liamwestray

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by liamwestray 2y ago
Preach!
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by liamwestray 2y ago
To be actually fair, Mac Preferences has worked fine for decades. Control panel has sucked since windows 2.0
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by liamwestray 2y ago
The software has languished severely. It's been incredibly downhill since Snow Leopard (2009).
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by liamwestray 3y ago
None of those things have a material effect on anyone by JP Morgan. The “service” Carta is selling here is your company to other people. Given 99% of private companies have specific limitations on not being able to do this with a company’s
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by liamwestray 3y ago
From this data it seems the Year of the Unix desktop is 2023 with macOS at 21.38%...
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I mean sure. But Gisele's ads were specifically calling her an "ESG Advisor" to FTX. If you're going to tell me you're any kind of "governance" advisor to a company that defrauded people to the tune of bi
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Otellini is far more responsible for the colossal screw up in culture and products at Intel than anyone else.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Other than multiple times doing things largely considered impossible as a tech entrepreneur? There’s literally no one who has done more for decarbonization and reliance on fossil fuels in the world. God I wish he’d shut up and get off twitt
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by liamwestray 4y ago
You don't seem to understand the basic concepts of free speech, securities laws, or what Elon Musk is actually doing. Your question is irrelevant. Accusing me of being intentionally stupid isn't helping your argument. We have a f
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by liamwestray 4y ago
It’s not a government-run system, so it’s irrelevant. A guy who got a court-ordered twitter-sitter should probably not be in charge of Twitter as he doesn’t seem to understand what protected speech is. You don’t get to say whatever you want
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by liamwestray 4y ago
It would be so nice if Apple reverted whatever regression they introduced in their Bluetooth stack 2 OS releases ago. My AirPods don’t connect correctly about 20% of the time (at minimum) and switch connections for absolutely no reason to m
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by liamwestray 4y ago
You’re an engineer. And engineering programs will continue to use engineering focused tools. The goals of engineering program projects are vastly different than other areas of academia. Developing the tool is the project for engineering.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
A lot of the sub 50 GFLOP stuff were low-end Laptop chips with regular M-suffixes. These are mobile Ivybridge chips, they were not snappy, and as late as 2013 release dates for sub 50 GFLOPs.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Literally can't add anything to this. You nailed it. I suspect MicroPython is going to do the same thing to Arduino/C as Python just did here in Academia as well.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Energy per transaction is the fundamental metric of efficiency in market systems. Literally every single product and service boils down an exchange of currency for some embodied (goods, services) or pure energy (electricity). Banking servic
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Yeah, but you probably wouldn't buy a computer under $600 to begin with though, either, right? You need at least 8gb of ram, and more than an 128gb of storage (i.e. eMMC and SDcards). I very much doubt any sub $250 computer could reall
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by liamwestray 4y ago
That's not a desktop. That was on sale at Christmas. That's the same price and performance as an M1 MacBook Air (slightly less actually under ideal circumstances). It gets 75% the battery life of the M1 MacBook Air. That has the s
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I've seen "claims" the ESP32 can do 0.1 mA in sleep, but haven't seen anyone actually implement that in a functional application. My use case is different though, I will be adding an NRF9160 for connectivity so ESP32-bas
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I was looking at this: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr... Kinda just went with the bottom half of the 2010-2014 era chips.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I've lived in Spain and Italy as well as African and Middle Eastern Countries. Your personal experience is not the average or median one.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I think you are really overestimating what is available to consumers for under $1000 Euro/USD. This is what is typically available for under $800 Euro for desktops in Europe: https://www.worten.pt/informatica-e-acessori
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by liamwestray 4y ago
That era of I3-i7 was 20-150 Gflops. Given the Pi is a low-cost device, it's not terrible unreasonable to at least compare it to the 20-50 Gflop CPUs of that period. But it's also not exactly fair as the HW Decode for video really
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by liamwestray 4y ago
HW accelerated Youtube already works out of the box on Raspberry Pi OS. It is less complicated to setup a Raspberry Pi than install Windows 11. Your average Walmart buyers don't even run antivirus, setup Google/Apply/Samsung
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by liamwestray 4y ago
You're young and just starting out, and its not easy coming out of CoViD and all the other stuff that's going on. But your arguments don't match actual data, your situation is an outlier as of 2022. https://ec.euro
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Minimum wage in Portugal is $740 Euro per month. That's nowhere near the median or average.
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Wasn't aware Best Buy was in Portugal. Also, It's half a months Average Salary in Portugal. Edit: https://themacindex.com/variants/MGNR3/mac-mini-m1-256gb?cur...
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Doing 3 commands on Raspberry Pi OS to update the OS to the latest version and install a single program is not tinkering. sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0 There's no configuration to edit/chan
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Regardless, Mac minis go on sale for under $600 and provide probably the best consumer computing experience in the world for the least amount of money. The guy saying he can't go into Best Buy and buy a consumer ARM machine has ignored
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by liamwestray 4y ago
I've done it on Raspberry Pi OS. Edit: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-widevine
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by liamwestray 4y ago
Those are benefits in failed states and under despotic regimes. There's no real benefit in stable open-market systems. Crypto benefits privileged people under bad regimes, the same ones who are necessary to actually overthrow despots.

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