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rahuldottech

8:02 PM

DavidPostill

8:13 PM

LOL. I pay 20 UKP per month for 10 GB total.

Burgi

@rahuldottech can your mum get a line installed by the university?

allquixotic

Gross National Happiness

Gross National Happiness (also known by the acronym: GNH) is a philosophy that guides the government of Bhutan. It includes an index which is used to measure the collective happiness and well-being of a population. Gross National Happiness is instituted as the goal of the government of Bhutan in the Constitution of Bhutan, enacted on 18 July 2008.The term Gross National Happiness was coined in 1972 during an interview by a British journalist for the Financial Times at Bombay airport when the then king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, said "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross...

Burgi

@allquixotic i linked that earlier

allquixotic

institutionalized utilitarianism - awesome

it wouldn't be a terrible idea in theory except for the fact that the "Dragon King" probably does whatever he wants

also, total national happiness in terms of some sum doesn't account for inequality

if I have 10,000,000 happiness points and 60 other people have 3, that's a total of 10,000,180 points, which may be a high enough number on its own, as a total, that the government is OK with it

even though those 60 people have really poor happiness, relatively speaking, to mine

djsmiley2k

8:40 PM

@rahuldottech you need 400Gb why?

bwDraco

deseretnews.com/article/865669592/…

@Bob There is a reason I have a tab suspender add-on installed on the Bifrons instance of Firefox...

And I'm considering installing it on Stolas (despite not being as limited with the amount of memory available; I'm kinda spoiled by the responsiveness I get from Astaroth no matter how many tabs I open)

20 hours ago, by Bob

x86 is notorious for register spilling

x86 was not originally designed to have a lot of registers. In fact, each of the registers, [{E|R}]{A|B|C|D}X had a very specific intended purpose. For example, the A in AX means accumulator.

x86 was designed as a register-memory architecture, not a load-store architecture like Arm or MIPS.

x86 was designed to operate directly on memory whenever possible, rather than load data into and operate on registers before writing back results the way most RISC architectures do.

As the von Neumann bottleneck became more severe, this started to become a liability. x64 remedied this by adding a number of additional general-purpose registers, r8 through r15, in addition to RAX/RBX/RCX/RDX/RSP/RBP/RSI/RDI.

20 hours ago, by RegularGDPR

> Whatever model you choose, the compact convertible is powered by a 1.6GHz 2C/4T Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4415Y

At least it's Kaby Lake and not an Atom-type processor.

Though a Y-type chip will never be particularly fast.

djsmiley2k

9:02 PM

@allquixotic Surely it should be an average over the entire population?

bwDraco

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/…

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bwDraco

10:03 PM

Reddit security breach - reset your password if your account was created in May 2007 or earlier

Some email information was leaked as well, though I'm not particularly concerned as I don't really post anything sensitive on Reddit.

I actually have two Reddit accounts, but neither dates that far back.

I also don't seem to be getting digest emails, only message notifications, from Reddit.

So... probably not affected, and even if affected, only to a very limited degree.

Worst case scenario, somebody starts sending spam to my inbox.

Enabled 2FA on the current Reddit account. My previous account is no longer used and I may deactivate it.

(my email address was removed from that account FWIW)

bertieb

10:24 PM

!!s/happiness points/money/

ChatBot John Cavil

@bertieb if I have 10,000,000 money and 60 other people have 3, that's a total of 10,000,180 points, which may be a high enough number on its own, as a total, that the government is OK with it (source)

bwDraco

10:58 PM

extremetech.com/computing/274650-the-worst-cpus-ever-made

lol

> Dishonorable Mention: Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

LOL

Had a device with a Snapdragon 808, which was basically a Snapdragon 810 with two of four Cortex-A57 cores disabled, and I can attest to just how absurdly inefficient the A57 was for a mobile SoC.

And it was notorious for overheating.

Feb 26 '16 at 10:00, by bwDraco

The Sony Xperia Z3+ is the poster child of SD810 overheating problems.

Jan 31 '16 at 1:57, by bwDraco

HTC One M9, with Snapdragon 810, reaches dangerously high temperatures under load

Jul 19 '16 at 19:48, by bwDraco

The Snapdragon 810 was notorious for running extremely hot under load.

Feb 5 '16 at 1:40, by bwDraco

When unconstrained by thermal throttling, the Snapdragon 808 is a absolute power hog. It's probably even worse with the 810.