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Comment Re: Assuming we are still a democracy in 2029 (Score 1) 163

There was a massive change in internal policy between communist Russia and fascist Russia with a wave of privatization between 1992 and 1995 and the creation of 12'000 enterprises. A large fraction of the privatized wealth was captured by corrupted politicians and organized crime leading to oligarchy.

Comment Re: 35%? (Score 2) 25

If the fraction of a laptop price devoted to ram increased from 18% to 35% it did in fact MORE than double, because the hike is reflected in the final price RAM is now a higher percentage of a higher amount.

i.e. Yesterday the laptop was priced at 1000$, of which the 18%=180$ was for the RAM. Today the price is 1261$ of which 35%=441$ is for the RAM. The laptop without RAM is 820$ before and after.

Comment Re:Oh, how convenient (Score 3, Informative) 10

In fact, I have just read the original articles in Italian, and he's only accused of (quite egregious) embezzlement: spending a few thousand of public money on luxury hotels and shopping, overspending on plane tickets, overusing the agency chauffeur service, paying for an "official residence" flat that was actually rented on AirB&B by his daughters. In the order of a few 100k€. It is a lot of money, but nothing w.r.t. what he could have done "consulting" for a tech firm after ruling in their favor a few times.

Comment Re:WMI needed for licensing (Score 3, Informative) 25

Also, they will never update the software to support the next version of Windows. At work, we're stuck with computer running all the way back to 32bit Windows XP in order to keep using lab equipment that costed hundred of thousands at the time. Transferring the data in and out of it while keeping it acceptably safe is a real nightmare.

Comment Re:Say no to emulation, bridges, etc. (Score 1) 44

Most of the CPU time spent by game is not spent in the main binary file, but in system libraries: 3D graphics (via DIrect3D, OpenGL, or Vulkan), physics simulation library, etc. According to the article, Fex would emulate the amd64 instruction set for a while, but also translate the library calls, which allows the use of native Arm libraries, with only a thin translation layer in between, not really different from what you need to call c library from a python code.

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