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Yes, you can. See the landmark United States vs Microsoft 2001 antitrust case.
Re:A Faster Alternative to Jq on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:10AM (#47542249)
Less OOMs, less timeouts, less noisy neighbors problems affecting other apps
Re:Donald Trump's fantasy of home-grown chipmaking on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:45PM (#44979044)
I agree that the cultural difference is the biggest differentiator. Asians put more emphasis on education and trading off work life balance.
Re:iPhone 16 is much easier to repair on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:21AM (#41624047)
Switching from torx screws to pentalobe on iPhones is completely inexcusable. More expensive, less available tooling, no torque advantage. [0]

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/News/14279/apples-diabolical-plan-to-...

Re:Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:35PM (#40338680)
Wireguard is written by Jason Donenfield, a renowned developer with deep crypto knowledge. You can search him up and see for yourself. https://www.zx2c4.com/
Re:AI is not your friend on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:25PM (#39964074)
I think its a fair article. How can you tell that AI has been manipulated to make outputs more appealing to make you do certain actions. You could argue that money <-> favor has been long exchanged, but in this case, we don't have someone to name and shame.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:20AM (#39344436)
Can you provide 3 obvious problems of how the parent post is incorrect? I am curious of your thoughts.
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:20AM (#39311972)
Why is this a poor look? I was not aware of Brendan's involvement with Rust, nor the effect of the firings on the Rust team.
Re:I quit my job to work full time on my open source project on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @09:01PM (#38935212)
Atuin: https://atuin.sh/

Note: I am a user, and not the author (Ellie Huxtable)

Re:M3 CPU cores have become more versatile on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:17AM (#38892093)
I see nothing wrong with the CX750M PSU [0]. What do you consider good guts? Compared to the macbook charger, which gets fairly hot under load, I see it as more capable.

2. Cooler cost has very little to do with performance. Thermalright units compete with liquid coolers for a fraction of the cost[1].

3. What does a macbook case offer? Holes for ports and the keyboard, hinge for the LCD. The components themselves do the work. What does a ~$50 case [2] not do? Plenty of cooling, mounts all your components.

4. For llama.cpp text generation, an M3 pro does ~31 tokens per sec with the Q4_0 profile[3]. A 3070 does ~34 tokens per second [4].

WRT the motherboard, I'm not sure what did I suggest upgrading? I recommended cheaper parts than the original post.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx750m-2021-pow... [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermalright-peerless-a... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Computer-Workstation-Preinstal... [3] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 [4] https://kubito.dev/posts/llama-nvidia-3070-ti-benchmarks/#pe...

Re:M3 CPU cores have become more versatile on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:08PM (#38886309)
I think this is not a fair comparison.

1. a 750w Corsair PSU is ~$100

2. CPU cooler should be $30. A Thermalright cooler is way more than enough to keep at full boost speeds.

3. case is ~$50, its just a box

4. Windows is not the platform of choice for GPU/LLM work

Easy $400 savings. I would also also buy a B660 motherboard as X series motherboards only really offer overclocking options, and modern CPUs do not overclock anymore. $190 at newegg: https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-b650-gaming-x-ax/p/N82E16813...

Re:Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney (2011) on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:08AM (#38794076)
Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:36AM (#38471179)
I believe motorcycles are in a different category than cars for a few reasons:

1. If you are too fast to squeeze the brake lever, the tire carcass will not deform properly, giving you the the maximum braking potential. There's a large difference in braking performance just grabbing vs. applying in a controlled manner. You can look up motorcycling racing brake application for more info on this.

2. Breaking too hard can cause a stoppie (a wheelie using your front wheel). Done improperly, that creates a lot of fear in the rider.

3.If you lock the brakes and steer, you are likely to have the front end of the motorcycle dip, causing it to lowside.

ABS helps mitigate all 3 of these issues.

Clarification: it is measured against these clients (not C/C++/etc)

```

        EdgeDB (Python)
        PostgreSQL (Pyhton, psycopg2)
        PostgreSQL (Python, asyncpg)
        PostgreSQL (Node.js, postgres)
        PostgreSQL (Node.js, pg)
        PostgreSQL (Go, pgx)
```

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