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by ben7799 3y ago
I think this is probably dependent on the college/university in question and is not necessarily universal. The author is right to think it's a problem, and I think many of the examples show weaknesses in those professors or depa
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by ben7799 3y ago
Count me in as someone who thinks the cult was a lot more significant back in the days when Apples products really kind of sucked (late 90s especially). If the iPhone is a cult it's bigger than Catholicism and almost as big as Islam.
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by ben7799 3y ago
Something that happens zero or 1 time in the lifetime of the vehicle is not "routine maintenance". And if you haven't had maintenance on a gasoline powered car that lasted more than a day I would wonder if you've ever ow
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by ben7799 3y ago
Your remarks about the paper temporary plates are interesting. Massachusetts is the opposite, you almost never see temporary plates. I don't even recall having one, and I've had a MA license and/or registration for most of t
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by ben7799 3y ago
Kind of amazing the article doesn't contain the word latency a single time. It's good they're improving throughput/bandwidth but it doesn't help the big problem which is the latency.
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by ben7799 3y ago
I'm amazed I've never played any version of this AFAICT. (Maybe I played something before Falcon 3.0 in the 80s at someone's house or I'm just forgetting) I loved the flight sim games of that era. I haven't playe
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by ben7799 3y ago
I'm quite happy with the monthly streaming "lease" from Apple or Spotify. "Buying" digital files from Apple/Amazon whoever is where I feel like the least value is. At least for music they've mostly gotten
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by ben7799 3y ago
Yep... it is so hard to believe WBCN, WFNX, and WAAF are all gone. Radio in Boston is atrocious these days. It is really hard to believe there is actual demand for what Clear Channel has jammed the dial with. I think the only reason som
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by ben7799 3y ago
Thanks for the reply.. the main picture in the article looks significantly harder than 5.9+ to my amateur climber eyes, I'm not sure if there person above realizes 5.9+ is a specific rating in some places and 5.9+ doesn't mean 5.1
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by ben7799 3y ago
Yah you have to think about this in the context of really bad C code from the 1990s. It was really common for people to stuff pointers in ints and ints in pointers and do all kinds of really abusive things with the memory system in C. It w
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by ben7799 3y ago
Turbo Pascal is probably the key thing that led me to end up studying CS and becoming a software engineer. I had dabbled in Basic starting around 10, I took a summer camp coding class, which would have been pretty novel in the late 80s I g
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by ben7799 3y ago
I have this weird view/feeling that the Bay area opportunities have steadily shifted towards all the negative stuff over the past 20 years. It's obviously not the whole picture but it tarnishes the reputation. It's like eve
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by ben7799 3y ago
This has zero mention of the quality of work. If you don't want to work for MS or Amazon Seattle probably doesn't look as good. Hardly scientific but I tend to think each city seems to have attracted different kinds of companies,
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by ben7799 3y ago
I feel like it's gotten actively worse. It might just be my expectations were always that it would get better, and it hasn't. Or that I know they laid people off, so knowing that I expect it to get worse. I'd switch but eve
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by ben7799 3y ago
There have been some really serious ones.. going back years. Dodge/Chrysler U-Connect had a ridiculous vulnerability that allowed getting all the data and even controlling/disabling the car over the internet. https://ww
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by ben7799 3y ago
Did the article imply we buy any from Russia at all? The existing reactors don't use this fuel. This fuel is being ramped up for new reactors that haven't been built yet.
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by ben7799 3y ago
Obviously it is digital and Omnimax (not IMAX) is analog but how does the Sphere compare to Omnimax? Is it an even bigger field of view? The most recent time I went to an Omnimax was to see Oppenheimer, but it actually wasn't that gr
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by ben7799 3y ago
Last time I tried a System 76 laptop it was great when I was plugged in at my desk doing dev work. Better than a Macbook Pro. But when I had to unplug it in the office to go to a meeting it was just terrible... support for plugging/un
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by ben7799 3y ago
I owned a V8 Mustang in my early 20s, and I test drove a Mach E recently and it's a very exciting drive. I haven't driven the Model Y yet, but I have driven the ID.4. Those 3 are really the sweet spot in terms of what I will mo
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by ben7799 3y ago
Anytime I drive through VT or NH it's amazing how well the construction workers direct traffic, and they don't get to charge $100 an hour or whatever the police actually charge.
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by ben7799 3y ago
Came here to mention this. It's the biggest shakedown of all time in Massachusetts. They are required to do all these jobs that most states don't require them to do. They are extremely expensive, like 10x what a construction wor
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by ben7799 3y ago
Canon has nice configurable presets and has had them for a very long time if you want to avoid Lightroom/whatever. But an iPhone/Android is much much less conspicuous, which is a huge advantage for street photography.
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by ben7799 3y ago
It's the content of the photos that matters though, and on that front unless you're into very specific types of shooting most people don't care about any advantage "Pro" gear brings. If you're out there shootin
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by ben7799 3y ago
RAW formats on digital cameras are also storing data in a log format. RAW conversion process is normally converting that to a color space along with (for most cameras) doing the De-Bayer algorithm. The built in converter that produces JPG
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by ben7799 3y ago
For a stunt car like this there's not a huge need or desire to have it powering the wheels at all. The direct air thrust will push the car just fine, doesn't need a transmission, has zero issues with wheel spin or traction, and so
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by ben7799 3y ago
I am OK with AI being allowed to train on publicly accessible data, I'm not sure I see a big difference between me reading something publicly accessible versus a computer program reading the data. I do think however that we are mostly
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by ben7799 3y ago
Yes, and it's been this way for at least 10 years at this point. My first wave of ripping CDs in the early 2000s this stuff wasn't around yet. But I redid everything around 2013 and ripped them all as FLAC, and by that point EAC a
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by ben7799 3y ago
I think most people didn't get a CD-ROM drive till the 486 was common. 386s did not come with CDs till late in their lifetime, by the time the 486 was becoming affordable most computers had a CD-ROM drive.
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by ben7799 3y ago
I still love CDs. I started buying them around 1990-1991. I started with MP3 in 1996 but kept buying CDs. I think I got an iPod in 2003, I digitized all my CDs by 2004-2005 and I did go through a period from about 2005-2013 where I bo
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by ben7799 3y ago
I think some older than me may remember differently, but I'm slightly older than you and I'd actually say I think for people who could afford computers there weren't that many years between getting their first CD-ROM equipped

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