Arrath

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by Arrath 2y ago
> It's too bad so many people think they're just mics and amplifiers. Modern hearing aids do a lot of signal processing. This is what I'm still trying to convince my dad of, after he found the pair he was fitted with ~20 y
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by Arrath 2y ago
I loved that DARTH FREAKIN VADER was the General in my campy game FMV cutscenes.
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by Arrath 2y ago
> And downloadable software is less common these days. Unfortunately. I'd rather run things locally on hardware I nominally control, without being subject to connectivity or bandwidth issues.
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by Arrath 2y ago
> Btw, I will check your PNW and raise you the Green Mountains in VT and White Mountains in NH during the fall. I've long been unimpressed with the ancient and eroded 'mountains' of the East when set against the tall and i
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by Arrath 2y ago
> Bit embarrassing for intel that they had to swallow their pride to get this one made by TSMC This may become a new normal if the currently proposed plans to slash and burn parts of Intel come to fruition.
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by Arrath 2y ago
Having seen it in action, the concept that Management Sucks At Logistics certainly has a kernel of truth to it, though.
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by Arrath 2y ago
God that's just insane.
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by Arrath 2y ago
In fact its self serving, in that reducing your own reliance on oil frees up more of your production for sale. Lets not forget that the latter Soviet Union was in large part propped up by the proceeds from its oil sales.
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by Arrath 2y ago
This is the first time I've heard of a Penicillin, and I love both ginger and Islay....color me intriuged
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by Arrath 2y ago
Thank you, we're hoping so too.
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by Arrath 2y ago
> You'd be amazed how bad hospitals can be at keeping track of fairly critical things. Got to experience that first-hand when my partner lost her pregnancy. We went in for the procedure to remove the nonviable fetus and were advised
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by Arrath 2y ago
> for example pushing a 12gen Intel chip above 300W And pushing 13th and 14th gen chips into an early grave! /s
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by Arrath 2y ago
I had a Dodge pickup with the most basic radio package, no screens or infotainment. Per the law it had a backup camera, the screen for which was in the rear view mirror. It was perfect.
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by Arrath 2y ago
I've not owned a car in 7 years thanks to my engineering gig coming with a work truck for getting around construction sites. Quite enjoy that aspect of it.
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by Arrath 2y ago
Not to mention that I often find myself in places where a video might get 5 seconds in and sit buffering forever, but a blob of text would load fine.
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by Arrath 2y ago
I remember learning how to type and work the macintosh version of Paint on some Macs in 1st/2nd grade computer lab in 1995/96/97 somewhere. We even had crusty old Apple II's or the like hiding in corners.
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by Arrath 2y ago
> This isn't just OpenAI's problem of course. Anyone training on the open Internet now has this problem. 'Low-background Steel' has been a nerd trivia tidbit for a while now, will we have to consider a 'Pre'
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by Arrath 2y ago
> because they’ve been conditioned to dislike the company’s CEO You're rather taking the agency out of these folks' hands, are you not? It seems entirely likely that they could have independently came to the conclusion to disli
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by Arrath 2y ago
I think loss of institutional knowledge is a huge problem across all sectors of the economy. In my niche of specialty construction engineering I saw it get exacerbated by the Great Recession, companies froze hiring and laid folks off from
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by Arrath 2y ago
Yeah but consider that videos don't have the sheer swagger of a 1.4mb blob of text on GameFAQs headed by a lovingly rendered piece of ascii art.
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by Arrath 2y ago
"Running Halo 2 in true HD" was a really, really good read.
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by Arrath 2y ago
Like using line of sight laser comms to send commands and return video? Exactly that, line of sight. The horizon strictly limits your operational range, and for fpv suicide drones there goes your terminal guidance (or the "buzzing arou
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by Arrath 2y ago
Very interesting read, thanks for the link!
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by Arrath 2y ago
I wonder how seriously the 13th/14th generation defects are going to hurt them on top of these difficulties. Its bad timing all around.
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by Arrath 2y ago
What even is faceless marketing?
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by Arrath 2y ago
Yeah I'll agree that anecdotally I know plenty of people without cable or the like, but they still have a TV for streaming/pirated media/games.
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by Arrath 2y ago
Source-laundering is a bit catchy, I have to say.
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by Arrath 2y ago
Would almost think a recall would be easier to handle that hundreds of thousands/millions of individual RMA/warranty claims.
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by Arrath 2y ago
There is that
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by Arrath 2y ago
I had to do a double take a few weeks ago when I found the price/unit to be drastically different for the name brand to the store brand of something, until I realized they strategically switched the <unit> (# to oz I think it was

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