cmatthias

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by cmatthias 4y ago
The original M1 (I assume that's what GP meant by "at launch") uses LPDDR4x DRAM modules, the same as many x86 laptops that have soldered RAM. You can literally look up the part numbers based on the photos of the M1 CPU packa
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by cmatthias 4y ago
> I don't think modern Apple Photos is built to handle slow spinning rust very well. Apple's software is garbage so I'm sure you're correct, but modern hard drives can do several hundred MB/s of throughput. How i
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Why would you not want an extra 8GB? The point is that it's dirt cheap to add, and Apple's refusal to do so is an insult to its customers.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
This is whataboutism, but yes, the Surface Go 2 base model has 4GB of RAM. It's shameful, but that laptop is also half the price of the cheapest Mac laptop, and doesn't absolve either company of blame for ridiculously high memory
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Did you intend to reply to a different comment? The speed of the memory has no bearing on the capacity, obviously, so I'm not sure how this is relevant to what I said.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
I don't think this is correct. https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/understanding-apples-un... is an article which describes the architecture. It's not on-die, it's next to the CPU, basically as close as
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Citation needed for your claims, please. My understanding is that at least for the lower-end machines, there are no additional DRAM chips in the 8GB vs. 16GB machines, they just use chips that have double the density, so the power consumpti
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Yes, and? Apple's wholesale RAM cost is likely even lower than a computer with socketed RAM, due to economies of scale and fewer parts overall (RAM soldered directly vs. RAM on a separate PCB, plus a socket soldered to the main board).
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Because the alternative is to add literally a few dollars to the bill of materials for the machine, double the memory, and give everyone a better experience. This also means the machine will last longer and likely not end up in a landfill a
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by cmatthias 4y ago
8GB of general-purpose RAM, regardless of form factor, is dirt cheap. In fact, not having the sockets might make it cheaper than socketed RAM in volume, since there are fewer parts in total.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Can you define "sweet spot" in this case? Usually I see that term used when the thing being considered is a pricey upgrade, and you need to strike a compromise between price and performance. In this case, we're talking about
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Almost certainly. The Thunderbolt spec requires any port labeled "Thunderbolt 4" to support dual 4k/60hz displays. You'll note that, for example, on the Macbook Air (both M1 and M2 versions), Apple labels the ports &quot
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by cmatthias 4y ago
I think it's worth taking a step back here to say that IMHO regardless of whether the OP's previous comments justify his expulsion from the issue tracker, having the only other available "DDoS opt-out" mechanism be to em
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by cmatthias 4y ago
This is true but irrelevant to the parent's question -- in the article, it's made clear that Google's requests are happening over HTTP, which is the most obvious reason why robots.txt should be respected.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
After reading this and your response to a sibling comment I wholeheartedly disagree with you on both the specific definition of the word crawler and what the "main purpose" of robots.txt is, but glad we can agree that Google shoul
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by cmatthias 4y ago
I'm taking the OP at his word here, but he specifically claims that the proxy service making these requests will also make requests independent of a `go get` or other user-initiated action, sometimes to the tune of a dozen repos at onc
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Read the OP; it's obvious based on the references to robots.txt, the User-Agent header, returning a 429 response, etc, that most (all?) of Google's requests are doing git clones over http(s).
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Why does the Go team and/or Google think that it's acceptable to not respect robots.txt and instead DDoS git repositories by default, unless they get put on a list of "special case[s] to disable background refreshes"? Wh
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Wow, what an absolute moron. If this is how he runs his other companies, it’s amazing anyone stays for more than a month.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
> I still think Elon is a smart guy. > Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. Given his behavior and the results over the last ~month or however long he&
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Agreed re: Tesla, but heads up that there are very few Twitter shareholders now, since, you know, Musk bought the whole company.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Got a citation for those claims? As far as I’m aware, journalists were only referencing ElonJet, which, as OP established, is only re-publishing already public information. Despite this, even if you want to somehow argue that it’s against t
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Mastodon will not die in the same way Napster did; it’s decentralized and there’s no way it can be completely shut down since anyone can run an instance.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
This is great info, thank you! I agree that it’s strange that Finney wouldn’t have posted this message to the blockchain. Unfortunately I think most people superficially familiar with bitcoin don’t understand cryptography deeply enough to r
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I didn’t explain myself well at all, but what I was getting at was that Shkreli claims the sig “decrypts to” the message given, when it does nothing of the sort.
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by cmatthias 4y ago
I realize not all signatures are on the chain, that’s obvious if you know what a signature is. That’s why I’m asking whether it appears on the chain. :) If it appears somewhere associated with that transaction, that’s pretty strong evidence
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Unless I'm grossly mistaken, it seems Shkreli doesn't understand the basics of cryptography because he's using incorrect terminology here. The signature isn't encrypted at all, it's just a piece of data (a hash, if
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by cmatthias 4y ago
I know next to nothing about the internals of bitcoin, but based on a high-level understanding of public key cryptography: - 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 is the wallet address but can also be thought of as a public key. The owner of t
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by cmatthias 4y ago
Can someone who knows more than me about the internals of bitcoin help me understand: 1) Is there a place on a blockchain explorer somewhere where I could find the signature that Shkreli has posted? I tried looking up the wallet address and
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by cmatthias 4y ago
You can verify yourself here: https://reinproject.org/bitcoin-signature-tool/ Use the Bitcoin-QT tab, and don't include the "---- BEGIN" and "---- END" comment lines. It checks out.

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