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rewoi | 5 years ago | on: The End of the Redis Adventure

This is not first time Antirez quit. 10 or 8 years ago he deleted his Twitter account with 10k followers. I think today it reached critical mass, and he does not want to be public figure anymore.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”

removed

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)

What is an alternative for example for driving? Computer and lidar that needs a kilowatt just to do single task, not universal?

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)

I dont buy that. Vision developed for different purpose than to provide full HD sharp vision across entire FOV. It has great pattern recognition and peripheral motion detection. It heals itself. It has low power consumption. It does not overheat and can work in many environments, even under water.

Modern competition like Go PRO require too much baby sitting, and can hardly work for 2 hours without maintenance.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel

Does Apple actually invests into laptop/desktop development? They are usually couple of years behind competition (DDR3, Sky Lake chips). While their ARM chips are heavily developed.

I think they decided long time ago that ARM is good enough, and are waiting for train to stop to change the engine. It is not about Intel quality, but about saving money and independence. AMD is not even considered as an alternative...

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

It is possible to individually block "activists" on FB.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

No, that is an estimate from forum thread compiled from many articles. Wikipedia claims 1400 victims just in Rotherham.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

British government has transparency problem at much higher level. There is official report from investigation of rape gangs. It includes almost 100k child rape victims in many cities over 3 decades. Government refuses to release it, and pretends this abuse does not exists.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

The question is not really "was this particular one man made?", but "is it possible?" It is pretty obvious 1970ties technology was not advanced enough to pull this stunt. But times change.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

I want local machine, so remote VNC is out.

There is no Linux like solution for android phone that runs Xserver and OpenJDK reliably. Samsung DEX emulation was the only usable solution, but that was killed off. Termux can not run OpenJDK, some weird issues with crashing.

Also most devices do not have enough cooling capacity, max performance can be only delivered in short bursts before CPU gets throttled down. If you hack it to run at full speed for hours, it freezes.

PI is simply the only option at this size, with enough CPU power and good Linux support.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

x86 Linux had PAE mode, where OS could use large memory, but single process was limited to 32bit. There was some performance overhead.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Programmer can still implement bad decision very well :)

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

What is the size and power consumption? Can it handle 4k TV?

Also I would much rather do technical support for Pi, than some old junk in questionable state of disrepair.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

Cool. I need small machine that can run java and Intellij Idea to go with my phone. Great for section hikes while pretending to do WFH :)

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

As a programmer I am not responsible (and paid) for management decisions. It is also not my job to fix toxic culture in a company.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390

You can set charging options in BIOS. It is possible to disable battery completely.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Joe Rogan got ripped off

Sometimes it is good to have some balance from official sources. WHO:

* Masks do not work on corona virus

* Taiwan is a Chinese province, not an independent country

* Corona virus does not transmit between people.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions

It is just clickbait.

People who do not get organs, die in hospitals, not in cars. With that logic person would be a murder, for refusing to "donate" their organs.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better

It is even worse.

Germany is employing large number of Romanians for agricultural work. At peak of corona crisis, it cramped many people into airplanes and shipped them from Romania to Germany. No social distancing whatsoever. They sleep in container houses 8 people per room.

No way to use "refugees" for fruit picking.

rewoi | 5 years ago | on: Toilet Paper Orientation

Toilet paper is gross, civilized people use bidet or wet wipes.