rocketChair

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by rocketChair 5y ago
Love Spotify myself. They've done what none of the competitors have managed in my opinion. Good free-tier, amazing premium service and price, an unbelievably large collection of artists and music, strong privacy protection without the
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Thank god for that.
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Your wording here clearly shows you have something against Europe and possibly Europeans. I won't be reading any of your comments from here on.
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by rocketChair 5y ago
I disagree, an important difference is this: The U.S. has been proven definitely guilty of all accusations of espionage, sabotage, backdoors etc., while there have never been any clear proof presented for the Chinese counterparts -- only ac
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Good read, and it hints at just how absolutely nuts the situation is be today with almost everyone in the world having cellphones, tablets, laptops and what else running predominantly American-designed software and hardware. Nothing is priv
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by rocketChair 5y ago
I trust anything made by European companies, NXP, Philips, ST, Siemens etc., anything from Japan, South Korea, and most of the Taiwanese and Chinese companies. Unfortunately, with some rare exception, they're not allowed to make x86-co
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by rocketChair 5y ago
It's getting increasingly difficult to trust American-designed chips and systems for me at this point... and I can't help but feeling that people paid way, way too little attention to everything we learned from the NSA and CIA lea
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by rocketChair 5y ago
What I'm getting at is that Jeff Bezos didn't plan for the bridge to be dismantled, he was probably not even aware of it, and him buying a big boat is besides Amazon's exploitation of workers, tax-avoidance and sucking money
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Am I reading this right, you bought a €730 machine just to investigate why 20 lines of code occasionally runs slow?
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Aligned branch and jump targets are just for the sake of maximising instruction cache hit-rate. It will always remain a micro-optimisation and will not make a difference in this and most other cases.
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by rocketChair 5y ago
There are reasons to hate Jeff Bezos and the super-rich, but him buying a big boat from a Dutch company isn't really one of them. Would you rather he bought the boat from a company in another country? Remember, buying luxury yacths is
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Sanctions against countries are sanctions against populations. It doesn't work.
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by rocketChair 5y ago
Apple, and two other companies, are now taking out rent for computing. That's not how the world should work. I like some of their products, but these companies have to be curtailed.
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by rocketChair 5y ago
How do we know it's been circulating for decades, but only discover it just now? Does anyone know how many billions this new amazing treatment will earn Big Pharma?