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by zrm 5y ago
Credit where credit is due. Let this be a trend.
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by zrm 5y ago
> However, most users who aren't willing to become technically savvy will have a better time with windows. Here's what I've observed on this one. If you put a Linux machine in front of, say, a 15 year old, they immediately
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by zrm 5y ago
Can somebody explain what the purpose of hibernate is in modern day? I get how it was useful in 1995 when ACPI didn't exist. But now it's significantly slower to resume from than S3 suspend, which uses <1 watt, and it wears out
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by zrm 5y ago
There is a known solution to this. You version the protocol. New endpoints talk to each other with the new version, old endpoints that only understand the old version use that. After a period of time there are few enough people who still ha
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by zrm 5y ago
That position isn't fatalistic. The barriers to a political solution leave open the potential for a technical one, which is just what you would expect from a hacker. Alright, lads, we can't rely on the government for this one, ho
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by zrm 5y ago
Dumping operates by selling below cost. If you sell below cost and your competitors don't, nobody buys from them but they still have to pay rent and the salaries of their factory workers if they want to maintain the ability to resume p
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by zrm 5y ago
> Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end... Keep in mind
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by zrm 5y ago
This is what I don't get about high performance laptops. Low end Ryzen 3 laptops have four cores, single thread performance within a few percent of the fastest processors in existence and will do something like render a web page at a s
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by zrm 5y ago
Cars can typically stop quite a bit faster than they can accelerate. This is especially true for two wheel drive cars because two wheel drive cars still have four wheel brakes. To brake as fast as the traction limit on the tires, which is w
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by zrm 5y ago
The problem is you need the extra capacity on the track because you use it more there. In normal driving you accelerate to highway speeds and then coast, or you're in city traffic and benefit from regenerative braking. On a track, you
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by zrm 5y ago
Modern P2P networks already prefer closer peers. This also happens naturally because closer peers generally have fewer bottlenecks between them, so if you connect to many random peers, the ones that are e.g. on your LAN will intrinsically e
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by zrm 5y ago
Modern UDP-based protocols handle this in two ways. First, prefer to make responses no larger than the request, so there is no amplification. Second, if the response has to be larger than the request, send the requestor an address-specific
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by zrm 5y ago
> Decentralised systems are always more inefficient. Decentralized systems are always more efficient . Suppose you have something a hundred million people want. It's on one server. The server is in Virginia. If a million of the peo
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by zrm 5y ago
Volume discounts come about because the true cost of a product has both fixed and variable components. If it costs a given amount to have a checkout clerk ring up your order, that amount doesn't change based on whether you buy a case o
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by zrm 5y ago
The unusual thing about Steam is that their high fees discourage developers from using it. If they charged 3% then everyone would use it, there would be a million games there and being in the store wouldn't cause you to stand out at al
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by zrm 5y ago
Not only that, "we charge 10% to the big monster and 30% to the little guy" is terrible PR against the amount of money they would generate from just the little guy. It's so bad that by that point they might as well just cha
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by zrm 5y ago
Also, the reason most laptops run hot is that most modern high performance processors are thermally limited. It means the cooling is never "sufficient" because if you make the cooling better then you get a faster processor instead
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by zrm 5y ago
This is also going to be a big Charlie Foxtrot with today's equipment and mobile apps and web portals. It doesn't matter that you have contemporary hardware to run it on, the developer is gone, their servers are gone, and the app
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by zrm 5y ago
> You might need to pull the hard drive and connect it to a somewhat newer system in order to boot from clonezilla and take the image. Something from the early 2000s with an ATA/33 controller on it should be backwards compatible to
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by zrm 5y ago
This exactly. The title here is Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling, but number recycling isn't the problem. It's like pointing the finger at IP address recycling. That's not it. It's that people are using SMS
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by zrm 5y ago
Can somebody explain why scalpers are a thing here? Why aren't the original vendors just raising prices to what the scalpers are charging, i.e. the market clearing price? If it's what's going to happen regardless then better
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by zrm 5y ago
A little bit Poe's Law there, but I'll assume you're serious and point out the problem. Machine learning has non-trivial false positives. We don't need firewalls launching denial of service attacks on legitimate traffic
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by zrm 5y ago
Bob isn't a service provider, Bob is the other party Alice wants to communicate with. The entity you're referring to is called Facebook, not Bob. Nothing about the internet requires there to be an intermediary with the plaintext
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by zrm 5y ago
It's not really a privacy violation for Bob to knowingly and willingly disclose something to Eve. And then can't Alice use Tor or similar?
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by zrm 5y ago
The privacy violation is Bob being careless and losing the message to Eve. That isn't caused by the internet, it's caused by Bob. When Eve has the message, privacy is already lost. Preventing Eve from spreading it around is techno
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by zrm 5y ago
Censorship is Alice wants to send a message to Bob through Eve and Eve throws it away. Solution: Don't send the message through Eve, send it through Carol, who doesn't throw it away. Interprets censorship as damage and routes arou
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by zrm 6y ago
Since the Unix Epoch where? Isn't being on another planet going to have to deal with the relativistic passage of time?
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by zrm 6y ago
What anybody wants is the other way around though. If you want to run Windows 95 on modern hardware you run it in a VM; running it on bare metal isn't that interesting. And the current versions of various Linux distributions do run o
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by zrm 6y ago
> Rather than buying new-old-stock CPUs, why not just buy all the CPUs the long-term program will ever need when they're still cheap, and stockpile them? You might not know how many you need. Suppose one of your data centers burns d
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by zrm 6y ago
It's kind of unfortunate how the "easy" works. For a programmer sitting in front of a desktop that already has Linux on it, following those instructions would take less than five minutes. Easy. For a typical Android user, the

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