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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
You didn't read to the end. "Not to be confused with honestly thinking that Seinfeld is not funny."
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
That links to 20 more related lectures on resurgence here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTcmkBocYZU&list=PLx5f8IelFR...
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Not raw numbers, but the percentages of market share by desktop platform are listed here: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st... Mac is supposedly at 29.62%
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
A time lapse video: https://youtu.be/rxconvkLz2I?t=22
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
It's a mems device, not piezo.
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Personality disorders are very real and surprisingly prevalent, with 3.6% of Americans meeting the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder and 4.4% for paranoid personality disorder (the two disorders that are most likely to
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Intel canceled its order with TSMC. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/intel-cancel...
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Isn't this just the old concept of the "Gambler's Ruin"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Asymco once mentioned that Apple designs and builds all the tooling.
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
https://archive.ph/fqPVC
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
I thought the author would revisit the 90s discovery of "supertasters," people who have a heightened sense of taste. (People who like hot peppers usually have a diminished taste sensitivity and are not supertasters.) https:/
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
TSMC announced its new Phoenix Arizona fab would begin mass production in the first quarter of 2024.
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
The founder announced the launch of Prometheus (May 2019) on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's joke from 1972 about the Republican National Convention in Miami. "It's Disneyland under martial law." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/1/14/85582&#x
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
It's not a given that Leibniz invented calculus independently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz–Newton_calculus_contro...
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
"The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One," by Robert Prasch. Here's a good summary: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A151201230/AONE?u=googleschol...
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
>I don't see Apple making any effort to diversify the browser ecosystem by making their browser available on other operating systems... What about Webkit?
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by beautifulfreak 4y ago
"Stabilization of gamma sulfur at room temperature to enable the use of carbonate electrolyte in Li-S batteries" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
Also Christine, Starman, and Escape From L.A. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19085/directed-by-john-carpenter
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
Probably not the next Tamiflu. According to a June 2, 2021 article, "AB Science has halted clinical trials of masitinib after identifying a potential risk of ischemic heart disease." https://www.fiercebiotech.com/b
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
Further reading: https://brandonwilner.site/blog/stokes-prickett-foodie
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
Mindcrowd is one organization exploring memory "to advance Alzheimer's research". Older participants with high scores on its online memory test are sent a blood sample kit for DNA profiling. https://mindcrowd.org
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
IMDB has been getting slower and slower with feature bloat, to the extent I avoid it for doing movie-info searches. Thankfully there's a nice app for that I wish more people knew about: Coollector. https://www.coollector.c
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by beautifulfreak 5y ago
They must mean 10^24 watts per square centimeter.
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by beautifulfreak 6y ago
worth1000.com, for the daily dose of amazing photoshop art.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The server farm currently consumes 14 megawatts of the 106 megawatts of Greenidge's capacity. That's enough electricity to power well over 11,000 average U.S. homes.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Here's a Google doc showing the performance of various GPUs when folding: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v5gXral3BcFOoXs5n1M6...
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
This can happen in the US, too. I sat on a grand jury that heard a case involving the same scam.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
He mentions the Eidophor's only competitor, the GE Talaria, which is also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria_projector
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
There's an excellent documentary about him, "Don't Blink." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4779036/

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