Mr_Minderbinder

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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
>Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience. I am almost certain they would of. The "fringe" and "pseudoscience" labels are used much more bro
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
The Portuguese Wikipedia version of the Macau article (last I checked) reads like a historical adventure novel and is chock full of nationalist propaganda, endlessly praising certain officers and soldiers for their "bravery" and s
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
Has anyone else noticed how the articles for certain topics are written in a different style from how they once were? For example while reading about the Russian Civil War I came upon the article for the "Jewish Bolshevism" conspi
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
That article is a joke. >if you actually measure time from keypress to event Nobody measures keyboard latency this way because when you do the keyboards with less key-travel (Apple Magic) end up with lower "latency"; clearly an
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
>old supercomputers also sucked at latency too So why would you expect it to be better if you shrunk them down to micro size? That is the whole point of my comment, that the observed latency is better explained as a function of hardware&
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
Pointless to compare those toy computers against cherry-picked modern desktop which is the equivalent of an old supercomputer. Indeed if you look at the numbers for the older workstations: SGI Indy, NeXTcube, Symbolics 3620 they are not tha