MigratingApe

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s worse! There are guys on YT disassembling them and finding not single-use alkaline batteries inside but fully rechargeable Li-Ion batteries (for use in hobby projects). Forget the environment, how on earth is this economically justifiable for producers? People buying them pay not for nicotine but for all the electronics inside with a small addition of substance for their addiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did they just… try to mimic Nix/Guix with these Slices but like much more complex with no benefits over them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Brother for life.

You bet it. I got one toner refill for like $6 for Brother laser printer which is happily chugging along with factory installed drum after 2600 pages printed during over 6 year period. No DRM, no driver drama, and you know what happens to jet printers with such sporadic usage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wanted to chime in to, first of all, thank you for the fantastic work that you are doing, both here in running the instance and in general for the fediverse. I envy your energy to do all these things and as a person with knowledge and experience in various areas of Computer Science and IT, hats off to you. Where do you get all that motivation from?!

As for the topic on hand, I really really love it here mainly that this instance has so far avoided the defederation wars and I can enjoy all discussions from all other instances, including hexbear. Maybe it’s only me, but I hope there are more like me that want to come to their own conclusions based upon discussions from left, right and centre. But maybe it’s also because I mostly read and not write…

Defederation from my PoV is like censorship. People get more extreme in their views when they are not exposed to other ideas and opinions conflicting with their own beliefs. This kills any kind of civilized discussion in the long term.

Also, many of us forget that, even though we might not be fully anonymous, who we are here is not what defines us in the real life. Someone can come and say whatever, that I am the most miserable human on this planet, but is that who I really am? Would one say the same when met face to face?

Peace out, thank you for what you’ve done. Do or don’t keep it up, do whatever you please, it is all yours and you have already accommodated us not even once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, Harold :) I forgot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like a son of a guy from another meme with awkward smile

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More like boar

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

The reason is SIMD instructions / vectorized assembly instructions with consideration for delay slots, instruction latency, memory access times etc., for which GCC and Clang optimizers are both terrible and cannot automatically transform C code to them in any but simple cases.

This is also a reason why specialized DSP processors with SIMD capabilities have dedicated proprietary compilers for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Debian unstable FTW!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We don’t have this kind of trucks in the Europe AT ALL and people still go fishing, do home repairs, carry heavy or large loads. This is all American lifestyle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Coordinated action to undermine UAW workers confidence in their negotiations? I’ve seen too many such things for it to be a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Power draw for cellular tower equipment has become a major concern and product differentiator for mobile operators. I work in telco sector.

AFAIK Apple develops their modem in Germany. The initial effort to get into this market is tremendous. After that it’s incremental improvements, but you must start somewhere.

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