paulmd

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by paulmd 2y ago
That’s not the case that’s normally referenced, why don’t you cite the 1991 case while you’re at it ;)
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by paulmd 2y ago
PS: they did release technical details once the mitigations had been released etc. And these were released to tech researchers earlier, and proof of concepts were shown etc. https://youtu.be/QuqefIZrRWc?t=1005 And, like, th
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by paulmd 2y ago
the radio literally has a squelch knob on it, and turning the knob is required if you want to not hear static constantly or if you want to hear your traffic when they call you, so if you somehow manage to own a radio without knowing what sq
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by paulmd 2y ago
Wasn’t that judgement recently vacated for failing to prove the case, though?
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by paulmd 2y ago
not only are they not going to do that, Sony’s android phones delete the firmware if you unlock the bootloader
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by paulmd 2y ago
it's funny that they have to debunk the "root is root, why would AMD patch this" that goes around every time there's a serious issue that allows guest-root escape from virtualized containers. the same thing happened with
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by paulmd 2y ago
OK? Well, the iphone mini series did not sell fine, objectively so. It was a bad seller even with the bump from the novelty of apple releasing a mini, and it declined even further the next generation. Probably at minimum it's not wo
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by paulmd 2y ago
"squelch codes" probably conveys the meaning more correctly. people understand the idiom that just because your radio has squelch set (too high, perhaps) that it doesn't mean someone else can't hear it. otherwise, CTCSS
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by paulmd 2y ago
> To bring this point home, for years there was hubub in the industry that Nintendo would bring out some kind of Switch Pro with 4k output and faster guts, rumors swirled around and around until Nintendo finally brought out? The Switch L
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by paulmd 2y ago
I don't disagree, but the market placement of the iphone has nothing to do with the continued poor sales of the mini series every time it's been tried. And the mini ran for multiple generations and none of them sold well. Much lik
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by paulmd 2y ago
are you seriously suggesting that sony put used pc hardware in their consoles? that's terrible even as a point of comparison.
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Only because they are underpowered with old hardware. yes, adversity breeds character. did Star Wars get better when Lucas got unlimited money and green screens? Having hardware limitations forced devs to scope their vision appropriate
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by paulmd 2y ago
Microsoft was upfront that they didn’t think a mid-gen price cut was in the cards, so here’s the series s, it’s what we can do and we’ll do it right now, etc. They were right and not only have prices not really come down, but in some ways t
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by paulmd 2y ago
No. Mini did notably terrible across every generation it's been tried. https://www.slashgear.com/1234403/apples-decision-to-cancel-...
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by paulmd 2y ago
iphone 8 plus, bought refurb in early 2019. replaced the battery once (and got a replacement since the battery wouldn't pair). it's getting to be time. usb-c is a big feature increment for me, and I need to finish the leap away
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by paulmd 2y ago
swapping on an m4 with a midrange pcie 4.0 SSD is quite different from swapping on a celeron with a low-end SATA SSD or spinning rust, plus linux/unix/macos is generally much better with swapping sensibly than windows. believe it
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by paulmd 2y ago
> When a battery goes bad, I toss it in the recycle bucket, and buy a new one. I currently have 10 of them and they're on rotation. not to pick on you but it’s baffling the way some people clothe themselves in right to repair and th
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by paulmd 2y ago
you literally make an appointment on the website and check in and then walk to the back of the store and drop your phone off
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by paulmd 2y ago
I’ve never seen a literal “this product sucks because I refuse to learn about it” given as an explicit argument before, usually it’s just implicit, thank you for this
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by paulmd 2y ago
A single 3090 won’t even fit the model. OP is talking about running a 405B model, it needs close to 200gb of memory just to open it which is why we’re talking about mac studio and it’s 192gb unified memory. This is exactly like when the AMD
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by paulmd 2y ago
you can calculate the area of the tensor and raytracing units by measuring+comparing die sizes between the nearest 20-series and 16-series chips. Contrary to the assumptions a lot of people made from the cartoon diagrams, it's actuall
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by paulmd 2y ago
no need to apologize, I was just using a windstar as an example of a generic 90s minivan, not as some super specific example. :) that's an interesting comparison tool! but yeah my point is more related to size and capacity than things
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by paulmd 2y ago
flippant tone aside, this is a thing that actually happened! not just after they release, but they would definitely show "abridged" versions of movies on daytime TV, with a little bit trimmed off to open up some space for commerci
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by paulmd 2y ago
There’s lots of vehicles that can’t get on a freeway. There’s a sign on every freeway onramp. That’s something we literally already handle so that’s not the problem. If that were the case they would be classed as Neighborhood Vehicles and s
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by paulmd 2y ago
“if you don’t like trucks having 8-foot-tall grilles maybe you should just go back to living in the woods!” what a thought-provoking and non-inflammatory prompt you provided us
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by paulmd 2y ago
Well, those are flat-out illegal here and importing them is made illegal except under a narrow set of circumstances so that the auto industry doesn’t have to compete.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Both of those are SUV-class vehicles and a minivan is pretty much the quintessential SUV. Other than styling there really isn’t a difference between a traverse and a windstar or whatever.
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by paulmd 2y ago
> In die area, in TDP, in wafer consumption, it’s just not a big cost. And yet we live in a world where an AI 370 processor has less than 1/4 of the single-threaded perf/w of a “totally equivalent” M3 Max processor. One of thos
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by paulmd 2y ago
It’s entered the public consciousness that these keys exist but they aren’t nearly as unlimited as you think. > Default Release (or standard release): This is the most common type of key on Steam, which is usually tied to a Steam store o
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by paulmd 2y ago
Steam isn’t voluntary on PC, since that’s where the users are. And that’s the same dilemma as with any of the other gatekeepers like MS or Sony or Apple. Right now sure, you can choose not to play ball with any one of them… but if you want

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