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bysirsnork
020 @03:44AM
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Attached to: Can Firefox Be Saved?
Chrome didn't kill Firefox, Mozilla killed Firefox with their user hostile changes (lets basically kill all addons, even though that was how we got 90% of our users), inability to implement proper memory management and no sandboxing or multi-threading.
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bysirsnork
2019 @04:01PM
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Attached to: Npm CEO Bryan Bogensberger Exits After Eight Months of Turmoil
Ok, so I might have been out of the loop, but how the hell does a package manager need a CEO. Perhaps equally as baffling, how could they afford to pay someone for that role
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bysirsnork
2019 @06:44PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Estimate the Cost of an Algorithm Turned Into an ASIC?
I can't answer your actual question, but I get the feeling you'd be better off trying to leverage existing hardware. Video encoding/decoding processes are broadly similar and you could probably leverage existing hardware acceleration built into video chips already by using the appropriate API's.
It seems exceptionally unlikely any OEM would add an extra ASIC to any sort of media player just to get hardware support for your particular codec without it being a revolutionary change, and even then I have my doubts
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bysirsnork
2019 @10:14PM
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Attached to: Even Fixing Wisconsin's Foxconn Deal Won't Fix It, Says State-Requested Report
Tax cuts for the rich are almost exactly how you don't do it, because you need that tax money to build all those things in the first place
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bysirsnork
9 @03:36PM
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Attached to: Google's Chrome Becomes Web 'Gatekeeper' and Rivals Complain
No, everyone switched because Firefox turned into the thing it replaced, a memory hogging, cripplingly slow browser that became actively hostile to it's users (seriously, the devs did so much stupid crap they deserve all they got)
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bysirsnork
2018 @05:58PM
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Attached to: SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit
Cube Sat's deorbit by themselves in weeks. These things won't be up there cluttering up anything
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bysirsnork
8 @09:00PM
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Attached to: Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback
What they have lost is their mind... and that happened a while ago. Sadly this just proves it's still lost and roaming a desert somewhere
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bysirsnork
2018 @04:13PM
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Attached to: Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle
Not to mention battery technology
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bysirsnork
2018 @08:01PM
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Attached to: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Center Booster Lacked Ignition Fluid To Light Engines and Land On Platform
Musk is on record as saying that out of everything that could have been recovered, those two side boosters are the things he most wanted back. They have the upgraded titanium grid fins on them which can and will be re-used, and are seemingly a) very hard to make and b) expensive as hell.
As a side note, putting a nose cone on an F9 core drops the grid fins performance by 30%, so those grid fins may actually be the only 2 in existence since they had to make them larger to account for that
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bysirsnork
0, 2017 @03:14PM
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Attached to: An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo
Which should be an insanely easy win since he did have a lawful DNR order files with the state
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bysirsnork
2017 @12:37AM
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Attached to: Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico
Parking is probably a lot less critical when huge amounts of roads are impassable in cars.
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bysirsnork
7 @05:55AM
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Attached to: Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM
Pray you never have to use one of these things with a 5400 drive in it. They are so slow you really do wonder if there is something wrong with it. The fusion drive should be the minimum spec, and even that is only just useable
In the days of every laptop coming with an SSD they still can't manage to put it in every desktop.
Good work Apple
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bysirsnork
2017 @05:01PM
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Attached to: New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks
Sadly it's only USB1, so basically useless for moving files, which I imagine is the designed purpose. A cool device certainly, but at USB1 speeds more of a cool research project than something actually useful
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bysirsnork
16 @07:09PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector?
And should be included on the power brick of any notebook that changes via USB-C. No idea why no one is doing this already
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bysirsnork
16 @12:48AM
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Attached to: Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels
Why do you think it stigmatizes anything?
Everyone putting food on the shelf in that state will be required to do this as far as I understand, so _everyone_ is in the same boat.
This gives consumers the choice. If they want to buy more expensive non GMO options they will be able to make that decision.
The fear the companies have is that there will be non GMO products available at the same price they have been selling theirs at, and everyone will buy that instead.
If everyone is using the same base GMO ingredients, then no one has anything to worry about and everyone will keep buying exactly what they are already buying
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