Slashdot readers overengineering grandmas video calls so she can talk to Little Timmy in 200Mbps H265 8K.

Yeah no, not just you....

Let's take a perfectly acceptable, usable, convenient solution and overcomplicate it!

Only thing I care about is R, so I went to look there. R 4.2.1 was released 2022-06-23, according to the link, which wasn't "last month" or "in the last month" for a while now. I guess /. is sticking with its "old news is good news" mantra.

Why does he live rent free in your head? He's no longer the president, you've got what you wanted (invasion in Ukraine, mass starvation in Afghanistan, strong China, massive inflation, supply chain crises, more COVID deaths, botched vaccine rollouts, unnecessary restrictions and a left-wing dictatorship in Canada),

Ignoring him didn't help make him lose in 2016. He is powerful and his voice is loud. Biden is most absolutely NOT everything I want in a president. He's too far centrist for my taste. He's pro-union, but seemingly anti-labor. Inflation hurts the common folk in the short term, but as we learn we can negotiate for higher wages, it helps us because it devalues old debt. The people it hurts most are companies who sit on piles of cash (Apple, Google, Facebook). And those vaccine rollouts worked better than anybody could have expected when we allow Fox to call their bullshit "news" when it's "opinion" and "commentary" at best, but factually demonstrably provably misleading.

you're in your communist utopia, what else do you want?

In my communist utopia, healthcare is free to all, children don't starve in schools, and nobody is drowning in debt from paying for college. That's not today's America. The Democrats will drown themselves in inaction trying to get there without any forward progress while the Republicans will yell until their faces turn red that it's evil. Sign me up for countless do-nothing Democrat presidents instead of more Trumps.

It's not my job to waste money on services I no longer need. If I can save money by working from home, that's what I'm going to do. Turns out, I don't need to waste my time commuting or talking to people who don't want to be there any more than I do. Sure, some people need to go to work, but they're 'essential' and already went back. But the rest of us think remote work is the new normal and will find new jobs if we need to.

Haven't we already seen this scam with the Helium network?

Sell overpriced hardware to perform a super specialized function of enabling communication on your Wireless network, pay out network node owners in your own token, said token is used to pay for access to the network, token price collapses because nobody actually buys into a network that isn't built out for any meaningful, critical application.

Nah I'm good.

There is no reason for Intel to panic. The M1 architecture isn't direct competition for Intel's x86 line in anything but Apple computers. At most, this is 10% of Intel's annual sales. Between Apple pursuing the ARM architecture and AMD pushing hard with Zen on the x86 side, Intel is facing additional pressure, but it's the kind of pressure they felt during the Pentium 4 years. The outcome of that was the Core architecture.

Apple's ARM architecture has been putting this pressure on Intel and AMD for a few years. It's been obvious to anyone with a passing interest in computer architecture that the A line of Apple ARM chips has been approaching computer-class performance at competitive power consumption. AMD may have been struggling to catch up with Intel for the last 10 years, but Intel had the luxury of being the market leader. Intel is large enough to have a competitive analysis team who should have been keeping a pulse on the market. It would not be overly outrageous to have them keeping an eye on the major components (instruction renaming buffers is a major component) and performance implications (raw benchmarking has been available for a while, including which individual instructions and workloads it excels at) and have a timeline for a competitive set of abilities.

When Core came out, it knocked the ball out of the park. Its abilities and their impact on power and performance were a jump forward. If memory serves, the first Core CPU came out with a L1 cache hit a full clock cycle earlier than anybody else in the industry. That had massive performance impacts. There were a few other relatively minor tweaks, but it summed to a single jump that rippled through every CPU design of the time.

M1 has been constantly building up for many years along a relatively straight line.

Selling the M1 with 8 GB of RAM with an optional upgrade to 16 GB of RAM is not a modern computer. I'm a huge Apple fan, but I don't think any machine north of $500 should be selling with 8 GB of RAM. 16 GB as a base model with an option for 32 GB would be a huge improvement.

I'm really looking forward to owning an Apple ARM processor. The M1 doesn't have the longevity I'm looking for.

"After this story published on Thursday, Facebook said it had taken down more of the accounts run by these 12 individuals."

Unless they have found a spokesperson who is credible to the audience who saw the original lies, and then makes sure they see the correct information in a credible way, the damage is done. That's 59 million people whose minds were poisoned and will never see or believe the truth. That's the problem with social media like Facebook and Twitter.

You can call it the H1B variant...

Does that mean the American COVID variants are going to have to train the Indian COVID variants before the Indian COVID variants can take their jobs?

I saw a link a while ago that showed an awesome visualization of Starlink paths and showing how latency could be lower for orbital paths. The guy has a few other Starlink visualizations on his youtube channel. I'm hoping he updates some time this year to show what's in place as it grows.

Using ground relays with Starlink

Where I live, you don't want tall grass, trees with undergrowth or a lot of bushes too close to your house because that's where mice and rats like to live. So you really want 10-15 feet from your house to the nearest thing. Grass is the best way to control erosion, and that's why we need to mow it.

In the desert, it's a good idea to plant some native plants to help control erosion and there are another dozen ways you can maintain landscaping without using non-native water-wasting grasses that only waste precious resources.

Because people pay attention to them and comment on their posts.

There is a reason the technical among us (me included) are not usually good executive managers. Such work would definitely not be in my natural wheelhouse because I just don't think that way. I suppose I could do it, but I don't hold any illusions that it would be easy, or that I'd be somehow good at it.

I had the privilege of seeing her speak in person in front of a few hundred people about 4 years ago. She was clearly a PhD engineer speaking to us. She did not have the polish yet. She has clearly been trying to follow in the big presenters' footsteps, though. Over the years, she has been getting better and better, finding her style and learning the tricks of the trade.

My point is, I do not believe that Lisa finds any of this natural or easy. I believe like everything she does, she's putting in the work to make it happen.

How about a 3d-printed carburetor for a 64 Buick Rivera?

That would be pretty cool! Is it water tight? Is it pure metal? What alloy did you use where oxidation wasn't a problem? How big is the printer? Did you have to slice it apart to smaller models to fit on the printer and then attach / glue / solder them together? How did that work?

Running a Doom clone on an Amiga is "News for Nerds". It's a cool project. We could argue "Stuff That Matters" separately.

Why not? BOOTP lets you just specify files. If you've mapped your PCIoE GPU memory space to a file system, you're just a configuration file away from a good Friday night.