Teknoman117

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by Teknoman117 9y ago
I would also add that for some of the campuses (I went to Merced), check out local housing and skip the "dorm life." The UC housing expenses in Merced were about 4 - 5 times what it cost to split a rental house in town. And thes
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
I don't understand why the cost of higher education has gone up so much. My grandparents paid for college via a job they only held in the summer and my parents paid for college working part time during the school year and full time in
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
I went to one of the UC schools and left with $121k in debt ($100k borrowed plus the interest I couldn't pay off while working during school). Basically didn't qualify for any sort of scholarships or grants due to my parents maki
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
Well, this 'dead industry' still supplies 20% of the United States' electricity and 75% of France's electricity. Hell, France is even a net exporter of electricity...
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
And how many people have died inhaling fumes from coal fired plants and mining coal?
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
Do you need to license Thunderbolt to use it? I thought you just had to buy their transceiver chips (which just hang off a PCIe3 x4 interconnect).
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
How do product liability laws cover vulnerabilities no one knew exist. Let's say it isn't a case of lack of forethought or ignoring bug and vulnerability reports, how do these laws treat it then?
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
So why is he leaving Microsoft out of the mix? He claims Google having an 88% share in advertising is a monopoly, why then claim that Microsoft is not a monopoly when it has a similar share of the PC space? He says that Microsoft competes
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
Does anyone know of a video of the easter mechanism of the strasbourg astronomical clock running on the new year? I couldn't seem to track one down...
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
I'm at a loss a bit, are they directly tapping underground sources of hot pressurized liquid and not using some form of heat exhanger? How would they deal with various minerals dissolved in the water from gumming up their turbines or
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by Teknoman117 9y ago
Is this usable in the United States?
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by Teknoman117 10y ago
I almost wonder if running your own space program is cheaper. As in the amount of regulatory BS you have to go through due to the monopolistic behavior of the large pharmaceutical companies...
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by Teknoman117 10y ago
The API appears to be a near clone of the Metal API.
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by Teknoman117 10y ago
You know, the worst part about this is the claim made on the WebGPU blog post - "Microsoft has Direct3D 12, Apple has Metal, and Khronos has Vulkan. None of these run across all platforms." The only holdout for Vulkan adoption i
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by Teknoman117 10y ago
Wow, I actually just got done building a home NAS for myself. As far as storage controllers, I managed to find myself a working SAS 9201-16i for $50 on eBay (16 port SAS card, only supports IT/HBA mode). Also got some cheap used 10 G
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by Teknoman117 11y ago
You'd be safe. First thing is that they are probably uninterested in we Linux & BSD users to begin with, but, entertaining the notion, I have a few thoughts. The two methods of how this works could be blocked. For systems without
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by Teknoman117 12y ago
Honestly we should probably start building desalination facilities statewide so that we can begin to supplant the natural supply. The one being built in San Diego is a few months away from coming online and it will be providing 33% of the