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by ajnin 6y ago
Too bad they chose a name already taken by another very well established IC packaging technology : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_outline_integrated_circu...
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by ajnin 6y ago
Unfortunately Firefox is guilty of that Unpardonable Sin. Often I will open a new window to search for something and start typing my request right away, since the address/search bar should be focused on new windows. If the window takes
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by ajnin 6y ago
A similar behavior happens in the game ROM dumping community, owners of very rare or sometimes unique arcade boards often refuse to release ROM dumps, or do so only in a small group of individuals. They would lose nothing if they released i
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Libraries scanning old books and applying a new copyright on them (which shouldn't be possible, scans are not a creative act) is a common issue.
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Then he would not have had access to the body of knowledge accrued by others to build upon his theory of infection. He would probably have made some scientific progress - provided the circumstances did not make him a brick layer instead - b
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I'd have thought the opposite : run the CPU at full power so you can terminate short tasks quickly and go back to sleep. Then if the task takes longer, throttle down as needed to regulate heat dissipation. Since there are a lot of smal
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The CPU actually contains many gates, only the ALU is a single gate.
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This is pretty cool, since there is no word size you can chose to compute numbers of any size you want when you write the program. It's pretty fitting for a calculator application.
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by ajnin 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I've been having the same few (dozen or so) pictures in a loop. Maybe the differences are too subtle to notice to the non-professional eye. Also I feel the resolution is a bit too low to really tell, the scars are
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Some computer magazines of the 80's actually included so called "Floppy ROMs", actually thin vinyl records, in the magazine pages ! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Age
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Yes it's really stupid. All the poor people who barely get by are on the brink of becoming rich if only they shared an apartment with others and started to eat peanut butter sandwiches every meal ? What if you barely have enough to liv
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That's not how it works, Amdahl's law is about the execution speedup you get by splitting a task across multiple cores, it is not about how many tasks you can run simultaneously on those cores, usually when we're talking ab
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A cursory search returns many examples, for instance : https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/comcast-still-use...
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Very interesting. I'm wondering if this has implications in physics ? Since "the book of nature is written in mathematical language", does this mean that attempts to find a unified theory of everything are doomed ? I'm t
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A cult classic. This whole thing looks like something out of a cartoon. I especially love the shot of the cart with boxes of dynamite haphazardly thrown together and someone's leg resting on top of it.
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Are you?
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Not everything is chiral, for example take the mirror image of a water molecule : it's the same thing.
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by ajnin 6y ago
The SB card uses a number of old sound ICs that are simply not manufactured any more, and can't be bought from Mouser. Chinese shops are now the only source for these, and in my experience buying a few, they do work. No idea where they
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by ajnin 6y ago
Don't know about the actual cookies, but I'm pretty sure the "click a simple button to accept all but go through a long and slow process to reject"-pattern is not compliant with GDPR.
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The case you describe for Wikipedia would be a functional cookie, not subject to a banner, while Facebook would use a tracking cookie, subject to a banner. I think that the fact that a lot of websites nag you with endless lists of cookie co
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by ajnin 6y ago
Interesting idea. I wonder how much height difference you would need so that gravity gives you enough energy to power the regenerator at the bottom? The actual energy would come from ... the gravity field of the Earth?
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Not really, neurons are one of the few types of cells that don't undergo a cycle of death/creation of new cells. The neurons you had when you were born are the same you have now. They probably encode a lot of information that woul
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The "transfer of conscious processes" does not seem more feasible to me at all. We have absolutely no way to do that right now, we don't even know what consciousness is. I don't know of any research avenues on the subjec
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Okay as a tool to create tutorials or lessons this is pretty cool. It was not clear from the title and home page that this is the target but looking at the demo video makes this clear. As a tool to actually document code however as the titl
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HTML5 <video> tag works just fine if you want to put a video up somewhere.
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According to A. Einstein you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between two inertial frames of reference. Physics would behave exactly the same. So if you don't hit your exhaust in the first instance you won't in the ot
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They did use robots leftover from the Lunokhod lunar exploration program and a robot sent by West Germany, however the radiation level was so high that they failed almost immediately. They had to resort to using "biorobots", as th
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This has nothing to do with presumption of innocence. Presumption of innocence means that you are considered innocent until legally proven guilty in court. It is a very fundamental value of a democratic justice system that guarantees that y
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You don't need to recreate a full planet-sized magnetic field for that, you can more feasibly put a much smaller dipole at the L1 Lagrange point that will deflect the solar wind sufficiently so that it avoids Mars.
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Yes. I suspect a large part of why so many shows fail according to Netflix is that people have already been bitten once or more by cancelled shows and they'll now wait for a few seasons to see if the show is rolling before watching. It

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