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by ableal 8y ago
Interesting, the "VW bites back and eats Porsche" take was the one passed to public perception. The car brand did get corralled into the VAG stable. A search on the phrase get confirming news like this: http://europe.a
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by ableal 8y ago
A parable for that viewpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)
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Funding idea: ask homeland security to pay for flora and fauna surveys. I suppose that CDC already does that for virus and bacteria ...
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by ableal 8y ago
"Perfection is attained on the point of collapse" (I thought I had read that somewhere, but the closest I find now is C.N. Parkinson's formulation, which I did read years ago ...)
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by ableal 8y ago
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" as it says in the classics ...
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by ableal 8y ago
> old Soviet thinking stratagems like the "axe theory" Made me look. Found http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/05.html """ The theory is known unofficially in the General Staff as
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by ableal 9y ago
> gedfunden One of those days, eh? (You spent all the attention on that first word ;-)
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by ableal 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law (Why ice-cream stands on a beach bunch together in the middle instead of being conveniently - for customers - distributed.)
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The space race is over and SpaceX won(cringely.com)
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by ableal 9y ago
A phrase in the article made me look up the price of raw silicon wafers, but although there are articles mentioning scarcity and 20% price hikes in 2017 (e.g. https://semiengineering.com/silicon-wafers-ma-and-price-hike...
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by ableal 9y ago
For a project, we had a couple of early 8086 samples rated only 4 MHz - the final product was 5 MHz.
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by ableal 9y ago
> emergency landing sites Well, there's beaches near some coastal cities that afford survivable landings, but may be risky for others. Last year there was a tragic case near Lisbon where two people on the ground died. It was a fligh
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by ableal 9y ago
> His disrespect for books as objects provides a clue to the nature of his library The fictional detective Pepe Carvalho goes one better - he rips off and tosses in the fireplace the pages he has read. ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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by ableal 9y ago
Back in the day, there were VAX minicomputers and VAX vacuum cleaners in peaceful coexistence ... (Not to mention the Apple music label and Apple Computer.)
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by ableal 9y ago
> vehicle maintenance is less costly Nowadays with turbos, injectors, particle filters (required in Europe from 2007) and other fiddly bits, it's not clear that diesel engines have an advantage. The particle filters are especially k
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by ableal 9y ago
In Microsoft's case, my guess is that it was just a research experiment. It worked pretty well on a few family photos I threw at it. I think that the site is not even working anymore. Anyways, they said they were not keeping the images
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by ableal 9y ago
That got me curious about digital clock chips. A quick search netted me this: https://www.ablicinc.com/en/doc/datasheet/real_time_clock/S3... They specify a typical current of 0.25 uA at 3V supply, that&
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by ableal 9y ago
"Origin of the name - In local class field theory, the group of units of the local field plays a central role. In global class field theory, the idele class group takes this role (see also the definition of the idele class group). The
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by ableal 9y ago
Apropos Getty, my understanding is that the gentleman cared about fine furniture and classical (Roman) sculpture, which were housed (along with some paintings, namely a Corot) in the original Getty Museum. This museum was a fine replica of
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by ableal 9y ago
Probably not, those compartments were generally shared by strangers, unless they were sleeper cabins. There were different price classes, though.
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by ableal 9y ago
Plus the NS 32000, "likely the first 32-bit general-purpose microprocessors on the market" , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx
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by ableal 9y ago
I'm equally pleased with the iLife A4 I got over a year ago, also from Gearbest. I admire its design - it's a fairly simple machine that gets most everything right, including climbing carpet, being fairly quiet, not bumping hard i
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by ableal 9y ago
> This brings us to the "Seneca effect" http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/08/seneca-effect-or... Thanks for the reference, seems a nicely concise overview. The resources and industrial output g
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by ableal 9y ago
Thanks, nice reference. The Wikipedia page has an amusing phrase: The Image is also well-known for defining a celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Im
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by ableal 9y ago
Comments there mention three later 'alternate futures' panels. They can be found through this page: https://boingboing.net/2009/08/07/r-crumbs-short-histo.html
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by ableal 9y ago
"5. The scholarly world is not a team of friends. What is your discovery is a loss for someone else. And this someone is usually a prominent and powerful person. Therefore having made a discovery do not expect universal delight. Be re
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by ableal 9y ago
I see EUR 629 at https://remarkable.com/store/reMarkable-and-marker Not cheap, but for that niche it seems a good iteration on the Kindle DX. I don't know how much better/faster the screen is, but the weight
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by ableal 9y ago
> The number of people addicted to this crap Eh. Now that you mention it, watching an optimizer battle out a 0.1% objective function improvement every couple iterations on a run that took a few hours total ... (But that was in another jo
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by ableal 9y ago
> Bjarne's made the mistake of having C++ rely on C's linker model, so it meant no modules. > Now we can see it as a big mistake, but on those days probably it was one of the reasons why C++'s adoption took off. No mist
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by ableal 9y ago
> watched over by machines of loving grace In SF, that poem would be what Iain M. Banks wrote of in the 'Culture' books - sort of "communism is A.I. plus electricity" ... From just the title, however, I was reminded o

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