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Koliakis··on How to seriously read a scientific paper
It falls apart in how you interact with the pages. It's not even close to the same thing, so not replicable at all.
Koliakis··on How to seriously read a scientific paper
I've been trying to make all-digital work for years. I feel like there are significant downsides with digital that make me want to go back to paper (but if I were to print out everything I read, my small apartment would be overflowing in a year and it seems so wasteful).

One of the most obvious benefits to paper that comes to mind is the ability to lay multiple non-sequential pages (from the same paper and from other papers) side-by-side. That spatial aspect isn't replicable afaict and I definitely feel like it limits me in many ways.

Koliakis··on Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
It's even worse if you're a company in Germany. The pricing for business lines (and the speeds you get) are atrocious.
Koliakis··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
> it's not clear if we'll be able to see that many titles take on raytracing in future titles

Considering AMD's core role in next-gen consoles, it's likely that there'll be broad support for raytracing in games (especially cross-platform games). I'd say the question is more whether the 6000 series is anywhere close to RTX in performance for RT (which afaik wasn't shown today).

Koliakis··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
Add to that, it's likely they won't have as many supply issues as nVidia because they're using TSMC and TSMC is totally on the ball when it comes to yields (unlike Samsung).
Koliakis··on RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
I think it's not feasible to continue the project as long as this issue isn't resolved appropriately. I've seen at least one contributor already dealing with letters from the RIAA because of a minor contribution years ago. That's going to significantly hinder community development of youtube-dl if it becomes more commonplace to harass anybody who's contributed anything to the project. Most people simply don't have the time or money to deal with this kind of thing. Most people don't want to deal with this kind of thing at all.
Koliakis··on RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
It's not like any of us are going to be able to change the DMCA overnight and people rely on this tool for all kinds of purposes. Do we wait for somebody to magically fix the DMCA or do we make minor fixes to youtube-dl to make it less susceptible to bullshit DMCA notices like this? I assume most people just want the original repo to go back up and for normal development to continue before functionality breaks because of changing websites.
Koliakis··on RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
Truecrypt was mysteriously shutdown out of nowhere. Rumours abound that it was because of a national security letter or some other governmental interference. TC was never proven to be fundamentally insecure, but the original developers abandoned the project with the incident and the project was forked by others as VeraCrypt, which is now the recommended solution for local encryption (on Windows at least).

audit: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

final audit summary: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/02/truecryp...

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