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Re:Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:20AM (#30556776)
So they are still making tons of money off existing subscriptions?
You can do structure from motion on a single camera without the need for stereo.
Re:Brave Search beta on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:55PM (#27594861)
I don't see a fallback mixing option on that page. Is it called 'Fallback Mixing' on that settings page? Also, these results are pulled from google and bing it seems for every query I do. seems like maybe some reranking is happening. And the query completions are from Bing. So you are sending everybody's queries to third parties. Not very private.
Re:Brave Search beta on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:43PM (#27594709)
This is just bing reranked with occasional results thrown in perhaps from their own index. Just look at the query completion suggestions, they are identical to Bing. If they had their own index they'd have a link to the cached copy.
In my experience, on most SSDs/NVMEs, the firmware GC destroys performance under a heavy read/write load to the point of being no better than a mechanical HD of yore. Except Samsung and Intel. But Intel SSDs have bricked on me a lot. So now I just use Samsung NVMEs exclusively.