willyt · HackerTrans

5 months agodiscuss

Your voting system is shit. It results in a two party state. If one party fails to present a coherent offering and the other one is infiltrated by nut jobs then the system breaks down. After all, if it was such a good system, why didn’t you impose it on Germany and Japan when you won WW2? (This comment is politically neutral; who the incoherents and the nut jobs are are left to the reader’s discretion)

willyt

5 years agodiscuss

That sounds like nonsense and it's certainly not what I've been taught when I've taken advanced first aid courses. It's true that the statistics are not on your side in that the CPR has only a 1 in 5 chance of being successful and that is if you start immediately after the persons heart stops, but that's no reason not to try it.

Recently, an acquaintance of mine was saved by two of his employees who performed CPR on him for 30 mins until the ambulance arrived. He was very lucky to have collapsed in front of them and that they had both been in the army and had good first aid medical. He was hospitalised for 3 weeks and he has memory problems now, but he's out of bed and there for his kids.

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

RISC v CISC https://arstechnica.com/features/1999/10/rvc/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/05/risc-vs-cisc-mobile-...

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

Don't just downvote me, explain. I'm asking because I'm interested. Why is my hypothesis wrong?

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

Isn’t this a RISC vs CISC thing though? AMD and Intel use a lot of complicated stuff to emulate the x86 instructions with a VM running on a RISC core. Apple controls hardware and software including LLVM so they compile efficient RISC code right from the get go. It’s their vertical integration thing again.

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

Yep, there are lots of weird clunky little windows only apps for doing calculations for things in my industry as well, usually stuff thats required for regulatory compliance. But I can't think of any that use really any processing power. As long as parallels can emulate x86 windows on ARM even a big speed drop would be manageable, as long as the windows UI doesn't get sluggish.

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

Falling asleep to podcasts?

willyt

6 years agodiscuss

Is it possible that they haven't figured out how to sandbox the little bit of code that handles the notification from the rest of the webpage? Maybe this is solved already by the webpush standard but some websites are a ridiculously overcomplicated hot mess of javascript ads which make my phone heat up, I don't want them waking up my phone all the time and draining the battery.

willyt

15 years agodiscuss

Only equivalent if where you buy lottery tickets they jump over the counter and beat the crap out of you every time you buy a ticket.

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