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by Kerrick 4y ago
Those extensions sound interesting, can you share a link or model number?
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Did you read the whole article? I covered the slots vs. lanes issue in the third paragraph, and debunked my own list of expansion card types in the second half of the article.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
> are they 3 slot nowadays? In fact, some even clock in at 4.3 slots. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/...
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Threadripper has worse single-core performance than Ryzen, lacks 3D V-Cache, only came in a Pro option last generation (which was vendor-locked to Lenovo for months), and has been removed from next generation's roadmap. As I mentioned
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Ha! I even snarkily made fun of the USB naming structure in the article, but I didn't catch that the Promoter Group embedded a 420 joke.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
That's another thing that bothers me about motherboard manufacturer's choices around PCIe -- one that I didn't cover in the article. Why on earth are they choosing (even on EATX motherboards) to put the extra PCIe slots withi
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Even spinning-disk hard drive arrays (another good way to fill out a large case) don't get much love since SSDs have gotten cheaper and people rely more on cloud storage. My next rig will, at least, continue to have an ever-growing num
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The death of the PCIe expansion card(kerricklong.com)
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by Kerrick 4y ago
> If that restaurant wants to use that as a competitive advantage over other restaurants they aren't going to want to have to give away their modifications, so aren't going to want to use AGPL software. That's exactly the
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by Kerrick 4y ago
There are so very many companies that exist in category c.) companies that make a profit from non-tech companies. Many of them are not public. Many of them are small. Many of them "only" pay SWEs as CPA-level salary. Many of them
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by Kerrick 4y ago
If you do a study of the mortality rates of driving cars and control for crashes, it’s probably near zero.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
My point is that you could replace a couple words in your comment to get the following, and it would've been conceivable for a person to say a thousand years ago on their first day at the ocean. And yet it wouldn't have been accur
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by Kerrick 4y ago
The oceans used to seem really big to us too, but each rising tide wasn’t destined to continue rising—the tides turned out to be cyclical, even though we couldn’t imagine anything but gods or magic to be powerful enough to cause the chang
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by Kerrick 4y ago
DVDs are still being made too.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
It’s a free market, but not a competitive market. Antitrust laws reduce the freedom of the market in order to increase competition, because it’s considered better for the majority of market participants to trade that freedom for competition
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Reducing the spread of existing variants reduces the number of replications the virus can make, which in turn reduces the occurrence of mutations.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Isn’t SMS based 2FA responsible for a lot of Twilio’s revenue?
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by Kerrick 4y ago
> Bonus, attach a big knob somewhere, like on the joystick, for timeline control, which would be like undo / history. What do they call this thing on old video editors? Seeker? Spinner? I forgot. Not just old video editors, my USB-C
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by Kerrick 4y ago
The only framework of that scale and quality I’ve found in node-land is Adonis [0]. It’s why I chose Adonis 5 for my latest product—it needed to be built in JS or TypeScript but I wanted the “batteries included” feel of Laravel or Rails. [0
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by Kerrick 4y ago
The article is also about a new greener way to generate synthesis gas (not injecting water or steam into a chamber of burning coal).
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by Kerrick 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197012 (3 days ago)
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by Kerrick 4y ago
I have a history attending Magic: the Gathering tournaments, both local and regional. I know you're not actually asking, but I thought this was a fun exercise: - How do people talk about money? Money is completely avoided, but prices a
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Do they need to be spendable for their actual value? If you encourage them to hold on to them rather than spend them, American Silver Eagles (face value $1, market value $30-35 depending on year) are a _very_ shiny, quite large coin to find
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by Kerrick 4y ago
That depends entirely on what the cattle are being fed. If they are grazing pasture that cannot be planted in row crops (e.g. too hilly, too gravelly), or if they are eating the waste products of other food production (e.g. corn stalk silag
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by Kerrick 4y ago
Way back in 2009, Tim Berners-Lee declared Web 3.0 should be about linked data and the semantic web. https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0427-web30-tbl/
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by Kerrick 4y ago
For one thing, TFA is written by someone whose livelihood is earned at a competing software mega corporation & browser vendor. Their job title is, "Microsoft Partner PM on Edge."
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by Kerrick 4y ago
I use the bookmark feature built into my web browser, which also syncs with my smartphone. For bookmarks I want to share publicly, I just drop them onto a hand-coded HTML page on my website: https://kerricklong.com/bookmarks
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by Kerrick 4y ago
The tool from TFA also breaks the user free from thinking about layout entirely, and can export to Mermaid. It's a pretty fancy-looking way to _quickly create_ a graph that I plan to try instead of manually typing Mermaid syntax next t
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by Kerrick 4y ago
The tool from TFA can export to Mermaid. I've used Mermaid to lay out some DAGs to visualize prerequisites & parallelizable tasks in large projects, and it certainly isn't as fast to use as Knotend seems it'd be.
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by Kerrick 4y ago
MacOS versions tend to receive security updates for 2 additional years after they’re supplanted, so it’s more like 7-8 years. Plus, all of the Macs that aren’t eligible for Ventura can use Bootcamp to install Windows or dual boot into Linux

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