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leoapagano

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About leoapagano

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    You can have all the GPUs in the world, and all the AI datacenters in the world, but when we are barreling towards a global energy crisis (first Russia/Ukraine, then the Strait of …

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    Comment #47225771

    My nightmare world would be one where we apply "everything else" logic to time. 1 kilosecond: about 17 minutes 1 megasecond: about 12 days 1 gigasecond: about 32 years "Oh man, it'…

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    Comment #45497713

    > Last time I saw stats Linux desktop marketshare, somebody said it was up to 6%. That's astonishing. I wouldn't get too excited about that. That might just be because people are m…

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    Comment #45406721

    See also: https://infinitemac.org/

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    Comment #44894050

    One possible advantage of this approach that no one here has mentioned yet is that it would allow us to put RAM on the CPU die (allowing for us to take advantage of the greater mem…

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    Comment #44811231

    You underestimate the power of the default setting

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    Comment #44652445

    Just tried it out - definitely an improvement UX-wise, but it still essentially runs two copies of Firefox rather than only isolating profile-specific features.

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    Comment #44646843

    Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of…

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    Comment #44638398

    "And good enough is the enemy of society."

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    Comment #44469201

    Same here - actually, my PC broke in early 2024 and I still haven't fixed it. I quickly found out that without gaming, I no longer have any use for my PC, so now I just do everythi…

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    Comment #44011240

    I can't lie, I miss when the only GPT I had to worry about was the GUID Partition Table.

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    Comment #43933141

    Centralia, PA has a mine that has been on fire since 1962 and will be on fire for at least another 250 years [0] - the town had to be evacuated in the 80s because it caused people …

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    Comment #43927675

    30 years ago, I would have said the same thing. But right now solar is seeing technological advances at an exponential rate, such that by the time we build a nuclear power plant, g…

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    Comment #43891791

    From my experience, I find most of the time the best part about hackathons is not what you create, but who you get to meet/network with. It may just be my uni/age cohort, but most …

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    Comment #43833822

    Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing y…

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    Comment #43797861

    Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore this truck. But I feel the same way about this truck that I do about the Framework Laptop (having owned one)—cool idea, cool product, but wil…

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    Comment #41997442

    Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?

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    Comment #41703763

    And if Gentoo's binary support is good enough for even ChromeOS, I'd imagine it'll also work perfectly fine for SteamOS.

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    Comment #39587091

    kill-the-newsletter.com is a godsend for stuff like this.