Majromax

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by Majromax 5y ago
I wonder if this could explain some system instability I've seen. The long and short of it is that my desktop is unstable if CPU power management features (sleep states) are enabled. In particular, I would experience seemingly random
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by Majromax 5y ago
> The four screen plan has always, since it's inception, stated that is for four people who live in your household in the terms. As I read it, this is the parent poster's point. An individual person is unlikely to use Netflix
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by Majromax 5y ago
> CDs have significant error correction codes so if it sounds right it IS right. For data CD formats, yes. For audio CD formats, readers are allowed to interpolate over uncorrectable errors ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Majromax 5y ago
That's not quite it. The bottled water / tap water comparison is still transporting exactly the same commodity. Liquefied natural gas, however, is much denser than its non-liquefied equivalent. Per Wikipedia, Nordstream 1 can de
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by Majromax 5y ago
Batteries are generally less able to source current when very cold. At low temperatures, the battery was sufficient to power your phone in a low-draw state (minimal network activity, no screen, low power CPU state), but the voltage dropped
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Nor were slaves mere physical labor. Some slaves were not mere physical labour. However, many famers and miners were still enslaved people, worked in far more brutal conditions without the hope of manumission.
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by Majromax 5y ago
> You can't take a vague dataset and then "correct" it like this without absolutely huge error bars. That ship has already sailed; Tesla makes active safety claims based on that dataset. To hold research to your standard
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by Majromax 5y ago
I don't see any explanation about 30-day online requirements at your link. However, you may have provided the wrong link: the FAQ is about a technical alpha build rather than the full release.
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by Majromax 5y ago
I developed the same habit after working on numerical code in Matlab. `i` can sometimes be sqrt(-1), but `ii` is always a variable. For greatest disambiguation, it's best practice to write `1i` for the complex number and leave `i` un
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by Majromax 5y ago
> What about the Bill of Rights allows States to infringe rights but not the 'federal government'? The grandparent poster is arguing against the doctrine of incorporation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inco
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by Majromax 5y ago
> I am a bit of a noob when it comes to American legal system and also the following of precedence. So let’s say if a small town in Texas decides x is legal or not legal, does that mean the rest of the country has to follow? "Preced
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by Majromax 5y ago
> (probably because of whatever change makes it more transmissible but still basically random chance/evolutionary pressure) That's the trick. Delta already appears to be very, very transmissible. If Omicron's growth is d
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by Majromax 5y ago
This would be consistent with Omicron having certain immune-escape features. People who previously had strong, neutralizing immunity (from vaccination or prior infection) may experience reinfection/breakthrough infection, but because
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by Majromax 5y ago
From https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h6.html >> Consequently, [February 23 2021]'s H.6 statistical release combines release items "Savings deposits" and "Other checkable deposits" re
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by Majromax 5y ago
Isn't that just cryptocurrency?
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by Majromax 5y ago
Superheterodyne receivers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver ) use a local oscillator to downmix the received radio or television signal for processing at a much more sane, lower frequency. That loc
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by Majromax 5y ago
> It is absolutely clear at this point that these vaccines will not eradicate covid. [...] > The 1918 flu pandemic ended without a vaccine. Covid will pass as well. You're begging the question here. As best as we can tell, vari
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Do you think that 20 cheap telescopes give the same benefit as one great one? Arguably, it could give greater benefit. Time on the Hubble (now) and JWT (eventually) is very carefully controlled. Observation campaigns have to be schedu
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by Majromax 5y ago
> I don't think anything else could better express just how bad the government is at deploying capital than the sentence above. Not really. This is a great expression of how hard it is to deploy capital in a one-off manner, to a st
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Is the inadequacy of existing mechanisms to protect against STDs your primary impediment for having sex at the moment? It doesn't need to be a primary impediment. Look at it in an economics sense: fear of and precautions over S
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by Majromax 5y ago
Dragged through what? It's not like the interstellar medium has friction. In addition, our entire solar system condensed out of the same primordial soup, with the same sort of motion about the galaxy. Just as our sun is in motion abo
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by Majromax 5y ago
No, it's an inherent problem whenever a packet-switched, multi-user, shared channel inherently built around queued transmission tries to emulate real-time protocols, the earliest of which is "a directly-connected wire." This
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by Majromax 5y ago
> and specifically every state has a requirement for a window to be built inside of each sleeping room for egress fire safety. From your second link, that window requirement does not apply to type R.2 buildings (apartments) where there i
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by Majromax 5y ago
> If it’s actually a good design, it should stand up to scrutiny like any other building design does. Well, define scrutiny? There's technical criticism from the standpoint of safety, for example. If it's not possible to evacu
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by Majromax 5y ago
From the floor plan linked elsewhere in this thread, I count ten stairwells spaced around the perimeter of the building, which would imply a ratio of about 450 residents per stairwell.
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by Majromax 5y ago
On the other hand, is an architecture degree the right credential to criticize the proposal? The strongest critique seems to come from the social science side with an argument that windowless rooms are bad for mental health. I'm inter
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by Majromax 5y ago
> They made 4000% on the premium paid in, not on capital. No practitioner uses such concept because it's not useful. Since they were able to invest only the premium paid in, I don't see why this isn't a useful metric. If
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Also, most people (at least in the US) grew up around cars, so you expect a 20 year old and a 70 year old to grasp what a steering wheel is. For that matter, the steering wheel the 20 year old is using today is very similar to the stee
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Basic URL parts like (http/https)://(server)/(address) is not that much more complicated, is it really? Yes. http[s]://www.facebook.com/my/profile?token=goes_here&other_params and http[s]:&#
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by Majromax 5y ago
> Nobody ever questioned that you have to learn driving a car. At the same time, nobody ever questions what you don't learn to drive a car. You have one acceleration pedal; you don't have separate controls for the fuel/

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