QuantumRoar

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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Well, they are quite tiny. A billion transistors fit into the area of your thumbnail. A typical wafer used for lithography has a diameter of 300mm. You can fit quite a few processors on such a wafer and you only have to expose once at each
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
About two years ago or so, when I bought a 13" MBP, they had an intermediate resolution setting. But the OS started to lag und stutter when I switched between virtual desktops (I think it's called workspace). I believe this is bec
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I owned one of the 2014 or 2015 Macbook Pro 13" thingies. Its effective resolution was 720p. That information density is so low that I couldn't use it. Using the full resolution, things were too small. Anything in between was unus
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
You have a point. But as a non-native speaker trying to learn a language, you aim to become so fluent that people will not notice you're foreign. You want to be able to play with the language. A big part of learning a language is to be
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
You mean something like a camera that detects phones and then emits a laser beam onto their sensor?
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I do not expect privacy in a public place. But I do expect that not everything I do is recorded and then associated with my name on the Internet. But this is exactly the direction smartphones have taken us. I don't know if you have the
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
It really annoys me that I'm probably on more photos by accident than on purpose. Or someone takes a picture, I'm in the background and I just see the flash as if it was right in my face and I must wonder how stupid my face must h
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The question whether a time average over a long period of a random quantity in one system and an average over multiple systems over a short period are the same is the question for ergodicity [1]. If both are the same, the random process or
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
And not just bring attention to this case but to make sure that there is actually some support. I can't believe how Facebook can have business relations with someone on the order of magnitude of $100k a month and there isn't a sin
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
How does that even work?
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
No, I'm talking about something else which is actually a bit worse...
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
It's also very easy to "accidentally" put more people into a very large room than it would be allowed by working regulations. There's at least one large Silicon Valley company who likes to do that. The working conditions
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I've been using Signal for the past few months and I haven't noticed any issues. But I'm not exactly a heavy user.
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Remember that when Facebook promises something next time. I'm slowly moving communications over to Signal.
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Am I getting this right? Apple pays 1% or less on corporate profits in the EU. An EU court decides that this is bullshit and shouldn't be that way. Tim Cook complains that they made everything up and that the below 1% tax rate is reaso
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Yes. And another problem is that there's such a thing as electron confinement. It's the same effect as in the "particle in a box" solution of the Schrödinger equation where the particle's probability is zero next to
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Of course you're right but we're talking about two different things. I was telling you about how humans cope with complexity in science. You wouldn't get anywhere in science if you would always start from the most detailed th
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The same way you assume you can compute how a ball flies through the air without using quantum field theory. Turns out, the ball isn't noticeably influenced by its atomic structure. But then it turns out, some of biology might be. The
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I'm not a web developer but I sometimes put some programs on the web for me and my friends. I use FreeBSD Jails for that. Can someone explain to me the advantages of Docker compared to Jails?
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Many people don't even get to the point where they ask themselves "What makes me happy?" As you said, they see other people (or read lists), think they're happy, want to have the same, work for it, and end up at the same
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
But this list deals with mostly obvious things about how your startup may generate wealth. It has nothing to do with the people involved. Otherwise, the list in this guy's redundant writing style might be 1. Don't die. Many people
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Take a look at posteo.de A German privacy focused mail provider where you also get a calendar. I didn't use the calendar yet but their mail servers are faster than anything else I've seen. And you can encrypt your whole account on
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Preview fails me surprisingly often. Can't even PDF properly. Try something else. (I'm fun at parties too)
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
As a somewhat astronomer, this explanation seems reasonable. Usually you can't discern individual stars in another galaxy, like in the center of the Andromeda galaxy (But doing statistics is still possible). However, the Andromeda gala
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
> For 2.5 million years, those photons were freely zooming through space [...] Imagine the faces of Penzias and Wilson when they learned that the noise in their horn antenna wasn't bird poop but photons traveling 14 billion years wi
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The first web app that blows my knees out! Excellent work!
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
From what you wrote, I guess that you get into conflicts with other people or they complain about you. My general attitude has helped me in dealing with all kinds of people. Try to figure out what kind of person it is you are talking to bef
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Near-Threshold Computing(semiengineering.com)
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you are interested in but here's a short summary of the variability of stars. Stars in general are variable on a multitude of scales. The most popularly known cycle is the recurrance of sun spots, see
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Wow... Thanks for pointing that out. But I hope I can turn that off. That sounds really dangerous.

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