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lefty2··on Is the attack helicopter dead?
Tanks don't really make any sense. MBTs are designed to fight other MBTs. Out of the thousands of tanks that have been taken out in Ukraine, 99.999% has been by drones, artillary or ATMs. You can count the tank versus tank battles on the fingers of your hand. Wouldn't make more sense to evenly distribute the weight of the armour, so the back and top are reasonably armoured, rather than have foot thick armour in the front to stop rounds from other MBTs - a scenario which literally never happens.
lefty2··on Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone
Does the analyst offer any explanation where he got his figures from? No. Then you should assume they were pulled out of the ass
lefty2··on Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
How about "Facey McBookFace"?
lefty2··on Humans used to sleep in two shifts
Humans still sleep in two shifts. It's called the siesta
lefty2··on U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas
They don't want to close the loopholes, because the loopholes give American companies an advantage over foreign companies.
lefty2··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
I'm surprise people say it had gory videos. I've being watching Liveleak for the last year. There were hardly any videos with violence and gore. The videos could be classified into 4 categories: traffic accidents, drunk/stoned people doing stuff, police cam recordings, industrial accidents (cranes, ships crashing etc.)
lefty2··on Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
Strange. I never reboot, only use hibernation. I've been doing that for years and never had any problem.
lefty2··on OpenGL Superbible
> Vulkan is way too much for most indies

I would not say that at all. The biggest disadvantage of Vulkan is that it doesn't support old GPUs

lefty2··on Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
lefty2··on WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to Signal
So once everyone switches to Signal, Facebook just gets out the checkbook and buys Signal... rinse and repeat
lefty2··on Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
I better check it out then. Thanks.
lefty2··on Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
but what if you aren't using Qt?
lefty2··on Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
I agree totally. No one else has ever been able to make a debugger as good as Visual Studio. That's why I do all my core development work on Visual Studio, and only use XCode / code blocks for testing on Mac/Linux.
lefty2··on Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
Does it have a step by step debugger with automatic variable visualisation? If it had that feature then it would be a killer ide for c++.
lefty2··on Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned
> Ireland, Luxembourg and certain other countries are complicit in this

Most people don't realise it's US tax law which allows US companies to defer paying taxes on foreign profits indefinitely. Without that law there' would be no loophole.

lefty2··on Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again
There is very little known about this particular case - for instance what testing procedure were they using. It could be that the first test gave a false negative, or the second a false positive.
lefty2··on Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices
Yes, the hyperscalers who received early samples all rolled out EPYC deployments - but that was still a small amount of the market.

The simple fact is the server market moves slowly - server roll outs are planned a year in advance, so you need to be patient.

lefty2··on Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices
A single Xeon has only 48 PCIe lanes which normally is not enough. So, you should really be comparing price of a dual Xeon system with the equivalent single socket AMD solution
lefty2··on Tiny electric car looks like a washing machine and costs just $6,600
Doesn't look like a washing machine to me.
lefty2··on Boeing docs show staffers discussing ways to manipulate regulators on 737 Max
I wonder if Boeing could have edited the documents before passing them on the authorities, or even "losing" some emails, if there was something really incriminating.
lefty2··on Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
Don't be too sure. Even the paper tea bags have been found to contain plastic: https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/barrys-tea-p...
lefty2··on Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes
No, it was actually the CX-6057 Flying Egg https://www.amazon.com/WayIn®-CX-6057-Flying-2-4GHz-Control/...
lefty2··on EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
People may not realise that Boeing was depending on a October return to service for the 737. If that doesn't happen it has to shut down it's production line and that's going to be expensive. They had put a lot of pressure on the FAA to quickly approve their latest changes.
lefty2··on The Coming Boeing Bailout?
Airbus can always just increase production if the demand was high enough
lefty2··on Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)
Cooking rice that way makes it taste worse. Better to use rice that doesn't have arsenic in it in the first place. Asian grown rice has the lowest amount of arsenic: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-brands-and-sources-of...
lefty2··on Building a front end with no JavaScript
You're assumption that it'd move server side is incorrect. It would simply disappear. When you use a javascript library the browser has to process and load all the functions in the library, even the functions that aren't used. This wastes memory and processing cycles on the client computer.
lefty2··on TSMC's Photoresist Material Incident: $550M Loss
it's $550 million lost revenue in 1Q, which is recognised in 2Q instead. The loss for the whole year is $66M
lefty2··on Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
Source code is available here in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/plasma-umass/Mesh
lefty2··on AMD Epyc processors coming to Azure virtual machines
No. "We asked several questions about the deployment, such as the Azure locations that will be EPYC enabled as well as which EPYC-specific security features are in use on the Azure platforms. Deployments in specific datacenters are not being discussed at this time, and the SME features of EPYC are not being used in Lv2." https://www.anandtech.com/show/12116/amd-and-microsoft-annou...
lefty2··on 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
The obvious solution is to change the c++ specification so that you can modify an inline function without requiring a recompile of every file where it's included
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