n2burns

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This article seems to conflate "emulation" and "translation layer". I don't think there is anything that confirms "Prism emulates an x86 CPU", only that it allows for running x86 code on ARM. This does not inherently require emulation as demonstrated by Rosetta 2, which is a translation layer.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Emulation is almost always slower and eats more battery.

FTFY. There have been some cases where emulation actually outperforms native execution, though these might be, "the exceptions that prove the rule." For example, in the early days of World of Warcraft, it actually ran better on WINE on Linux than natively on Windows.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 58 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Mmm yes, business news ~~about unions~~ at a ~~car~~ tech company. Definitely why I subscribed to a tech community.

FTFY. Tesla is a tech company that makes cars. Their union busting practices are business decisions, which in turn affect the industry, which again, is technology.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

I'm a pretty junior contributor (I spent a couple years completing quests on StreetComplete and only have been adding new buildings, etc for a few weeks). I don't know a ton about how the organization is run, so I can only talk from my experiences. I've been able to upload changes which will be live before they will be reviewed. I know there are reviewers who go through areas regularly, but they definitely don't cover everywhere. I'm not sure if OSM has the ability to lockdown areas with frequent vandalism.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 81 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I know this seems like Niantic is free-loading, but this is intentionally-allowed by the ODbL license and honestly, might be a good business decision even without considering the licensing fees. OSM is almost 20 years old and as a community led project, is probably more predictable and stable than a Google license which could change drastically from one contract to the next.

As a OSM contributor, I'm more than happy to see my work used this way, and as @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world pointed out, OSM has seen a lot of benefit too.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

No sure if this is a serious question, but .btw is not a TLD while .fyi is.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So far, SpaceX has been run with much less Musk involvement. That could change on a whim, but so far it seems to be a pretty well run government-supplier under Gwynne Shotwell.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also why. The. Hell. Are. People. Still. Using. Virtualbox? What is this? 2005? You're already running a kernel with built in world tier type 1 virtualization.

Honestly, for me, it's probably just momentum at this point. I've been using Virtualbox for at least 15, maybe 20 years now. I don't use it much anymore with how good docker, etc. have become. Any recommendation on what I should be using instead?

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

AFAIK, most of the pan-European plans cover the whole Schengen Area (including Switzerland), and the most of the former USSR boarders aren't all that porous, unlike the NAFTA boarders.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm always cautious about comparing the US to the EU too closely, but in this case it fits, as both are continent-wide common markets.

The rest of North America would like a word with you...

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

"This item is not available in your country". Too bad, I thought they could use data from Canada but I guess not!

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can setup unattended-updates to handle most of those.

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