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An absolute ton of Reddit users browse the site via apps too. Something to keep in mind.

I still agree that Facebook is larger though.

My 3 months of mining back in the day (aka heating my apartment with video cards instead of electric heaters) netted me about $4000 a few months ago. I found it hilarious.
Re:Fuchsia is not Linux on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:15PM (#16815089)
Interestingly PowerShell is petty awesome in that regard. You pass around objects instead of trying to parse strings and things.
Re:AV1: A new general-purpose video codec on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:27PM (#16798576)
No different than HEVC or anything else. My CPUs are a few generations behind (i7-4790K and i5-4690K) and they can't hardware decode/encode HEVC.
Re:A French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:44PM (#16784098)
Extremely common in many parts of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision
Re:Turn a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:02PM (#16783257)
All of my past couple laptops have been touchscreens. I never find it that useful honestly. It just ends up leaving fingerprints all over the screen.
The winter of 2016/2017 was really bad here in Portland and caused an unbelievable amount of damage to our roads. Whole portions of streets came up from the freeze/thaw. It was nuts and they're STILL in the process of fixing them, not that the roads in Portland proper were ever that great in the first place.
Re:Supersonic Flight Prepares for Takeoff Again on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:36PM (#16761033)
Commercial flights have actually slowed down for efficiency reasons. They were faster in the '70s.
Re:The End of Windows on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:09PM (#16738098)
What size is that? I run a 34" 3440x1440 21:9 and it's nearly a bit too wide.

EDIT: https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-SWIFT-PG3... 100Hz is awesome, even for just browsing the web.

Re:The End of Windows on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:04PM (#16738042)
The more RAM you have, the more your OS will use. My 16GB laptop is currently using 8-9GB and I don't have much open. What's the point of RAM if you don't use it? If I get low on free RAM, but OS will discard some unneeded stuff but otherwise it properly uses it as a cache.
I don't see Intel going out of business any time soon...
That would make a hell of a racket. They more likely boiled their brake fluid or something, possibly due to a stuck caliper.
Re:MacOS finally gains external GPU support on Friday March 30, 2018 @10:08PM (#16721263)
I thought for sure you'd be wrong, but nope!

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_...

Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:10PM (#16541169)
The ~600 person distributed company I work for doesn't use phone or email and obviously doesn't do anything face to face. We relied on IRC for years before switching to Slack so yes, all of our real-time communication is via Slack. We have internal blogs for threaded important async discussion though, but Slack is where our high bandwidth talk done.
Re:Slack client for the terminal on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:18PM (#16495823)
You can actually connect to Slack via IRC: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...
Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:03PM (#16370750)
Yep, my CPU (i7-4790K @ 4.7 GHz) smokes my dual GTX 780s in hash rate for Monereo.
Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:00AM (#16365064)
Because even when you're not paying for electricity, there's much more profitable coins to mine.
Re:Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim on Sunday February 04, 2018 @08:16PM (#16305950)
Really interesting video about that: https://youtu.be/8e-H4sEHB54
Isn't Dr. Pepper currently distributed through Pepsi? I wonder how this will affect that.
Re:TomTom ditches map updates for some sat-navs on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:00PM (#16261012)
Even better than Google Maps? It tells you what lane to be in and everything.
I pay my townhouse rent via Google Wallet. I assure you it's alive and well.
Re:Firefox 58 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:30PM (#16216709)
I use Developer as my only browser. Never had any issues. It's not a buggy alpha version or something.
Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:04AM (#16211833)
There's usually a sign somewhere inside the restaurant.
As a gamer, it sucks terribly. I want a 1080 Ti but they're impossible to find for a reasonable price.
Re:Want to use my wifi? (2013) on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:05PM (#16184072)
tor isn't a VPN service, it's an anonymizer. The end node could still sniff your traffic presumably.
Re:Firefox bullshit removal on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:50AM (#16138672)
Yes, of course because the comment I was replying to was about location being worthless in general.
Re:Firefox bullshit removal on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:24PM (#16137917)
On the contrary. Maybe if you're on a hardwired desktop, but for everything else it is incredibly accurate. You don't even need to have GPS in your device -- WiFi is plenty.

Try it: https://whereamirightnow.com/ It puts my laptop exactly where I am.

Re:MacBook Pro? No on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:06AM (#16131270)
I recently switched from a MacBook Pro running Boot Camp to a Surface Laptop (not the Pro aka tablet) and I'm absolutely in love. The battery life is ridiculous -- a claimed 14 of video playback but even in my real world heavy usage, I still get about 8. I also never thought I'd find a touchpad as good as Apple's but I'm actually liking Microsoft's more.

It's a really, really good proper laptop. I think my only complaint is that it only has one USB port (A-type), but seeing as the only thing I use USB for anymore is charging my phone, it's not a deal breaker.

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