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by Fordec 5y ago
I do wonder what this will bring about in the hacker/maker community. When Sony had closed off architectures like PS2 there was first nobody able to modify it, but then workarounds were discovered and then people started repurposing su
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by Fordec 5y ago
Meanwhile, I saw a coworker do it in the past 37 days for a better paying job at Microsoft that he "couldn't pass up"
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by Fordec 5y ago
I'm not in the market for a laptop right now, but the next time around two years from now, if there's an AMD variant with dedicated GPU that I can have two HDMI ports for my external screens they will have a sale from me.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Virtual particles are the universes equivalent of local variables inside a function. Parameters go in, results come out, but what stays in that local context still existed even if they didn't have global scope.
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by Fordec 5y ago
GPUs are made from silicon. Other chips are also made from silicon. Manufacturers will use said silicon to make whatever chips make them the most money per manufacturing run. Which, right now, is GPUs.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Communicating 100km up is far far easier than communicating 100km sideways. Much less air to go through, and less obstructions. A few space startups out there have missions in the sky right now able to do this. The trick is to but high gain
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by Fordec 5y ago
Louisiana is just going to lose so much territory between now and the end of the century to the ocean. Their shorelines are just too shallow to deal with the hurricanes and rising sea levels that are coming.
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by Fordec 5y ago
10 seconds is plenty of time to record IP addresses, do pixel tracking etc. Combine with data from a data broker and you probably have contact detail attribution. heck, the payment processor plugin probably on that costume's site that&
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by Fordec 5y ago
I assume "Sod", used in more British influenced cultures. Short for sodomy/sodomize. Usually a stand in for "F**" but a bit more cavalier/dismissive than angry.
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by Fordec 5y ago
If the vision is to pseudo-copy the best bits of postgres, I'd be very interested in seeing features that tackle PostGIS type spatial problems. Native spatial work that actually scales to handle global level data in a single node still
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by Fordec 5y ago
I'm not sure how "open" I consider a pdf of the schematics (no sign of PCB layouts), compiled hex files and I'm unsure where the mechanical 3D files are. [0] When I think of open hardware I imagine Kicad/Altium file
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by Fordec 5y ago
It puts us at EM Drive as viable as a form of propulsion as pumping a bunch of electricity into a concrete block.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Getting some real season 2 Westworld secret underground lab robot vibes of this. I think it's all the white.
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by Fordec 5y ago
46 percent higher than what? Do Australians have 0% of total? 50% of total?
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by Fordec 5y ago
Bingo. They're not deliberately pushing this, they're just the public face on the initiative. You can complain about Apple all you like, but you're not given the choice to boycott the CIA. The only reason we were even told th
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by Fordec 5y ago
Seems like we're coming out of Embrace and entering Extend.
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by Fordec 5y ago
To my mind that's more of an indictment of VS Code than a recommendation for Codespaces.
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by Fordec 5y ago
I do wonder, if wet bulb temperature is a function of temperature and humidity (assuming reducing temperature requires electricity usually) will the real trick to reduce mortality will be to reduce relative humidity in a confined space. A s
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by Fordec 5y ago
The bearings end up cold welding at friction points in the vacuum of space is one issue.
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by Fordec 5y ago
At 19? Getting an engineering degree and all the hours of work that entailed while avoiding getting roped into MMOs by classmates as if it was Corrupted Blood.
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by Fordec 5y ago
As a former Overwatch player, you're right. But my (so far glad to say mostly unfounded) fear is that Jeff "Tigole Bitties" Kaplan was part of the problem we're seeing play out the past few weeks.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Then why was it on Fox Kids along side stuff like Digimon, Beyblade and Hercules[0] when I was a child? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...
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by Fordec 5y ago
That's absolutely disgusting. But in a Web Assembly sort of way... I don't know whether to spit on it or give it a medal.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Wait, what? > that you create As in existing language supplied eg. Perl, Java, etc., or literally anything? Like bootstrapping your own home made language from scratch?
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by Fordec 5y ago
I can claim electric cars will beat out hydrogen cars in the long run. I don't have to build an electric car to back up this assertion. I can look at the fundamental factors at hand and project out based on theoretical maximums. I can
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by Fordec 5y ago
Yeah basically but I've yet to work on a team (that I didn't build myself) where the FP&A is separated from Accounting/Tax and not a direct report to the CFO or CEO if the company is pre-CFO. Sometimes even seen Accountin
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by Fordec 5y ago
I am at a point where I don't think there should be finance departments in tech companies. I also believe there shouldn't be siloed data departments for the record either. There should be teams, build around a cohesive product goa
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by Fordec 5y ago
Is there a building industry equivalent of build the machine that builds the houses? You can be a massively skilled electronic engineer, but you don't need to hand solder every board to have a great, skilled, outcome. I guess the answe
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by Fordec 5y ago
Why does there have to be a dichotomy? There can be a diverse range of optimizations of technology visions. What is a Hobbit vision for technology? Or an Orchish one? Why is a United States view of technology the "Human" technolog
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by Fordec 5y ago
Basically the glass half empty view of "So long as men die, liberty will never perish.".

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