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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Had they asked about the intricacies of C Presumably it wasn’t Ballmer who was asking questions like that? If he was running the “business”, sales etc. part of the company. All of the things you listed would have been less than worthle
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> "I don't know" Which is exactly the same as “no” in this situation. If you were capable of proving the opposite I assume he would have been willing to hear you out. > not be able to give you the answer to this on the
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Blaming denser memory modules for climate change is sillier than the plastic straw or bag bans (instead of going after something that has a real impact). Also do you really think that higher resolutions, memory density etc. somehow linearly
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iPhones generally have less RAM/Memory than Androids so that should offset it? > can use the Web perfectly for most of the sites I am interesting on a 640x360 phone I can’t. I could’ve 10 years ago but being forced to switch back wo
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Is making a 256 GB storage model much more wasteful than 128GB.
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> All the bells and whistles of that UI come at a large cost - memory. I’m not sure that’s true. If they tried they could have made an app with loads of bells and whistles that’s 10x smaller (unless we’re talking about a lot of media con
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> iPhones support numerous photo upload/sync/remote storage solutions That really doesn’t help you with apps though…
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> A light Beer is actually one of the very safest It doesn’t have much in common with premodern/medieval light table beer.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> important reason for that was it was generally safer to drink than water. Any evidence besides conjecture to back this up?
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> which are not limited in speed, as a long-term result - more serious incidents. In the EU they are. Of course 25 km/h is significantly higher than the speeds you mentioned
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The claim is what exactly? That people drank both water and various alcoholic beverages. Well that’s certainly an interesting hypothesis.. Weak unfiltered beer will go bad on a couple of days even if you keep it in a fridge if it’s not prop
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Is it really a theory rather than a hypothesis or mere speculation?
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It has nothing to do with alcohol though. Unfiltered and unpasteurized weak beer will go bad in a few days even if you have a fridge. It was boiling that kills the bacteria and people knew that it improved the “quality” of water that wasn’t
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Switching to TSMC might be a part of it. > To me the main contributing factors to power efficiency are the architecture Also is this really true?
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> both the UK since the end of the English Civil War (1646) Only if we exclude Ireland and the Scottish Highlands which were both part of the UK. Being on an island and mostly free from foreign threats (compared to countries continental
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Only if we restrict it to England/Lowland-Scotland specifically and not the occupied territories in Ireland and the Scottish highlands. But even there it was in large part only the case because the Hanoverian regime was highly effectiv
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> end of the reconstruction period To be fair civil rights and relative racial equality was imposed by an (effectively) foreign army of occupation. That army leaving is what led to Jim Crow, there was hardly any meaningful bottom-top soc
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People knew that boiling water “improved” the quality of water for thousands of years. Regardless there is plenty of evidence that medieval people drank plenty pf water. Why do some people feel so strongly about this myth?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Do you think distilled alcohol can be used as an alternative hydration source instead of water? Might I ask have you ever tried it? > Drinking alcohol was seen as a move that would improve your health, including as literal medicine Even