SavantIdiot

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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Apple acquired a large number of Intel chip designers and architects about 2 years prior to M1 launch. That might not have been enough time to impact the overall architecture of M1, but I think it is possible M1 carries a lot of Intel desig
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
You know who can stop this? You. The only reason Hollywood has power is because you buy DVDs and go to movies. If you stopped, Hollywood would go broke. Quibbling about Intel or legislation is pointless. Just don't buy their product an
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Totally. My issue with the LoTR fight scenes is that they don't look natural. The lighting is all off because they want to show everyone's face all the time. It ended up feeling very ... flat. (Putting aside the constant banter of
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
"Requiem for a Dream" is a peak fad, notorious for using "MTV Editing": it has over 1500 cuts. Completely unheard of.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Let's say I write some JS widgets and want to reuse them on multiple sites. What kind of license do you recommend? It's not open source, but is there a good boilerplate for this kind of thing? Or a question-tree like GitHub's
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Packagers solve the caching issue. Despite their complexity and annoyances, it's hard to go back now.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Let's go back to 2002, toshiba announces 1GB compact flash memory card with a read speed of 6.5MB/second (maximum). Compare that to 2002 Hynix Net DDR II with a read speed of about 100MB/s and clearly you can see how wrong I
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
The key here is that it is RAM-like WRITE speed. We've had RAM-like read speed for over 20 years.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
+1 for introducing me to the B&K 8600. It never occurred to me to search for a DC load device. I've been building FET-based loads and using a power supply to calibrate them. /smacks forehead/ This is what you miss when yo
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Searching for jumpers, bridges, wire annotations or anything really in PDF schematics is such a PITA (CTRL-F then look for the tiny blue highlight). It would be great if MCU vendors would do something like this for their entire eval boards&
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> bored people will give themselves electric shocks That's masochism, not sadism. When I get incensed on the internet it is due to overt display of -isms, and not a desire to hurt someone (or get hurt), but more of: your attitude an
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I didn't know what you meant so I googled it. The technology is cool, but the content is ... problematic. From urban dictionary: "Waifu" is used to refer to a fictional girl or woman (usually in Anime, Manga, or video-ga
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> shittier performance Depends what you're writing. People aren't going to write performance-sensitive apps in Electron, like FPS games where customers demand 4K 120 FPS with full graphics enabled. But for Image burners (balena
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
It is essentially impossible for user-space applications to crash Linux. This is a property of Linux itself. A user-space application can call into the kernel through very focused API layers, which in turn calls hardware drivers. Those can
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I've been paying for one license of LastPass to use on multiple computers and phones since 2012. Never any problems. What the heck are y'all doing with it that makes it so unreliable for you? The only problem I have is that my iPh
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
There's a difference between being racist and speaking truth to power. Jello Biafra was powerfully anti-racism, which is what this thread is about. He punched up.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
There's huge a difference between a WW2 documentary accurately depicting the axis and allies, and the US films of the 1980's that were all anti middle-eastern / north african propaganda of wars that never happened. I believe
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I'm pulling for ya! Have you been doing at-home dialysis or at a facility?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
This is great news. The organ donor wait list is 6-8 years for most organs (kidneys, livers, etc.). Please be an organ donor.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
One problem is the DC voltage requirement is different for every device. Look at the wall-warts in your house. I have in my lab: 24V, 19V, 17V, 12V, 5V, 3.3V. Yeesh. If you delivered 48VDC you'd still need a DC SMPS at each point, but
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Can you just start pumping current into the transformer on the pole outside your house, just like that? Even if the meter doesn't "spin backwards", is that safe to do? (Not considering the other top-level comment about the gr
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> You don't have to follow news, politics and social media But what about the hundreds of millions that don't opt out, and spawn the lunacy?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I'm with you 100%. I think Stross is just going for laughs. 2031 is way too soon for much of this, when you consider where we were in 2011 compared to today. Musk may shoot his load to the Moon or Mars for twitter likes, but in terms o
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> will be going into the cocktail of childhood vaccinations that Christianist preachers like to rail against, along with HPV. I think he's being too generous.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Sounds like anomie. What did your therapist say about this? Different anti-depressants have different effects. Not sure what you were on, but if it was an SSRI, perhaps a tricyclic would have been better, or vice versa. The symptoms you exp
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I believe that's why ChaCha20 is used with Poly1305 to provide authentication, which is why you see it referred to as ChaChaPoly.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
It's the "Thiel Foundation". It is in his name. But that is why I said it is up to the individual. Some people could care less, other people at least want to know if the board is ethical. I would put in the effort to know if
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
A) On what basis do you claim that all public companies are not ethical? (You said "any", but by definition that means "all".) B) By that logic, isn't all money tainted? And everyone of us? And every thing? This is
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I think the concern is that they are taking money from someone with highly debatable/questionable ethics.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
After watching people lose their minds over toilet paper, this is not going to be pretty.

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