borissk

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by borissk 4y ago
Because of entropy?
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by borissk 4y ago
Sure, I'm not an expert either and future is hard to predict. It's possible that someone will solve the outstanding technical challenges in the next few years. Regarding SpaceX, I believe when they started all their top rocket eng
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by borissk 4y ago
Crystal Player did not use ffmpeg. It came with a few codecs bundled, but you'd typically install a codec pack like K-Lite. Anyway building a fast and functional UI is actual hard work, don't know why you'd think otherwise.
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by borissk 4y ago
A guy I know actually did make a graph programming language, implemented on top of neo4j. It was very slow, but he did use it successfully for analyzing SQL stored procedures and finding fraudulent transactions.
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by borissk 4y ago
I remember running Netscape Navigator on W4WG 3.11. For some reason the 16 bit version was many times slower than the 32 bit one for Win NT.
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by borissk 4y ago
Did you run Slackware from DOS or did you install it properly with a bootloader?
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by borissk 4y ago
What is the OEM?
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by borissk 4y ago
As I tried to explain, what I meant was the Manhattan project cost 0.8% of 1945 US GDP. To spend the same percentage today would be 184 billion. Obviously nothing like that is being spent. If you read physics journals, you'll know ther
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by borissk 4y ago
Nothing like it. Nearly all the best physicists and mathematicians in the free world were employed in Manhattan, a minuscule amount of the top scientists in the world today work on fusion.
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by borissk 4y ago
How many % of the country GDP did the Manhattan cost? How much would that percentage be in dollars today?
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by borissk 4y ago
You may be up to something. The best video player I've used was Crystal Player - the developer used an old Pentium machine.
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by borissk 4y ago
So you think stuff like C, C++, Java, Python, etc. should not exist and all code should be written in assembler?
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by borissk 4y ago
Because buying a laptop running a drastically new architecture increases the chances you'll run into software issues. This exam app is not the only thing Intel has broken.
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by borissk 4y ago
You may be right, but that's not my experience. Chrome is very fast on modern CPUs if it doesn't have to use a swap file.
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by borissk 4y ago
"in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion" You wish :) I used to work in CERN a long time ago and still keep in touch with a few physicists. All of them are very skeptical about commercial nuclear fusion before 2050 - 2070. It&#x
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by borissk 4y ago
People and companies in US don't know what 'privacy' means. All software companies (maybe except Apple), car companies (especially Tesla), telecoms, etc. just collect huge amounts of customer data not giving a damn about cons
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by borissk 4y ago
Just buy a Ryzen laptop. Intel's 12th Gen has had a number of issues - hardware acceleration in browsers not working, problems with thread scheduling under any OS except from Windows 11, excessive power consumption and overheating in b
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by borissk 4y ago
Memory is so cheap nowadays. 64GB laptop memory on NewEgg are $149.99. Surely a very easy investment for anyone working in a company that uses Teams. Just refuse to buy laptops with non-upgradable memory. Having 64GB will solve all performa
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by borissk 4y ago
I thought it was Langley.
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by borissk 4y ago
Yeah, but most of these operations declare the goods as low value gifts to avoid paying customs and taxes in the destination country. You get a good deal, but then the government doesn't have enough money to run hospitals, schools, roa
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by borissk 4y ago
Good try, Mr Lenin :D
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by borissk 4y ago
Even the paid options are very cheap - we have 25 mailboxes and pay less than $1K per year.
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by borissk 4y ago
That's a slippery slope thinking - if the average citizen is low quality and easy to manipulate why would the bureaucrats and politicians avoid stealing bits and pieces of the common good - leading to corrupted societies like Russia an
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by borissk 4y ago
It's just human nature. Look at Windows Update. It's a great feature, makes the OS many times more secure - potentially can patch 0-day exploits almost instantly. But Microsoft cannot use it just for customers good, they have to a
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by borissk 4y ago
Didn't know it was down :D
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by borissk 4y ago
Eh you seem to like conspiracy theories. Not to say there aren't conspiracies out there, but for some people this is the first and only explanation for everything. As you can see in the other comments there are technical reasons for wh
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by borissk 4y ago
I guess the "NHTSA safety test" is about high speed highway collisions. IHMO there should be a separate test for purely city cars, that move a lot slower.
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by borissk 4y ago
I believe (not an expert) that during Stalin times technical people were very well paid. But Khrushchev returned to the policy of leveling (uravnilovka) and tried to make worker and engineer salaries the same.
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by borissk 4y ago
Did they visit the secret Nazi base on the Far Side of the Moon? /s
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by borissk 4y ago
They had like 300 million people population and for a long time were the country training the largest number of engineers every year. So yeah a small percentage of these engineers did turn out to be brilliant.

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