetry? No thank you. https://my.mixtape.moe/sflqrh.jpg - Great! Have some extra telemetry on us! The locked toolkit.teleme
818.
by yborg 8y ago
I'm surprised at how much it's deteriorated in just 10 years if it was last open in 2008.
819.
by yborg 8y ago
If you have that kind of tech, much simpler to just alter the orbit of a 10-15 km wide asteroid and drop that on the planet.
820.
by yborg 8y ago
It's not, but it exists in 11 as well.
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by yborg 8y ago
DNA's structure was deduced from X-ray crystallography using a conventional X-ray tube, most laboratory protein crystallography doesn't require a synchrotron light source. Here's a typical unit: https://www.rigaku.
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by yborg 8y ago
Isn't that pretty much the standard in any research? It's pretty pointless to publish a bunch of data and state as your conclusion "gee, I don't know what any of that meant, lol". As long as you aren't actually
823.
by yborg 8y ago
The HN crowd are probably 5x more savvy to this sort of thing than the average user. Amazon is the Wal-Mart of e-commerce, it now has generic brand association with a large majority of consumers. So it's working for them, and it's
824.
by yborg 8y ago
That was just GS thinning out the competition.
825.
by yborg 8y ago
They'll get rid of that loophole next. Monopolies doing monopoly things.
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by yborg 8y ago
After a number of experiments with Panopticlick, the single biggest fingerprint was ... screen depth and resolution. Even after disabling most of the other main fingerprinting mechanisms, my maximized browser window on a 30" display wa
827.
by yborg 8y ago
Is there a major performance impact for having not using the session tickets? It seems odd that it's buried this deeply.
828.
by yborg 8y ago
This doesn't seem to be present on 63b2.
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by yborg 8y ago
Or it will only fail to attract those with no sense of humor, which would actually be a success.
830.
by yborg 8y ago
If your criteria for success is a large centralized for-profit monopoly, then of course Mastodon will never be successful, since that is the definition of failure in the context of the federated network. And since we have that now, you of c
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by yborg 8y ago
I suspect the long game here is eliminating user bookmarking altogether. Why would you want to use something as archaic as a saved URL, when there's a service that knows where you want to go to on the Internet better than you could eve
832.
by yborg 8y ago
No, they said they intend to remove the data entirely in the future and that you should back it up yourself if you want to keep it.
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by yborg 8y ago
Ars article suggests this isn't the first time an errant hole has been punched in a Soyuz during manufacturing. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/russian-space-chief-...
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by yborg 8y ago
As the article suggests, if you search Google for German language pages with "Sitzfleisch" and "Merkel" you will get pages of links from the last few years using the term. It could be an example of "newspaper German
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by yborg 8y ago
In most suburban communities, firefighters' main risk is obesity from sitting around the fire station eating all day. In my town of 80K people there are an average of 2-3 structure fires a year for the 120 strong fire department to dea
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by yborg 8y ago
>Public employees have thought strategically about retirement Public sector employees have unions, which thought strategically about retirement. Tech workers don't, by and large, because we are too smart to fall for the union meme a
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by yborg 8y ago
Exactly what I was thinking the last time I was on Netflix, which was a couple of weeks ago at this point and spent a good 40 minutes realizing that Netflix had now become the "vast wasteland". With delivery platforms all now fund
838.
by yborg 8y ago
Except English pronunciation, just like the pronunciation of every other human language hasn't been stable for centuries and English has so far failed to "fossilize its current orthography". And there are plenty of other lang
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by yborg 8y ago
Failed in what sense, and for whom? Some people made and are making a lot of (real) money from it (especially the thieves that have executed the numerous heists from exchanges, wallets, etc.) There is a definite ecosystem here that has play
840.
by yborg 8y ago
The difference is that Amazon is crushing local store retail everywhere it does business, which is everywhere, and spends large amounts of effort on brand management to softpedal the fact that this domination is largely thanks to its abilit

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