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slezyron Bitcoin Plummets Below 40K

Is it? Avg. transaction fee is 13$ [1] and it takes hours to confirm it.

1: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

slezyron Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

Cool, but why does a new and more power-efficient M1 laptop has it[1], and it's much bigger than this one?

Apple is also known for not admitting its design failures.

1: https://www.zdnet.com/a/hub/i/2020/11/20/ab77bd9b-edc0-419f-...

slezyron Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

That's a very questionable system. It needs to be completely sealed except for intake to work properly.

slezyron Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

It's really funny because he is correct, that fan does nothing. There is no heat pipe connecting CPU and fan.

slezyron Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

That's a different model, there is no heat pipe in the video see https://youtu.be/iiCBYAP_Sgg?t=57

slezyron Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

There should be a cooper pipe between the CPU and cooler like this one[1].

Seriously, WTF? Where is it?

1: https://i0.wp.com/lemmymorgan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01...

slezyron Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

> in ~the~ Ukraine[1]

They are essentially dead cities and I hardly think that they allow using Ukrainian layout.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20080725060956/http://www.ukrwee...

slezyron Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

> all currently have favorable relations with the Kremlin, including ... Ukraine

Really???

slezyron Why Rust in Android will use the Soong build system, not Cargo

I think that ninja is fine, but I was wrong with the terms. All those are build automation tools[1] and ninja is a build system. Also, that article refers to GYP[2] yet another build automation tool from Google.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_automation

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software)

slezyron Why Rust in Android will use the Soong build system, not Cargo

It seems that Google has more build systems that messengers: GN, Bazel, Soong, there were few more but I can not remember them.

slezyron Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2

> And if this true does it mean AMD is open to license AMD graphics IP?

This is not the first time this happens. There was an Intel CPU with AMD's GPU.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/130411/...

slezyron Swift on the Server (2020)

I'm not sure that you can call this "thrive"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_GN...

slezyron Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

So what? Microsoft SQ1 has been there for a while [1]. Without a software support they are just a fancy stones that can't run desktop software.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Pro_X

slezyron Apple Introduces AirTag

These things are called beacons

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

slezyron Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5

You can also run Catalina and Big Sur on Linux with OSX-KVM[1]. It does everything for you and more up-to-date.

1: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

slezyron How the Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs

> Then again in July the same year, another runaway gas well in Ukraine was sealed with a 3.8 kiloton nuclear explosion at a depth of more than 2.4 km.

This is not true.

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB...

> Експеримент не мав успіху: закрити викид за допомогою вибуху не вдалося. Газовий факел згасили через кілька місяців стандартними методами.

> The experiment was not successful: the runaway was not sealed with the explosion. Gas flare was exhausted with standard methods a few months after.

slezyron A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC

> The alternative is that you could be using a language that uses highly optimized RAII types on the stack which are impossible to leak, and written by some of the best programmers in the world so you don’t have to juggle chainsaws.

Please, tell "the best programmers" that it's "impossible to leak" memory. Apparently they do not know this.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html

slezyron Flax Engine 1.1 released with Linux editor support

https://flaxengine.com/licensing/

slezyron Godot Engine Web Editor

It looks even worse that Quake3 to me and it's gameplay is just dull.

slezyron Godot Engine Web Editor

It lags even more that slither

slezyron Godot Engine Web Editor

So, can you provide "good enough" games with "good implementations" that are somewhat popular?

slezyron Godot Engine Web Editor

> The usual answer is "performance", but that's a non-answer.

Try to play https://slither.io

The performance is horrible even in simple games.

slezyron Wormhole-GUI 2.2

I mean font hinting, the fonts look very blurry.

slezyron Wormhole-GUI 2.2

It seems, that you can't configure Fyne's font rendering. On Linux systems, it looks quite bad.

slezyron Making an online multiplayer game with Godot and Nakama

Building and running locally, I think? However, I can say this for sure.

https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

slezyron We created a fake language to root out resume liars

> What I'm not surprised about though is why they do it

They get a bonus for hire.

slezyron MIPS Becomes RISC-V

Check your router's CPU. I own 4 routers and all of them use MIPS. RISC-V is more like Graphene, it's yet to leave the lab.

slezyron “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

std::string has been in C++98, however, you couldn't use it to create a std::ifstream as it had only char* constructor.

It took a decade to add a std::string constructor...

You don't own its domain, however. It can be revoked at any time.

slezyron Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

Great, now there is no noise and no example. Because they just removed the entire article.