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What windows laptop is that?
Re:GDPR: Is It Worth It? on Friday May 17, 2024 @06:56PM (#40394926)
> but we need to remember enough that when we encounter you again, we recognize that you've objected to further processing. How are we supposed to know in future interactions that you've opted out if we've deleted all mentions of you and your PII?

Just hash the PII, delete the original and reinsert the hashed version (perhaps into another table). On insert check if hashes match and the opt out bit is set, if they match and it’s set then act appropriately.

Or the manufacturers will just not sell their phones in France. Ultimately it’s the French citizens that will miss out.
Re:Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Memory and Storage on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:03AM (#36532532)
I like what framework is doing but boy is the 16” an ugly piece of hardware. The other one is beautiful, what happened?
The bacon egg and cheese at Beecher’s handmade cheese in the same terminal is $16.50 for some decent bread with a microwave egg. It’s ridiculous, shake shack has a breakfast bacon egg and cheese in the $5-6 range right down the way.
Re:The Framework Laptop 16 on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:31AM (#35287247)
I want framework to succeed and they are targeting folks who want sleek and customizable computers (which they’ve nailed) but compared to a thinkpad the build quality isn’t great.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:08PM (#35281980)
Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:30PM (#35278238)
And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation on Saturday March 04, 2023 @08:01AM (#35020473)
I really would like someone else to put out something competitive in that case, I’m rooting for them but haven’t seen it yet.
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:37PM (#35016467)
A comparable m1 is twice as fast in the above benchmarks?

And that’s Apple’s chip from 2 years ago!

Core for core this is a dog.

Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:33PM (#35015957)
Performance isn’t there. Why spend 3k on this?
Re:LED Lights and Screens Are Killing You on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:06AM (#34922159)
You can make the side button triple click on iPhone toggle application of an accessibility setting that lowers the brightness.
Re:Building an ARM64 home server the hard way on Sunday February 19, 2023 @09:01AM (#34857617)
You could do this for cheaper (and with more ram) using a raspberry pi 4 with a usb nvme ssd, it’s got gigabit ethernet and is arm64. Sure you have two less cores than this solution but it’s more likely to be supported over time and once you get the SD card out of the mix the I/O is solid. I’ve been surprised by how much the SD card throughput was limiting the experience.

I run arch Linux arm on mine and it’s a fantastic little device. I wonder if these boards are way faster or just more of the same. I guess the pcie expansion makes this more extensible.

Why though? It would make more sense to keep lending at 2-ish% and making 8 in the market just throwing it in the S&P. The spread is 6 pts or more on average.
It’s 100% accurate for me having lived and worked in 3 neighborhoods over 7 years.
Re:Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:57PM (#34301328)
If you’re learning, having a direct implementation vs multiple layers of abstraction is a huge benefit.
Re:November 2022 Progress Report on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:20PM (#33708243)
Isn’t it more absurd that no vendors who support Linux make acceptable/comparable hardware?
Re:Apple Q4/2022 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:33PM (#33366003)
On android you’d be lucky to get more than a single OS update that added new features or functionality.
And better than any windows laptop on the market with the same performance profile.
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:26AM (#33119112)
My dad started writing me letters after major life events and birthdays, on new years, etc... I save them all.

They boil down to advice like being grateful for what you have, looking back and being proud at what you’ve accomplished, valuing the people in your life especially those that take time to help you, and realizing how lucky you are and at the same time encouraging working to put yourself in positions where you make your own luck.

They seem to come at the right time, after I have a phone conversation when I tell him I’ve failed at something or am frustrated with someone.

It’s less about him and more about me but it helps me remember the kind of man he was, one of the greats.

Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:56PM (#33028451)
This is so technically cool and an amazing achievement but wow what an odd video.
Re:Go runtime: 4 years later on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:34PM (#32989490)
I am not a fan of new knobs like this. It reminds me of Java where you actually have to think about -xMx blah blah and setting it is a dark art. I would really prefer if we could somehow confer the memory limit from the container environment to go so this could be set intuitively at the container level without mucking about in the go GC internals.
Re:Measuring CPU core-to-core latency on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:48PM (#32892566)
Would love to see what the results are for an m2.
Both statements can be true, it’s a hallmark of nation states and humble anonymous researchers.
Re:How to integrate a trackpoint in a mechanical keyboard on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:51PM (#32371893)
Why aren’t there more external keyboards made with a trackpoint? Yes I know about the Lenovo ones, they are not great.
The FDA does not regulate the use of the term “organic” on food labels.

Further, if something isn’t 100% organic how do you know which part isn’t?

There’s no question it would be better if it were true but how sure can we be that it’s not just the same food with different labels?
They are incredible. M1 Air is the best computer I’ve ever owned (16gb) and my M1 14 (64gb) is the second best.

I can only imagine that the m2 air with 24gb will be even better. To me the extra weight of the 14 wasn’t worth the extra monitor hookup. The tiny power adapter and no fan airs are where it’s at.

Re:Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006) on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:11PM (#31995294)
DBMS don't do this by default because indexes aren't free. Each additional index means the database has to write to an additional location for (potentially) every insert/update.

The feature would need to also keep track of which indexes are unused and remove them over time to avoid the massive write amplification that would come from building a new index for every query that crossed the threshold over time.

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