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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Ah, must've been a fortran developer. I swear they have this ability to make the shortest yet the least memorable variable names. E.g. was the variable called APFLWS or APFLWD? Impossible to remember without going back and forth to recheck the definition. Autocomplete won't help you because both variables exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Speedrunners must be able to speedrunning irl.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Just for some perspective, if you want to know how little reach the fedi post with the link to this blog post got: the first post in this thread already has more likes and boosts after less than a hour since posting it than my blog post ever did that he felt the need to confront me over.

The author probably wasn't aware that their blog post has a huge engagement in hacker news just the day before and the CEO got roasted there, so the CEO probably felt the need to contact the author to "correct" their post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm more of a Space Impact guy

[–] [email protected] 85 points 11 months ago (5 children)

When I was a teenager, I made a page in Word, saved it as html, then uploaded it to geocities. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would they do that when they can use this as yet another push to move people to windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (23 children)

It would be nice if the prisoners could take class or earn a degree while in prison, at least when they get out they have a new skill or a degree so they have a better chance to get a job to pay off their prison debt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The books they loaned are loaded with DRM though, which make it unusable after the loan period expires, so it's not like they're handing out unlocked pdf en-masse like z-library. They probably thought this restriction was good enough and publishers have enough goodwill to let it slide during the height of the pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For comparison, I run a thinkstation p300 with i7-4790 (TDP 84W) 24/7 and the power usage looks like this:

Even when idling this old processor still guzzles 45W. Certainly not as nice as GP's that only use 10W during idle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The term "Android" itself is trademarked and can't be used by hardware manufacturers without passing certification and paying Google.

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