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by Slartie 4y ago
It's not like they have 3nm chips ready the day after production. When they "begin production", it takes months until the first actual, working chip from that production leaves the fab. And then it's not like the day aft
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by Slartie 4y ago
Theranos and Holmes knowingly played with peoples' health by producing unreliable test results and marketing them as reliable. Neumann just parted some fools from their money. I'm fully in the camp of people wondering why anyone i
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by Slartie 4y ago
If he must buy TWTR at his advertised price with his own cash, he must liquidate way more TSLA - about 44bln$ worth, as far as I remember. He actually will have to liquidate way more, because liquidation is a taxation event, and he'll
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by Slartie 4y ago
> "Green light chime", come on. My 20 year old car also has that feature, and it is seriously useful, it's not a joke at all! It even has 3D spatial audio, as the chime seems to come from somewhere behind the trunk. And it
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by Slartie 4y ago
Interesting, I don't know any of your synonyms from my personal experience. The especially negatively connotated variant I know is 'McDoof' (basically 'McDumb' when translated to English).
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by Slartie 4y ago
In Germany it's fairly common to call McDonalds "Mäckes", which sounds very similar to "maccas" when spoken. This is an unofficial designation with a slightly negative touch as well, as it's often preferred to
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by Slartie 4y ago
"Musk Social"?
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by Slartie 4y ago
> Number of screens you can watch on at the same time You. Not your neighbor. Not your friends. Strictly by the sentence you quote to make your point, you would not even be allowed to share your "simultaneous streams" with memb
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by Slartie 4y ago
Yes, but that's a perfect illustration for one of copilot's essential flaws: "a lot of flies eat poop" (side note: is that actually a saying? Asking because in German it is, and it fits perfectly here). A lot of code is
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by Slartie 4y ago
I actually interpolated the word "down" at the end of the title. I was totally sure I've read it and only noticed that it wasn't really there when I saw your comment.
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by Slartie 4y ago
Which offerings? Are there any? I only know about other proprietary non-MS solutions like InstallShield, which also generate .msi files but use their own proprietary way to define the installation process, with the benefit/disadvantage
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by Slartie 4y ago
> The only current headache is that there's no pure Rust bundler, to make ".msi" or ".msix" installer files. I have set up a toolchain based on Wix, running via Mono and Wine on Linux, for the purpose of packagin
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by Slartie 4y ago
Yes, the measurement feature made me install it as well - no more "quick measurement by abusing the width/height display of the area screenshot selection tool". Took a bit to find out how it's activated though, discovera
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by Slartie 4y ago
I like this one too. You could add expansion packs that also simulate different soap dispensers and water armatures, so the story arc of how the hands got wet in the first place is covered as well. And challenges to remove various types of
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by Slartie 4y ago
Tetris doesn't incorporate a physically-correct simulation of water that needs to be sprayed in between dishes in order to remove the gunk, so the strategy to win Tetris would not be helpful to win a proper dishwasher simulator game, e
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by Slartie 4y ago
Did someone already develop a dishwasher loading/unloading simulator game? Could be a smash hit!
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by Slartie 4y ago
It should be noted that this "sending keys back to the bank" thing is a rather funny US-specific possibility. In most of the remaining parts of the world (speaking for Germany myself, for example) you can't just drop a houses
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by Slartie 4y ago
If you want to see some of the most complex multithreading systems, take a look inside modern browsers. That's what he means by "browser scale". I have some knowledge into working with Chromium's internals, and it is cra
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by Slartie 4y ago
> I love the "good luck". As if it's some magic that we do to get applications run on the internet. For those of us that haven't gone through the internet of the late 1990s or early 2000s as a software developer, wher
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by Slartie 4y ago
The complaints about the complaints about cloud costs vs on-prem often deliberately ignore that there is a spectrum of options between "cloud" and "on-prem". This is not a binary choice between these two extremes. Your a
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by Slartie 4y ago
ASML is not a leaf in the dependency tree of the global semiconductor fab supply chain. It does in turn rely on several other highly specialized partners to supply them with custom-developed components for lithography machines, well-known o
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by Slartie 4y ago
> Pay phones mitigated this in a low tech way - by software muting the handset. So does this mean that there was a dedicated second microphone hidden somewhere within the payphone body, that would continue to record the sound the coins m
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by Slartie 4y ago
It was obvious to the gamers who tried to buy a GPU for a reasonable price. If you put some time into this endeavor, you were bound to see all those cards coming in to retailers immediately being bought, with a few appearing on secondary ma
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by Slartie 4y ago
The most successful fraudsters eventually start to fully believe their own fraudulent story. This of course entails to do things that make sense in the fraudulent narrative, but are actually disadvantageous when judging them from a viewpoin
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by Slartie 4y ago
It is conceptually very simple to maintain a currency peg: just store 100% of reserves in the currency that you want to maintain the peg to, and promise to honor redemptions from those reserves at any time. What you describe as "diffic
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by Slartie 4y ago
This assumes all compute was crucial for business operation. In practice however, a lot of compute volume just serves expendable reasons such as for example marketing people trying to data-mine interesting leads out of terabytes of sales da
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by Slartie 4y ago
It is guaranteed - by Tether. But the effectiveness of this guarantee is what's questioned, and the only way to fully validate this guarantee is to wait until the USD have left any accounts controlled by Tether and arrived in your bank
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by Slartie 4y ago
There is nothing "instant" in the process of buying millions of USDT, then sending them over to Tether for redemption against USD. The redemption process of such sums is a manual process which takes at least some days, even if it
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by Slartie 4y ago
There is an upside of holding USDT (although not a monetary one): it serves as a "stable" store of value on non-USD-banked exchanges when trading other cryptos. Especially right now, with the market going down rapidly, a lot of pe
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by Slartie 4y ago
It's not "they" as in "the people behind Tether" who are paying the 3%. The 3% returns - assuming the exchange works out in the end and you get your 100k USD - are paid for by the random guys who owned the 100k USDT

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