bubuga

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by bubuga 10y ago
> What's the point of ECC RAM in consumer PCs? Some people do very professional stuff with consumer PCs.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> But over two years, what would the extra $200 get you in terms of CPU options? It gets you to do the math. The $100 estimate was based on a scenario where the AMD product ran 100W hotter and ran all year long with a heavy workload. In
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by bubuga 10y ago
I see you magically added the "maintain the same income level" gem to try to move your goalpost. But even considering your goalpost-moving argument, why do you assume that preserving a high income level is a priority over not negl
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Assumptions? it is just simple math No, it's a baseless assumption. You're somehow assuming that the only reason someone may even argue that you dont have to "neglect" your children and have a career is "only
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by bubuga 10y ago
> only because they have money to out source their parental duties Holy jumping to assumptions, batman.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> It says that being a married woman with offspring leads to a lower expected salary. No, it doesn't. It says that there is a correlation between being a married woman with offspring and a lower expected salary. https://
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by bubuga 10y ago
IIRC, France has been very adamant in refusing to get its energy from spain and portugal due to political reasons. This became patently obvious in the EU's energy union negotiations, and in the way France insisted in forcing the so ca
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by bubuga 10y ago
> To my knowledge there are no geo-thermal station in Portugal. There are,mainly in the Azores islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_Portugal
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by bubuga 10y ago
> when there are already 2 links in this thread showing how much energy wind is producing right now? You should also see the links that show the premium that energy users are forced to pay as a consequence of the government's invest
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by bubuga 10y ago
> In general, "just use UTF-8" is a shorthand for "just let me pretend non-ASCII doesn't exist", because it leads to people writing code that assumes one byte == one character. Only if people writing code are ent
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by bubuga 10y ago
I would also add that the energy cost in Portugal is one of the highest in europe, and one of the main reasons for its high cost was the investment in PPPs in renewable energy.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> "The line costs between 150 million yuan and 250 million yuan per kilometer, making it highly economical compared to subways and light rail, which cost up to 800 million yuan and 300 million yuan per km respectively" Putting
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Not to mention it might be economically cheaper to pursue automated automobiles since we already have the roads built. Automated automobiles won't help cutting trip times, which is the main reason why people pay to fly or to ride
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Reasonable points, but just because technologies have failed in the past is not predictive of what will come in the future. True. But if the only track record is a string of failures, it would be madness to expect this time to be diffe
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by bubuga 10y ago
This article is pure junk, and reads like a long sequence of self-contradictions. The author starts by claiming that the term "open source" has become meaningless, but then proceeds in providing a precise definition as defined by
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by bubuga 10y ago
> The term "ad hominem" is typically used to describe the fallacy of attacking the person making an argument, This is a discussion on a book on the C programming language written by someone, and here you are going full throttle
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by bubuga 10y ago
> I don't have an opinion on the actual topic, but whether someone's goal is others' perception of them Perhaps if you don't have an opinion on the actual topic, you should refrain from commenting on it the best thing
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Nowadays they're much more specialized: you're as likely to build your company on Java or even Python/Ruby as you are to build it on C++. Some of today's dominant platforms are developed mostly in Java (see Android)
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by bubuga 10y ago
> C was a pretty good language in 1978. We didn't know a lot of things in 1978 that we do now in 2016. We also have nearly 40 years of infrastructure built on C, which needs to be maintained and updated. This is the same old argumen
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by bubuga 10y ago
> It's not really ad hominem. More like constructive criticism of his rhetorical style. No, it's a blatant ad hominem. The guy invested his time and effort trying to improve the world by writing a technical book, which he then
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by bubuga 10y ago
> The other angle to consider is that tracks very likely won't be singular. The tubes are light by infrastructure standards, you could pack two for each direction onto a route without dramatically increasing pylon costs. This observ
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by bubuga 10y ago
> There's a palpable excitement around Hyperloop and I can't wait to know if this will reshape our world or not. I find it rather doubtful that it will change anything for a number of reasons, including: - governments don'
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by bubuga 10y ago
The list, as it is, is a good start and already stores interesting information. Nevertheless, the list is way far from being thorough. For starters, it's inexcusable that it doesn't include standard go-to embedded scripting lang
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by bubuga 10y ago
> When it results in the installation of someone who is just as corrupt, then it invites questioning on the efficacy, and true goal, of the process. Actually, it doesn't. The judicial process goes on, and if (or when) the next-in-li
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by bubuga 10y ago
I don't know if you're a shill for the Ampy company, but you've dedicated yourself in this thread to paint a utterly unrealistic and false idea of the effectiveness of the Ampy Move gimmick. The device doesn't work for
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by bubuga 10y ago
> If you need something like this, you don't need to fiddle with USB chargers Between spending money on a gimmick mobile, and spend money on a USB charger to keep using your everyday smartphone, the path of least resistance always w
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Please do not plug your $600~ smartphone into a $1~ charger. That's just asking for trouble. You're assuming that supplying 5v to a cellphone through a 5v USB charger is something that damages the phone.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> I think the reviews don't paint the full picture. According to the Ampy team less than 2% of customers have any complaints. [1] You've brushed over the fact that the article mentions deceitful marketing practices that involve
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by bubuga 10y ago
So it appears that, at least to the author, this grievous blow consists of the vast majority of all democratically elected officials voting to impeach a president for her involvement in multiple crimes, fraud, corruption, and blatant abuse
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by bubuga 10y ago
> I wish more devices used easily replaceable standard size cells of rechargeable and non-rechargeable variety. You can walk to any shop or service station and buy a bunch of AA or AAA batteries if it's urgent. And keep a spare pack

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