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by slimginz 8mo ago
lol not AI but yeah that’s fair. Clickbait was probably too harsh to compare them too.
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by slimginz 8mo ago
It’s The Register. I love them but sometimes they go a bit too far with their inflammatory remarks in order to get clicks. In this case it seems like it worked based on the number of HN comments about it.
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by slimginz 1y ago
IIRC There was a Jim Keller interview a few years ago where he said basically the same thing (I think it was from right around when he joined Tenstorrent?). The ISA itself doesn't matter, it's just instructions. The way the chip i
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by slimginz 2y ago
Is there even a way to know at this point?
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by slimginz 2y ago
The dev actually went on Twitter[1] to say this currently breaks the extension and they disabled submissions from users with embedded ads enabled [1] https://twitter.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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by slimginz 3y ago
Probably just an autocorrect slip
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Apple's iPhone and Watch Product Design Chief to Leave in Shake-Up(bloomberg.com)
10 points by slimginz 3y ago|7 comments
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by slimginz 3y ago
Not every time. In my current place the cable is stapled directly to the studs so it would require gutting basically everything to replace all of it. Luckily most of the runs go to places that make sense but I’ll never be able to upgrade fr
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by slimginz 3y ago
Oh I didn’t realize. Internally we use `hg` commands for everything so I guess it’s just the internal version that supports mercurial
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by slimginz 3y ago
Yup! In fact Meta’s implementation is open sourced as Sapling SCM and includes both Mercurial and Git support[1]. Internally the main repository use Mercurial although I believe a few legacy projects still use git. [1] https://sa
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by slimginz 3y ago
If you watch the video linked in the article he even beeps like BD-1! I love it!
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by slimginz 3y ago
Literally not how things work. The last time states tried to secede a little thing called the Civil War happened and we determined that no, actually you can’t just leave the US whenever you feel like it.
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by slimginz 3y ago
Are we looking at the same data? Cuz I see the temperature going up around 5ish degrees since the 60s and almost no rainfall the last few years according to your link. I’m on mobile so I can’t see exact numbers but it’s definitely noticeabl
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by slimginz 3y ago
IIRC someone at Intel once said that Dell is the “best friend money can buy” in an internal email that came out when Intel was being investigated for anti-competitive practices.
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by slimginz 4y ago
For people who don't like the new look, you can go to preferences->Appearance and select 'Vector (Legacy)'. It does require you to login first which is annoying but at least you can easily go back to the old look. Edit: Yo
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by slimginz 4y ago
I hope that this will be used in the future as an example of why MBAs don't always make good CEOs. You may be the best person in the world when it comes to managing a company, but if you're not knowledgeable and passionate about t
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by slimginz 4y ago
Oh Meta 100% has some sort of non-compete in writing, especially after his lawsuit with Bethesda when he left Id to work at Oculus[1]. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/zenimax-accuses-john-carmack-of-thef...
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by slimginz 4y ago
Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that the
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by slimginz 4y ago
Wow that almost plays out like a parody of itself. I was half expecting it to be revealed as one of those fake Saturday Night Live ads.
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by slimginz 4y ago
Hinge is owned by Match Group. Along with also owning Match.com they also own Tinder, OkCupid, PlentyOfFish, Black People Meet, Our Time, and about 20 more services. AFAIK the only "big" dating app that they don't own is Bumb
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by slimginz 4y ago
tbf, a lot of things still haven't been optimized for when AMD introduced >4 cores with first gen Ryzen. I'm running a 5950x and unless I'm doing something like 3D rendering I rarely notice more than ~8 of my cores ramping
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by slimginz 4y ago
Looks to be a Firefox thing. I just tested in both Chrome and Safari and the download link was there. Not in Firefox tho
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by slimginz 4y ago
Honestly, I'm in the same boat as you, until I realized I don't know anything he's done before he became head of Radeon Group. According to his Wikipedia entry: > He became the director of advanced technology development a
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by slimginz 4y ago
Just looked it up and the first machines that shipped with M1 were released on November 10th so you might be right considering they never said 2 years from WWDC 2020 specifically.
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by slimginz 4y ago
Thank you! I try my hardest not to use Google for anything besides Gmail and YouTube and that popup always infuriated me. Had no idea you could turn it off.
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by slimginz 4y ago
That was the M87 black hole image that came out back in 2019 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2319/first-image-of-a...
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by slimginz 4y ago
JSX in React was actually based on XHP (Hack's XML template framework) since both were developed at Facebook
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by slimginz 5y ago
Question from a dumb American: Does Canada have a lot of laws that only go into effect if the US or nearby US states do the same? I've never heard of that before.
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by slimginz 5y ago
The bill (which you can read here, it's super short: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623... ) adjusts EST/CST/MST/PST etc to be +01:00. If you dig into the bill it&
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by slimginz 5y ago
> Neither Tencent nor Sony are based in the US (although Sony does have a US subsidiary) Sony Interactive Entertainment actually relocated to California a few years ago and literally everything PlayStation is under them so I'd proba

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