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961.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Digital precision quickly outstrips accuracy in any number of things - eg digital calipers that read down to the ten thousands of an inch on a device that isn’t accurate to a thousandth.
962.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Gabe and Carmack are probably above Amelio and below Jobs and Gates in impact on the world - but probably above them all in impact when measured on a “desired” axis - people sought out Doom in a way that even the iPhone wasn’t.
963.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Up until today I thought it was a tsunami painting
964.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Almost all (back then, I hear the clone quality is much higher now) were "compatible" but had little to no clutch power, a wall built with some of them would inevitably break at the clone bricks.
965.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Norton/Midnight Commander might be close to peak TUI for me.
966.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Cigarettes being $15m a cancer stick is more amusing to me than an outright ban.
967.
by bombcar 6mo ago
I believe he’s confirmed that his time at Microsoft both gave him the money and the desire to make Valve and Steam.
968.
by bombcar 6mo ago
This is the country that legislates butter knives and naughty words.
969.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Raise taxes until it balances!
970.
by bombcar 6mo ago
2.5 crossed some threshold and replaced 1gb I feel - which is nice. It’s a great “normal speed” vs 10g/40g for backbone and NAS.
971.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Exactly. Enough supports 10gbe that you might as well grab it; a few Mikrotik switches, some old enterprise gear, and an adapter gets you some good speeds. Sure some of it might have been fine at 2.5 or 5 but those are relatively new and le
972.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The OSI model and its consequences have been a disaster for the networking race.
973.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Someone did this by hacking an iPad with a "MacBook" keyboard - https://www.macstories.net/stories/macpad-how-i-created-the-...
974.
by bombcar 6mo ago
You can achieve a bit of performance here by tuning it so it will never exceed the true speed of the link - which is only really useful when you know what that is and can guarantee it.
975.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The idea is they first try to reach you via the app (I believe) and then announce to the area around the gate only - instead of all announcements going to the entire terminal.
976.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It'd be fun to shoehorn some incredibly (relatively) powerful device as an 8086 copro - maybe an early GPU or something that could communicate slow enough.
977.
by bombcar 6mo ago
There's some cases where that may be true, but they listed a few: * fruit - I can get any fruit anytime in the year, and it seems fine * vacuum cleaner - my Miele is still running ten years later and still available new * The lawn mowe
978.
by bombcar 6mo ago
"We use companies big enough to buy us, or small enough we can buy" was a rule of thumb at one enterprise I dealt with.
979.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The interesting thing about the 8087 is that the co-processor interface was kind of generic. In theory you could have had things beyond just an FPU, but I don't know if much was ever done using it.
980.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It's arguably different if it's the same species (wolves and dogs are considered separate even if cross-breedable) - and very few of the chicken breeds are found in the wild. I suppose it's because we assume "endangere
981.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Ah, that's much older than I thought.
982.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Because they burst into flame! 90% of wizard dwelling fires are caused by salamanders! (in reality probably the law banning them as pets to protect them didn't include axolotls because the legislature didn't know they existed)
983.
by bombcar 6mo ago
> - new law: tax is owed on property in inventory each year until sold This type of "property" tax is very rare except on physical real estate (at least in US) but it might be they did that. If so, it'd destroy the long ta
984.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The tech market books have such a small market and short lifespan that I'm surprised that they can make it at even $70.
985.
by bombcar 6mo ago
There are tons of price cuts that paperbacks (and especially MMPBs) use that they don't bother with on (most) hardcovers, because if you're getting a hardcover you probably don't care about absolute lowest cost. And there&#x2
986.
by bombcar 6mo ago
They often have much more "paper like" screens that are not thrashing your eyes with blue light, so they're more comfortable and less "screen like" for reading.
987.
by bombcar 6mo ago
https://booksbythefoot.com is either the most horrible gore site you've ever seen, or interesting.
988.
by bombcar 6mo ago
> the law changed, requiring that taxes be paid on unsold inventory each year, these warehouses became a tax liability How exactly did the law change? I can see them costing as an expense in the year published and not counted as revenue
989.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Apparently you can gamble on how many cars drive past a traffic camera in a given timeframe. Traffic jams for cash now is a reality.
990.
by bombcar 6mo ago
If it exists, and money can flow, it will be gamed.

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