I always think about Spender from GrSecurity when I read this. He uses windows to develop for Linux because it makes him more productive.
As a long time every day user and programmer (Linux, FreeBSD since year 1, MacOS for 28 years, Windows for 20 years), of all major platforms I'm using Linux desktop primarily (and most of my colleagues use OSX) but.. I cannot disagree with Spender. I'd be more productive on Windows for my Linux code (than on either OSX or Linux). I just choose the Linux desktop for other reasons ("I like it" "ideology" "its slowly getting there").
Still, today, Win10 is still the faster, more productive environment for Linux code.. oh and its always extremely good for Windows code too - as long as you don't use old APIs, which really, you shouldn't anymore.
Basically, the Windows platform is very much underrated. No nonsense, super compatible, very fast. They just have a terrible, terrible reputation.
with the dire exception of Amazon, every time I've a problem and support doesn't give a rat's ass, I tweet the company about it. Every time it gets resolved.
tldr: companies and people will screw you 90% of the time if nobody can tell. Except Amazon, for some reason.
A phone battery is 1S lipo/lion of about 3000mah/12Wh. At 1C (3A) it takes 1h to charge. At 4C it takes 15min. So Qcom charges at 4C or 12A. A Tesla car battery is 27777777mah/85-100kWh. At 1C it is 27777A. thats.. thats a lot of energy.
A small household uses about 100A/day (fridge, oven, burns, heating, tv, etc. Rough estimate). So you'd have to charge, in 15min as much energy as the household would spend in 277 days. That should give an idea of how much more energy is stored in a Tesla car battery vs a smart phone and why the smartphone can charge in 15min...
Heck my RC batteries can charge at 10C (i.e. more than twice faster than the qualcom phones that aren't even out yet!) The Tesla supercharges charges at 125A IIRC, which is way more than.. your typical house fuse can deal with.
Just for fun, charging a 100kWh Tesla battery pack at 4C is 400kWh. That's more than 1000A (3.6V per cell).
tldr: sorry, good intentions but you're wrong, I'm right, etc.
The way the main SOC (ie the snapdragon SOC) decides to power devices on/off (such as radio) and the efficiency of their regulators does change battery life significantly though when the device is not under active use.
But in addition to that, the way the SOC manages it's own cores, and the way the core are built very significantly changes battery life under active use.
But you don't have to believe me, because Samsung builds the SAME phone with 2 chipsets: the galaxy S7/S7Edge comes with the same specs and either a Snapdragon 802 from Qcom or an Exynos from Samsung themselves. The Exynos Galaxy S7 Edge lasts 2-3 HOURS more than than the Snapdragon version, under active use.
The 4k you get on your phone is terrible compared to the 4k you get on the gopro.
4k is just the size of the picture. By your rationale, a cheap 30usd 4k camera, or even a high-end cell phone is good enough to film the next starwars. That's just not how it works.
The battery life is pretty bad on the gopro3 though - but the quality is otherwise there. While the GoPro Karma is very meh compared to the competition, I don't know of any action cam that is as good as the gopro5 black. yes, you can get a 4k one that looks like it for half the price.. but you also get lesser image quality.
https also ensure the pages cannot be modified. if someone knows your recipe site, they trust you and its content. if tomorrow they visit and it asks for a donation for example, they'll think its for you and donate. bad luck, it was the attacker.
basically, there is more than confidentiality issues ("they can see your data"). there's also integrity issues ("they can change the data displayed")
besides - there's plenty of ways this can go wrong for confidentiality as well. there are billions of websites. some start as a recipe site, and end up asking login, processing password, etc. some not. people make mistakes along the way. its much safer and easier to basically require https across the board - specially that its pretty much free to do so now.
I know its sarcasm but this exactly reply is the one i hear every single day here, in a serious, non-sarcastic tone. Not that I'd want to vote for Trump either, but still. (thanksfully? I don't have to choose)
Maybe I don't understand English but what I read is that they do NOT support the DDOS. They realized people were doing it because of them and is asking them to stop.
I think you're blinded by your hatred toward a political candidate. Wikileaks is not a perfect organization but also does not have access to all the secrets of everyone. It just happen to have more about Hillary, probably because more people have something against her or her party and thus Wikileaks get more data (because, let me spell that for you: more people hack Hillary's party stuff. Plain simple.) Basic demand & availability laws.
given antennagate and all the shit before then, i dont doubt for one second that apple tested how exactly these modem perform and decided they are satisfactory.
if there is a public outcry though apple will blame intel of course (they'd be stupid not to - and being ethical is not trendy these days)
Yeah I think that's what Linus means though. Also why I'm using a NUC as well. Eventually gave up no the countless garbage ARM boards with proprietary boot loaders and incompatible things of all kinds. The NUC let me focus on what matters, basically, the ARM boards all get in the way. If x86 would get as cheap as ARM, I suspect there would be no more ARM.
people need to stop with these stupids redirections just because they don't want to be wrong on the internets.
compare cars to toy drones compare guns to toy drones compare knives to toy drones compare chairs to toy drones (hint: there are more death from chairs than toy drones for fuck sakes)
its 250gr not 500gr. but yes theres high enough rez drones at 250gr
i dont think its a privacy concern though.. a 600mm+ camera is a much better tool for spying on others most of the time. its silent and zooms further than the eye can see, its also more stable and stuff.
i think its just about control and insurance, and a reason to make money
There seems to be a lot of confusion and in traditional Mozilla fashion all this is poorly communicated. First, Flash no longer gets updated for NPAPI (Netscape API) which is the way it talks to Firefox. Only PPAPI (Pepper API) gets updates, which is what Chrome uses. Mortar adds support PPAPI and deprecates/removes NPAPI. It does not mean you need flash or that it adds stuff you "don't want". It just means it still works for the people who need it - that's it.
By that means it also means any other PPAPI plugin works, so the PDF reader too. It doesn't mean PDF.js (Firefox' own reader) goes away. It just means you can also use PPAPI stuff. If Chrome's PDF reader ends up being better than PDF.js over time, then they can switch over to it as default.
It's not using Chrome's rendering, layering, etc. engine. It's not using Chrome's UI. It's not browsing the web with Chrome, at all.
I use Edge every now and then, and beside the extension/addon support that is still a bit in its infancy, it's a *great* browser. This is my "real life" experience, and keep in mind that I'm biased towards Firefox as my browser of choice - but I like to try to keep an open mind and test things out.
1) It feels faster than Chrome or Firefox, as in its responsive. 2) It uses as little energy as them or less, as in my laptop run out of battery later (be it because edge is partially loaded all the time or not, I don't know) 3) Everything that's modern works. This is not Explorer. 4) I hate the bing integration, but you can turn that off. 5) Dev tools don't seem as nice as Firefox or Chrome.
At the end of the day I still use Firefox, though I run Edge every now and then when I need smth quick;-) (and I use Chrome for Chrome apps mainly)
So yeah, Edge is, in fact, a great browser IMO - and if it wasn't Microsoft behind it I guess me and others would migrate to it. Shows that both performance and reputation go a long way, in particular, performance matters more than it seems.
meh this is a local version of the web.skype.com website you're as good going to the website directly.. err you're better off going to the website - its always up to date.
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I always think about Spender from GrSecurity when I read this. He uses windows to develop for Linux because it makes him more productive.
As a long time every day user and programmer (Linux, FreeBSD since year 1, MacOS for 28 years, Windows for 20 years), of all major platforms I'm using Linux desktop primarily (and most of my colleagues use OSX) but.. I cannot disagree with Spender. I'd be more productive on Windows for my Linux code (than on either OSX or Linux). I just choose the Linux desktop for other reasons ("I like it" "ideology" "its slowly getting there").
Still, today, Win10 is still the faster, more productive environment for Linux code.. oh and its always extremely good for Windows code too - as long as you don't use old APIs, which really, you shouldn't anymore.
Basically, the Windows platform is very much underrated. No nonsense, super compatible, very fast. They just have a terrible, terrible reputation.
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Apparently that's too much caps to post. Even admins can't post with caps.
with the dire exception of Amazon, every time I've a problem and support doesn't give a rat's ass, I tweet the company about it. Every time it gets resolved.
tldr: companies and people will screw you 90% of the time if nobody can tell. Except Amazon, for some reason.
A phone battery is 1S lipo/lion of about 3000mah/12Wh. At 1C (3A) it takes 1h to charge. At 4C it takes 15min. So Qcom charges at 4C or 12A.
A Tesla car battery is 27777777mah/85-100kWh. At 1C it is 27777A. thats.. thats a lot of energy.
A small household uses about 100A/day (fridge, oven, burns, heating, tv, etc. Rough estimate). So you'd have to charge, in 15min as much energy as the household would spend in 277 days. That should give an idea of how much more energy is stored in a Tesla car battery vs a smart phone and why the smartphone can charge in 15min...
Heck my RC batteries can charge at 10C (i.e. more than twice faster than the qualcom phones that aren't even out yet!) .. your typical house fuse can deal with.
The Tesla supercharges charges at 125A IIRC, which is way more than
Just for fun, charging a 100kWh Tesla battery pack at 4C is 400kWh. That's more than 1000A (3.6V per cell).
tldr: sorry, good intentions but you're wrong, I'm right, etc.
The way the main SOC (ie the snapdragon SOC) decides to power devices on/off (such as radio) and the efficiency of their regulators does change battery life significantly though when the device is not under active use.
But in addition to that, the way the SOC manages it's own cores, and the way the core are built very significantly changes battery life under active use.
But you don't have to believe me, because Samsung builds the SAME phone with 2 chipsets: the galaxy S7/S7Edge comes with the same specs and either a Snapdragon 802 from Qcom or an Exynos from Samsung themselves.
The Exynos Galaxy S7 Edge lasts 2-3 HOURS more than than the Snapdragon version, under active use.
Random test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (there's plenty more)
Typing this on my low voltage intel windows laptop with 3 4k screens. (Yeah I got usb-3).
So thats 12k of pixels vs his 5k of pixels on a lower spec'd laptop.
Window is so efficient!
Also, not understanding anything and being adulated for it seems to be a thing lately.
Windows: Did not start. (install didn't even run properly! terrible!)
" as the first woman president." ;-)
=> as the first US woman president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The 4k you get on your phone is terrible compared to the 4k you get on the gopro.
4k is just the size of the picture. By your rationale, a cheap 30usd 4k camera, or even a high-end cell phone is good enough to film the next starwars. That's just not how it works.
The battery life is pretty bad on the gopro3 though - but the quality is otherwise there. While the GoPro Karma is very meh compared to the competition, I don't know of any action cam that is as good as the gopro5 black. yes, you can get a 4k one that looks like it for half the price.. but you also get lesser image quality.
https also ensure the pages cannot be modified. if someone knows your recipe site, they trust you and its content.
if tomorrow they visit and it asks for a donation for example, they'll think its for you and donate. bad luck, it was the attacker.
basically, there is more than confidentiality issues ("they can see your data"). there's also integrity issues ("they can change the data displayed")
besides - there's plenty of ways this can go wrong for confidentiality as well. there are billions of websites. some start as a recipe site, and end up asking login, processing password, etc. some not. people make mistakes along the way. its much safer and easier to basically require https across the board - specially that its pretty much free to do so now.
I know its sarcasm but this exactly reply is the one i hear every single day here, in a serious, non-sarcastic tone. Not that I'd want to vote for Trump either, but still. (thanksfully? I don't have to choose)
Maybe I don't understand English but what I read is that they do NOT support the DDOS. They realized people were doing it because of them and is asking them to stop.
I think you're blinded by your hatred toward a political candidate. Wikileaks is not a perfect organization but also does not have access to all the secrets of everyone. It just happen to have more about Hillary, probably because more people have something against her or her party and thus Wikileaks get more data (because, let me spell that for you: more people hack Hillary's party stuff. Plain simple.)
Basic demand & availability laws.
given antennagate and all the shit before then, i dont doubt for one second that apple tested how exactly these modem perform and decided they are satisfactory.
if there is a public outcry though apple will blame intel of course (they'd be stupid not to - and being ethical is not trendy these days)
states hide as other states all the time.
china and russia are the top ones.
happens all the time. Basically you have no way to know for sure who did it in many, many cases.
I wish I could mod that higher.
Yeah I think that's what Linus means though.
Also why I'm using a NUC as well. Eventually gave up no the countless garbage ARM boards with proprietary boot loaders and incompatible things of all kinds. The NUC let me focus on what matters, basically, the ARM boards all get in the way.
If x86 would get as cheap as ARM, I suspect there would be no more ARM.
Anyone can fork Linux.
That said I think a lot of people agree with, and trust Linus: He's not a politician. He's a good engineer.
people need to stop with these stupids redirections just because they don't want to be wrong on the internets.
compare cars to toy drones
compare guns to toy drones
compare knives to toy drones
compare chairs to toy drones (hint: there are more death from chairs than toy drones for fuck sakes)
its 250gr not 500gr.
but yes theres high enough rez drones at 250gr
i dont think its a privacy concern though.. a 600mm+ camera is a much better tool for spying on others most of the time. its silent and zooms further than the eye can see, its also more stable and stuff.
i think its just about control and insurance, and a reason to make money
There seems to be a lot of confusion and in traditional Mozilla fashion all this is poorly communicated.
First, Flash no longer gets updated for NPAPI (Netscape API) which is the way it talks to Firefox. Only PPAPI (Pepper API) gets updates, which is what Chrome uses.
Mortar adds support PPAPI and deprecates/removes NPAPI.
It does not mean you need flash or that it adds stuff you "don't want". It just means it still works for the people who need it - that's it.
By that means it also means any other PPAPI plugin works, so the PDF reader too. It doesn't mean PDF.js (Firefox' own reader) goes away. It just means you can also use PPAPI stuff. If Chrome's PDF reader ends up being better than PDF.js over time, then they can switch over to it as default.
It's not using Chrome's rendering, layering, etc. engine. It's not using Chrome's UI. It's not browsing the web with Chrome, at all.
So if I use a Tesla in France, then France introduced a new electric car right?
If you think about it, everything's that hard to do works well.
Everything thats easier to do isn't great (basically, UI stuff).
Other browsers are the opposite.
What if its made of graphene? ;-)
I use Edge every now and then, and beside the extension/addon support that is still a bit in its infancy, it's a *great* browser.
This is my "real life" experience, and keep in mind that I'm biased towards Firefox as my browser of choice - but I like to try to keep an open mind and test things out.
1) It feels faster than Chrome or Firefox, as in its responsive.
2) It uses as little energy as them or less, as in my laptop run out of battery later (be it because edge is partially loaded all the time or not, I don't know)
3) Everything that's modern works. This is not Explorer.
4) I hate the bing integration, but you can turn that off.
5) Dev tools don't seem as nice as Firefox or Chrome.
At the end of the day I still use Firefox, though I run Edge every now and then when I need smth quick ;-) (and I use Chrome for Chrome apps mainly)
So yeah, Edge is, in fact, a great browser IMO - and if it wasn't Microsoft behind it I guess me and others would migrate to it. Shows that both performance and reputation go a long way, in particular, performance matters more than it seems.
meh this is a local version of the web.skype.com website
you're as good going to the website directly.. err you're better off going to the website - its always up to date.