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by Rychard 7y ago
I always give myself perfect scores on any self-review. If my manager wants to give me a lower score, that's not something I'm offended by; though I fully expect them to explain - in detail - all my shortcomings that resulted in t
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by Rychard 7y ago
Bittorrent tries to maximize the benefit of its P2P nature by not sending the same blocks to more than one peer. i.e. I'll send block 1 to one peer, block 2 to another peer. Then I can send blocks 3 and 4 to them (respectively), while
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by Rychard 7y ago
Sure, but if you have the file, you could generate these ahead of time on a more powerful machine. At any rate, I don't think users would balk at being given a choice.
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by Rychard 7y ago
In nearly every other room of the house, you're meant to sit down. The kitchen is optimized for walking between appliances. When the available seating is exhausted in the living room, it feels a bit strange to remain standing if every
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by Rychard 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
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by Rychard 7y ago
I wonder if the microcode changes to mitigate branch prediction vulnerabilities (i.e. Spectre) affect these results in any way.
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by Rychard 7y ago
It's not about entitlement; if the purpose of a name isn't to give people an easy way to remember something, what good is it? If the developer wanted to increase interest in the project, explaining the name could only further this
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by Rychard 7y ago
When my father had a heart attack, I was told to drive to the hospital, which was a ~10 minute drive (at the speed limit). Another family member called the hospital to let them know we were coming. During this drive, the speed limit matter
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by Rychard 7y ago
Seems like this is a pain-point that was self-inflicted by the companies themselves; selling service to many people without the infrastructure to back it up. That said, I'm not suggesting companies deploy 1:1 infrastructure in lock-ste
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by Rychard 8y ago
I see your point, but there would be nothing stopping them from double-dipping under the guise of "we need both revenue streams to pay the bills". They'll still show us advertisements, though they'll probably optimize th
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by Rychard 8y ago
It sounds like there's no advantage then; if we allow this, companies would be incentivized to harvest our data and run our CPUs at 100%. We'd just be giving them another revenue model.
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by Rychard 8y ago
Sure, but tapping the unused power of my high-end desktop PC seems to be far more valuable than doing the same thing to a mobile device with a constrained power profile. How can I be sure I'm not being taken advantage of?
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by Rychard 8y ago
For devices that are directly connected to the grid, I can somewhat see your point. However, a large portion of devices on the internet run on batteries, and don't have huge quantities of reserve power. Back to things such as desktop c
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by Rychard 8y ago
> I think blocking mining scripts is a step backwards, hindering the adoption of something that could finally be an unobtrusive and ethical replacement for the failing advertisement model. If the content on a website is just a vehicle f
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by Rychard 8y ago
> Despite the name, Skylines is really a traffic management game more than anything else The developer, Colossal Order, is also responsible for "Cities In Motion" and "Cities in Motion 2", both of which task the play
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by Rychard 8y ago
While there are many people who don't understand git's staging area, there are far less that understand how to selectively stage/commit chunks, or even that such functionality is available at all. It should be a crime for peo
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by Rychard 8y ago
This is such an astute observation, yet remarkably simple. I'd never stopped to think about it, but I think the world would be a much better place if more people did.
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by Rychard 8y ago
> Anyway, here's Wonderwall There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how.
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by Rychard 8y ago
1 core year = 12 core months 23 core years = 276 core months So, 276 cores running for one month? Is this right?
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by Rychard 8y ago
The linked Github repository[1] seems to 404 for me. I guess it wasn't meant to be made public? [1]: https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-clippy-app
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by Rychard 8y ago
A company can ban users from their platform for any reason, though.
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by Rychard 8y ago
> -How on earth does one get out of this thing when the power goes out? I guess they figure if you're the type of person to drop $3600 on this, you'd also have sufficient battery backup. On a more serious note, I assume the &
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by Rychard 8y ago
Having optional safety features on an airplane (i.e. not standard equipment) strikes me as being significantly more egregious (Edit: more so than on vehicles like cars/trucks for the general population). Considering how complex thes
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by Rychard 8y ago
> But why did we lose our knobs on expensive equipment? Because it was cheaper, and most companies/shareholders want better profit margins.
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by Rychard 8y ago
Wow, I read the EULA-thing for that executable. > I Agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy I understand that I will receive a subscription to Zoominfo Community Edition at no charge in exchange for downloading and installing th
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by Rychard 8y ago
Outline link: https://outline.com/https://www.wsj.com/articles/know-it-all...
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by Rychard 8y ago
I've worked at companies of all sizes, and at every one of those jobs, I've had some form of MSDN access. I've never ran into the issues you're referring to. Microsoft makes it both easy and cheap to obtain development
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by Rychard 8y ago
> physics is just drawing cartoons of reality with math https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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by Rychard 8y ago
I bought my 1080 TI just over a year ago (December 2017) from Newegg for $750. (Newegg item N82E16814126186) I'm glad AMD is finally catching up, but a savings of only $51 an entire year later doesn't exactly sound like a particul
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by Rychard 8y ago
This happens entirely too often for me, and the other result that ends up being focused on is "<x> \n See web results". I've never wanted to search for anything on the web from my start menu , and to make matters worse

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