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I'm pretty sure that is about banning bad actors across the whole ecosystem. You know, because Minecraft is a game targeted at kids. And maybe you don't someone spouting racist/sex…

It's no longer a native app, it was rewritten in 2015 to be non-native. It's the same story everywhere, they're using Electron (or similar) so they can maintain one codebase for ev…

>Comparable-scale private projects don't exhibit the same horrendous inefficiency ... Apple's $256B of spending per year Literally Apple's HQ was $2 billion over budget. Private en…

> (just look at our infra costs) It's the private sector completing these jobs, not government employees. Those jobs are routinely bid out to contractors, who complete the job with…

I think the problem is that it wasn't low maintenance. The moderation of the links for malicious links was becoming an increasing drain on resources. It's the same problem most lar…

This ignores the elephant in the room that in the 90s insurance companies just wouldn't pay, claim pre-existing condition, and bankrupt the patient.

Public service means government run. A newspaper isn't a public service (in the US), but official notices can and do appear there. Even if no one reads the newspaper anymore. Same …

Pretty sure Olly Moss is still at Valve

https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/7/1/lsaa061/5918811

Novo Nordisk (the maker of the newest insulin Levemir) spends about 17.8b kroner a year on R&D (or about 12.6% of their revenue). Levemir was introduced in 2005; they've long since…

You would see USENET posts back in the 90s about C/C++ vs ASM basically arguing that C/C++ was better than ASM because hand tuning ASM wasn't worth the man-months of effort require…

If you file in small claims court, they might settle. Saying you're going to file doesn't work like that (because people say it all the time and very few people follow though). At …

The A64FX has way worse performance per watt than an AMD EPYC and an A100. The A64FX's density per U is higher, so you can get a lot more cores in the same datacenter, even if the …

I read 'dedicated security chip' as something akin to an external chip like a TPM chip as opposed to dedicated transistors in the CPU die (which is more secure). So it sounds like …

Yes, but then you can probe the pins and MITM, like you can with an external TPM chip. (See something like the TPM Genie) It's internal because it's more secure that way.

If you're on Firefox, you can also just turn on Reader view (F9) after it loads and hit refresh.

Every ARM version of Windows has an x86 emulation layer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on... "Windows on ARM can also run Win32 desktop appps[sic] compi…

>All the market needs to do is provide the environment for that. It's already been here and Dell/HP is still an X86 shop. Intel will survive, they've been doing this for 50+ years.…

> Apple proved that ARM-based processors cannot just compete with Intel's offerings but outright destroy them Your average ARM processor is a Qualcomm Snapdragon or Amazon Graviton…

EmptyStandbyList. I fell into the same trap as you and tried searching 'ESL Task', but it's in the post they were responding to.

Scientific American is a publication, not someone's Facebook page. The writing gets Scientific American's legitimacy when they publish it and it reduces Scientific American's legit…

They don't have to raise prices, they're just doing it because they can. They made 1.4B on 7.4B of revenues in their last reported quarter. [0] It's not like these companies that a…

I don't think that's really a problem you can solve regardless. A STUN server would make most NAT irrelevant anyway. Most firewalls are setup to allow established connections, so y…

It's disabled on all AT&T Residential Gateways and can't be enabled, you have to use port forwarding or put another router behind it using IP Passthrough. It's also disabled by def…