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  • An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS

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  • What a shower of twats. Don't block the request in that case, just redirect it to your local server that returns a 1x1 transparent png for all requests.

  • AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops

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  • Invested in a water cooler setup back when I had a Bulldozer chip, which was near essential. Now on a Ryzen, and getting it to exceed about 35 degrees is very difficult. Been very good for long-term stability of my desktop - all the niggling hard disk issues seem to just go away when they've not subjected to such thermal cycling any more.

    Fantastic chips.

  • New emotion rule

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  • Just sing it! Couple of extra syllables in fee-ee-ling, you're right back on the beat.

  • you just got downsized, sucka!

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  • IVEBEENUSINGTHISKEYBORDFORWHOLEMONTHNDMMOREEFFICIENTTHNIVEEVERBEENBEFORE

  • you just got downsized, sucka!

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  • No 'a', so it's perfect for ordering some piss.

  • Activate Linux

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  • Clicking the 'Activate' link prompts you to enter your shoe size and postal address, so that you may receive a shark plush toy and your own pair of The Socks.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Impressive, since "network effects" are what keeps people on a platform. Why move off Xitter or FB when everyone's on there, and not on the new place? Keep moving a significant fraction of a million people every week, and pretty soon, it'll be where everyone is.

    My partner, who is very non-technical, signed up for a BlueSky as well this week: "all the teacher blogs have declared that they are moving over". Looks like everyone has had enough.

  • Can I install Linux on this?

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  • Most of the laptops I've had open lately have had about the top third be the motherboard and the bottom two-thirds be battery, with maybe some ports and speakers tucked down the side. So I'd expect that last of replacements to include the battery, too.

    I might check whether the hard drive survived - a decent M.2 is small, expensive and reusable - and maybe the RAM if it's not soldered in.

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  • Writing this on a Tuxedo Pulse 14 gen 3 - great laptop, flawless Linux support and a coding workstation. Perfect for a bit of eg. Disco Elysium or Crusader Kings 3 on the go, but it's no gaming machine; it has a lot of pixels for a Radeon 780M to push. They do have a list of gaming laptops, though, if you wanted a speciality machine?

  • GOLLY!

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  • Jimmy Olsen loves to munch on something that's long, hard and full of seamen?

  • Don't worry!

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  • That looks worse, though. It's enhanced the printing on the other side of the page so that it's more visible.

  • Flaming Imagination

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  • All the boys think she's a star.

  • We'll be friends forever and ever!

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  • If that bag is about the same size as her head, which for girls averages ~50 cm circumference, then there's about 2 litres of uranium there. Uranium's density is 19g / cm3, so that's about a 40 kg bag she's lifting in one hand. Strong girl!

    We can also determine that that's a bag of U-235, because the critical mass of U-233 is only 15 kg, and she'd be in the middle of a mushroom cloud otherwise.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Having had one of the old Windows phones with a keyboard dumped on me at an old workplace, can confirm it's completely possible for a phone to have a keyboard and be a complete piece of shit.

    A good phone with a good keyboard may have some use cases. If you do a lot of writing but not any more computing power or screen space than a phone has, plus you want to be doing that on the move, then yeah. For me, can shitpost on forums using my phone in my spare time, and dealing with on-call work issues - having multiple tabs of Jira and Slack open, for instance - just isn't really practical on a small screen.

    If your job is very email-centric, then yeah, sure. Blackberry were very good for just having the stuff you need - email, vpn, 'corporate' office documents - in a form that worked.

  • Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds

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  • Also interesting is the notion of 'Kolmogorov Complexity' - what is the shortest programme that could produce a given output? Worst case for a truly random sequence would just be to copy it out, but a programme that outputs eg. a million digits of pi can actually be quite short. As can a programme that outputs a particular block cypher for an empty input. In general, it is very difficult to decide how long a programme is needed to produce a given output, and what the upper limit of compression could be.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

  • Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for September 28, 2015

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  • Nice art, too. I think that scrolling down might ruin the pacing? but that's some beautiful spacing and colouring.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • Assuming that these have fairly impressive 100 MB/s sustained write speed, then it's going to take about 93 hours to write the whole contents of the disk - basically four days. That's a long time to replace a failed drive in a RAID array; you'd need to consider multiple disks of redundancy just in case another one fails while you're resilvering the first.

  • How hard could it be?

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  • Writing in ASM is not too bad provided that there's no operating system getting in the way. If you're on some old 8-bit microcomputer where you're free to read directly from the input buffers and write directly to the screen framebuffer, or if you're doing embedded where it's all memory-mapped IO anyway, then great. Very easy, makes a lot of sense. For games, that era basically ended with DOS, and VGA-compatible cards that you could just write bits to and have them appear on screen.

    Now, you have to display things on the screen by telling the graphics driver to do it, and so a lot of your assembly is just going to be arranging all of your data according to your platform's C calling convention and then making syscalls, plus other tedious-but-essential requirements like making sure the stack is aligned whenever you make a jump. You might as well write macros to do that since you'll be doing it a lot, and if you've written macros to do it then you might as well be using C instead, since most of C's keywords and syntax map very closely to the ASM that would be generated by macros.

    A shame - you do learn a lot by having to tell the computer exactly what you want it to do - but I couldn't recommend it for any non-trivial task any more. Maybe a wee bit of assembly here-and-there when you've some very specific data alignment or timing-sensitive requirement.

  • Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM

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  • Why buttplug for tachyons?