icecube123

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by icecube123 7mo ago
I surprised more US folks dont visit Canada, its amazing, much safer, and cheaper for them because of the exchange difference. Im guessing they see prices in CAD ($), and think its more expensive, but not realizing that $1 of theirs buys $1
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by icecube123 9mo ago
Its exactly this. Choosing a font that makes things easier for disabled people, and those with limited sight is far too “woke” for 2025.
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by icecube123 9mo ago
You are correct. Microsoft invested significantly to create a modern properly designed font that is easy to read on a variety of screens, prints clearly and consistently, scales well, and can do italics, bold, etc well. I think this came ou
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by icecube123 10mo ago
Yea netflix will ship a server to an ISP (Cox, comcast, starlink, rogers, telus etc) so the customers of that ISP can access that server directly. It improves performance for those users and reduces the load on the ISP’s backbone/trans
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by icecube123 10mo ago
Yea, I always laugh when folks talk about how expensive they claim bandwidth is for companies. Large “internet” companies are just paying a small monthly cost for transit at an IX. They arent paying $xx/gig ($1/gig) like the avera
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by icecube123 2y ago
Yea ive been thinking about this for a few years. The Mx series’s chip would sell into data centers like crazy if apple went after that market. Especially if they created a server tuned chip. It could probably be their 2nd biggest product l
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by icecube123 2y ago
Isnt one of the ways of solving the problem using all the tools at your disposal? If at the end of the day, isnt having working code the fundamental goal? I guess you could argue that the code needs to be efficient, stable, and secure. But
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by icecube123 2y ago
Ive always thought they might have a method to ignore the wake work if theres a specific frequency sent at the same time. I’ve noticed that there are sometimes TV commercials that have the “alexa” or “hey google” wake words, but they do not
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by icecube123 2y ago
I already have a TOTP app on my phone for all my other security (I have like 15 MFA codes), so adding an extra code isnt really a problem for me. P lus I'd much rather have just an extra code than carry a 2nd phone. Plus for me, a 2nd
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by icecube123 4y ago
The podcast is great. Provides great information and is more than happy to provide corrections when some calls him on it. Takes a very scientific approach to issues.
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by icecube123 4y ago
Hes had a few testimonials that say its helped SSDs but only run it at level 2, (read only), as level 4 (read write) will wear a disk prematurely.
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by icecube123 4y ago
Thats over 20 years old. Its not worth mentioning in this discussion. He only sells one product, Spin-Rite which actually works pretty well for its purpose, tho it’s becoming less important as we move more towards SSD. It sounds like you’re
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by icecube123 5y ago
Or CYA. Management is experts at "Covering Your Ass".