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by ansible 7y ago
I recall some in-game commentary from TF2 where they talked about the design of each class. And how they worked hard to ensure that the look and even the outline of each class was unique to aid identification. What happened to that?
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by ansible 7y ago
CRDB is compatible with the PostgreSQL wire protocol, so you can use existing database drivers (in C#, Golang, whatever) to talk to a CRDB instance. The SQL itself is slightly different (no two databases are the same these days), so that w
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The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment(hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)
2 points by ansible 7y ago|0 comments
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by ansible 7y ago
It won't be just Intel, but the entire semiconductor industry, and everything that depends on it. I was mentioning Intel because they have been a leader in semiconductor process technology, often the first to ship product at a new proc
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by ansible 7y ago
Oh, we've a long backlog of software improvements. The question is, what drives stock values? What drives the entire industry?
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by ansible 7y ago
> I, for one, welcome the end of our Moore's Law overlords. I think if you fully understood the implications of this, you wouldn't be so sanguine. We're already seeing the effects of a stalling out of process improvement
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by ansible 7y ago
> Can't, say, Ericsson take the radios in their cell towers or picocells, redo their tape-outs for phone scale, and end up with a workable mobile radio? Generally speaking, no. Sometimes in the base stations, you'll find FPGA
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by ansible 7y ago
That's a good question. Yes, margins are low for most phones, most of the time. And cheaper modem chipsets would help with that. But if everyone had cheaper chipsets... then the phones would be a little cheaper. But I don't th
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by ansible 7y ago
Cold Fusion, for me, was the first time I felt I was living in the future. I had first heard about CF in the Usenet science newsgroups. Then a guy was attending the press conference, and posting what was announced. (The 1989 version of live
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by ansible 7y ago
Is that a reference to A Fire Upon the Deep?
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by ansible 7y ago
> Making a good OS is easy, but getting mindshare/appshare is difficult... Making a good OS is hard, and getting market share in an established market is very, very difficult.
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by ansible 7y ago
My setup, which I need to finish, is an old laptop. You can get a SATA hard drive adapter for the optical slot on many laptops. So you can put in two 2TB hard drives. My laptop only has USB 2.0, so that's a downside. But you have a
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by ansible 7y ago
Also an older gamer. I don't read much about the latest games, and my rig needs a serious upgrade as well... However, when I do read articles about game development and such, some games get mentioned more than others. For their gamepla
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by ansible 7y ago
I don't recall much discussion of home-schooled kids. Unless the parents are deliberately limiting the children's socialization with peers their own age, I'd expect that it doesn't matter. The common misconception is th
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by ansible 7y ago
Well, they want to make money. The design is revolutionary enough that if it does make it into production, there's a decent chance of success.
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by ansible 7y ago
Indeed. I was recently reading "The Nurture Assumption" by Judith Rich Harris. Many parents believe they have a large influence on their children's personality (traits like confidence). However, it seems like the influence o
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by ansible 7y ago
SiFive work with the RISC-V architecture, which is completely open, intentionally so. The Mill folks have been careful to patent everything interesting before publicly talking about it.
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by ansible 7y ago
Hilarious and sad describe much of Doctorow's work. Though I'd characterize "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" as superbly creepy.
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by ansible 7y ago
You might enjoy Cory Doctorow's recent book "Radicalized": https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ The protagonist starts out by jail-breaking her toaster, which was designed on only toast
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by ansible 7y ago
It's not about trying to boot off the micro-SD card, it is being able to just pop out the card, and get all the data that was stored on it.
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by ansible 7y ago
That's weird. I get calls from scammers occasionally, but they don't ever leave VM.
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by ansible 7y ago
> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? I'm sure it has its bubble-living adherents here. Then again, so did Quora. To know what's going through the USA President's brai
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by ansible 8y ago
Years and years ago I traveled to Japan. It seemed like a very safe place. I had heard about crime in Japan, and the year before had (allegedly) less than 100 murders for the entire country, which puts the murder rate far, far below the re
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by ansible 8y ago
> There is already a stall warning alarm on all modern planes and have been for decades. Yes, which by intentional design doesn't cover every situation you would encounter with the 737 MAX... because they wanted to make it more
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by ansible 8y ago
> You can fix Boeing's reckless greed and willful negligence with software!? I can't, but Boeing can fix things with software and a lot of money . They need to do what they've been unwilling to do, which is go for a
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by ansible 8y ago
That position in the linked article is a bit extreme. The situation can be easily and safely fixed in software, but it will cost a lot of money. The MCAS system needs to step back to being an advisory-only system, just warning the pilots if
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by ansible 8y ago
> If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink. > Names are not as useful as you think. Ummm... no. I don't have the time and desire to compl
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by ansible 8y ago
There are some consistently good commenters whose usernames I recognize. I will give anything they say slightly more weight than a random stranger. So usernames are useful to me.
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by ansible 8y ago
I'm increasingly suspicious of all 3rd party sellers. Even on Newegg, I'm usually avoiding the 3rd party sellers, unless it is such a specialized item that it isn't sold by Newegg themselves. And I too am often looking at the
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by ansible 8y ago
Eh, there are a number of strong personalities involved in all three projects, and they all have their own priorities. So some kind of split was a natural outcome. As a consequence, all three projects have their own focus (formed in part b

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