ChancyChance

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by ChancyChance 4y ago
The only PCMCIA cards I ever used were flash memory (direct flash and SATA drives), modems, and Ethernet adapters, and I only had them because I was writing drivers. (At the time laptops were expensive and not every employee had one.) Built
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
This reply confuses me. You are implicitly accepting that FB, and American company, had a roll in the atrocities, but you are then saying it is up to Myanmar to handle this. If that's correct interpretation, I find that attitude abhorr
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Regulation of social media is still woefully behind even in cases where we do know there has been a hugely negative impact (Myanmar & Facebook, for example). And there are approximately 5 people who exert massive, unregulated power over
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Japan, Norway and Iceland still allow the hunting and eating of whales. China is big into shark-fins, and their oligarchs like to eat tigers. The US is still in a salmon rights battle with native americans (fortunately few of our endangered
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Here's a simple way to tell if your expertise is at risk: - If you can get more done by working more hours, your job is at risk. When I was a programmer for most of past life, this was this case. Now I've got multiple decades unde
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
3dfx/ATI were faster.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I was on the team that wrote the DirectX 3 and 5 drivers for the 740 (I wrote the vxds in assembly using MASM 6.11). It wasn't a GPU in today's terms (huge parallel vector engines), it was just a basic 3d pipeline: triangle pipe (
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
"10/10 pre-2021, 0/10 post-2021" I guffawed. Hasn't there been ANY update to the Turing test since it was proposed? I suspect the answer to the benchmarking issue was address by philosophers long before we got here.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
What's with all the buttons? My rice maker is about to die, and I've had it since 2007. It has one button: cook. I looked at a Zoji and there are so many settings. Plus every type of rice has different ratios of water, which vary
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Yes. I don't like any of it. The texture. The seasoning. The cheese. The bake. Awful IMHO.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
> (and superior) Hey hey hey! waves hands in the air wildly If it doesn't come from New Haven I ain't interested. Besides, who wants to eat a saucy saltine. I like my gluten hydrated. Seriously though, pizza science has such
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
> dropped on github, and then forgot about. I really wish GitHub would have some sort of flag for "stale" projects. I use your methods too (issues, dates, etc.), and I'm usually disappointed when search results bring up gh
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
What was the RSA crack effort you mention? It doesn't seem feasible, considering finding a SHA-256 collision would take so much compute power we don't have words to describe it, and even coming up with thoughts to frame the prob
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I would assume real gold bars of this size would have some kind of notion of a certificate of provenance and/or authenticity stamped into it or associated with it, e.g. specific symbols or ID numbers that would fall under international
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
It's an article about QM. On Vice. About a QM thought experiment. On Vice. Why would there be any expectation of scientific rigor whatsoever? "retrocausality, may seem like science fiction grist at first glance" Stop there, v
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Sure will. My comments didn't mention the fact that I enjoyed reading your post and following your systematic analysis.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I hope they would, but in my 40 years of owning homes, prices to have things done double every 7 years. This would mean 10% inflation year over year, but that isn't the case, and wood prices have not gone up that much. Everyone is just
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
It's too hard to understand so it is easier to pick a black or white side.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I thought the point of an Xserver is that it has no input devices, it simply receives instructions about cursors and rectangles and text, no? Perhaps I do not understand X.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I think there is a risk to the trades as well. Tradesman service prices are skyrocketing, too. With fewer people able to hire them because they cannot afford it, won't trade jobs fall as well?
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
@signa11 If you are running *nix on your laptop, why not just run an Xserver on the Pi with the dual screen setup and use DISPLAY=server:0 to render to it? I'm a bit confused why have the Xserver running on the laptop.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Great. I spent all four years in highschool rebuilding car engines practically swimming in this stuff because my friends and I used it as a degreaser. We didn't swallow it, but we did get blisters on our hands and it turned our skin wh
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
Same here, I've been using yarn for years, and when I started using venv, I didn't understand why it had to be so complex. Even after reading this article, I still don't see why it is so complex! Yarn/npm has the right i
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
If I run a company that has a payroll of millions, where do I keep that cash until I can issue all the checks? It's not like I'm going to sell a bunch of bonds every two weeks to meet payroll. I'll never have to worry about t
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
You're probably right.
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by ChancyChance 4y ago
I found it useful. If you don't have any loans, make a lot a money, have no kids or expensive hobbies, and you already are maxing out your 401K, it just sorta piles up over the years. It's nice to read something like this once and