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  1. Re:Not going to happen on Podcasting is Not Walled (Yet) (rakhim.org) · · Score: 1

    P2P on mobile is just generally a terrible idea. You use up limited data, and the app has to keep waking up and connecting, eating into battery life and free memory.

    Ideally you'd have have a home connection with a decent uploaod and leave $100 device in the home for P2P with a 1or 2 TB hard drive that can be have a remote queue to preload episodes, maybe even using AI to predict which shows you'll actually want to download.

  2. Re:Would Rust have prevented this? on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt this was a true glitch, but rather a programming error, that could have been caught with a complete test suite.

  3. Corporate sabotage? on Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Is someone over at Intel getting desperate?

  4. Re:My Take... on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The day you outsource IT is the day you've outsourced your trade secrets.

  5. Re:It's time to break the judiciary on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ruling's been written, just not yet published. DD has filed a suit in the West Texas Circuit court against the NJ and LA attornites. https://twitter.com/NewJerseyO... https://www.scribd.com/documen...

  6. Re:bittorrent on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    *CNC part of the mill*

  7. Re:bittorrent on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    80% receivers don't take that many operations to finish, and you don't have to remove much material at all. Don't really even need the CNC part or the mill or the lathe. Barrels, trigger, magazine, etc, are largely unregulated and can be purchased without a background check or waiting person

    And additive manufacturing processes can and have been applied to metals. I've recently hard of a wire-feed welder to deposit each layer, being combined with a machine bit to remove excess metal to shape. It's coming, technology has beginning to make prior methods of regulation obsolete.

  8. Re:It's not really speach on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are allowed to sell or transfer them under federal law, you just are allowed to manufacture for sale. Where exactly the line is, nobody knows, maybe IRS hobby vs. business rules are apt, and the length of time you own the gun before sale, and weather or not you operate it prior to transfer.

    And there are a few other categories of firearms that are restricted like cut-off rifles and shotguns, that are illegal or require a special permit.

  9. Re:Everyone who cares disables it anyway on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the thread again, I'm more disagreeing with the OP than you. Hyperthreading is sometimes useful, and sometimes neutral, and occasionally harmful.

    Graphics and video are one of the main use cases that don't really benefit from hyper-threading, because they can use all the resources in a intel core just by running one thread on it. Most production code can't. However the penalty for using it is fairly low even in those cases, and they tend to be the type of operations that are good candidates for GPU offload anyways.

    Secondly not all computers are desktops (though i5 and i7 is almost exclusively targeted as the desktop market), and we are getting into scheduling considerations. Sometimes having more hands is helpful to juggle tasks even if each hand is weaker and it's capacity is tied in a unpredictable way with a partner hand. Other times stronger individual hands that are more predictable are easier to coordinate and give better results, especially if one or tow of the balls are heavy and make up a large part of the routine. And in most applications, even multi-threaded ones there is one thread or process controlling the flow and logic of that application.

  10. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They each got $20 of overpriced junk food and many of them caught on camera. Doesn't really sound like hardened criminals to me. While this was brazen and public, I don't expect expect a c-store clerk to shoot a bunch of young dumb people over small stuff that is probably insured anyways. If they started beating people up or the target was high-value, then I expect bullets might fly.

  11. Re:Everyone who cares disables it anyway on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Like? I know There are a few graphics and video application than can bring the ILP needed to saturate an intel core, though hyper-threading tends to have less than a 1% penalty there. https://www.phoronix.com/scan..... The other kind of workload that doesn't benefit are can only utilize a few threads, in which case an i3 or i5 with 4 cores and an equal clock would perform just as well on the workload. The reason I bough the sylake i7 over the i5 was precisely hyperthreading to speed up compiling and the virtualization extensions.

  12. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything for "Texas train robbery" is 1890-1920's, and launching attacks outside the city center, at a bridge, via infiltration and waiting, or by taking over remote stations. Additionally many of these attacks were targeting bank or postal shipments based on insider tips or rumors. However a common precaution when robbery was suspected is to spread it out trusted agents riding as passengers, which is why the passenger compartments were sometimes raided, not because actual everyday passengers carried enough personal wealth to make it worth robbing.

    And yes people get Robbed in Texas, just not in that particular brand of brazen.

  13. Re: Or is it the other way around? on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Smack in the middle of a populated center, targeting large groups of average commuters? If you have a source I'll look at it, but I really don't think so.

  14. Re:Maybe an attempt to amp their i9 line? on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If Ryzen 2 is as good as AMD says it well be (projected to match Icelake level IPC), then not having HT on the flagship lines will backfire on Intel. AMD has consistently been great on on not using segregated features. (even if Motherboard vendors don't always enable them)

    Maybe Intel wants to simplify cores to improve yields, and having dies without HT at all lets them do that, but it's going to be at the expense of raw performance, right when the competition is closer than it's been in a long time, might not be the best move(AMD, POWER9, ARM).

  15. Re:Everyone who cares disables it anyway on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, most real-world workloads don't have enough instruction level parallelism to make use of current Intel cores as it is. If the workload isn't strictly single threaded, and the scheduler is halfway decent, hyper-threading is usually beneficial.

  16. Re:Can we get more pci-e lanes on the desktop? on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping for a high-clock 2 CCX threadripper part on Zen2.

  17. Re:Can we get more pci-e lanes on the desktop? on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mining isn't all that bandwidth intensive. NVME and 10G+ networking are.

  18. Re:Gee, you don't say on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    At the end of of the day, though perhaps not ideal, it is preferable to regulatory capture which favors established players and leaves many markets under-served. The NYC subway if falling apart due to poor governance and maintenance, not because of Uber. Uber is just the alternative that people are looking for.

  19. Re:I own a car and I hate it on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The switch to transit and density is not impossible, it's merely politically unpalatable, especially for those who were born in in the 30's, 40's and, 50's and often have a lot of money and a good portion of their net worth tied up in a single-family stand-alone residence.

  20. Re:Cars are freedom on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU VAT is 20-25%, most sales tax in the U.S it's 7-11%, with annual personal property taxes due over the next 10 years. However in most U.S states, the sales tax is due with every sale not to a licensed dealer (they pay income taxes on reported inventory), whereas European laws used sales only occur if the new purchaser pays more than the seller did. Really the the car is bought and sold a lot in certain U.S states the total taxes paid may exceed an european state tax.

    The big difference is the most European cities did not develop with the automobile in mind, wheras U.S planners put it front and center for most towns.

  21. Re:Ownership, not rides on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And the truth is in a town of 180,000, driving around and traffic everywhere is a lot more dangerous for kids than a few drunk people walking home and maybe getting into the occasional fight with another drunk person.

  22. Re:Ownership, not rides on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats what happens when a bunch of fuddy-duddies who hate fun are running things. It's a sterile and stupid sort of zoning meant to protect property values and insulate "the children" from anything even mildly exciting or interesting.

  23. Re:Not uber, its lazy people. on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And if the fees pay for new roads and public transit facilities, why not let the rich pay more? And that scheme reflects the real economics of the roads where they work just fine to a certain point of congestion, then each additional car in the lane slows traffic more than the last one. And it would put pressure on low-income employers to change shift schedules to less congested times, leading to better overall utilization of the roads.

  24. Re:Maybe if mass transit weren't an afterthought.. on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    People tent to want to do tomorrow, what they did yesterday. People definitely would like 50% faster commute times, less noise, less pollution, more things to do and see near their home. However people don't want the disruption and are skeptical that the local government is effective and fair enough to actually affect significant change. People benefited from increasing home value or buying in at the peak don't want a lot of infill development because their home will lose value from increased number of available living units.

  25. Re:People will use what works best on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But most cities are fighting against themselves with this. The biggest step you can do is reform zoning for high-density development, and mixed-use. Then raise parking rates and tolls in congested centers. These reforms can actually increase city revenue, wheras subsidizing mass transit cost the city money, and without infill development, there's not a lot of near places on the route that you'd like to go to anyways.