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Oh yeah, the Wave. Forgot about that one because I really don't care much for curved layouts. Too many years typing on straight rows for this old man.

One day I'll likely be faced with making my own keyboard layout or losing the wonderful Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Delete layout I've been used to for years now on a long discontinued keyboard model (I seriously have a box of spares under the bed that I bought when they stopped being made).

I've found myself adaptable to the action of many keyboards, but there's some layout features I'm very particular about.

Digital signage

I thought I recalled that the major setback was the current U.S. administration's trade policies with China. Everything was set to go, but then the plans got trumped.

> cheap labor

I'm an ex-con developer. To be fair, my dev roots go back to childhood. I make around a quarter million a year in a mid-range cost of living city in the mid-west US.

Midwest here. I've got 100 Mbps cable for $70/month and can get 1 Gbps fiber for $100. Then there's the 0.5's like a couple DSL services.

> The burden of figuring this all out lies with the visitor and is a annoying hassle.

I usually find it to be a much smaller hassle than recreating the functionality myself.

> I am thinking the banks must cover the cost.

Rented, like your cable box. I'm not sure who funds the initial cost of new equipment, but as a retailer you'd just get new units in the mail.

I haven't actually measured, but I would swear the mattresses are smaller than standard sizes as well. Every king bed hotel room I've stayed in for the past decade is certainly smaller than my king bed at home.

Timeshares and resorts are hit or miss, personal rentals like AirBnB are often normal mattresses, but hotels must be buying some weird hotel only stock where they undersize the mattresses enough to save money in volume but little enough where they feel like they can get away with still labeling them standard sizes.

> Do the same with an equivalent-energy amount of lithium batteries and you better have a good pair of running shoes.

You're just fear-mongering, and that's an absurd level of hyperbole.

That was fine and dandy in the early-2000's when Moore's Law was still in full swing. Chip makers aren't practically guaranteed a compelling speed and efficiency boost just because a year or two have passed since the last gen, where it was a no-brainer to toss in 64 bitness since process improvements would gloss over any deficiencies or regressions.

Don't forget the part where they said Samsung is Darth Vader fighting against Apple.

Hard to take an article seriously with that kind of hyperbole.

You're not going to cut your lines of code by an order of magnitude by switching from Java or C# to JavaScript or Python, but I would say you do get an order of magnitude increase in ease of managing large code bases with the popular statically typed languages.

I'd rather have 1M lines of Java than 100k lines of JavaScript, and if essential complexity took 1M lines of Java to flesh out, you aren't reaching parity with 100k lines of JS.

Can't get the new 3960X & 3970X Threadrippers either.

> nothing is forcing us to use it aside from its broad adoption and lack of support for anything else in modern applications

"nothing"

IPv6 should give you some idea how easy your "nothing" is to change.

What happens when the SSD in your colo server malfunctions? What happens when the (an) SSD attached to your cloud VM malfunctions? Why do you think those two setups should cost the same?

Amazon and Azure both charge vastly higher rates for egress than colo datacenters, but I believe both charge only for egress and not ingress.

Huh, lucky. Apparently no one's got them online yet.

Just hoping I don't have to wait as long as I did for my last CPU - an i7-6700k. It was quite a few weeks after "release" before I could actually buy one.

I'll probably stick with 32GB of RAM for now - I don't run a lot of VM's or anything - but I'm going to try an Intel Optane as a main SSD drive this time. Thinking about the Aorus Master sTRX40 since I'm a bit partial to Gigabyte for motherboards. These TRX40 boards are not cheap.

> My TR3960X came in today

From where?!? All I can find is B&H Photo with a pre-order estimating a month wait.

> near double to triple performance advantage

Not even remotely close. Really, where do you get some notion of AMD having "double" the performance of Intel? Pass the dutch, bro.

> Intel already lost.

That's a ridiculous thing to say about a company that has ~75% of the market share.

That's a good deal if it takes more than about 10 minutes of my time a month to run it myself. Wanna venture a guess on how many years to ROI on time put into initial setup?

And fwiw I do run my own puppeteer cluster because it's economically advantageous at our scale.

> Is it still possible to circumwent KYC by mining?

Not really. You can't earn much at all mining any coins without significant and reoccurring capital investment.

There are de-centralized exchanges like Bisq that you can use without KYC.

Also Monero has true anonymity so while you might need a KYC onramp to get into crypto, once your value is on the Monero chain it's anonymous, transactions cannot be followed, balances can't be seen (without permission).

Decred set up it's mixed PoS/PoW so that there is an opportunity cost to staking - your funds are locked for a random amount of time up to several months. The staking rewards are also not enough to keep indefinitely staking. Your share of stake will continuously decrease, and, aside from ticket splitting, you would need to acquire more decred along the way to continue staking at the same level.

The name itself might give you a clue, or just look at the code: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX

Software development sure would be a lot simpler to manage if it were like auto repair, where every bit of work is well scoped, short, with absolute boundaries and near complete independence from any other work happening.

Perhaps I'll think lessons from an auto repair shop can apply to software development after they've spent 2 years rebuilding a vehicle from the inside out while it continuously journeys across the interstates.

https://i.imgur.com/cD8Y7fh.mp4

> simplest

> most flexible

Pick one.

> In the consumer space AMD appear to now be outselling Intel, in some markets this is reportedly by a considerable amount.

Anecdotal, but I'm considering an AMD cpu in my next desktop refresh for the first time in over 15 years.

> if you have more than 2 screens, because of kids, it will add up

I download and seed hundreds of GB's a month of torrents and run a couple cryptocurrency nodes in a household of 4 where everyone uses youtube, netflix, and spotify often and we've broken 1TB once in a decade..