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by bluedino 1y ago
Standard issue, probably not. But in use? Maybe sorta The Glock 18 is a selective-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra, and as a way to internally test Glock components und
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by bluedino 1y ago
One of my favorites let you do 132x43, too tiny on my cheap 14" though Text editors like EDIT.COM and the Borland IDE let you select 80x43/50 in the menu
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by bluedino 1y ago
> super-dense HPC data centers have used liquid cooling for at least 20 Hasn't this just been for things like rack doors and such? In the last ~two generations of servers it seems like now there's finally DLC (direct liquid coo
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by bluedino 1y ago
I find his takes all over the place, but I agree that the new icons are terrible and he makes some very good points. I'll add that the blue one doesn't even look like a wrench. I know that the old icons are dated and need to go, b
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by bluedino 1y ago
We encounter things like this all the time, they're fun to play around with. Assuming you have the ability to collect useful performance metrics... In a simple, ideal world, your developers can issue the same number of jobs as you have
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by bluedino 1y ago
> "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." Common to hear this in auto racing and probably a lot of other fields
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by bluedino 1y ago
LinkedIn is decent for jobs/searching/applying. That's all I really find it useful for. Things I don't find it useful for: Salespeople trying to sell me some enterprise product when I don't have anything to do with
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by bluedino 1y ago
When I was into pixel art games and 8 bit emulation, this caused me to stick with the MacBook Air instead of the Pro, because it had the traditional 1440x900 screen without funky scaling.
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by bluedino 1y ago
You still can, depends on where you go and where you stay. I'm seeing $300 for two nights and round trip flights from the other side of the USA right now if you don't mind staying at the Flamingo, Luxor, or Linq. Add $50 for somet
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by bluedino 1y ago
Even a small utility tractor is over 10,000lbs
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by bluedino 1y ago
Now let's talk about MS Access!
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by bluedino 1y ago
That's a Barnes and Noble proudly serving Starbucks coffee
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by bluedino 1y ago
I switched phones and somehow lost my Netscape (owned by AOL) email password. Would'nt have been a big deal but I had it linked to some famous .com service that I have been using since the 90's. I paid something like $10 to have a
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by bluedino 1y ago
On the other hand you can get things like million-dollar organ transplants.
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by bluedino 1y ago
686 protoypes with the artificial intelligence RISC chips
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by bluedino 1y ago
The urban America equivalent are teenage to twenty something males crashing Dodge Chargers at high speeds at 2:00am
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by bluedino 1y ago
To work for our local utility company, they make you dig a giant hole by hand and you can't hit the line etc that's under the ground, and you have to scale some poles.
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by bluedino 1y ago
The opposite of survivorship bias I guess.
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by bluedino 1y ago
You were also younger. I used to house whole pizzas for lunch. Now I only eat 2 slices and weigh the same.
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by bluedino 1y ago
I was just reading an article where an electric car had the original brakes on it for 250k miles
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by bluedino 1y ago
$35 for the cheapest thinnest plastic shelving you can buy. The entire HDX line is the lowest quality stuff known to man. https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-4-Tier-Easy-Assembly-Scratch...
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by bluedino 1y ago
My Palm Treo 700W was straight garbage. Battery lasted hours, terrible OS, Windows Mobile...
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by bluedino 1y ago
Cars still rust what was solved? These days the bigger problem with cars is one piece breaks and it isn't made anymore so you total it when 90% of the rest of the car is still good. https://youtu.be/e7c2_JMxR0s?si=diMVZ
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by bluedino 1y ago
https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html
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by bluedino 1y ago
Well, you can have a higher screen resolution than 640x480, resize those columns, hide the ones you don't use... Look at the Thunderbird 1 and 3 screenshots on that page http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/netscape_email
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by bluedino 1y ago
Had you told me back in 1995, that in 30 years we'd have 4K screens and I would only be able to see 10 emails in my inbox at one time... Netscape 2.02 or Microsoft Mail client from back then looks amazing by comparison.
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by bluedino 1y ago
NVIDIA GPU's can run in MIG (Multi-Instance GPU), allowing you to pack more jobs on than you have GPUs. Very common in HPC but I don't about in the cloud.
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by bluedino 1y ago
A friend and I lit a bag of Funyuns in an ashtray as kids, we almost burned his house down.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Works for Mario Kart
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by bluedino 1y ago
> You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. I had a tool manufacturer read a bad review on one of the big box home improvement stores in the US, they contacted

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