MrRadar

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by MrRadar 5y ago
I wonder how much of this spike in violent crime is being driven by people just being burned-out by the slow-motion and, frankly, boring "apocalypse" that is the pandemic? I've personally noticed that reckless driving is also
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by MrRadar 5y ago
The problem is that police have very little accountability to the citizens they are policing. I live in Minneapolis which has been at the center of these controversies, and the closest citizens get to influencing police policy is by electin
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Are people on college campuses generally clamoring to see a standup routine from Jerry Seinfeld? As the article points out, he's 66 years old and his humor is self-described as "observational". Maybe today's college stud
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by MrRadar 5y ago
The market for stand alone head units has completely collapsed in the US. This largely comes down to head units in newer cars being tightly integrated with the rest of the vehicle (particularly using non-standard form factors for mounting i
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Any head unit new enough to support CarPlay or Android Auto is also probably new enough that it's already in a vehicle with a backup camera...
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Lead acid batteries suck for more reasons than just their size and weight. One major disadvantage is that the faster you discharge them the less of their charge you will actually recover[1]. Additionally, discharging them below 50% capacity
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by MrRadar 5y ago
JPEG XL's party trick is that you can losslessly (and reversibly) transcode regular JPEG images to XL images, at less CPU cost than fully decoding and then encoding, for a size savings of ~30%. I think this will be enough to put it ove
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I want to see those things go away too, but we're going to need to significantly increase the energy efficiency of our entire society to be able to achieve that. Cryptocurrency mining is anti -efficient, by design . How much coal gen
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by MrRadar 5y ago
The environmental harms of cryptocurrencies hurt everyone . It's a classic externality.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
If you're looking for an alternative, Target's store card also gives you 5% off and it is applied instantly at the time of purchase (you don't have to "redeem" the refund later or anything).
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by MrRadar 5y ago
While true, helmets do prevent other types of injuries such as skull fractures. They're still worth wearing.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Eh, my modem syncs at the full 20 Mbps line rate for upload, I can't help that some of that gets eaten up in overhead for framing and error correction and other such things. You usually don't even get a full 1 Gbps with gigabit fi
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I have VDSL2 service from CenturyLink and I actually get better speeds than I pay for (I pay for 40/20 and get around 47/18 in speed tests).
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by MrRadar 5y ago
For those who have never heard of Ambisonics, it's a surround-sound format based on taking the concept of differential stereo and extending it to three dimensions. Differential stereo is of course where instead of storing/transmit
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by MrRadar 5y ago
You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Have you considered D's "Better C" mode? https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
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by MrRadar 5y ago
How often do you drive that far? The farthest I drive in one go is 350 miles and I only make that trip once every other year because it's exhausting. (If I could fly there I probably would.) A vehicle with a 100 mile range would cover
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by MrRadar 5y ago
It should import from the previous release, so try reverting to 85 and upgrading through the intermediate versions.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
> There is no real disadvantage to dead reckoning as long as the system is always powered up. With dead reckoning the error accumulates over time. Because GPS provides absolute positioning it does not have that problem.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Bank transfers in the US are about to become much better once banks implement FedNow (scheduled to launch in 2023)[1]. You'll have to you use your bank's app but it should be possible to send PayPal/Venmo/CashApp-style p
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Leadership within a realm begets influence. The entire goal of the FSF as a political organization is to influence the software industry to follow the core principles of Free Software that it espouses. By failing to be in a leadership posit
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by MrRadar 5y ago
To the OP: that article is extremely biased in favor of RMS and focuses extremely narrowly on the Epstein/Minsky e-mails. Unfortunately I do not know of a good collection of his other failings (outside of the Minsky e-mails) to provide
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Have you never heard of the network effect? It would be extremely difficult to get users of GNU/GPL software to switch to alternatives after they're already made their choice.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
> Then why do you care at all about the FSF in the first place? It sounds like you're here just to spread rumors and opinions in this case. I can't answer for the OP but it's clear that the FSF was a in a leadership positi
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Not to mention how badly he mismanaged the paid staff of the FSF which prompted them to unionize: https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079987950395393 I think, if anything, this is the strongest argument for w
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by MrRadar 6y ago
And it's likely that a lot of the value of their savings that can be realized will be hoovered up by medical providers and nursing homes.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
It's a reference to this: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub There Is No Antimemetics Division and its sequel Five Five Five Five Five are some of the best sci-fi stories I've ever read.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Robert Baruch on Youtube is building a RISC-V CPU core of comparable complexity to the one in the OP using nMigen which is an HDL based on Python and it looks like a very nice tool to work with relative to other HDLs I've seen (though
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> and decided to not invest in making a compiler for it. For those who are unaware of the significance of this statement, Walter Bright wrote the Zortec C compiler for DOS (eventually rebranded as Symantec C) which he later extended to b
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Robert Baruch on Youtube is building a (relatively simple) RISC-V CPU core using nMigen and it looks like a very nice tool to work with relative to other HDLs I've seen (though I've never had to actually use an HDL myself before s

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